MSNBC Drops Olbermann, Matthews as News Anchors

MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as the anchors of live political events, bowing to growing criticism that they are too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign.

David Gregory, the NBC newsman and White House correspondent who also hosts a program on MSNBC, will take over during such events as this fall’s presidential and vice presidential debates and election night.

The move, confirmed by spokesmen for both networks, follows increasingly loud complaints about Olbermann’s anchor role at the Democratic and Republican conventions. Olbermann, who regularly assails President Bush and GOP nominee John McCain on his “Countdown” program, was effusive in praising the acceptance speech of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He drew flak Thursday when the Republicans played a video that included a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that if the networks had done that, “we would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead, and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize.”

Matthews, who has criticized politicians in both parties, drew less criticism for his convention role but became a divisive figure during the primaries when he described how he was inspired by Obama’s speeches and made disparaging remarks about Hillary Clinton, for which he later apologized.

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A huge tip of the Stetson to Bloviating Zeppelin, that’s where I found this one.

Folks, this is really an awesome development, MSNBC, the most liberal and left leaning media source today, has been shamed into removing Keith Olbermann, one of the biggest IDIOTS to ever have a talking head position. And Chris Matthews, one of the most annoying voices this side of Mark Levin, has been cut down as well.

How do you explain this?? Did MSNBC suddenly start reading the blogs?? Did they discover that their journalistic integrity was gone?? Was it the numbers?? Or lack of?? NBC is having some serious issues with rankings.

Conservative bloggers, and apparently a few MSM journalists have held MSNBC’s feet to the fire, Tom Brokaw took the high road, as have several others with the network, and to them I say, KUDOS, even if it was due to low network numbers.

Whatever it takes, return to real reporting, report the facts, report them accurately and take the opinions OUT of it on network broadcasts such as the conventions.

I have NO problem with a news person stating an opinion, on any subject, but when they do, it must be delivered as an *editorial*, and done with the clear caveat that the opinions stated are those of the speaker, so forth and so on.

If IDIOTS like Olbermann want to be *news and opinion* personalities, I suggest they get a blog, a radio program, whatever method of annoyance they care to use, and have at it. When it comes to NEWS, I want mine straight up, fair, balanced and untarnished by the liberal mindset of the person making that report, no matter what network I am listening to.

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Fla. Keys residents weigh evacuation ahead of Ike

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) - As a ferocious Hurricane Ike ripped across Cuba, a tropical storm warning was issued for the Florida Keys early Monday.

Residents from Key West to the Gulf Coast watched Ike’s unpredictable path, worrying it could hit anywhere in the U.S. from Texas to Florida.

Still, even with an evacuation order in place for the Keys and the region also under a hurricane watch, many were reluctant to leave, hoping the storm would turn west, sparing this low-lying island chain a devastating blow.

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This is one of many reasons I don’t live on a coast, any coast, pick a coast. The uncertainty is a lot more than I want anymore. I just hope that folks ARE paying attention and not letting this sneak up on them.

Many in Louisiana are already saying that they won’t evacuate again. They feel like Gov. Jindal sent them packing with a false alarm, simply because Gustav didn’t cause the massive destruction that could have happened had it hit New Orleans a more direct blow. I wonder how they would feel if it had, and Jindal had done the same thing Kathleen Blanco did as Katrina approached? That would be NOTHING!

The Daily Ike: 09-08-08

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Obama slips on TV: ‘My Muslim faith’

Slip of the tongue or momentary confusion? In a television interview today discussing his religion, Sen. Barack Obama stated, “My Muslim faith.”

Obama, speaking to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week,” was talking about what he described as “smears” that were claiming he was a Muslim when he maintains he is a practicing Christian.

“Let’s not play games,” Obama stated. “What I was suggesting – you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come.”

Stephanopoulos immediately interrupted Obama, stating, “Christian faith.”

“My Christian faith,” Obama quickly said. “Well, what I’m saying is that he (McCain) hasn’t suggested that I’m a Muslim. And I think that his campaign’s upper echelons have not, either. What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.”

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Well, well, well… How do you like that? The Obamessiah actually slips up and tells the truth, for ALL the world to hear. And the MSM isn’t all over it? They aren’t putting it out there for the whole world to hear?? I wonder why?? Apparently the truth, even when spoken inadvertently by The One, isn’t going to be published by the MSM if The One speaks in such a way as to tell it like it really is as opposed to how he, and the MSM want it to be!

Obama has long denied he was ever a Muslim. His campaign site states: “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.”

But as WND reported, public records in Indonesia listed Obama as a Muslim during his early years, and a number of childhood friends claimed to the media Obama was once a mosque-attending Muslim.

Obama has this *Muslim faith* thing that is going to haunt him for the rest of his life, he has this, and many more skeletons hanging in the closet, the ties to William Ayers and Tony Rezko, his suspected racism, that rumor fueled by his association with Jeremiah Wright, his wife’s statements of being proud of America for the 1st time in her life. The list goes on and on.

Obama is a liar, a deceiver, a fake and a poser. He has thrown Islam under the bus just like he has any friends, family or business acquaintance that he perceives as a threat in his rise to the Oval Office. Any man that would deny his faith, his friends and family simply to make personal gains for himself is certainly NOT the man I want running MY country.

Read the full article from WND, they present some great facts, you may have seen them before but it’s worth re-reading and refreshing your mind with the ammunition we need to defeat this stealth muzzie and STOP him from becoming President of the United States.

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Normality by weekend the goal in Big Easy

NEW ORLEANS — Federal and local officials pledged to try and get residents’ lives back to normal this weekend as 315,000 people who evacuated the city for Hurricane Gustav slowly made their way back home.

But they also warned that no one should expect too much as the city tries to cope with a massive cleanup.

Mayor Ray Nagin lifted a mandatory evacuation at midnight Thursday, warning residents they were returning to a city that was still mostly without power and littered with trees toppled by the storm.

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For the next few days my attention will be on Ike, there’s a lot of politics, and of course I’ll stay on that too, but Ike has potential to do more damage to the USA right now than Barack Obama with a Democratic Congress and a Radical Mullah as House Chaplain!

I have friends and family all over the Gulf coast, from Tampa to Mobile, over into Louisiana and as far down the Texas coast as Galveston. My cousin lives on Galveston Island. If Ike keeps going in that direction, we may be seeing him soon.

The Daily Ike: 09-07-08

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