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Originally Posted by Robbie
If anything MSNBC is worse. At least on Fox you have differing opinions. They will bring on a liberal to argue with (which is good television...the reason Fox has higher ratings).
But on MSNBC you will watch Rachel Maddow just rip on Republicans and then bring in a panel of 3 or 4 other liberals who all agree with everything she just said! LOL!
Then the show is an hour of them all agreeing and smirking and laughing.
I watched the "Ed Show" on MSNBC this last weekend. The first thing he did was show a pic of Karl Rove and called him a "Turd Blossom"! I'm not joking! That is supposed to be a "News Show"???
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There is a big difference between MSNBC and CNN/Fox and that is that they do not have NEWS in their title. They have always been primarily a talk and opinion channel, in fact before the Microsoft/NBC partnership the channel was called, "America's Talking". That's where I first became acquainted with my early tech guru, Leo Laporte on a show called, "The Site".
Rachel Maddow is the best talk show on the "news" channels. Nobody connects the dots, dots the Is, crosses the Ts and sources their facts more thoroughly and meticulously than her. And unlike the hosts on Fox, she will come back with a correction or clarification even on small things on the rare occasion she got something wrong. And it IS rare because she puts major reasearch and prep time into getting it right.
You can REALLY see the difference between progressive and conservative shows on radio. Where Rush takes carefully screened calls mostly from dittoheads and a rare "liberal" that they feel isn't articulate enough to get too much in during a brief bully pulpit slam, Stephanie Miller and Randi Rhodes have it as policy that if you disagree with them you get bumped to the front of the caller line. Thom Hartman regularly has fair give and take discussions with conservative guests. Randi says quite often, "Don't take my word for it, go look it up for yourself".
As far as "Turdblossom", that was George W. Bush's pet name for Karl Rove, because of his ability to take a pile of shit and spin it to make it smell like a rose. Ed was not making up a name to call him.