Imagine the Reaction If It Were Olbermann

Imagine the GOP reaction if MSNBC's Keith Olbermann agreed to host a DCCC fundraiser.

Now consider this:

Conservative CNBC host Larry Kudlow, rumored to be mulling a bid against Chris Dodd next year, is headlining a March 24th fundraiser for the National Republican Congressional Committee at DC's Building Museum, according to an invite for the event.

It's incredible how quickly CNBC is rivaling Fox News when it comes to conflicts of interest and as a bastion of biased and partisan news.

And let's not forget how numerous people began demanding that Chris Matthews should not be on the air while he was mulling his own Senate bid. Apparently, that standard doesn't apply to journalists on the right -- like Kudlow -- who is seriously considering a Senate bid in 2010 as well.

CNBC is fast joining Fox News as a laughing stock of American journalism.

Mark Nickolas is the Managing Editor of Political Base, and this story was from his original post, "Imagine The Reaction If It Were Olbermann."

Comments

[jsking2110]

On Wednesday"s Countdown show, the duo of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and new CNBC contributor Howard Dean delivered a gem of both double standard and apparent amnesia as both generalized about the inappropriateness of calling any President a "fascist." As Dean was interviewed by Olbermann, who famously called President Bush a "fascist" in a "Special Comment" rant last year which was even picked up by Iranian television, the former DNC chairman bluntly stated his view that even President Bush did not deserve to be called by such a name.

And just as Olbermann seemed to be trying to defend his own history of applying the "fascist" label to Bush, which he did not directly acknowledge, even he stopped short of proclaiming outright that such name-calling could sometimes be rational, as he contended that a person doing so "may be crazy" and "may be wrong." Olbermann: "If you have a case to call somebody a "fascist," lay it out. Define your terms and say where you, I mean, you may be crazy and you may be wrong, but at least put some meat on the bones."

Dean's response: "Even in the darkest days of the Bush-Cheney administration, I don't think there was any reason to call George Bush a fascist."

[ljc]

" CNBC is fast joining Fox News as a laughing stock of American journalism­."

Maybe they will become third. CNN has the number two spot locked in.

[Robert Cantor]

If Kudlow thinks he can win as a Repub running on a fiscal platform in Conn he must be thinking the economy will really be sucking wind then. Ugh, I hope he is off base. Kudlow in the Senate would be a real freakshow. Using the national stage to unleash his bombast, the thought is truly scary.

[RobinSeattle]

Here is how you beat Kudlow:

Take footage of all of his statements on where he thought the markets were heading and make a campaign ad out of them. Really, he is a walking Democratic Party campaign ad.

Tagline: Kudlow: Not a Clue.

And I hope the Democrats run somebody against Dodd. It is time for him to go.

[WinterParkMom]

I hate to say it, but Matthews is nowhere near a journalist, has no journalistic ethics, is slow on the uptake and can hardly be called a leftie.

[Robert Cantor]

Give CM a break, before the rise of KO and RM he was almost the lone voice of 'this can't be right' during the bush regime (who else?)

[VikingQuest]

KO rose, now he has fallen.

[VikingQuest]

Considering nobody watches Olbermann or Kudlow . . . the reaction would probably be nothing.

[BBackSoon]

We have been thru this before. People are watching Olbermann. More than you care to admit.

Can’t say a thing about Kudlow.

[Robert Cantor]

yes, no pays any attention to progressive media, that is why mccain won the election and the republicans control congress.

[VikingQuest]

So a cable news channel wins elections?

I thought that the fact that McCain was a terrible candidate was the reason he lost, somehow he received 47% of the vote.

[RobinSeattle]

Yeah, those just short of 1,000,000 folks who tune into him every night aren't real people, right? Because only audience figures from GOP bastions should be counted, right? That is what your hero Palin ran on after all.

[Megley]

Um , excuse me? I watch Olbermann and Maddow every ngiht. It's nice to watch talking heads who talk, listen and DON"T SHOUT AT/OVER THEIR GUESTS, Chris Matthews and Joe Scaborough.

[BBackSoon]

It is kind of a bummer that CNBC and MSNBC are sister channels, because it would be a joy to watch Keith and Rachel rip into CNBC.

[Robert Cantor]

yeah, I get the feeling they have a 'dont poo where you eat' clause in their contracts.

[BBackSoon]

Nicely put.

I am guessing no relation to Eric?

[CraftKitten]

KO did include a veiled reference in his Special Comment last night.

[timnel]

And KO and Fineman danced around it one nite too but if KO is the greastest journalist off all time he should be calling out everyone

[timnel]

If the had any stones they would I mean even Bill O ripped his own company for the OJ book

[exoevolution]

NBC only cares about CNBC because of the money it brings in & for the mouthpiece it provides for the CORPORATIST overlords!!!

How can NBC have MSNBC with Keith & Rachel who speak TRUTH to POWER & CNBC that "prostitutes" itself for Wall Street???

Now that is a grade A case of schizophrenia!!

[BlackJAC]

Rupert Murdoch rakes in 10 million viewers from all of his reality shows on Fox and another 5 million viewers from all the self-righteous denunciation of said reality shows on Fox News; what's your point?

[exoevolution]

I'm not sure what your point is.

My point is that "especially" Fox News is a SHILL for the CORPORATIONS & the top 1%, as George W called them "the haves & the have mores, my base."

The CORPORATISTS are ruining our country & CNBC, CNN & ESPECIALLY Fox are their spokesmen.

[ljc]

I have Fox blocked on my TV. I have never seen a unreality show, what is that ?

[JScott]

Yup it's the CORPORATE MEDIA after all.

[Robert Cantor]

jenean garafolo, #5 on BillO's Lib Hit List works on Fox' '24' after all.

[dj]

CNBC is in the Obama Tank and more are realizing that. I stick with CNN and FOX.

[CrackerJacker]

lol, good to know you're going with unbiased reporting then.

[FalconerHK]

AH hahahahaha­... oh wait, you're serious. I'm sorry.

How's your 401k these days?

[dj]

My 401K is down like everyone's. It's good to get all opinions. Left and Right. All lefty's are not wrong and all righty's are not wrong. The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle.

[exoevolution]

CNBC, CNN & "especially" Fox are in the tank for the CORPORATISTS of Wall Street & Washington!!

I believe, I hope, that Obama will prove himself to be an enemy of the CORPORATISTS!!!

The CORPORATISTS are destroying our country with their bottomless GREED, mind numbing INCOMPETENCE & criminal CORRUPTION!!!

DJ - If you want the TRUTH - Watch Keith & Rachel on MSNBC, Moyers on PBS & Stewart & Colbert on Comedy Central!!!

[dj]

We have to be careful not to go down the Socialist path. I'm not saying we are but we are getting closer to Sweden than many think. I spent a month there, and it does not work. Higher unemployment, long lines for everything, extremely high taxes, and failing government health care - and - this was before the recession hit. I believe the left is getting dangerously close to over stepping into big governemnt. Never worked and never will. That said, the Republicans deserve to be out of power with the Alaskan Senator Stevens, Wide Stance Larry Craig, and the rest. But the DEMS are not looking much better with Air Pelosi, Mr "Freddie Mac and Fannie May" are OK Barney Frank, Countywide and AIG connected Chris Dodd, and the Tax Cheat Rangel.

[MPeter]

CNBC has always been a joke. The crackpots they have on air screaming make for drama, not intelligent analysis.

[CrackerJacker]

I don't know about always(I really don't - they may well have been), but they sure have been for a while now. I was just reading Jim Cramer's delayed rebuttal of John Stewart(Reminded me of roadkill softly whispering "You should see the other guy!"), and it made me realise that CNBC are dancing round the fact that they would like the veneer of respectable journalism, but they are not(Well, most of them), respectable journalists. If they were, then they'd have been reporting about how the tsunami is coming, rather than "helping" us count the pieces of debris it left in it's wake.