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Friday May 9 2008 Hadball with Chris Matthews:

Chris Mathews calls John McCain and His Mother “Bartles and James”

Ed Schultz says McCain and his Mother look like they are “auditioning for Hee Haw”
Ed Schultz says “McCain can’t remember who he voted for”.

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The darling of MSNBC takes home another 3rd place ratings finish last Friday.

mediabistro.com: TVNewser

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Dan Abrams ridiculed his co-worker Keth Olbermann for dating a girl half his age.

Well not really but he went after Vladimir Putin for the same thing.

• Olberman 50 Girlfriend 26
• Putin 55 Girlfriend 24

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A letter from Karl Rove to MSNBC’s Dan Abrams addressing Abrams’ tabloid reporting accusing Rove of being behind former Alabama governor Don Siegelman being prosecuted.
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I’ll clip the closing paragraph because it sums up MSNBC perfectly.

The Corner on National Review Online

The difficulty with your approach is you reduced yourself to the guy in the bar who repeats what the fellow next to him says – “The glove fits! The glove fits!” - only louder, because it suits your pre-selected story line (”Bush Justice”) and you don’t want the facts to get in the way of a good fable. You have relinquished the central responsibility of an investigative reporter, namely to press everyone in order to get to the facts. You didn’t subject the statements of others to skeptical and independent review. You have chosen instead to simply repeat something someone else says because it agrees with the theme line your producers slapped on your segment, created the nifty graphic for and promoted in the ads before your appearances.

Sincerely,

Karl Rove

Power Line: Karl Rove Responds

Of course the disgraced “ThinkProgress” refers to Rove’s letter to Abrams as a “diatribe” but does not dispute one fact put forward by Rove disputing MSNBC’s and Abrams disgraceful tabloid “reporting” of the prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman.

Read Newsbusters for the rundown and truth on the Siegelman.

UPDATE: Dan Abrams responds to Karl Rove’s letter with an open letter of his own on Huffington post.

Abrams tries to match Rove’s letter in quality and quantity but fails miserably at both.
Abrams attempts to claim his “neutrality” on the Siegelman case hoping nobody will notice he is taking his marching orders from left wing blogs like Talking Points Memo

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