PA Governor Ed Rendell: Obama Coverage Was Embarrassing
Clay
August 24, 2008
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks”
during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion
with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George
Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer — but instead, he opened up a
can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage
"Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing,"
said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was
embarrassing."
Rendell, an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter during the
primaries, now backs Obama in the general election. Brokaw and Rendell
began debating campaign coverage, including the on-air comments by Lee
Cowan, and when MSNBC came up, Rendell went after the cable network.
“MSNBC was the official network of the Obama campaign," Rendell said,
who called their coverage "absolutely embarrassing."
Chris Matthews, Rendell said, "loses his impartiality when he talks
about the Clintons.”
At that point, PBS's Judy Woodruff, who was moderating the moderators
event, said: "Why don’t we let Governor Rendell sit down."
That was met with applause from the crowd of big-time media figures,
which included Arianna Huffington, Gwen Ifill, Al Hunt, and Chuck
Todd.
Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he
said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on
MSNBC
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> Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he
> said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on
> MSNBC
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Who's this Brokaw fellow anyway? Is he the same man who pushed GOP
talking points about Whitewater for eight years and GOP talking points
about WMD and Iraq for another four? That Brokaw...that GOP
propagandist? He was wrong on both right? Sure he was.
After spending so many years helping the GOP lie to us Brokaw had the
gull to attack Clinton for lying about a blow job from someone other
than his wife (would any sane man, not lie about such things?). So the
liar from NBC who spent years lying about Clinton was outraged that
Clinton lied about a bj. Good grief. Why haven't they fired that man
yet? Why is failure still rewarded at NBC?
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Clay
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> Clay wrote:
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> > Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he
> > said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on
> > MSNBC
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> Why is failure still rewarded at NBC?
Not sure. Ask Froth Olbermann, Chris (thrill up my leg for Obama)
Matthews or Andrea (the wicked witch of the east) Mitchell.
-C-