by Dennis Copson

Created on: April 24, 2009   Last Updated: April 26, 2009

MSNBC's Vile Pursuit of Vengeance

There is a stench in the air emanating from the headquarters of MSNBC, the far left cable news network who proclaim themselves "The Place for Politics". While they fail to qualify this claim with the bent of their politics, their cacophonous cries, narrow-minded and blatantly biased, for prosecution of former Bush administration officials for what MSNBC proclaims war crimes related to the torture of terrorists captured in the current war exceeds what, by any stretch, could be considered objective journalism.

MSNBC's concerted and unrelenting approach to the controversy is apparent on every news segment, by every commentator of that segment. The likes of Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, and Keith Olbermann have seemingly made it a crusade rather than a news item, subject to analysis. Fairness and objectivity has taken a back seat to simple, vapid and patently partisan reporting and commentary, with the ultimate goal of goading the American public to support their crusade and bring pressure to bear on the current administration and the Democratic Congress to pursue a witch hunt and eventually imprison their former enemies.

Even lightweights such as Nora O'Donnell, a midday pretty-face news talker with little of substance to offer viewers, on April 23rd hosted Dick Cheney's daughter as an explainer of the terror memos and against the argument for prosecution of senior officials of the former administration for war crimes. The segment was nothing short of a setup, a trap set for the former VP's daughter, as a spokesperson for the Republican Party, as Nora frequently talked over her guest and was rudely argumentative, disruptive and biased in conducting a so-called interview. Liz Cheney was more than a match for the obviously predetermined efforts to discredit her by the vacuous O'Donnell.

Much of this nefarious approach to journalism is not new to, inarguably, the most liberal of television cable news networks. They are long time haters of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Nightly, for more than eight years, MSNBC commentators such as Olbermann bashed Republicans and Bush, especially, in vile and hate-filled diatribes. Maddow, an irritatingly cutesy and smug Olbermann look-alike, was late to join the fray in that she did not have her own show until September of last year. When she was ordained by Olbermann as a 'fellow traveler' she quickly picked up the Bush-bashing gauntlet and still continues to carry it to this day on her nightly giggle-show.

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