The Witch Hunt Begins, by Walter Hjepnosen

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Did you see the outrageous report regarding Chris Matthews and MSNBC’s election coverage by the usual suspects? This is beyond belief and simply crazy stuff:

Goldberg echoed many of those complaints in his appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor.” “They broke the cardinal rule of journalism: You don’t have partisans covering hard news events, and certainly not when the hard news event is the biggest news story of the year—a national election,” said Goldberg.”

I have a feeling that the GOP will be going after the throat of MSNBC and any other media outlet that is deemed “unAmerican.” This is going to be a very ugly two years. Maybe much more. The witch hunt begins.

– Walter Hjepnosen

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MSNBC’s election night lineup draws criticism
By Michael Calderone

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and conservative media critic Bernie Goldberg slammed MSNBC on Wednesday for having the network’s top liberal hosts and commentators lead election night coverage.

Goldberg praised CNN and Fox News for having nonpartisan anchors give results, with commentators on the right and left providing analysis. But he said MSNBC “jumped the shark” with its team, which included Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell and Eugene Robinson in the studio, along with Ed Schultz in Las Vegas…

Full story is here.

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