Rachel Maddow: Fox News Stoking Racial Fears Among Whites (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow tore into Fox News again Wednesday night, accusing the channel of stoking racial fears among whites.

Maddow used the channel’s role in hyping the Shirley Sherrod tale as a springboard for a broader conversation of the history of using the media to pit whites against blacks in the United States. She connected Fox News’ [...]

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Bill O’Reilly Apologizes To Shirley Sherrod (VIDEO)

Bill O’Reilly apologized to Shirley Sherrod for taking her observations out of context Wednesday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

O’Reilly, who Monday night started airing the excerpted video of Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP and calling for her resignation, aired more of the video Wednesday and apologized for not having done so prior.

“I owe Ms. Sherrod [...]

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Bill O’Reilly Apologizes To Shirley Sherrod (VIDEO)

Bill O’Reilly apologized to Shirley Sherrod for taking her observations out of context Wednesday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

O’Reilly, who Monday night started airing the excerpted video of Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP and calling for her resignation, aired more of the video Wednesday and apologized for not having done so prior.

“I owe Ms. Sherrod [...]

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Keith Olbermann Blasts Fox News Over Shirley Sherrod, Begs Obama To Stop Enabling Them (VIDEO)

Keith Olbermann suspended his vacation Wednesday night to return to “Countdown” with a Special Comment on the Shirley Sherrod scandal.

Olbermann blasted Fox News and right-wing media while at the same time calling upon President Obama to respond forcefully against their continued smear battle.

“What you see on Fox News, what you read on Right Wing websites, [...]

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Rachel Maddow: Fox News Stoking Racial Fears Among Whites (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow tore into Fox News again Wednesday night, accusing the channel of stoking racial fears among whites.

Maddow used the channel’s role in hyping the Shirley Sherrod tale as a springboard for a broader conversation of the history of using the media to pit whites against blacks in the United States. She connected Fox News’ [...]

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Tina Dupuy: Of Junk Food and Junk News

Once on a flight I ate a cheeseburger-in-a-bag. It was a wonderfully microwaved beefy dough ball of cheesy-type goo. It tasted incredible! Of course, it’s designed to taste incredible. Mission so accomplished. The sandwich had the right amount of stout and salt to appeal to my ancient binge-to-survive-winter DNA. It was laced with reproduction scents, [...]

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Rachel Maddow: White House ‘Inexplicably Keeps Falling For’ Fox News Stunts (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow went after Fox News Tuesday night for its role in propagating the Shirley Sherrod tale, but she also criticized the White House for long-lasting to fall for the network’s stunts.

After showing continual instance of Fox News anchors pushing the thought that Sherrod was a racist based on an out-of-context excerpt of a speech [...]

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Keith Olbermann Taking ‘Couple Weeks’ Off ‘Countdown’

Keith Olbermann is taking a vacation from “Countdown.”

The MSNBC host announced Friday that he will be taking a “couple weeks vacation off” from his show.

In his place, Lawrence O’Donnell — who was named the host of the network’s upcoming new 10PM show last month — will guest-host the show for the next two weeks.

Olbermann spent [...]

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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

Excellent morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to you Sunday Morning Liveblog, which we will get started sans preface this morning. As always, you are invited to impart observations with one another, or to send emails, or to experience the dignity and/or mystery of following me on Twitter. First Read at MSNBC is [...]

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Keith Olbermann/Tucker Carlson Feud Heats Up: Carlson Calls Olbermann "Sad," "Despised"

The war of words between Keith Olbermann and Tucker Carlson just keeps heating up.

After Carlson’s Daily Caller site bought the rights to the KeithOlbermann.com domain name Wednesday, Olbermann struck back, tweeting that he thinks the go is illegal, and pointing out that Carlson himself won back the rights to TuckerCarlson.com in 2008, after someone else [...]

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