joe scarborough (of all people) can be even-handed.  dan abrams is o.k.  and i've been occasionally watching the new david gregory show, but i haven't made up my mind on that one yet.

the minute chris matthews or KO show their ugly mugs on any of the above programs i immediately change the channel...  and i've pretty much stopped watching their news coverage as well though pat buchanan (of all people) can be even-handed...  gee, is anyone noticing a pattern?  the republicans are fair to hillary!  now that's ironic...  especially with what rendell said about fox news (but i'll have to take his word for it since i stopped watching them yrs ago...

these days i'm pretty much stuck with CNN which has its ups and downs.

Duncan, I'm afraid to say, sounds downright Broderistic here.  I'm not going to sit here and say that there aren't some Clinton bloggers and commenters who play dirty, but when you look at the collective shamefulness of the Obama side, and the sheer numbers of them, you can't realistically equate the effect that the smears have.

Whaaaa?

Doesn't anyone here remember 1999 and 2000 with Williams and Matthews working out their personal issues at Al Gore's expense? Rembember Gennifer Flowers being invited on to roll out insane conspiracy theories about the Clintons? Remember the uncritical reporting of the Swift Boat nonsense? The castration jokes bandied about by Tucker Carlson? The unceasing coverage of Clinton pardon "scandals"? Matthews projection of his own gender issues as he slimes Hillary Clinton?

"He devotes the first quarter-hour of each of his "newscasts" to spinning every comment from Clinton's campaign, no matter how insignificant or minute the comment may be, into a falsely perceived obfuscation that exists only in his vindictive mind, while simultaneously exculpating Obama from every criticism.  How can this man continue to call himself a newsman?"

He never was a newsman, just a commentator posing as one. An incomparable dick is how I prefer to think of him.
Anyway, tonight he's 21 minutes in and just getting warmed up on his Hill-bashing.
They have some kind of evil Simpsons character now
supposedly as Richard Melon Scaithe supered over a photo of Hill from the Pittsburgh Trib interview.

Factoring in the media's current story on your candidate might be practical, but it doesn't sit well or make sense in the long term to me.  Your candidate is closer to the media than you.  I understand why BTD cares about the media darling status but there is certainly need for a media f-u coup.

We're faced with the conundrum of a candidate who is winning based on the media, and a lot of grassroots support.  Who do you think he's going to sell out first if he hasn't sold out someone already?  

"Got big big bodies, got great big heads..."

Screw 'em all.  Esp if your intent is to be some sort of 'progressive.'  McCain shows how fostering media love comes from being duplicitious.  Just what I want to encourage in a candidate!  And now that the blogs have apparently allied themselves with the big media, what are the other alternatives?  Reboot Media 2.0?  Clinton still succeeding is a sign that people don't watch as much cable news at night as you think they do.  Then again, maybe it's a sign that they DO - NH.  I don't know how much of their TV time people are willing to devote to TV news.  Perhaps there is some way we can con the news channels into being so annoying, so untruthful, that they become entirely irrelevant.  

There is a real need for alternate media.  Perhaps that is why BTD focuses on broken credibility.  It's over for TPM, Kos, OpenLeft...news sources have become feeding troughs, and anyone who comes back to them after all this is going to have the same dumb optimism we do when we listen to sources like NBC.  

But maybe the blogs were just a media fight anyway.  The amount of loathing that comes from the sources I just listed for the average person, the person that they simply have a hard time measuring, is sickening.  These people, it being a democracy, after all this country, do matter.  They are the deciders.  They don't, and won't care about you, if you keep acting this way.

Sometime after New Hampshire, he tilted toward Obama....Bill had taken on a greater role, and then there was South Carolina.

I appreciate his "your candidate sucks" and "your candidate's supporter's suck" posts.

I still feel he has been a bit wobbly on this.

I think it was Dumbledore, awarding Neville 10 points who said, There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A lot of the Obama vs. Clinton abuse has come about because in the past seven years or so, bloggers and commenters on the left have let a whole bunch of abuse of others get a pass, because it was done by "our friends."  It starts by calling people troll and concern troll and brownshirt and by ousting people from our party as in "you don't fool me, you can't be a liberal or a Democrat, you must be a repuke!"  You can see this sort of nonsense and abuse even in Atrios' threads today.

From there it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to Obamanistas and Clintonobots going after each other's throats.  Or to encourage Keith Olbermann to play fast and loose because he sounds so good.

But, I've  always liked KO because he has great coverage of the Bush administration.  If people don't like his HRC coverage (which often occurs during the first segment) they can switch to Bill O for the first segment, where you're likely to see BO attacked, and then after that segment you can switch to KO--this is what I do (on the occasions when I can watch the first broadcast where the two programs are on simultaneously.)

This entry is part of a series in celebration of Women's History Month.

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits end, but she has always risen, always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends.

Hillary Clinton will not give up on you and all she asks of you is that you do not give up on her.

There is a world of difference between being a woman and being an old female. If you're born a girl, grow up, and live long enough, you can become an old female. But, to become a woman is a serious matter. A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies.

Hillary Clinton is a woman. She has been there and done that and has still risen. She is in this race for the long haul. She intends to make a difference in our country.

She is the prayer of every woman and man who long for fair play, healthy families, good schools, and a balanced economy.

She declares she wants to see more smiles in the families, more courtesies between men and women, more honesty in the marketplace. Hillary Clinton intends to help our country to what it can become.

She means to rise.

She means to help our country rise. Don't give up on her, ever.

In fact, if you help her to rise, you will rise with her and help her make this country a wonderful, wonderful place where every man and every woman can live freely without sanctimonious piety, without crippling fear.

Rise Hillary.

Looking at his ratings provides an interesting picture. His HH (households) reach back in late 2007 was just shy of 800 k homes a night, far short of O'Reilly's 2.5 mm homes a night. January 2008 began to see an uptick to near 1 mm homes, or 25% increase, for KO's Countdown. But that seems more tied to the start of the primary season. The ratings then take a dramatic rise around SuperTuesday consistently grabbing more than 1 mm HH a night. His peak came in late February reaching 1.6 mm HH. But then came the Special Comment on Ferraro, the most galling unnecessary and hateful commentary I have ever heard. Ferraro a racist? Honestly what did she say? And over a two week old interview in the Torrance Daily Breeze?

Well Keith's ratings dropped off cliff, down well below 1 mm HH and have since recovered to around 1 mm HH.