See CNN’s admission years ago regarding selling out their soul to Saddam for access; CNN lied and lied and lied about Iraq in order to maintain an office there.

Mika has admitted to receiving instructions on her blackberry or iphone or her electronic device she uses to communicate directly with the Wh to get her daily instructions.

See Scott Pelly asking the President about a govt shutdown, and hehimself claiming no more SS checks and Scott Pelly sitting there saying uh huh, yup, you got it man, rather than questioning the honesty of the Obama statement.

See Ali Velchi last week demaning a republican retract his statement that the econimic problems are the fault of THIS president, and claiming it was Bush’s fault, even now, 2 plus years after Obama’s policies have been enacted.

See bowing Brian

 the media have lost all focus of their responsibility. they have thrown journalistic integrity under the bus, they have caved to their own ideology, they have ruined their profession and themselves.

they willingly work for hehimself and no long for the people; they have whored themselves and have become a disgrace.

journalism is dead

OK now for the truth for anyone who cares!

The facts are that Chenk or whatever his name is and whoever he is only beat CNN the first week he was on. Other than that and maybe a few lucky days no one really has ever heard of him so his firing by the Dem TV channel is really no big deal.  I’m sure he’ll be great on YOUTUBE!

fat turd needs to go back to youtube with rebecca black and chocolate rain dude lololol

Mmmmmm, salted buttered popcorn, mmmmm so good.

Truth is he was being ‘demoted’, he didn’t like it (no one ever does), so he left and is justifying his decision (in his own mind) by blaming MSNBC. If his ratings were solid, he could have been as partisan and ‘honest’ as he wanted. 

Cerk, careful or you might receive a fish head in the mail. 

It’s time for you to get laid, woman.  Stop being so cranky all the freakin’ time.

Cenk, dude–shut up, you failed.

I like how routine emails about the semantics of “Obamacare” between Fox News employees is proof of collusion with the Republican party, but we have a MSNBC host explicitly admitting there is a collusion between the White House and  MSNBC and Mediaite calls it an “absurd allegation”.

Well not only that, but Mika has read faxes on air that she’s received in real time from the Whitehouse giving them pointers. 

This seems to be a typical response of hateful lib men to strong Conservative woman.  Grow up!

The White House got Cenk canned. MSDNC the place to go for Obama talking points. http://lmaobama.com/2011/07/21/4023/

typical lefty response.

Truth hurts so you attack a poster.

Come on mediaite moderator, does this board really need this kind of garbage? 

Very nice response. Please join us again when they let you out of your cell.

A Geek tragedy.   

Cenk Uygur, despite the snide character assassinations by some right-wing bots on here, is dead-on in his assessment of MSNBC, and media in general. With Olbermann and Uygur both gone, there is no reason to watch MSNBC any longer. Or to listen to it ever again on satellite radio.

They only allow it if a liberal says it.  Now if you’re a Conservative, you get banned for calling a Mediaite journOlist a liberal lapdog.

“Honesty.”  So that’s what it’s called now.  In general, yeah, all news censored certain threads, opinions, name-callings, because they’re either wrong or to keep good graces with the subjects they want to get a scoop or exclusive interview from later.

HEY, WHO YOU QUESTIONING HERE. ONLY FOX COLLABORATES WITH THE RNC, MSNBC IS FULLY INDEPENDENT OF THE FRONT DOOR OF THE WHITE HOUSE. Now the back door, maybe not so much. And by the way, can’t we just agree to ignore the Current folks from now on, what’s their audience, 35-50K people in the u.s. This is like ESPN covering a little league baseball game in Norfolk, Va. in prime time. Give me a break.

Blimpy McFatty is simply trying to save (fat) face here.

And yes, he would be perfect for that silly channel Current TV with ManBearPig and Olberdouche…

I think it didn’t matter if his ratings were high or not. He was keeping the seat warm for Al Sharpton. That will back fire on MSNBC like Spitzer did with CNN… Reading all of this and watching in intervilles. It show’s that Phil Girfen has no backbone. Caving because someone in DC didn’t like his tone. So what It’s crap is why and NBc news out of date thinking that there still in the pre cable news era is why MSNBC will never beat Fox on Fox’s worst day. It also explans why a show like Morning Joe is still on the air,. It don’t matter if it’s tanking in the ratings. As long as mangerment and rich peolpe like it. It’s all good.

I have a new repect for Cenk I do think he was put in a place due to Keith walking out and Dylan Rantgan pushing him on MSNBC. Where Cenk did the best he could.

It also explans why half of NBC news is walking out on them. NBC and MSNBC don’t know what works in 2011. 

Thanks for the quick response, mediaite, glad to see your paying attention. Cudos.

Too Funny !!

At the 5:50 mark Olbermann baits Cenk to call for a boycott of MSNBC 

Anyone who watches Democracy Now knows how much MSNBC filters important news.  The new CIA base in Somalia is prime news not being reported.  Why is ther no discussion of kicking lobbyists out of polotics with Durbin’s Fair Election Now Act or why Dorgan’s bill to bid out Pharmaceticals for medicare or republicans killing funding for the Dodd Frank bill so Wallstreet cna run wild again.  Obviously the most important comment from Cerk was his statement the MSNBC is the ESTABLISHMENT!  Just what does that mean?

You and I probably agree on very few political issues.  But we ALMOST agree about watching MSNBC.
When I switched from Comcast to U-Verse, I gained the ability to “lock out” any channel.  It is amazing how much better my life has been since locking out MSNBC.  Like fresh air.l
Now, the only intrusions I have to live with are those screwball ads that pop up on the Mediaite page of the MSNBC stooges.  I delete them immediately, almost in my sleep.

Yes, props to the moderator for paying attention and removing the trash. 

Nice comment Tina.  I think “journalism” is sick, but not yet dead.  This would be a sad, pathetic country without FOX news.  The liberals would be yaking at each other while the country circles the drain.

Speaking of those advertisements…I think they ought to  be brought to the attention of the Federal Elections Commission, since almost all of them are favorable towards Obama, rather than just advertising how highly MSNBC thinks of itself. At the very least, the RNC should get equal time in exchange for the obvious advertisements for Obama and his policies.

“are we going to trade in honesty and truth”

Cenk, you traded honesty and truth for lies, bias and slander when you joined MSNBC.

Maybe an investigation from the Obama DOJ to explore potential collusion between the Democrat party and MSNBC is warranted.

Prepare the subpoenas, Holder!

“With Olbermann and Uygur both gone, there is no reason to watch MSNBC any longer. Or to listen to it ever again on satellite radio.”

Sure there is; all new episodes of “Lockup Raw: Extended Stay” Saturdays at 10/9 Central!!!

“…if you’re a Conservative, you get banned for calling a Mediaite journOlist a liberal lapdog.”

…and then you create multiple alternate accounts and whine about it incessantly.

The reality is that if you are willing to go along, you can get along. This man was guilty of speaking his mind and telling it like is. In order for us to have meaningful discourse on the public airways we need to to bring back integrity to the news. Walter Cronkite, Tim Russert,. and Edward R. Morrow are spinning in their graves because of what news reporting has become. Far too many people get their programming (not information) from one biased source, the fox, no news network and anyone who dares to make waves against the powers to be gets the sack, Ratings don’t matter, ethics don’t matter, and the truth goesn’t matter. The so called news media is only concerned with sensational non-stories like the wall to wall coverage of the murder trial of a selfish mother, or a young woman who goes out to party on a school break and disapears, probably the victim of foul play or the stupid antics of a “hot dog” congressman. None of these events while “Juicy” to the media have any direct impact on most of our lives. There are far too many real stories that effect all of us in real ways that don’t see the light of day and far too many truly questionable activities that have a profound impact on the people of this nation that hardly ever get any press. But what the heck why should be concerned as long as we can see Dancing withe the Stars or American Idol, afterall these are the things that really matter in life. Right!!!

this post made my brain cry

I do think they need to push away from Obama. It does look like MSNBC are Obama’s cheerleaders. MSNBC is falling into the same trap as Fox did with Bush. Look what happened on Morning Joe with Mark Halbrien. That was MSNBC iusse to deal with. Not the white House they had no right to interject them selfs like that. All it did was prove that MSNBC is in bed with the white. And it makes both sides look bad.

CONFIRMATION from Whistleblower Cenk Uygur:

The Mainstream Media is an apparatus of the Democratic Party!

Rep. Issa to hold hearings on the collusion between White House & MSNBC!

Not whining, just reporting facts.  And I’ve never had more than one name at a time. 

the irony of you defending a biased person

No, he’s Turkish.

nice post

MSNBC and CNN are both doing everything they can to become the new Fox News.
I don’t watch EITHER of them, anymore.

Yes, and why are they so reliant on propaganda from MSNBC, when they can call upon 90% of the rest of the Mainstream Media?

That wouldn’t surprise me in the least since they seem to want to use the Fox formula for success.

“..when Olbermann asked Uygur how he wants his loyal fan base to react to this. ”
HAHAHAHAHAHA…All 2 of them?

You mean they had the temerity to present alternative viewpoints to their Democratic talking points?
The Nerve!

Why does anyone watch cable low infotainment “news” channels?  All cable “news” is obviously geared to promoting corporate interests only, with little  no value at all to the US citizens it exploits for profit.  Better to watch cartoons and movies on cable, and get your news from credible sources like BBC or Al Jazeera.

Let’s be fair.
The other Democratic-supporters might have been making their one phone call for the day before lockdown.

thank’s

How much is Fox paying you to shill?  This country would function much better with Fox.  And apparently, with MSNBC as well.

BBC & Al Jazeera credible?
- Only if you’re indoctrinated to their tendentious viewpoints.

Try C-Span, where it’s straight coverage most of the time.

How revealing.  Former host says that MSNBC is dishonest.  Of course, you don’t need to be a host at MSNBC to see that…..

It’s MSNBC going overboard on someting till it’s played it’s self out. The place for Politcs has run it’s course. Not every stroy is some big watergate sacndal. MSNBC seems to put other storys in the back burner to those storys. Like the earthquake in Japan.  But that’s ok by Phil Grifen’s why of thinking. What happened in Japan is a CNN story. If Tim Russet were still alive and running MSNBC they would beaten Fox by now. I do think Phil is the bigest iusse holding MSNBC back, That and NBC news trying to hold on to the pre cable news type of thinking also.

sorry when I get into posting coments. I tend to on and on :)

When AMessNBC flushes, it goes right into the Current.

(see what i did there?)

The problem is that Fox News telling it’s filthy lies to it’s teabagger dittohead audience has set the standard for commercial success in cable news.

But what is so curious and conspiratorial about this is that the Dem channel has never fired anyone for their ratings..  as witnessed by their total lack there of..

Spoken like a true Chavista..  how are things in Caracas anyway?

Dear TXarc:
HOW does a story about MSNBC, in YOUR MIND, become a story about Fox News?????  Too much kool-aid floating around in your brain????

How ironic that a LIB HACK like this guy was not enough of a SHAMELESS LIB for the America haters at MS-PEE-ON-ME!!!1 I guess they won’t be happy until VAN JONES has his own show!!!1

Let’s see if he backtracks in a couple of days like Wallace did after inadvertently blurting out the truth.

Hatehatehatehatehatehatehate….

Liberal meet liberal, what a meeting of the minds

James:

I don’t want to be an axxhole about it, and I know it does not seem to follow the general rule, but…

It’s = it is
its  = possessive

stories

Dan, I expect more from you for some reason.  Stop lying about what Chris said.

Be gone, troll!

Nicely done!
Uyger made Obama and MessNBC look bad, and MessNBC pays Mediaite’s salaries through exchange of advertising dollars, so Mediaite has to attack him on behalf of their paymasters.

Now the question is will MSNBC cover this story???

Hey troll, has MSNBC covered this scandal?

No! No! And NO!

LOL

Cenk was a hero to the left and now that he is exposing MSNBC’s WH connection, he has become a pariah!!!

Not Lying at all. That’s how I view what he said to Jon S and then his “what I wish I said” portion of his follow up. It’s my honest opinion.

Cynk is living proof that there is NO Honor among thieves!
 
When one of the Rat’s get caught, he will sing…..
 
This is such a beautiful thing to watch!

 Sis they cover when Keith left. No and I don’t they will talk about this much. Onless it get’s out of hand to the point where they have no chouce in the matter.

Having researched the corporate news media for the past 30 years, my view is that Cenk is on the mark.
These comments about liberal bias are uninformed nonsense. GE, among other things, is a weapons
manufacturer. This is NOT a liberal company. FOX is part of Murdoch’s worldwide privatized propaganda
service.  Hey, you Florida boys – Do you know that Murdoch is in bed with the Communist Chinese?
Got That?

nobody’s perfect dude “) but I’ll take to under advisement
 

There has been a “Guest” on here for awhile who is just vulgar, profane, ignorant and racist. Damn, that was redundant; I could have just said he was a lib.

That sounds like projection. The only sock puppets here are libs who are so embarrassed of their ignorance. You are certainly no polymath either.

Cenk;”  Are we going to be honest with our audience?”

Cenk: “They wanted me to have more Republicans on. … I love ripping into them.”

Yes Cenk- you are nothing but honest and unbiased aren’t ya?

 Anyone think this is going to halt the Al sharpton getting a show. with all the bad press comming out with Cenk and all?

Hope you locked out fox too!

good one…

Nope.   This  was     the  Obama   White  House’s   way  to    PLACE   Al  Sharpton   for  the  upcoming   election. 

Not  to mention  that     several months  ago,  the  NAACP  formally  complained  to  MSNBC  that  their   evening   roster   had  no  prominent   Black  anchors.

Had  nothing  to  do with Cenk  or  his  ratings.    All  about  paybacks  to  Sharpton.

How quickly we forget about that bush/fox connection!

Just as soon as they hold hearings on the collusion between the RNC and Fox.  After this week, we see how “lily white” the Murdock’s fox empire is.  Something we have all known for years!

Sorry MEV.  To me, FNC & FBN & CNBC are like oxygen.

Of course not….The WH has controlled MSNBC for quite a while.

On Morning Joe the other day, they said they were getting complaints that they needed more guests to support the  Presidents positions.  Joe’s response was that they are now about 10 Democrats to every 1 Republican…what more do they want????

Of course we can’t forget Mika’s texts during the show from Valerie Jarret.

It is a sleezy place to work and the workers are not likeing it one bit.

I predict more changes …. and soon.

Last night, Uygur appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, which now appears on the fledgling Current network

ONLY A COMMITTED LEFTY SATRAP LIKE COLBY (check your dictionary COLBY) WOULD
CALL CURRENT TV A FLEDGLING NETWORK. That’s about as funny as called this $400 a week
blogger a JOURNALIST. He’s a committed lefty

Gene

Bias has nothing to do with honesty you dunce. Man you guys are dumb. He’s an open progressive. Honest. Why are you so stupid? Seriously. How does this happen? How are you this dumb?

Cenk is actually a multi-millionaire. Self made.

Leftists need to dominate every medium – the only reason they’ve survived this long is because they’ve been able to stifle debate whenever possible. Look at how they’re salivating over this Rupert Murdoch scandal. They really want to snowball this into something that’ll get rid of FOXnews. And if they can’t get the scandal right to fight into the square hole, by damn they’ll pound it in anyway. They are so single-minded in their hate sometimes, its frightening. 

The truly irrational part is how these “news” channels on their side – and MSNBC isn’t the only one – are behaving in exactly the way they fantasized the Bush administration did with FOX. They really do project their own desires onto their opponents, then fear them for it. Since their news networks would obviously collude with a liberal president, they assume that when a Republican is in power, FOX must be doing the same thing. And when they’re in power, they use their power to destroy everyone they can who has an opinion different than theirs. Think about MediaMatters. They were trying to pass themselves off as some kind of non-profit “media watchdog”… but openly said they were going to destroy FOXnews by personally targeting and spying on everyone who worked there. That’s sick. And now they’re trying to bring FOXnews in America down because some british paper hired a sketchy private eye – who was hired by many other papers, as well – about 10 years ago? Meanwhile, MediaMatters feels perfectly comfortable announcing their strategy publicly. I guarantee you, MediaMatters has hacked quite a few voicemails in their time. Someone should investigate what they do for “access”.

Two words. SOUR GRAPES.

The problem is the MSNBC telling it’s filthy lies to it’s Dbagger Progressive audience has set the bar very low for commercial success in cable news. Well, that and a lot of Soros money.

Someone has to adjust their BS detector. The liberal bias of the media has been demonstrated statistically, and been documented for some time. See mrc dot org. Before FOX, the Left had a lock on all the news outlets. allowing them to give the appearance of being “the only thoughts in the room”. This kept conservatism in check somewhat, because everyone on the Right was deliberately fed the impression that no one else thought like they did.The only reason they hate FOX is because they can no longer pull that off. Now, everyone has their nametags on and I can clearly see who is on what side, and the Left has been outed.

Sorry, Jon Stewart’s a hack. I gave up on him last year. I’m tired of his weasely “oooo I’m just a comedian” routine. He’s well aware that many progressives get their news from him.

Comedy is dangerous, because you can use a well-timed joke to “win” an argument. But that doesn’t mean  you’ve “proven” an argument. Leftists often confuse the two, and often deliberately. So people on the Left tune in to the Daily Show to hear the latest smackdown on the Right, thinking that they’ve gotten some kind of “proof” and “information” or “truthiness”… but all it was was few good one liners.

Watch Red Eye on FOXnews. It’s consistently funnier, more original, and actually less biased… and it doesn’t take 23 writers to pull off every night.

That’s because the Bush/FOX connection didn’t exist. Kind of like the rainbow connection. MSNBC and Obama is everything you fantasized FOX and Bush was.

Uygur’s ratings were consistently stronger than what Schultz pulled in the same timeslot, and MSNBC never had a problem with Schultz, even though he’s similar to Uygur in that he is very abrasive and unafraid to completely spew venom at conservatives. The difference between Uygur and Schultz, though, is that Schultz is an unabashed White House sympathizer and Uygur hammers Obama regularly. And that’s obviously the issue. When Fox demonizes Obama to a conservative audience, it’s not a problem. But when MSNBC hosts demotivate the liberal base, Washington is going to react. Uygur isn’g going to determine whether or not Obama wins reelection, but if I’m in the White House, I’m obviously going to want a shill like Sharpton in that slot over Uygur.

Besides, you’re forgetting Uygur’s (unchallenged) claim that MSNBC offered him MORE money for a lesser role. Hush money to prevent him from spilling his guts like he is now? I’d say so.

Murdoch is a capitalist, not a conservative. FNC is center-right (not conservative) because Murdoch knows it will attract far more viewers than the left-leaning CNN or far-laft MSNBC. If Murdoch thought he could make more money by converting FNC to the Gay Chess Channel, he’d be looking for teammates for Shep Smith and Carl Cameron.

I’m not sure what this has to do with my comment about what Wallace said but since we’re here.
I’d probably disagree with your definition of “many” concerning people getting their news from TDS, but no matter. Do you suppose many conservatives get their news from ORielly , Hannity, Fox & Friends, etc.
Jon is a satirist with an opinion and a platform. He’s like the other talking heads except he’s smarter and his vehicle is different. Aside from the sometimes sophomoric and crude humor good satire is based in making commentary. You don’t have to agree with his commentary but he’s no more dangerous than any other talking head and he’s a lot funnier.

I don’t get either Fox or Comedy channel anymore so I watch Jon and Stephen on line. I’ve seen some clips of Red Eye and it was okay. It’s wise cracks rather than crafted jokes but nothing wrong with that. Ismit available online other than in posted clips?

http://youtu.be/iwgBjkucSXM

Sharptin is not going to bring in as many black votes or ratings like they think or if that is the reson. The reson Obama won was the youth vote. It was not just the black vote. Today gen black or white don’t care what Sharton has to say. And I get the feeling the black vote is devided. If you say Ed’s Black Agenda Specal. And so the fight Al got with Cornel West. Al Sharpton he reminds me of Don King all he’s ever been out for is money and being a media whole. The media was the ones that made him. I want to see Obama do good. But the way MSNBC is doing it. it’s going to back fire in there face.

What you wrote is parody, right? You can’t really be equating Fox News with journalism. No one could be that deluded. 

As David Frum, a prominent conservative and Bush’s former speechwriter, confessed last year, “Republicans used to think that Fox worked for us, but we eventually came to discover that we work for Fox.”

Fox is a 24-hour propaganda machine. 

This Cenk guy has just sealed his fate regarding any future jobs on cable(excluding CurrentTV of course).

Whatever happened to the good ole days when an entertainer would change his name to assimilate better.  He should have taken the name Champ Johnson or something like that.  His name sounds too Turkish.

The WH rewards the msm and liberal cable and punishes FNC, for the exact reasons listed by Cenk.  Thank you for the confirmation.

oh it’s still there. Fox is alittle more smart about it. For one thing nobody from Fox that was high up went to work for Bush when he was in office. Tony Snow did but he quit his job at Fox to do it. He even took a pay cut to do it. Because he beleved in what he was doing.

Two vitriolic phonies that claim to be rebels whining about the power, while just pushing rhetoric and whining about others who do so. They are just upset they got the boot.