I write this with a heavy heart.
I have always been a Nora O'Donnell fan. When she first came on the scene a few years back, she was a fresh face and a welcome voice of objective journalism in the cluttered world of talking heads trying to get attention.
Nora O'Donnell used to cover Congress for Rollcall magazine and was a contributor to MSNBC, but it was clear that she was destined for bigger things. She now is one of the stars of MSNBC and, sadly, that is not a good thing.
The Cable News Network in a quest for an identity and, more importantly, ratings has decided to be the anti-Fox News. They have thrown all the tenets of journalism out the window and show their political leaning every night. They are led Kieth Olbermann and Chris Matthews, who have become more famous as SNL parodies than deep thinkers.
That is the problem with wearing your politics on your sleeve as the host of a news program, you are necessarily seen as a fraud.
And that brings us back to poor Nora who has sold her soul to MSNBC.
This week she threw away the very thing that made her special, her fierce objectivity, and joined the cool kids in the schoolyard in deriding Sarah Palin, the favorite target of the MSNBC in-crowd. A soccer Mom from Alaska with five kids is just not cool in the MSNBC world that exists only inside the I-95 Northeast corridor.
Nora O'Donnell brought up the subject of Sarah Palin's trip to Washington and then giggled like a starry eyed adolescent as Democratic Strategist Morris Ried mocked Palin.
Nora seemed eager to show the big boys at MSNBC that she could be just as biased as the rest of them and interjected this beauty of a distortion of Palin's comments on the campaign trail about Barack Obama -
"..didn't she call him a terrorist on the campaign trail?"
I actually felt bad for her. Sarah Palin never called Barack Obama a terrorist. She called William Ayers a terrorist and questioned Obama's relationship with him. Big Difference.
Nora O'Donnell is smart enough to know that. She just wanted to eagerly sell her soul to fit in at MSNBC.
The problem is that objectivity is like virginity, once you give it up there is not getting it back.
The good people at Newsbusters have the entire transcript. Click here to read it.
And here is the video -
I see Nora O'Donnell now as just a backstage groupie who wants to do anything to impress the two biggest heads in her building, Chris and Kieth.
The other wannabe is David Shuster, but after Shuster had his head handed to him by Conservative Talk Show host John Ziegler, Shuster was exposed as not being ready for prime time. The dis-robing of Shuster is worth watching again -
Oh, that made me feel better. Thank you John Ziegler.
John has a new documentary coming out called "Media Malpractice." It is an in-depth look at how the media helped Barack Obama get elected. Part of the documentary looks at the concerted Media efforts to dismantle Sarah Palin's image. You can check out some of the work John Ziegler has done by clicking here. There you will find more with Sarah Palin and another clip of John defending himself on MSNBC, this time against - Nora O'Donnell. Sigh.
8 comments:
I love how Sarah causes her own constituents such deep cognitive dissonance. I think it's funny.
She ran around the country for a full month yelling that Obama "pals around with terrorists" and "I'm a washington outsider".
While this weekend she intends to pal around with Obama, in one of the most exclusionary "washington insider" clubs in DC.
But the Palinoids cry sexism and foul at "the media", as if it's "the media's fault she consistently says one thing, yet does another.
Please. One born every minute.
Newsbusters is a tabloid on the same level, or even worse, than Huffington Post -- at least the latter has some sense of humor to it.
All they do is whine, whine, whine. They don't do anything else but whine. If I were Sarah I would be embarassed that people like Newsbusters take up my cause, but that's just me.
Poor POOR conservatives, it is SO DIFFICULT to be them!
lol!
OC:
You do understand the difference between a VP candidate in a poltical race and a journalist right?
Just in case..
The former by definition is supposed to be an advocate and subjective, the latter is supposed to be non-partisan and objective.
The basic definitions render your argument pointless.
The basic definitions render your argument pointless.
I don't think you understood what I was saying at all.
You guys are somehow convinced of that idiot Ziegler's argument just by reading the title and gazing lovingly at footage of your messiah in a peach jacket.
And all repeat in unision: poor Sarah is a victim of the media.
Sorry, you're stuck with the contradictions Sarah feeds you: 2 months ago, Obama was "palling around with terrorists", repeated daily campaign rhetoric which you guys bought hook line and sinker, and now she's going to pal around with him.
No one can say it's because of "2012"; as usual, the zealots don't even listen to their own candidate who said SPECIFICALLY, ON CAMERA, she was going because she wanted to have dinner with him.
You guys are being manipulated by her. I think it's funny.
Intelligent women threaten you.
Nora O'Donnell is a FRAUD just like most of the people on msnbc. They call themselves journalist, but that is a JOKE....
Sarah Sarah Sarah, You truly aren't faking, you are a true idiot. Why are you so thin skinned? You will never make it in the larger political picture and if not for your attractive looks you would not have even been Governor of Alaska. You only wish you could be half as intelligent as Ms O'Donell.
Wow! Where'd you get the hot picture of the beautiful Norah O'Donnell. Best looking woman on television!!!!!!
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