I Missed This All This Week at MSNBC

When Don Imus was on MSNBC I watched the network quite often in the mornings, then he famously got canned thanks to Al Sharpton and his smear merchants and it was replaced with this Morning Joe program that I grew tired of mostly because of the surrounding characters on the network.

This week the long simmering MSNBC leftward bend has angered the real news deliverers on the channel and NBC news division stalwarts to the point that the stuff has exploded on the air during the convention.

Here's one particularly nasty confrontation between Joe Scarborough and leftwing apologist Davis Schuster that goes on for about ten minutes in this youtube that ends with the two hugging and making up like girls...




Then the saga continues and Poltico covers the nitty gritty of the situation in this post from yesterday:

MSNBC prez defends convention team -

Michael Calderone - Politico.com: "Joe Scarborough got into an on-air tiff with David Shuster.

Photo: AP

DENVER — Amid a spate of awkward on-air conflicts among MNSBC anchors at this week’s Democratic convention, some staff members say there are sharp internal disputes at the cable network over whether its opinion and personality-driven political coverage has crossed the line.

“The situation at our channel is about to blow up,” a high-ranking MSNBC journalist told Politico on Wednesday.

Two other MSNBC sources said some of the testy on-air exchanges between Keith Olbermann — whose quick-witted and often caustic commentary has fueled ratings growth — and other network personalities were a public glimpse of much more intense behind-the-scenes turmoil.

As replays of the conflicts became YouTube hits, MSNBC President Phil Griffin gave his first public defense in a Politico interview.

“MSNBC does not have an ideology,” Griffin said. “We hire smart people who are passionate about their love of politics and love of news.”

“Do I want them to have squabbles?” Griffin asked. “No. But I understand they’re human.”

In addition to Olbermann, MSNBC personalities Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough and David Shuster were involved in Denver controversies." read more here

There's  more of those confrontations available on youtube like this one with Scarborough and the jag of the year Keith Olbermann and others here here and here.

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