firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 8/28/2008
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From NBC's Mark Murray DENVER -- Chatting this morning with about two dozen political reporters here, comedian Jon Stewart cracked plenty of jokes.
On the reporters in the room: "It is very difficult to fake what you do."
On which candidate would be the better source of laughs for the next four to eight years: "Mr. T."
And on which candidate is funnier: "Neither," he answered. "You know who makes me laugh? Chris Rock. But I don't want him as president."
Yet not everything was a joking ...
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The internecine MSNBC spats
Rathergate.com —
... of spats at the third-rate[d] news network. Matthews and Keefums are having at it. Olbermann and Scarborough are getting nasty . Scarborough has launched into David Shuster. Matthews and Keefums have vented about Hillary’s old com director Howard Wolfson signing on with FOX, and Wolfson has struck back. Jon Stewart, alas and at last, has put it all into perspective (via Michael Calderon : Of course Stewart, once an MTV VeeJay , maintains that Obama would be a “far less imperious” President than is Bush. Does he know what ...
The internecine series of hissy fits at MSNBC
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Axelrod's please for "unity." Matthews and Keefums
are having at it. Olbermann and Scarborough
are getting nasty. Scarborough
has launched into David Shuster. Matthews and Keefums have
vented about Hillary's old com director Howard Wolfson signing on
with FOX, and Wolfson has
struck back.
Jon Stewart, alas and at last, has put it all into perspective
(via
Michael Calderon:
Of course Stewart, once an MTV VeeJay,
maintains
that Obama would be a "far less imperious" President than is
Bush. Does he know what ...
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