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Campbell Brown has been a dismal failure on CNN and trails not only prime time leader Bill O’Reilly, but also Keith Olbermann and Nancy Grace.  Olbermann averages less than a third of the viewers that O’Reilly brings in, but Brown is down around a sixth (~15%) of O’Reilly’s audience.

NewsBusters reports that to her credit, Cambpell Brown has resigned, realizing that there is no indication that her dismal ratings will grow:

Give Campbell Brown credit. Unlike many of her colleagues, who from all appearances will have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from their microphones once their networks can no longer afford to subsidize their dwindling audiences, Brown recognizes that she’s in a business that has to make money.

Brown’s evening CNN show has consistently failed to reach enough viewers to justify itself, and she concluded that there was no realistic hope of recovery. So, unlike a certain CBS Evening News anchor, Campbell Brown is doing the honorable thing, and resigning. She has told the network to find someone who might perform better.

Now, while that’s only a shocker in that CNN and Brown have finally come to their senses and realized that Foxnews and O’Reilly aren’t just experiencing a temporary bump, what is truly amazing about this story is how the always-biased Associated Press have reported this story.   The AP is attempting to spin Brown’s failure, along with the rest of CNN”s poorly performing prime-time lineup, as a result of their ‘non-biased’ approach to reporting the news:

Cable news viewers have increasingly turned to edgier, opinionated shows in prime-time, leaving behind CNN and its effort to be non-biased.

I included a link to a copy of the AP story that Newsbusters.org preserved on their website, anticipating that the AP might change that laughable part of their story, which they did.

Another night and another Olbermann tirade (anyone else think he should have kept that Sportscenter job?).  Last night he lashed out at Joe Lieberman calling him an embarrassment and suggesting Lieberman should resign over his position on the proposed health care bill.

Tonight, CBS showed they are clearly on the media-bias bandwagon in attacking Joe Lieberman for simply doing his job.

Newsbusters breaks down the latest rants:

A night after MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann demanded Senator Joe Lieberman “just resign already” as he shrieked “you are embarrassing humanity!”, CBS joined in targeting Connecticut’s “independent Democrat” for daring to oppose liberals on health care. “He holds the 60th vote needed to get the health care reform bill passed in the Senate,” anchor Katie Couric intoned, “and Nancy Cordes tells us supporters of reform are angry and confused about Lieberman’s position.”

Cordes soon expanded the exasperation to include “Democratic Senators Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson” who “successfully blocked the public option even though the other 55 Democrats support it. Nelson is still holding out for stricter anti-abortion language, leading some liberals to complain their agenda is being hijacked by a few.” She demanded of Lieberman: “Does it trouble you that you’re going against an overwhelming majority of your caucus?” (Hard to imagine a CBS reporter ever scolding a more liberal Republican for defying the party’s conservative majority.)

A frustrated Cordes concluded: “So this small group of four or so Senators has managed successfully to impose their will on the other 530 members of Congress because the changes that they’re demanding to the Senate bill will likely have to be made to the House bill, too.”

In a court of law, they often use the “reasonable person” test.  Would a “reasonable person” reach a certain conclusion?  Can any reasonable person read or watch the CBS and MSNBC reports of the last three days and honestly claim that these reporters’ liberal bias is not only clouding their ability to be unbiased, but is showing in their venomous reports?

Newsbusters recaps Olbermann’s Monday evening rant:

On MSNBC’s Dec. 14 broadcast of “Countdown,” Olbermann came to the defense of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” executive producer and noted left-winger Dick Wolf. The Dec. 9 episode of Wolf’s program featured a killer who targeted the children of illegal immigrants and in that episode, one of the characters, played by John Larroquette, blamed conservatives “like Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck” for inciting violence against immigrants. That prompted O’Reilly on Dec. 10, the next broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” to fire back at Wolf.
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“Well, fortunately, the slandering of Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly and Bernard Goldberg is about to come to an end,” Olbermann said. “Mercifully and finally, the liberal media is going to get theirs. Having succeeded in making those on his side of the politics look like the most gullible, paranoid folks on the planet by pimping those high school humor-quality ACORN videos, a man named Breitbart, and again the name seems to be meant ironically, is founding a website with which he will quote, ‘Fight the mainstream media, who have repeatedly and under the guise of objectivity and political neutrality promoted a blatantly left-of-center, pro-Democratic Party agenda.’”

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“Let me give them two windmills to tilt at to start with – there is no liberal media!” Olbermann said. “The media which is, after all, owned by corporations naturally leans to the right. Corporations, by definition, lean to the right, towards the status quo. If an American media outlet presents a progressive point of view, the right will exploit the media’s tendency to desperately seek balance. If the progressive says, ‘No, Obama was elected president last year,’ they will mindlessly put in a clip of somebody from the right saying, ‘No, he wasn’t. It didn’t happen.’”

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“The second thing I already mentioned, in the Tiller, Pittsburgh, and Knoxville cases, Beck, Goldberg and O’Reilly clearly incited murderous violence,” Olbermann said. “And Dick Wolf was being over-the-top by comparing Beck, O’Reilly and Limbaugh to disease, because comparing them to disease gives disease a bad name.”

Head over Newsbusters to read the rest of Olbermann’s nonsensical rant.

The Washington Times reports on the tip of the Climategate iceberg:

Contrary to the whitewash job conducted by propagandists, there are 450 academic peer-reviewed journal articles questioning the importance of man-made global warming. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine has collected more than 30,000 American scientists urging the U.S. government to reject the Kyoto Treaty, which pushes draconian measures to reduce carbon emissions. Much hay is made of 2,500 United Nations scientists who back Kyoto, but there are many more scientists with Ph.D.s among the 30,000 skeptics than there are among the oft-cited 2,500, most of whom are government bureaucrats without advanced degrees

You can see the 450 peer-reviewed journal articles at Popular Technology.net.

This past weekend, the networks finally gave minimal coverage, after news agencies around the world reported on the ‘lack’ of reporting by the US news agencies.

ABC refused to report ANY of the content of the leaked emails, and instead stated that “The science is solid, according to a vast majority of researchers, with hotter temperatures, melting glaciers, and rising sea level providing the proof.”

NBC in reports over the weekend stated that the scandal may end up “giving politicians from coal and oil-producing states another reason to delay taking action to reduce emissions”  and stated “the evidence is overwhelming that man is behind climate change.”

Once again, the network executives have allowed their news departments to shape the news to fit their political views, rather than simply reporting it.

Matthews, an MSNBC news anchor, said about Obama last year:  “I’ve been following politics since I was about 5,” said Mr. Matthews. “I’ve never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising.”

So, is it at all surprising that Matthews would call West Point, one of our greatest military institutions, ‘enemy territory’?

Following President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan, Matthews said, “I saw if not resentment, skepticism. I didn’t see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there, uh, the president chose to address tonight. And I think that is interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case.”

The AP not only didn’t devote the same resources to checking recent liberal books, but in  fact did no fact checking for recent books by Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as the two books Barack Obama wrote before becoming President.

The question that arises is why liberal politicians get a free pass from the AP, while they put a small army of fact checkers on the popular Republican ex-governor.