It's official. Wolfson it's the rat, sorry, the source in the NYT article.

Yeah! Let's have some MSM wars!

Maybe they'll devour each other.

If only we could draw CNN into the fray...

I wonder how this interview came about. Maybe Wolfson called FOX and was looking for a regular spot on FOX as a political commentator who will play his role for a steady paycheck from Rupert?

Nobody has spent more time over the last two years attacking Democrats than Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, and I'm just not going to get lectured on how to be a good Democrat from them.

quoting because it boggles the mind

Keith Olbermann is a douche. I like Chris Matthews though. And I like the MSNBC/FOX NEWs feud it provides great entertainment. I wish CNN would jump in at one point.

Video: Keith Vs. Chris Another Awkward MSNBC Moment

I have to mention, picking nits here, but I detected a subtle, subliminal new way to play the POW card. Andrea Mitchell just interviewed Tom Ridge, and he had a good chuckle over Hillary's "Twins" line. He went on to say "...she knows better than most the qualities and experiences and the kind of leadership that John McCain would provide are far different than that of President Bush."

Most people use "experience" as a singular, to cover the whole spectrum. Experiences plural means, you know, those 5 1/2 years...

The broadside from Wolfson, who has until now refrained from publicly critiquing MSNBC despite months of deep unhappiness within Hillaryland...

Please Greg. While I don't want to argue on what now is an insignificant issue, Wolfson and the folks in the Hillaryland whined about the MSNBC coverage publicly, on other networks and also in debates.

Anyway, Wolfson finally reached home at Fox.
They blend like milk and water.

Howard Wolfson was Hillary's personal Baghdad Bob. The man is a snake.

"I think it's unfortunate that a news organization with a great tradition like NBC has been taken over by those kind of antics," Wolfson said.

Not that Hillary isn't ultimately responsible for the chaotic mess that was her primary campaign, but I don't believe Wolfson is in any position, none, to criticize MSNBC.

By the way, I have never felt more uncomfortable with MSNBC than the period from when Hillary announced (late 2006?) until Super Tuesday this year, when the hubristic disaster that was her campaign was, for all intents and purposes, over. Keith and most others had been completely in the bag for Hillary during that time, and as an Obama supporter, it bothered the hell out of me. Once the tactics became draconian and they began to more overtly use race tactically (it's not necessary to say "racist" to have disdain for the tactics used by camp Clinton), only then did Keith, for one, begin to call out the Clinton campaign for its increasingly Rovian tactic.

Wolfson can go Fox himself!

To hell with Wolfson. He's gone to the enemy and like Lieberman, Pelosi, Reid and all those conservative Blue Dog Dems, deserves scorn. Everything they've done has helped to undermine this country.

Howard Wolfson joins Fox Noise-- and expects to be thought of as a good Democrat? NBC was getting slandered daily by Bill-O for its reporting on the involvement of Fox's BFF Dick Cheney in the Valerie Plame scandal, while NBC's Tim Russert refused to be bullied during the Scooter Libby trial. Basically, the White House has its own network and used it to attack David Gregory and all of NBC. With K.O., NBC is fighting back. It's not a liberal/conservative thing-- it's a flawed but real news outfit standing up for itself against a propaganda machine posing as an actual news outfit.

Wolfson doesn't understand that he was a Democratic operative who's job it was to get Democrats elected and now he bashes them for Fox News! That is completely different than journalists and pundits trashing a candidate from time to time.

Nobody has spent more time over the last two years attacking Democrats than Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, and I'm just not going to get lectured on how to be a good Democrat from them."

What? It makes me wonder just how far Wolfson's head was up the Clinton's ass. Of course the whole Clinton clan loved Fox. (remember Terry McAuliffe's "Fox is fair and balanced" quote?)

Of course Wolfson is a great pick for Fox. He thinks the American people, including democrats are completely stupid. How can he possibly say with a straight face that the MSNBC hairdos have been more harmful to democrats than Fox? Fox News??

I guess he is a perfect fit over there after all.

I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. Wolfson works for Fox News. The same place that treated Hillary and Bill Clinton like crap for 15 years up until the time Barack Obama took the lead in the primary. And than they became Hillary's best friends.

Don't repeat this crap. Its not our concern. It shouldn't be our focus. I could care less about what anyone who works for Fox News says.

Wolfson is just trying to earn his silver coins as Fox News' waterboy. Who cares what he says? His career is over in the Democratic Party.

Wolfson certainly did not previously hide his contempt for MSNBC:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UMAS3O0&show_article=1

Right Message, Wrong Medium...

I sympathize with Wolfson about Tweety and KO's extreme bias against Hillary.

But Jesus Christ on a craker! Don't use FOX NEWS as your medium!

Even though I absolutely loathe Howard Wolfson, personally finding him as creepy as R. Kelly pacing in front of a daycare center - I would have given him some leeway until he said this bullshit:

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I'm surprised that Howard can actually find a pair of jeans that fit him, because it takes some set of balls to say that shit on FOX News of all places. Jesus..

Wolfson Fox. Poetic:

Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a mammal of the order Carnivora.

Gray Wolf (Canis lupus), is a mammal of the order Carnivora

I like MSNBC for two things: Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow- that's about it. Otherwise, I don't see much to write home about. I do appreciate what MSNBC is doing with those two playing more prominent parts. The AP, Reuters and FOX are pure propaganda and CNN (especially), ABC, and CBS are right behind them.

McClatchy, BBC, NPR, and CSPAN for my news coverage.

And the psycho drama continues

Even though I absolutely loathe Howard Wolfson, personally finding him as creepy as R. Kelly pacing in front of a daycare center - I would have given him some leeway until he said this bullshit:

"Nobody has spent more time over the last two years attacking Democrats than Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, and I'm just not going to get lectured on how to be a good Democrat from them."

I'm surprised that Howard can actually find a pair of jeans that fit him, because it takes some set of balls to say that shit on FOX News of all places. Jesus..

All these guys need to find the same sinking boat in the ocean. The country deserves better than this.

My bad for the multiple comments.

Ah yes, the anchors are making themselves the story. Nothing but infotainment celebrities trying to put themselves over.

Wolfson ran a Republican campaign against a fellow Democrat in the primary, and then he ran to Fox news for a paycheck.

I wonder where all this manufactured drama will be around during the Republican National Convention next week?

To tweak the old joke -
What do you call ten MSM talking heads chained together at the bottom of the ocean?

A good start.

By Wolfson's standards, hasn't he spent quite a bit of time attacking perfectly loyal democrats himself? Or are the Clintons the only democrats in this guy's mind????

It was a PRIMARY!!!! In a primary democrats attack democrats, in a general election democrats attack republicans. Apparently he DOES need a lecture on how political parties work.

Wolfson is a large part of why Hillary's campaign failed. I've never been sure if it was mere incompetence or intent. His whinings and mewlings mean nothing.

Can you really blame Wolfson for being bitter? In just a few short months, he's gone from making six figures a month, thinking that he was going to be the next WH Press Secretary to being forced to beg for airtime from Roger Ailes. I guess I'd be a little touchy, too.

Howard Woolfson, paid by Fox Propaganda, isn't going to be lectured about being a good Democrat?

You couldn't make this crap up if you wanted to.

And Keith Olberman practically drooled in his praise for Hillary Clinton last night. Perhaps Howard was too busy commentating on Fox Propaganda to notice.

Yo Wolfson, you wanna know why you're working for the enemy instead of a presidential candidate, take a look in the mirror.

Now shut the fuck up.

Great! Something else to distract the public from seeing that John W. McSame is actually MORE insane than George W. Bush.

There was a day when election coverage across the networks was a slightly different shade of vanilla.

No more. C-SPAN and perhaps PBS remain largely unfazed, but not the MSM. CNN is news for the snooty elite. And you only tune in Fox to see if the elephants have come in, or that crazy car that 57 angry white republicans climb out of...

MSNBC's desk is outside, and they are constantly involving real people. There was a moment after the convention where 2 hand-helds were covering a pow-wow between Mitchell, Todd, Williams, and Gregory on the empty floor that was very real and unlike any other coverage. Very back-stage. It made me miss Tim Russert, though...

Wolfon's politics rely on a certain degree of shadiness that can longer be dispensed in the era of the Great Intertubes. It brought down King Bubbuh and Jane; how powerful they could have been had they grown up in time?

Pax,
M.

Let's face it, Fox has staked a claim to the Conservatives and MSNBC programs to attract Liberals. A battle between network on air personalities is good for both networks. The ultimate loser--CNN.

Uh, no one on TV has been more critical of George Bush and company than Keith Olbermann, and sorry but nothing Wolfson says changes the fact that he works for Fox News.. You can't pretend you aren't a douche and work for Fox. Just own your douchiness and collect your checks, douche.

has olbermann outted wolfson's foreign lobbyist ties yet?

Whether or not you like Wolfson, he does have a point in this case. Bob Somerby of Daily Howler documented MSNBC's coverage of Hillary extensively, here's but one example -

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh052908.shtml

Read a few of these and then tell me MSNBC treated Hillary favorably.

This is the same guy who blamed the Clinton's loss on John Edwards' hiding his affair.

Wolfson is a delusional, sycophantic weenie who would say anything at all (or go anywhere at all) to salvage his precious relevancy. He'd say canned corn or Whitey Tighties spoiled the primary for Hillary, not him, if he thought it would get a camera pointed at him.

He's probably on Fox because nobody but Fox is willing to point cameras at him any more, and they're only doing it to exploit his ridiculousness.

Wolfson & Penn sitting in a tree....

Senator Clinton, I believe, was ill-served by many in her campaign (not letting her off the hook, it was Her campaign); and I think she was probably most ill-served by Wolfson. He came across as the stereotypical used car salesman.

If Wolfson was a good Democrat, his MSNBC-inspired outrage would be directed at Scarborough. Since it's not, that means he's a good Wolfsonian.

Wolfson can stuff it. Liberals and progressives finally get some voice in the media and look how quickly the liberal media bias myth is exposed as a lie of the highest order. What I want is Soros et al to pour hundreds of millions into a new channel that is nakedly left as Fox is right. Fight fire with fire, I say. Anyone who has watched (or tried to watch) the Democratic Convention coverage via the MSM knows that the current line-up of media options is dangerous for our country, as well as our democracy.

They talked briefly about Clinton’s victory in Texas ...

For the record, Barack Obama won Texas.

Wow, is it a slow news day or something? How in the hell has this non-story racked up 150+ comments?

Also, is it really necessary to put it as the second big headline on the right side of the main page? Sheesh...

It's August and Howard Wolfson is still making excuses for why Hillary lost.

Last month, he claimed that the Edwards coverup cost her the nomination.

Howard, the reason Hillary lost is because Obama won.

You're in denial of both.

Wolfson is one of the main reasons many of my friends did not support Clinton to begin with many months ago. He is a liar and attacked the democrat arm of the party that supported Obama. He is the one who pushed the notion, and a wrong one at that, that Hillary would be the nominee and everyone else was wasting their time. The poor moron has been wrong time and time and time again. He's wrong now just like he was when he tried to fly the lie that Clinton would have been the nominee if it had came out that Edwards was lying about his affair...like Obama running a MUCH better campaign and hiring better people had nothing to do with it...but go ahead Wolfbutt and keep talking...LOL Your actually quite amusing.

Wolfson is obviously the new point man for the Clintons' bitter, bi-coastal, rich Jewish financial backers who did all they could to keep Hillary in the race as long as possible, even when it was mathematically impossible for her to win, in order to destroy their hated enemy Obama. These Democratic, Likudnic neocons are one-issue people who, like the Republican neocons who gifted us with the insane proxy war for Israel in Iraq, are mainly interested in whether a candidate supports their conservative warhawk vision of what America can and must do to "protect" Israel. (Their next goal, as Hillary announced for them, is to "obliterate" Iran, which they fear Obama is not anxious enough to do.) Anyway, Lanny Davis and Wolfson are both point men for the propaganda campaign designed by these people to subvert Obama by any means necessary. As usual, a majority of American Jews are true liberals, so they're voting for Obama, rightly confident that he's NOT Israel's enemy.

Hate to say it, but I would agree that MSNBC has strayed from responsible journalism. KO is as clearly biased as any anchor I have ever seen, and Matthews is just insane. What makes this especially sad, though, is that MSNBC is still the most responsible and reasoned of all of the cable news networks. It is the least of three evils. God help us all.

Oh yeah. Democrats are all just perfect and lord knows we wouldn't want to call one out for acting like a Republican. Wolfson, Ford, Carville, and Lieberman need to remember who they represent, and it ain't Republicans, conservatives, neocons, and corporations.