I'm ready to give up on MSNBC and the lame stream media altogether.

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12. MSNBC, etc. will never stop the both parties are the same routine as their owners are Libertarians,

or whatever form of right wing cranks they are. No one will consistently point out the real issues and problems we have, they will be fired. After first being humiliated and smeared for daring to break with those favored by the owners.

Dan Rather, Phil Donahue and Keith Olbermann were fired. Ed Schultz was scheduled to cut viewers. No progressive who goes outside the media plantation meme survives. They may make us feel good, but they never get down to the real issues or they are fired. Many wondered why so-called liberals were interviewing RW guests, giving them airtime. The owners set that up to be sure that progressive listeners will hear than when they tune into their favorite host. It's not accident.

Think who owns the networks, and how they have become a wholly owned venue of big corporations. Matthews and most of his contemporaries got their big break doing what?

Shredding the Democratic POTUS 24/7 to denigrate the Democrats and help get the Gingrich majority voted in that has still not stopped doing us grave harm. They promoted the first Gulf War and the Iraq War. They didn't just report the news, they cheered. They have been caught editing and outright lying about events many times. Or suddenly finding out that the news they had been given to report in advance was glaringly false, like the USSC decision on the ACA. There's no reality there.

For the most part, the anchors or pundits get their job from family or associations and have no qualifications to be there otherwise. That's why all their gaffes and arrogance is excused and they are not fired.

It's nepotism and or cronyism. The only thing they have going for them is their wardrobe and hair style as they are safely cocooned within the monied class. Last time I looked at the figures before they're scrubbed all of them make over $100M a year in salary. That buys a lot of loyalty and silence.

Too many people think that the way their anchors look with their perfect hair and clothes and language, means wisdom, virtue, stability or intelligence. They get their talking points delivered and they repeat them within a very narrow framework that still leads to what their owners want the people to hear.

I quit cable in disgust and horror in mid-2008 watching Palin's KKK rallies. Growing up in the Civil Rights era of the sixties, it was too deja vu.

Was convinced to hook the cables up for the victory speech in Chicago and the inauguration. I also grew up being taught about the same things and being aware since I was in elementary school. And didn't stop being involved in real life politics most of my life. Other than FSTV on occasion, I won't watch anything on cable. Vast wasteland is right...