CyberAlert
9:55am EDT, Tuesday July 3, 2007 (Vol. Twelve; No. 112)
1. Olbermann: For Commutation in 'Crime of Century' Bush Must Resign
On Monday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann opened his show railing against President Bush, contending that the President "lied us into a war" and "needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors" as the Countdown host attacked the President for commuting the sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, referring to Libby's involvement in the "greatest crime of this young century." Olbermann later tagged Bush as "Worst Person of the World," and announced that he will call on President Bush and Vice President Cheney to resign in a "Special Comment" on Tuesday's show: "As you may have suspected, tomorrow night, here on Countdown, a 'Special Comment' calling on this Vice President and this President to resign."
2. CNN: Conservatives 'Angry' Too Over Libby, GOP Double Standard With "Angry Reaction" on screen, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux opened the 7pm EDT hour of The Situation Room by asking if on the Libby commutation: "Are conservatives as angry as Democrats?" Toward the end of the hour, Malveaux, filling in for Wolf Blitzer, cued up ex-Clinton operative Paul Begala: "President Clinton was impeached for lying before a grand jury. What do you think? What do you make of this? Does this smack of a double standard?"
Analyst Bill Schneider saw no benefit for Bush: "There's going to be a lot of anger out there. I don't think it's going to be restricted simply to Democrats. Independents and some Republicans are going to be angry and it's going to feed into the anger at
As for the idea "this would be popular with the base," Schneider opined: "I'm dubious about that." Malveaux, who seconds earlier cued up Begala with a liberal talking point about a Republican double standard, confronted Republican strategist John Feehery: "Does it cut two ways here? We've heard Bill Schneider saying he doesn't really think this is going to play out much in a partisan way. He believes that there are going to be a lot of Republicans who see it the same way as Democrats and say, you know, this is just preferential treatment."
3. MSNBC's Hardball Turns Into DNC-TV with Al Sharpton as the Host Chris Matthews, away on vacation, handed the reigns of MSNBC's Hardball on Monday to Democratic activist Reverend Al Sharpton. The first two guests of the Sharpton-hosted July 2 live 5pm EDT episode were Democrats: Howard Dean and Terry McAuliffe. The hot topic of the discussion with Dean was about how the John McCain campaign and the GOP, overall, were suffering in their fundraising efforts. The following "hardball" segment, with McAuliffe, featured the Hillary Clinton campaign chairman crowing about her fundraising success. After the McAuliffe segment, Sharpton, actually interviewed a Republican. Predictably, Sharpton's questions to presidential candidate Representative Duncan Hunter were tougher than the ones to his Democratic colleagues. Following the Hunter segment, Sharpton quickly returned to his Democratic friends, as he invited on Democratic presidential candidate Senator Chris Dodd.
4. On Wednesday, C-SPAN2 Will Air MRC's Gala with DisHonors and Rush On Wednesday, July 4 at 3:20pm EDT (2:20pm CDT, 1:20pm MDT, 12:20pm PDT), C-SPAN2 is scheduled to carry the MRC's March 29 "2007 DisHonors Awards: Roasting the Most Outrageously Biased Liberal Reporters of 2006" -- the showcase of the MRC's 20th Anniversary Gala -- which was followed by Rush Limbaugh accepting the MRC's first annual "William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence."
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