MSNBC Plays Musical Chairs

The ultra-far-left cable news outlet, MSNBC, well known to be deeply in the Obama camp, has decided that two of their own have gone too far. The network has officially fired Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from the Anchor desk, at least as far as election coverage goes. But does it mean anything?

First of all, it's funny that they are finally worried that they might lose credibility because of these two buffoonish Obama cheerleaders. I hate to have to be the one to break it to them, but, that ship has sailed. Any semblance of credibility was smashed several months ago when an MSNBC reporter told the panel that it was hard to be objective when listening to Obama talk, and Matthews called him courageous for saying that, or after hearing an Obama speech, when Matthews said that he felt a chill running up his leg. And, of course, Olbermann is a liar and far left extremist bomb thrower, and never really did deserve any attention.

Of course, this attempt at getting themselves some credibility really doesn't go very far in that direction. You see, even though they will no longer be anchoring the coverage, they will still be there as commentators. How many people do you really think are going to notice that they've moved over a couple of chairs? It's nice that MSNBC is giving some lip service to trying to be a real news outlet, but it would have been nice if they had done something meaningful, like firing both of them outright.

Of course, let's also be clear, this really didn't have anything to do with them being too liberal, the network itself is still committed to the Obama Campaign. No, what this is really about is ratings. The powers that be apparently are getting sick of being dead last in the ratings, and are hoping that they can trick some viewers into thinking that are a serious new outlet. Personally, I really don't think it will work.

And lest you worry about this being the first post this month where I haven't mentioned Sarah Palin... well, there you go.

Seriously though, I make no pretense here at being impartial. My intention is to always be honest and truthful, and so, in the interest of full disclosure, in case you were sleep reading and have missed it: I am a Conservative Republican. I am a supporter of the McCain/Palin ticket, and an unabashed fan of Gov. Palin in particular. My biggest hope is to make people who read here think about the issues. Of course I hope to bring people around to my opinion on any of the issues that I talk about here, however, failing that, I will be satisfied if I can make people take a hard look at the issues and facts and really think about them in an honest manner.