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NBC news has announced that Chris Matthews and Ron Burgundy Keith Olbermann will not anchor MSNBC’s coverage during the presidential debates and on election night. Instead, David Gregory will get the nod and Matthews and Olbermann will be forced to cock fight, mostly off air.

This is serious though because MSNBC has become the counter to Fox News. Fox is obviously unfair and unbalanced and they are #1 on cable news because of it. The reason: Fox News doesn’t have to fight for an audience like CNN and MSNBC do. Those networks must share a largely left leaning audience while Fox gobbles up most of the right leaning audience.

I’ve written before on this site about how American news networks are almost equally to blame for the United States occupation of Iraq because they helped perpetuate the faulty logic that was involved in our invasion of Iraq. The media didn’t accurately report on the lack of intelligence the United States had while Hans Blix was still finding no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The fact that NBC has caved to the demands of the right is shameful. Fortunately, Chris Matthews can still be seen on HardBall and Keith Olbermann can still be seen on Anchorman Countdown. It’s important that the voices of leading left leaning political pundits are not shut out, otherwise the road to Tehran could become an easier one for the potential McCain/Palin administration.

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