http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28425

Back in the good old days -- when MSNBC's liberal bias was merely overt -- the network was capable of embarrassment. Now, the network has chosen sides in the presidential election, and it is engaging in political activism.

Apparently at the direction of corporate parent GE, both MSNBC and its broadcast sister NBC have become Obama surrogates, so Republicans must tackle them just as they'll have to tackle Hillary Clinton, CBS and the New York Times. If they were doing to Obama what they're doing to McCain and Palin, Jesse Jackson would have organized a boycott of GE.

Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough reported that on his first night at MSNBC -- the night of George Bush's 2003 State of the Union address -- "...I was shocked because there were actually people in the newsroom that were booing the president actually from the beginning to the end." Scarborough said he talked to then MSNBC executive (now MSNBC president) Phil Griffin about it, and Griffin "turned red very quickly."

That was when MSNBC management upheld the pretense of journalism. No longer.

Palin said, "But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion -- I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons, and not just to mingle with the right people."

At that point, Laura Ingraham reported, a chant went up among some of the delegates: "N-B-C! N-B-C! N-B-C!" (We'll leave it to historians to determine whether the marvelously mischievous Laura started it.) However it began, the chant should be the cause of intense personal reflection among all NBC's and MSNBC's remaining journalists.

MSNBC's dolt-laureate Keith Olbermann was in total control of coverage at the Republican convention, directing the cameras and apparently the reporter-commentators.

That Olberboy was put in control of NBC at the Republican Convention was a milestone of sorts. One that Fox News could have reached only by putting "Weird Al" Yankovic in charge of its Democratic Convention coverage.

GE has chosen sides in this election. We're not talking about media bias: this is political activism, a major media outlet functioning as a pro-Obama 527 Group. Millions of dollars will be spent each night on "news" that's really political ads. There's only one answer to it: the Republican National Committee has to take all the Obama media surrogates on -- especially NBC and MSNBC -- directly and daily.