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Whiny Little Bitch MSNBC Guest Inserts Gratuitous Palin Slam Into College Football Story



Aug 18, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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NewsBusters:

Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin appeared on MSNBC’s News Live on Tuesday to discuss college football and ended up trashing Sarah Palin. Talking with host David Shuster about a new SEC regulation stopping fans from using social networking sites at games, Zirin frothed that odd sports rules are like “Sarah Palin considering herself a college graduate. Just ‘cause you call yourself that, doesn’t mean it means anything.”

Is there no subject too unrelated for MSNBC or one of its guests to use to slam the former Alaska governor? Perhaps it’s not surprising that the left-leaning cable network would feature a man who covers sports for the very liberal Nation. But, couldn’t they find someone from Sports Illustrated, ESPN or some other non-partisan sports outlet?

Shuster didn’t even identify the partisan publication that Zirin works for until the very end of the segment: After asking and being told that Zirin writes for the Nation, Shuster enthused, “The Nation. All right. Well, you should be writing for everyone else as well. Great stuff.”

A transcript of the August 18 exchange, which aired at 4:30pm EDT, follows:

DAVID SHUSTER: Monica, the competition that’s on so many people’s minds right now, college football. It starts in a couple weeks, but social technology has apparently been sacked by college football’s Southeast Conference. The conference that includes the top ranked Florida Gators has created an uproar by banning the use of social media services at its games. That means no Twittering, Facebooking, blogging, vlogging or YouTubing at games. And that’s because authorized media coverage rights belong to CBS and ESPN under a 15 year deal that’s reportedly worth $3billion.

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SHUSTER: And they’re angering, as you pointed out, their fan base. And the S.E.C already has a reputation of being, shall we say, a little bit loose when it comes to grades for student athletes. This is just going to go right to the reputation that the S.E.C. is only concerned about money.

DAVID ZIRIN: And that’s why student athletes should be paid. You’re talking about $3 billion contracts. The NCAA still considers itself a non-profit, which is like, I don’t know, Sarah Palin considering herself a college graduate. Just ‘cause you call yourself that, doesn’t mean it means anything.

SHUSTER: Dave Zirin, who writes for- Salon?

ZIRIN: The Nation. Same thing.

SHUSTER: The Nation. All right. Well, you should be writing for everyone else as well. Great stuff.


  • Barry Goldwater

    :neutral: On the same general subject of crooked politicians and newscasters– Tod Schnitt’s radio show today had a long piece where the White House rat e-mail address, flag at wh dot gov, has indeed been yanked but REPLACED by another rat line e-mail box! I did not get the address, but Schnitt said all they did was swap out the names of the email boxes so they could continue to build their Enemies List! I called my Senator, DeMint. This has got to STOP! Nixon was tossed for stuff like this; well, so should B Hussein Obama! Sorry this does not match the story above, exactly, but this news should get out! :mad:

  • Medaton.

    Yeah! And just because someone says that he/she is a journalist and writes for some rag publication doesn’t make that person a journalist.

    David Shuster doesn’t have the intelligence to even read a news report much less be a good cable-show host. Wonder if he finished high school? You sure couldn’t tell it by the way he conducts an interview! Sad! MostlyStupidNoBodyC’ssss!

  • Cotton B

    :gun: :gun:

  • TerryTate

    She (Sarah Palin) received a B.S. in communications with an emphasis in journalism from the University of Idaho in May 1987.

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    Well gee, I guess that would make MSNBC in need of broadcasting a retraction, as legitimate news stations are not apt to spread lies. As Sarah Palin is in fact a college graduate, this schmuck is spreading lies.

    So, it appears that the person being interviewed should have said, it’s a bit like MSNBC purporting that it is a factual news outlet, which would have been in keeping with the truth.

  • Sully

    Well I’ll put Sarah’s communications degree and Governor experience up against a Kenyan with no birth certificate, community organizer background and affirmative action degrees any day.

    • PatriotofPast

      :beer: :beer: :beer:

  • David Ross

    I don’t get it?!
    So is Zirin blowing Shuster or is Shuster blowing Zirin?

  • Burlington

    I had a history professor, a contemporary of both Hubert Humphrey and Harold Stassen at the University of Minnesota who said, “the only cure for PRESIDENTIAL FEVER is either victory or death”.

    I know not if Sarah Palin has the fever but one thing is certain, when she chooses to come out, she is going to wack the crap out of the Alinskyites.