Shuster is great and I feel that MSNBC really did a disservice to Shuster, its viewers, and broadcast news in general when it fired him for the disparagin
g portrayal he made of Hillary Clinton's use of her daughter on her campaign (He referred to it as "pimping")
. No doubt, he deserved to be suspended. But not fired. No other daytime anchor on MSNBC or any other news program, from what I observed, had the guts to frontally challenge the right-wing "big lie machine" with multiple follow up questions and refuse to play the "false equivalenc
e" between "right and left" on every issue and make nice, like, fore example, Andrea Mitchell - especially after the right-wing attacked Mitchell for merely citing facts that disputed the McCain campaign's lies about Obama's taking the press corp with him to visit wounded soldiers when he didn't.
Mitchell's never been the same after those attacks. Shuster wouldn't have been intimidate
d. If anything, he'd have made it known that he'd even more aggressive
ly challenge their lies. I feel MSNBC applied a double standard for firing him for what he said about CANDIDATE Hilary Clinton but only suspended David Halperin for calling our SITTING PRESIDENT a "dick" because Obama had the nerve to speak with the force of authority that is his right as President. But somehow, to Halperin's mind, Obama doesn't deserve the same privileges as others who've occupied the Oval office. In other words, both MSNBC AND Halperin applied double standards.
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