A few moments ago during Special Report’s Grapevine segment, Brian Wilson made note of recent comments made by Hardball’s Chris Mathews…

MSNBC host Chris Mathews says President Bush invaded Iraq because “he wanted a big bang on the War On Terror”. What’s more the Toronto Sun reports that during a speech to political science students at the University of Toronto, Mathews said The Administration shouldn’t demonize terrosist saying, “the person on the other side isn’t evil. They just have a different perspective.”

Methinks Mathews hasn’t heard the last of this…..

UPDATE: Powerline has comments from Mathews on this incident.

I told the students that the way to deal with terrorists is the way Golda Meir did after the attack on the Israeli Olympic athletes: hunt them down and kill them one at a time and be rough about it.

Every person in that room heard my say this. I don’t know why the reporter chose to conflate my remarks about our need to get behind the forces in the Muslim world into my approach on how to deal with terrorists.

Feel free to check with the University of Toronto students who invited me to speak.

Will FNC note Mathews comments to Powerline on this today?

WHAC notes something that got past FNC’s editing department….

While flipping through the channels, working my way to CNN, my remote got stuck on FNC. They were airing a story on a new, upscale McDonalds having waiters that wear tuxedos. Well they did several panned shots and show the tv’s in the Mickey D’s and low and behold on the tv’s was CNN, NOT FNC. Makes me wonder why whoever put that story together didn’t notice that.

Manhattan Offender weighs in… (via FTVLive)

Now this joke would be mildly funny if delivered by, say, Coco Peru. Perhaps an analogy will be more illustrative though: Sanchez poking fun at discrimination of gays is like me telling jokes about the Mariella boat lift to Cuban-heritaged Sanchez, or hurricane-victim jokes to former Miami-native Sanchez, or jokes about substitute anchors to just-not-ready-to-helm-a-show Rick Sanchez.

Jossip ridicules Rick Sanchez’s sense of humor….

Good morning! We hope you’re enjoying the beginning of your day as much as those whacky CNN anchors, namely Rick Sanchez – who somewhere has a sex act named after him – who had a hysterical approach to the “Thanksgiving in Iraq” segment.

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CNBC must really like the direction Mad Money is going because the time between Mad Money events is shrinking. Yesterday CNBC announced Mad Money Event III on November 30th at 6pm ET. As with previous Mad Money Events, this one will be in front of a live studio audience and have a special in studio guest. Considering the increasing frequency of these Mad Money events, the obvious question comes to mind. How much longer before Mad Money has a studio audience full time?

CNBC is releasing Jim Cramer to the public again. “Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer” is offering 100 lucky viewers the chance to experience the energy, passion and electricity of its popular host in person. Airing Wednesday, November 30th at 6 p.m. ET (re-air at 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. ET), the studio audience will witness the excitement and action up close and go face-to-face with Jim during the rapid fire “Lightning Round.” For this special event, Mel Karmazin, the Chief Executive Officer of Sirius Satellite Radio will join Jim in studio. Sirius is the content leader in satellite radio, recognized for delivering music, talk, entertainment, information, and sports programming to cars and homes across the country.
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Stacy Janel Smith and Marylin Beck have a mini-profile of Live & Direct’s Rita Cosby…

“It was never a question of my being unhappy at Fox, it was that I’d have needed a lobotomy not to take this offer. A major prime-time show in a prime spot - it was just a tremendous opportunity.”
So says Rita Cosby, whose nightly Live & Direct show has become MSNBC’s top-rated program since its launch during the summer.

The dynamo news hound has been bringing viewers a mixed bag of stories, from a visit to Nevada’s Bunny Ranch brothel to an ongoing parade of world leaders and other newsmakers, including Warren Beatty and Bruce Willis - the latter of whom was on her show two nights this past week, “and offered a million bucks” of his own money as a reward for al-Qaida masterminds Zawahiri, bin Laden, or al-Zarqawi.
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