Aug 25, 2008

Gov Rendell unhinged - called Obama coverage embarrassing

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (pictured) strayed from the “script” Sunday afternoon.

He was supposed to give “closing remarks” during Sunday afternoon’s panel discussion with moderators - Tom Brokaw of NBC, George Stephanopoulous of ABC and Bob Schieffer of CBS.

Instead, he opened up a can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage.

"Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing,"
said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was
embarrassing."

Rendell, an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter during the primaries, now backs Obama in the general election.

Brokaw and Rendell began debating campaign coverage, including the on-air comments by Lee
Cowan, and when MSNBC came up, Rendell went after the cable network.

“MSNBC was the official network of the Obama campaign," Rendell said, who called their coverage "absolutely embarrassing."

Chris Matthews, Rendell said, "loses his impartiality when he talks about the Clintons.”

Actually, Matthews and others on MSNBC lost their impartiality long ago.

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