I have finally found a place that shows the full transcript of the Palin/Gibson interview. Go to the link and see how heavily and selectively this interview was edited. It will make your eyes pop open.

Thanks to Mark Levin for providing the transcript. I’m only sorry there is no place for us to track back to his work.

Tried and failed.

That seems to be the motto which MSNBC should adopt for their Olbermann/Matthews experiment.

Saw this first at Drudge this evening but thought I’d wait for further confirmation of its validity. This is proof enough:

MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election.

That experiment appears to be over.

After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.

The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

“The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s supposed to be straight news programming,” said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.

Executives at the channel’s parent company, NBC Universal, had high hopes for MSNBC’s coverage of the political conventions. Instead, the coverage frequently descended into on-air squabbles between the anchors, embarrassing some workers at NBC’s news division, and quite possibly alienating viewers. Although MSNBC nearly doubled its total audience compared with the 2004 conventions, its competitive position did not improve, as it remained in last place among the broadcast and cable news networks. In prime time, the channel averaged 2.2 million viewers during the Democratic convention and 1.7 million viewers during the Republican convention.

Many of us have noticed the venom in especially Keith Olbermann when discussing anyone on the Right. Now we can confirm that it has not been a figment of our imagination as those who sit in anchor chairs and host reputable programs at the parent company, NBC have taken notice also:

Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, the past and present anchors of “NBC Nightly News,” have told friends and colleagues that they are finding it tougher and tougher to defend the cable arm of the news division, even while they anchored daytime hours of convention coverage on MSNBC and contributed commentary each evening.

Mr. Williams did not respond to a request for comment and Mr. Brokaw declined to comment. At a panel discussion in Denver, Mr. Brokaw acknowledged that Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews had “gone too far” at times, but emphasized they were “not the only voices” on MSNBC, according to The Washington Post.

Al Hunt, the executive Washington bureau chief of Bloomberg News, said that the entire news division was being singled out by Republicans because of the work of partisans like Mr. Olbermann. “To go and tar the whole news network and Brokaw and Mitchell is grossly unfair,” he said, referring to the NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

Where were these anchors and executives when Olbermann told the President of the United States to “Shut the H_ll Up?” (minute 2:07 of the video)

What is MSNBC to do? Will they edit closely the programming and commentary of Olbermann and Matthews? Time will tell, but for tonight this is a win for those who do not believe “news” anchors should be no more than partisan shills for one party or another. Leave that to the pundits.

HT: Ed Morrissey for the link to the NYT article.

About the only show I watch on any news channel besides Fox and Friends in the mornings is Brit Hume’s show, “Special Report with Brit Hume”, at 6:00 pm. I love the panel discussion as well as the news delivered in a style that does not tell me what to think, but lets me decide for myself.

I was saddened to read he is going to step down at the end of the year.

Brit Hume, a top anchor and executive with Fox News since the channel was launched 12 years ago, plans to step down at year’s end. But he won’t disappear entirely.

Sources familiar with the situation say that Hume, 65, will give up his job as Washington managing editor and anchor of “Special Report,” the 6 p.m. show that has beaten the cable news competition for seven years. They say he is near a deal to continue with Fox in a senior-statesman role, not unlike that of NBC’s Tom Brokaw, for roughly 100 days a year.

Hume would be a senior political analyst, anchor for special events, panelist on “Fox News Sunday” and occasional substitute for the host, Chris Wallace.

I’m glad he’ll be spending more time with his family, while sad he’ll not be on every night. At least he’ll be around part-time, and I’ll enjoy watching the programs he’s on.

Hat tip: Betsy’s Page.