Bias, not comparable cases, guilt by association, and other cheap tricks of partisanship cloud any hint of worthwhile observations here.

As a work of journalism, this story is clearly biased. Even if we treat it as an opinion, it's not very insightful, because it is so partisan. There is no nuance, no attempt to look at both sides of the story -- or to condemn Fox News for engaging in the same type of political activism as MSNBC.

A well-written right-wing propaganda piece posing as journalism. Patients United Now is an advocacy campaign to combat healthcare reform organized by Americans for Prosperity—a major shadow group sponsoring National Tea Parties. Cited is a Gallop poll stating over 80% of Americans are satisfied with their healthcare. How satisfied are the 50 million Americans without healthcare? The article’s indignation about Olbermann and Maddow using GE owned TV megaphones for their own AstroTurfing is incongruous compared to FOX’s 24-hour absurd distortions.

Encouraging health care clinics is not the same as funding and arranging demonstrations.

This coverage is all over the place which makes it too tiring to read. Doubtful in it's intentions. Less than high school grade level.

Since there's no labels over the columns of boxes, I can't tell if ratings get more or less approving from left to right, so I'm doing this in words. In an attempt to appear balanced, the author comes off as schizoid. And he makes it sound as though Maddow, rather than he himself, claims that providing healthcare at free clinics is "blatant exploitation of the poor."

This is yellow journalism. The writer is obviously politicaly prejuduuced aginst MSNBC and sees them as a left wing consiracy of sorts. He also appears to be strongly affiliated or at least in step with the right wing poltical agenda, known to have infamously used "astro-turf" corporate backed organizations to populate town halls with fake "people". What MSNBC is doing is not fake. There's nothing at all fake about real health clinics offering real medical services. This is a great charitable gesture on the part of MSNBC. The right has a history of self projection of their misgivings upon their left opponents as a form of defense.

biased and juvenile, the quaotr from their home page says it all.

This is pure nonsense worthy of the name of the author, Mr. Poor. His false equivalence is terribly revealing of his extreme bias. Olbermann & Maddow are not lying to citizens & trying to exploit their anger & suffering in order to profit personally or to steer profits to corporations & away from those same citizens. They are not trying to influence voters with false info & slanted rhetoric that ignores facts & statistics; their goal is to influence legislators by making it less easy to pretend that the current state of affairs is just hunky dory. Poor shows gross ignorance or willful stupidity by using the 80% statistic regarding staisfaction, which reflects the good fortune of the privileged who have health care & those who ... More »

Quality journalism, no. However the point that this is astroturf is not totally off-target. Calling Olbermann and Maddow "lefty talking heads" isn't straightforward journalism, and certainly reveals a bias.