Morning Low

The tingle up his leg really wasn't Chris Matthews' fault - that's an involuntary response. Explaining this statement, however, is a bit more difficult.

He's too professional as a journalist to question people's motivation, but he's not above sacrificing his journalistic standards to help his hero Barack succeed. It may be, however, that his employer wants him doing just that.

The hostility between Matthews and Joe Scarborough only makes the whole clip more delightful!

Power Play

Media bias has gotten so bad that now they're complaining about it within the biased media.

The liberal news channel MSNBC is taking Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews off as anchors of live political events in the wake of growing criticism of both commentators during the network's coverage of the conventions. White House correspondent David Gregory will anchor the presidential race's remaining events such as the debates. NBC News people, including veteran newsanchor Tom Brokaw have felt that MSNBC's overt liberalism is damaging to NBC's credibility as a member of the liberally biased mainstream media.

Rendell Rage

Is the healing complete between Hillary's camp and Obama? It doesn't seem to be.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer — but 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."

Even though he's supposed to be supporting Obama now, the Pennsylvania governor couldn't restrain his anger over how Hillary was treated.

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.

It's so much fun to hear Democrats going after the media for something they'd always said just couldn't happen.

“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.”

And he gets that tingle up his leg when he hears Barack speak!

At that point, PBS's Judy Woodruff, who was moderating the moderators event, said: "Why don’t we let Governor Rendell sit down."

How quickly they turn!

That was met with applause from the crowd of big-time media figures, which included Arianna Huffington, Gwen Ifill, Al Hunt, and Chuck Todd.

Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on MSNBC.

Now that's quite a defense of MSNBC.