The mainstream media is back in its snake oil mode amid the hand-wringing of Republicans about MSNBC and, in reality, Keith Olbermann.

To show the "objectivity" of parent station NBC as the McCain campaign files a formal complaint to the network's news division, a senior staff member of the network, who asked to remain anonymous, was quoted in the September 8 New York Times:

"MSNBC is behaving like a heroin addict.  They're living from fix to fix and swearing they'll go into rehab the next week."

To set the record straight, and bring the discussion back to reality, there is no record of any MSNBC talk show hosts having addiction problems.  Perhaps the confused "anonymous executive" was mistaking MSNBC's personnel with the confirmed drug addiction of the darling of right wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, someone who has never and will not ever be subjected to scrutiny by Republicans.