Just started watching the MSNBC New Hampshire 6 PM coverage. Six minutes in. Edwards not mentioned yet.
And this is with Olbermann on, who has made light of Edwards' absence in the media story,
The closest they came so far was Matthews talking abut the knockout fight between Obama and Hillary in Iowa. Of course, Edwards knocked out Hillary (so to speak) in Iowa too. Maybe I'm mistaken. I thought Edwards came in second.
Mathews talking at 6:09 about large crowds for Obama. No mention of overflow crowds for Edwards as reported on DKos.
6:09 Brokaw mentions Edwards! As an afterhought after mentioning Obama and Hillary then, "and John Edwards, is running too, of course", kind of under his breath at the end of the sentence.
6:12 - Go to Andrea Mitchell at Hillary campaign - Talk about Is change coming to Hillary campaign?
6:15 Mitchell mentions Edwards labor support in Nevada in discussing Hillary's tough road before Feb. 5
6:16 Start discussing Repugs!
Thank you very much MSNBC for mentioning Edwards in two brief asides in the first 16 minutes of your coverage. No one could ever say you were shutting him out.
Some time tonight they'll feature him. I'll update that when it happens if I'm still up.
6:19 They bring in the talking heads. One of the four will have to bring up Edwards at some point. Obama, Hlllary, Obama,
6:22 Panel ends. i was wrong. Maybe when they come back later.
6:26 Bring on Chuck Todd - Hillary, Bill, Hillary, Obama, yadda, yadda. Nothin'
6;31 Helloooo Tom Delay - Nothin'.
6:36 David Gregory - Bubkes.
6:39 Shuster at Huckabee campaign. I'm already running out of synonyms for nothing.
6:40 On to Obama campaign. Reach for thesaurus. Zilch.
6:42 Dee Dee Meyers - Discuss Clinton campaign problems. Duck egg
6:43 Olbermann mentions "We've gone 43 minutes withoug mentioning yet", and I think here it is.... Edwards! But no, "Hillary's meltdown" Aaaaaargh!
6:45 Olbermann mentions Edwards! In an aside about Hillary stealing Edwards theme. On to Obama. Another brief mention from Dee Dee! 4 in 46 minutes!
6:48 LOL - Dee Dee says Hillary was not the front runner a year ago. Let the revisionism begin.
6:50 On to McCain campaign.
6:54 Tom Ridge - "The Mac is back"
6:57 Still stuck at 4 brief mentions!
7:00 Co-hosts chat. Shutout.
7:02 Obama HQ. Zip
7:04 Clinton HQ - Clintonites shocked inevitability did not pan out. Yadda yadda, whaa, it's tough to be a Clinton.
7:06 Olbermann gets Andrea Mitchell to confirm Dee was wrong when she made me laugh. Zippo. Thesaurus coming in very handy.
7:07 Romney HQ
7:10 Tucker Carlson! - More McCain!
7:12 Maybe Edwards does not have a campaign HQ they can go to. That's a shame.
7:12 Co-hosts - McCain maverick, Matthews bloviates, yadda yadda...Goose egg.
7:14 David Gregory on turnout. Clinton, Obama, McCain. stop Obama, Change, yadda, Aught.
7:16 Not a single mention of Edwards in a half hour.
7:21 Edwards bombs in Dixville Notch, only 10% of vote. Hopefully he does better in the other 99.96% of the state.
7:25 Heavyweight talking heads - Brokaw, Russert and Co hosts. 6 minutes on Dems. No Edwards. But O Henry does get 3 mentions.
7:38 Rachel Maddow, yeah! Pat Buchanan, boo! Maddow discusses Clinton double standard of over coverage. They argue so much, it must be love.
7:45 Holy crap not a single Edwards mention in one hour, not even RachelA!
7:49 Charlie Cook - Admits Obama thing bigger than he thought. Yadda, yadda, zot
8:15 Still waiting...90 minutes....
8:16 Go to 3rd place Repub. Huckabee's HQ. Still not gone to currently 3rd (after 11%) Dem Edwards HQ.
8:27 David Gregory
8:30 105 minutes...not even discussing Edwards is toast with 17% at 14% reported.
8:33 Holy Crap! I just noticed that when MSNBC puts up the election results, they do the most amazing thing. For the Republicans, the show the top 3, with 3rd place Huckabee at about 12%, 23% behind the leader McCain. However, when they show the Democratic Party leaders, they only show the top 2, not including the 3rd place Edwards at all. This, even though he is ahead of Huckabee at 17%, and is closer to the leader, at a still distant, but closer 21% difference. What the hell is going on? Is it just because the top 2 are so close. But come on! 17% is not chopped liver!
8:41 After showing the Dem leaders in another 2 person graphic, they briefly include a 3 person Dem graphic for the first time.
8:42 Holy Crap, again. Olbermann mentions Edwards concering Change. Only a 1 hour 57 minute absence of a mention. You can't say it's a total blackout.
8:52 Fascinating how Edwards has not moved off of 17% all night, now at 22% reported.
8:59 Go to Huckabee, 3rd place Repub, HQ, for concession speech. 2nd visit. Still no visit to Edwards HQ.