James Carville

When Bill Richardson decided to endorse Obama, he said one of the reasons was because of the advisers the Clinton campaign has been using. Now you got Carville out there running his mouth and insulting Richardson. Doesn't that basically prove what Richardson said?

But we are talking about James Carville. This is the guy who goes on news networks and tries to sell himself as some "independent pundit" while emails are going out by him urging people to give to Hillary. Carville betrays the public every time he gets on the air.

Perhaps it is time for us to start equating Carville to Rove. He is a dirty trickster that will stop at nothing to try and get his person elected. He is also the epitemy of what is wrong with the Democratic Party today.

Yesterday I was wondering why James Carville was on Meet the Press as a pundit and not part of the Clinton campaign. Today the New York Times is wondering the same thing:

Both networks are careful about balance: there are equal numbers of
Republicans and Democrats. But they are careless about bias: the
experts are supposed to be impartial, but it is left to viewers to
parse their complicated pedigrees and entwined political obligations.
It’s not that they have nothing to say, it’s that what they say is not
accompanied by an asterisk.

Carville was suspended at CNN until after the primary because of his ties to the Clinton campaign. Also worth noting is that the rules for cable and fair time are not the same as they are for network broadcast. Meet the Press is not a cable show and has to follow a much stricter standard.

They are presenting him as some regular pundit. Pretty bad when CNN suspended him as a pundit because of his ties to the Clinton campaign. Does Tim Russert not have any common sense - or is NBC trying to push the elections a little more?

From Greg Sargent

Okay, this is interesting. I've just learned that CNN has told top Dem strategists James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman -- who are CNN mainstays but are all Hillary supporters -- that they will not be doing any more political analysis on the network until the Democratic primary has reached a conclusion.

I'm also told that this move came after the Obama campaign repeatedly complained to high level officials at CNN about the presence of Carville and Begala on the network.

This has been brewing for months now. It's good to see CNN make the right decision in the matter.