Do you even remember the time when the Faux news hosts were overplaying the Reverend Wright clip and Britt Hume had to interject himself to contradict their own host. When the only person who you have to show for you being mainstream is Britt Hume then, I think it says something about your channel. I am not head over heels over MSNBC but I do like the fact that somebody is even trying bring balance to the no holds bar Faux news. Hell it is not even news but talking points and propognada right out of Repubs and the Bush administration and yes, it has been pointed by who else - Scott McClellan.
One more point, there is a reason why MSNBC is not a high rated channel. Liberals are smarter than some news channel trying to feed them a one sided news.
O'Reilly fair? Even before knowing the reins of the American Politics i.e., just after I came here, I used to watch him and think of him as an a$$. That should tell you something.