…biased:

Continuing Fox News’ war of words with MSNBC, “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace accused its rival of being “in the tank” for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, while further pressing the news channel’s case that the mainstream press exhibits a liberal bias.

“I think MSNBC’s coverage went so far over the line that it lost all credibility,” Wallace told reporters Monday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour.

Really.

Notes Digby:

This is what we’ve come to. The unofficial propaganda arm of the Republican party is sanctimoniously calling out MSNBC for being biased, even as they employ the former political guru of the Bush administration who is avoiding congressional subpoenas pertaining to stories the network is covering.

That would be Karl Rove, who was employed for several months as a political commentator without noting his role as an informal advisor to the John McCain campaign.

This is all about cable news dominance, by the way. Fox is getting nervous as MSNBC positions itself as the anti-Fox. Both channels exhibit bias. But for Fox to whine about it is hilarious - and indicative of the fact that they’re running a little scared as the political winds shift. If the country trends less conservative it’s explicit bad news for the official mouthpiece of the conservative worldview; and then, Fox has some demographic problems (warning: This link takes you to the story that so enraged Fox they Photoshopped its writer).

There may come a time when MSNBC is as odious as Fox, works as hard to prop up a worldview and style of governance that has failed; that time comes after a long period of liberal dominance, and yes, it would then be as insufferable as Fox is now. But for each action is an equal and opposite reaction; there is a market for Keith Olbermann specifically because Bill O’Reilly and his employer exist. Even now, conservatives don’t grasp this. But they will.