Finally, MSNBC is dead! We assumed that this would happen sooner or later – either by Microsoft pulling the plug, or by a revolt from people who formerly watched the channel or used the MSNBC website.

The msnbc.com website now forwards to nbcnews.com, which appears to just be a re-branded version of the msnbc.com page, so it appears that NBC will continue the MSNBC model of lying to their users, and trying to spread liberal lies as “news”, all the while getting chills up their legs for Obama reading from a teleprompter.

This is a step in the right direction for Microsoft, but MS still has a LONG way to go if they want to show that they are not the same as MSNBC, and that they are non-bias enough to get back the audience they lost as part of the MSNBC failure.

Soon the hacks Chris “Chills up my leg” Matthews, Rachel “Bull-Dyke” Maddow, Lawrence “Im a Socialist” O’Donnell, and Ed “Nobody knows me” Shultz will be out of work as well.

Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world’s largest software maker to build its own online news service.

The breakup announced late Sunday dissolves the final shreds of a 16-year marriage between Microsoft Corp. and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast Corp. The relationship began to unwind in 2005 when Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBC’s cable TV channel to NBC.

NBC is buying Microsoft’s 50 percent interest in the MSNBC website for an undisclosed amount. MSNBC.com will be rebranded as NBCNews.com, and readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com.

The website will move its headquarters from Microsoft’s corporate campus in Redmond, Wash., to NBC News’ longtime home in New York.

The online divorce stemmed from the two partners’ desire to gain greater control over their digital destinies as the Internet becomes an increasingly important part of their businesses.

The inherent constraints of being locked into a joint venture sometimes handcuffed Microsoft and NBC.

Microsoft, in particular, had grown frustrated by contract terms requiring it to exclusively feature MSNBC.com content on its own websites. That exasperation was exacerbated by the MSNBC cable channel’s strategy to counter Fox News Channel’s appeal to conservative viewers by tailoring its programming for an audience with a liberal viewpoint.

The strategy fed a perception that material from MSNBC’s website was politically slanted, too.

It was not just a “perception” that MSNBC was politically slanted. Everyone knows that MSNBC and most of their employees are just shills for the Obama administration. MSNBC never gave their viewers or resaders real news because all of their news had to be slanted towards the left in some way or fashion, and all of their stories about Obama were always positive.

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