I haven't had the opportunity to scour through her archives, but it was plain as day that -- especially after the Dem race narrowed to two candidates -- msnbc had its thumb on the scale in a big way.

From literally the second that the votes were counted in 2006, Chris Matthews said things like this:

We were watching Hillary Clinton earlier tonight; she was giving a campaign barn-burner speech, which is harder to give for a woman; it can grate on some men when they listen to it -- fingernails on a blackboard, perhaps.

... she'll have to go head-to-head with this president. How does she do it without screaming? How does she do it without becoming grating?

...it's a yelling match among -- and that clapping. I just don't get it. It's not appealing. It's Chinese or something. I mean, what is this applauding yourself thing all about? I don't -- I don't get it. And then, of course, him [President Clinton] playing Lothar behind her, like he's the -- she's the Phantom -- this gigantic guy behind her and he's just there. It's a strange sight.

In that segment, Matthews also made a little hay with Obama's middle name, but that was pre-leg tingle and just quick aside.

Olbermann was with Matthews during this and didn't dispute him, just went "hmmm-mmm," though near the end he started to interject with perhaps a little disagreement but got cut off.

Before long, Olbermann began making a routine of trashing Hillary himself, David Shuster said she was "pimping" her daughter, and Maddow was a party to this slanted coverage. She certainly didn't establish herself as a defender against it, and when it hit perhaps its zenith (nadir) with RFK-gate, she was fully on-board.

How routinely she was an active participant/propagator of this, I couldn't tell you, but the part I saw made a rather disturbing impression, and it was after months and months of this behavior from her colleagues, so it's not like she shouldn't have known what pool she was swimming in.

If it was truly anomalous and she regrets it, I'd like to hear that. But I'd also like to know why she continued to collaborate uncomplaining (to the best of my knowledge) on a program that was positively riddled with such false and demeaning coverage.