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Tapper: Biden Gets 'Unfiltered' with Fat Cats But Avoids Interviewers

Mark Finkelstein
February 23rd, 2024 9:18 AM

On Thursday's The Lead on CNN, in a segment titled "Biden Unfiltered," anchor Jake Tapper reported Biden telling a group of San Francisco donors that although Putin is a "crazy SOB," the real existential threat is climate change. He noted Biden, like Obama, gets "looser" around big donors off-camera, but he's skipping interviews and press conferences, which doesn't inspire confidence…

 
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Race-Hustling Al Sharpton Demands Abolishment of the Filibuster

Donovan Newkirk
February 2nd, 2021 11:10 AM

On Saturday, America's most prodigious race-baiting reverend and host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, Al Sharpton, reupped the tiresome, race-centric narrative that the Senate filibuster has only exist to bolster white racists and urged his viewers to contact their senators to demand its permanent elimination. During the four-minute "Rise Up" segment, Sharpton ripped Senate Minority Leader…

 
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Meacham Invokes KKK, George Wallace While Discussing 'Trumpism'

Brad Wilmouth
March 6th, 2018 4:48 AM
As historian and MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham appeared as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, he repeatedly made references to racist public figures or groups from history like George Wallace and the KKK as he discussed modern-day political battles and President Donald Trump. At one point, he lectured about American history: "But the forces the President embodies -- and the…
 

CNN Ties 'Racism' to 'Obama Derangement Syndrome'; Hits Reagan, Bush

Brad Wilmouth
April 3rd, 2016 6:06 PM
On Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, host Zakaria seemed to be doing an impression of the type of super-biased political panel one would expect to find at MSNBC in the form of four liberals pitted against one moderate Republican and no conservatives discussing the role of racism in opposition to President Barack Obama. New Yorker editor David Remnick charged George H.W. Bush used "racist memes…
 

Lefty Blogger: ‘Neo-Confederate Ideas’ Integral to Conservatism

Tom Johnson
December 30th, 2014 9:26 PM
The Esquire blogger opines that the GOP is “the Political Party Of Dorian Grey. Steve Scalise is the public face. But, up in the corner of the attic, there's a portrait of the rotting, decomposing corpse of Strom Thurmond.”
 

Schultz Says Racism Behind Republican Opposition To 'Occupy' Movement

Mark Finkelstein
October 10th, 2011 10:50 PM
Serious question: if he ever had it, has Ed Schultz totally lost it?  There's lots to be said about the Occupy Wall Street movement.  But of all the cockamamie comments, of all the nutty non sequiturs, surely Ed Schultz's takes the crazy cake. On his MSNBC show tonight, Schultz claimed that what lies behind Republican criticism of Occupy is . . . racism.  In a beyond-bizarre analogy, Schultz…
 

Democrats and Double Standards at the NYT: 'Respected Voice' Robert By

Clay Waters
June 28th, 2010 4:32 PM
The New York Times marked the death early Monday morning of veteran Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who served a record 51 years in the U.S. Senate, with an online obituary by former Times reporter Adam Clymer. While acknowledging Byrd's Klan past and his pork-barrel prodigiousness, Clymer's lead also emphasized Byrd's proud fight as the keeper of Congressional prerogatives. The…
 

Barnicle Can't Bring Himself To Mention Byrd's Klan Past

Mark Finkelstein
June 28th, 2010 8:03 AM
When Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond died, the MSM was quick to stress his segregationist past. The New York Times ran the headline "Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100," leaving readers to imagine the South Carolinian had remained an advocate of segregation.  The very first line of USA Today's story described Thurmond as "the nation's most prominent segregationist." Strange how the…
 

FNC Highlights Obama Double Standard on Harry Reid & Trent Lott

Brad Wilmouth
January 13th, 2010 8:40 PM
On Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, during the show’s regular "Reality Check" segment, host Bill O’Reilly highlighted the double standard exhibited by President Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats in the way they reacted so strongly to former Republican Senator Trent Lott’s praise of former Senator Strom Thurmond at his birthday celebration in 2002, and the President's recent more…
 

Andrea Mitchell: Teddy 'Hero' But Strom Not Alive Even in Senate

Mark Finkelstein
July 10th, 2008 8:06 AM
See Bonus Coverage at foot: Barnicle accuses Jesse Jackson of "corporate blackmail."Two veteran members of the Senate, two entirely different treatments from Andrea Mitchell.  Reverence for Ted Kennedy; scorn for Strom Thurmond. Guest hosting in Mika Brzezinski's spot on Morning Joe today, Mitchell, emotion in her voice, hailed Kennedy as "valiant" and a "hero."  As for Thurmond, Mitchell mocked…
 

Chris Matthews: Strom Thurmond 'Hanged A Few People

Geoffrey Dickens
December 12th, 2007 1:53 PM
There's no question Strom Thurmond had a racist past, some of which he later disavowed but when Chris Matthews claimed the late South Carolina governor and senator "hanged a few people," on the 7pm edition of Monday's, "Hardball" just what was the MSNBC host implying? Matthews seemed to be claiming that the former Democrat turned Republican senator was personally involved in lynchings. Video (25…