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Matthews on Cruz's NYC Hit; He's Like ‘The Music Man’ Playing to Hicks

January 15th, 2016 2:49 AM
Multiple times throughout the two hours of post-GOP debate edition of MSNBC’s Hardball late Thursday and early Friday, Chris Matthews expressed confusion at Ted Cruz’s attack on Donald Trump and “New York values” by wondering if it’s like accusing all San Francisco Democrats of being gay or playing Harold Hill in The Music Man by “playing to the hicks” in Iowa. 
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Bartiromo: What Does Socialist Sanders' Surge Say About Our Country?

January 14th, 2016 9:59 PM
Yeah, the headline is a bit of a tongue-twister, but I couldn't resist. Here's a great question from Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo about what self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders' surging campaign in the Democratic primary says about the state of the Democratic Party.

Open Thread: MRC Grassroots on the Scene in North Charleston

January 14th, 2016 8:58 PM
Open thread for the January 14 GOP presidential debate.
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Matthews Asks Carson Staffer If Carson ‘Will Talk Faster’ in Debate

January 14th, 2016 8:35 PM
Speaking to Ben Carson Press Secretary Deanna Bass on Thursday’s 7:00 p.m. Eastern edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews wondered if her candidate “will talk faster” in the upcoming Fox Business debate after being largely known for having a soft-spoken temperament. 

Economist Steve Moore: GOP Will Win Presidency If Bad Economy Persists

Business
January 14th, 2016 3:44 PM
Economist Steve Moore told Fox Business Network correspondent Charlie Gasparino on Jan. 14, that Republicans would win the presidency if the current economic malaise persists in nine months. “If we’re in this kind of economic rut nine months from now, the Republicans are going to win the election,” said Moore, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

Fusion Is Hosting Iowa's Brown & Black Forum. What Could Go Wrong?

Latino
January 11th, 2016 12:31 PM
A missed opportunity for thoughtful discussion of the issues that affect minority communities, in lieu of a divisive identity politics agenda.

On CNN, WashPost's Wemple Slams 'Cowardly' NRA, Cupp Indicts Media

January 10th, 2016 1:07 PM
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN to discuss CNN's town hall on guns with President Barack Obama, Washington Post media columnist Erik Wemple derided the National Rifle Association as "utterly cowardly" for refusing to take part. Fellow guest and right-leaning CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp then argued that the NRA had "no incentive" to attend because the President…

NYT: ‘Grumpy’ GOP Would ‘Be a Lot Looser’ If They Were Drag Queens

December 28th, 2015 5:37 PM
Reviewing the new drag queen-centered Broadway show Kinky Boots in Monday’s New York Times, critic Ben Brantley chose to dedicate a few paragraphs to the bizarre suggestion that the show should make one think “that maybe all those grumpy guys who populate the Republican debates might be a lot looser if they traded in their navy suits for rainbow-colored ball gowns.”
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Year-End Awards: The Hopeless Haters Award

December 27th, 2015 9:47 AM
Since last week, NewsBusters has been presenting each category from the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “Hopeless Haters Award,” for the worst quotes denigrating the conservative GOP presidential candidates. Winning the top slot: MSNBC Morning Joe regular Donny Deutsch, who on March 23 slammed just-declared…
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CNN: Lindsey Graham Debate Performances 'Widely Seen as Winners'

December 21st, 2015 3:08 PM
Appearing as a guest on CNN's Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield to report on South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's departure from the GOP presidential race, CNN's Kate Bolduan oddly claimed that the low-polling candidate's debate performances were "really widely, you know, seen as winners," inspiring agreement from host Banfield.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Fawns Over Hillary’s ‘Amazing Confidence'

December 21st, 2015 1:06 PM
Liberal historian and former Johnson administration staffer Doris Kearns Goodwin was on Sunday’s Meet the Press panel and to the shock of no one, sang the praises of Hillary Clinton by proclaiming how she projected an “amazing...internal confidence” in the debate and has become “a better candidate now than she was six months ago” and from 2008.
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Fail: MSNBC Skips Out on Airing Post-Democratic Debate Analysis

December 19th, 2015 11:47 PM
After airing an hour of coverage following the last Saturday night Democratic presidential debate on November 14, MSNBC skipped out on airing any post-debate analysis after Saturday’s third Democratic debate on ABC and instead played yet another episode of its weekend jail series Lockup.
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ABC’s Raddatz Throws Softball to Hillary on First Spouses

December 19th, 2015 10:54 PM
In the final set of questions of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate prior to the closing statements, ABC’s co-moderator Martha Raddatz served up a massive softball to frontrunner Hillary Clinton concerning how former President Bill Clinton would function as a member of the First Family if Hillary is elected president. 
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Awkward: ABC Restarts Democratic Debate Without Hillary Onstage

December 19th, 2015 10:04 PM
In one of the more awkward and bizarre happenings you’ll see in a debate, Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate on ABC restarted without frontrunner Hillary Clinton following a commercial break and continued for over a minute until she returned to the stage.