Jonathan Capehart
NBC's Engel on Afghan Collapse: 'I’m Not Shocked At All'
Richard Engel has described himself as "basically a pacifist." But when it comes to telling it like it is regarding the Afghanistan fiasco, NBC News' chief foreign correspondent is taking no prisoners today. When on his MSNBC show this morning, Ali Velshi asked Engel whether it is surprising "not that it is happening, as much as how fast it is happening," Engel flatly rejected the notion. "No…
MSNBC Contributor Spews HATE: Fox Is Al Jazeera, Trump Is Bin Laden
Jonathan Capehart's Sunday show on MSNBC devoted a segment today to slamming Fox News for its coverage of the January 6th Capitol breach. And NBC contributor Dean Obeidallah slimed Fox News as Al Jazeera and analogized Donald Trump to the greatest mass-murdering terrorist in US history.
MSNBC Spews LIE That Texas GOP Is Against Condemning KKK in Schools
On Sunday morning, two MSNBC hosts -- Ali Velshi and Jonathan Capehart -- promoted a discredited smear against Texas Republicans that they have moved to bar schools from condemning the Ku Klux Klan.
MSNBC Allows TX Dem to Float Unhinged Theory: 'Rogue Cops' After Us!
On his MSNBC show this morning, host Jonathan Capehart teed up Jarvis D. Johnson, one of the fleeing Texas state representatives, to say that he has told his son not to drive because he fears "retaliation" by state troopers, "rogue cops" or some "fanatic of the Republican party" taking the law "into their own hands."
Capehart on PBS: Pelosi Is a 'Devout Catholic' and Constitution Lover
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff finished the week-in-review segment by asking Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks about the Democrats creating a select committee on the January 6 Capitol riot. Capehart took out a bucket of rhetorical sugar, insisting Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not just a "devout Catholic…
Capehart: GOP 'Trying to Keep Us From Learning All of Our History'
The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart joined MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday to discuss Juneteenth being made the newest national holiday where he ignored that all but 14 House Republicans voted in favor and used the opportunity to falsely accuse the move to proponents of banning Critical Race Theory of not wanting to teach "the fullness of our history."
MSNBC's Capehart: McConnell's Voting-Law Concerns 'A Load of Hooey'
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC weekend host Jonathan Capehart joined MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Tuesday to discuss the Democrats' federalization of election law and to dismiss Mitch McConnell's concerns as "a load of hooey." He claimed Republicans in state legislatures are suppressing the vote because that's the only way they can win.
On PBS, Brooks Says Election Laws Are a 'Horrific Look' for the GOP
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, pseudoconservative panelist David Brooks guessed the new election laws being passed won't do much to tamp down voting, that they're a "Potemkin set of laws," but they're a "horrific look" for Republicans given America's history on civil rights. Anchor Judy Woodruff cued up Jonathan Capehart to insist they're a conspiracy to disenfranchise Democrats.
MSNBC Tries to Blame 'White Supremacy' for Black-on-Asian Violence
Over the weekend on The Sunday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart devoted a segment to blaming "white supremacy" for recent high-profile cases of African Americans violently attacking Asian Americans, often times caught on video.
Tin Foil Hat Time: MSNBC Is the Home of Conspiracy Crackpots!
It is oftentimes hard to tell the difference between YouTube conspiracy theory channels and the alleged journalists in the liberal media. On Sunday morning’s The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, host Jonathan Capehart brought on FiveThirtyEight.com senior political editor Perry Bacon Jr. to spin wild conspiracy theories about the Republican Party. Bacon went on a rant where he…
Capehart: Tim Scott Is a 'Fool' of a Black Man Who Must Be Silenced
On The Sunday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart demonstrated a repugnant, vile, and a frankly racist hostility that some liberals feel toward black conservatives as he closed his show by decrying South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R) as a "fool," suggesting that he is a black man who should be silenced because, in Capehart's mind, he's given aid and comfort to white supremacy.
House Democrat Trashes Trump's Right Against Self-Incrimination
On Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC Sunday Show, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NYC) argues that President Trump's declining to testify should seen as "incriminating." Asked by Capehart whether President Trump should testify, Jeffries responded: "He should testify and defend himself. But because he has clearly refused to do so, in my view, there should be an adverse impact, an inference drawn that…
Swalwell: Calling Capitol Breachers Rioters Is 'Insulting to Rioters'
When Jonathan Capehart, on his MSNBC show this morning, called the people who breached the Capitol "rioters," Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell responded: "that's insulting to rioters and generous to terrorists." Swalwell also says that the only kind of unity he wants is people "uniting against you," meaning Republicans including President Trump, Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley.
Rosa Brooks on MSNBC: 'Toddler' Trump's Only Strategy 'Being a Jerk'
On Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show, Rosa Brooks, whose Transition Integrity Project erroneously predicted that there'd be "street-level violence" unless Biden won a landslide, calls President Trump a "toddler" whose only strategy is "being a jerk."
