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MSNBC Blacks: Kamala Needs 'Strong Black Man,' White Husband Won't Do

Mark Finkelstein
February 24th, 2019 5:51 PM
On Joy Reid's MSNBC show this morning, the topic was Kamala Harris's presidential prospects. Guest Tiffany Cross, after claiming that Harris's record as a prosecutor made her suspect among African-American men, said: "Black men: blue-collar black men. They're going to have a problem with her record . . . She needs to find a strong, black man advocate who can be in her corner . . . that's my key…
 
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Capehart: Trump to Blame for Liberals Believing Smollett Hoax

Brad Wilmouth
February 23rd, 2019 2:40 PM
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart blamed President Donald Trump for liberals believing Jussie Smollett's hoax claims of being attacked by Trump supporters as the liberal Washington Post columnist charged that the President "stokes" feelings of "menace" in minorities. He also complained that conservative reaction to the hoax has been "despicable."
 
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Joy Reid Ties Trump to Epstein, Ignores Clinton Connection

Mark Finkelstein
February 23rd, 2019 11:49 AM
Court documents show that Bill Clinton took at least 26 trips on convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein's notorious "Lolita Express" party plane. There's no indication that Donald Trump ever did. But in a segment on Epstein on her MSNBC show today, Joy Reid managed to refer to President Trump six times, accompanied by extended photo displays of Trump in Epstein's company. Number of times Reid…
 
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Joy Reid Guest: Stop 'Zombie' Trump Supporters from 'Infecting' Others

Mark Finkelstein
February 16th, 2019 11:52 AM

On Joy Reid's MSNBC show today, guest Elie Mystal called supporters of President Trump "idiots" and "zombies," saying "we have to stop them from infecting everybody else." He elaborated on his ugly message at the end of his rant, saying: "we have to cauterize the wound that is Donald Trump and his supporters, and worry about the people who aren't infected yet."

 
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Joy Reid Annoyed at Third Party Bid That Could Harm Dems in 2020

Mark Finkelstein
February 10th, 2019 7:03 PM
"Sudden Respect" is our NewsBusters topic category for situations in which the liberal media suddenly lavishes praise on a conservative because he is now criticizing fellow Republicans or conservatives.  Maybe we need a new category: "Sudden Disrespect," to cover cases in which the MSM turns on a Democrat who dares to not march in liberal lockstep. Joy Reid provided a perfect example of the…
 
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MSNBC Guest Slams 'White Supremacist,' 'Half-Witted' Fox Host

Brad Wilmouth
February 10th, 2019 6:35 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, frequent guest Tiffany Cross of The Beat D.C. decried President Donald Trump and Fox News host Laura Ingraham as "two white supremacists," called Ingraham and her viewers "half-wits," and excoriated Trump's "ignorant" supporters, calling them a "national emergency."
 
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MSNBC's Johnson to VA Dems: To Thwart GOP, 'Back Off' Resignations

Mark Finkelstein
February 9th, 2019 1:21 PM
What a difference a week makes! Last Sunday on AM Joy, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson accused Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam of "arrogance" for refusing to resign. Railed Johnson: "he caused this problem on his own, and the best way to save his party would be for him to leave." But now that scandals have engulfed Virginia's Dem lieutenant governor and attorney general, Johnson has changed his tune…
 

Buckle Up! Here’s Five Kooky Takes from MSNBC's Late-Night ‘Hardball’

Curtis Houck
February 6th, 2019 3:00 AM
At midnight Eastern Wednesday, MSNBC followed usual form for big news nights such as debates, election nights, and presidential speeches in somehow allowing Chris Matthews to host a late-night edition of Hardball to recap President Trump's State of the Union. Inside the blog, there are slides containing some of the silliest series of hot takes from that hour, presented in chronological order.
 
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Fake News So Bad Chris Matthews Is the Fact Checker? Host Debunks Reid

Scott Whitlock
February 5th, 2019 8:30 PM
You know it’s bad when Chris Matthews is your fact checker. The MSNBC host inadvertently took on this role when his colleague Joy Reid claimed Donald Trump has been talking about the “brown scare at the border.” He hasn’t. Reid was awkwardly forced to admit she made up the quote, saying, “That’s not his exact text.” 
 
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Watch MSNBC Destroy ‘Not Credible’ Northam After ‘Terrible’ Presser

Curtis Houck
February 4th, 2019 3:02 PM
As part of the media-wide outrage at the racist yearbook photo and subsequent fallout involving Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D), Saturday afternoon’s MSNBC Live seemed unsure whether to laugh or be outraged at Northam’s press conference in which he denied being in the racist photo, admitted to wearing blackface that same year, and almost did the moonwalk.
 
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Weekend CNN, MSNBC Spend Over 53 Minutes Trying to Smear KY Students

Curtis Houck
January 21st, 2019 3:43 PM
Between Saturday morning and Sunday night, CNN and MSNBC spent 53 minutes and 20 seconds on the fallout from Friday's confrontation between Covington High School students in Washington for the March for Life, a Native American veteran named Nathan Phillips, and the Black Israelites. 29 of those minutes came before anyone realized that perhaps things weren’t as they wanted it to appear. Of course…
 
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Reid Falsely Accuses GOP of Killing Immigration Reform in 2009

Ryan Foley
January 20th, 2019 5:53 PM
During special coverage of President Trump’s immigration speech on MSNBC Saturday, anchor Joy Reid interviewed former Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo. The discussion focused on President Trump’s immigration speech, with the two arguing about whether both sides or just Republicans deserve blame for the stalemate that led to a government shutdown. As she tried to make the case that…
 
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MSNBC: Buzzfeed's Been Debunked, but Something Could Still Turn Up!

Mark Finkelstein
January 19th, 2019 3:12 PM

On Joy Reid's show, MSNBC legal analyst Maya Wiley says that although the Buzzfeed allegation that President Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie about Russian collusion has been debunked by the Mueller investigation: "what we are hearing in this does not mean that we know that there won't in the future be corroborated evidence of Donald Trump having knowledge of and in some way being part of…

 
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Joy Reid: Wall Won't Stop Drugs—'Traffickers Can Get on a Plane'

Mark Finkelstein
January 6th, 2019 11:13 AM
On her MSNBC show, in an early bid for 2019's most inane piece of political punditry, Joy Reid claims that a wall would be ineffective in halting the smuggling of drugs into the US because "people who are drug traffickers can get on a plane and come."