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Buckle Up! Here’s Five Kooky Takes from MSNBC's Late-Night ‘Hardball’
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
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
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
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
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!
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'
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."
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Even Joy Reid Skeptical of Report on Cohen's Cell Phone Near Prague
December 28th, 2018 5:13 PM
A McClatchy report supposedly revealing that signals from Michael Cohen's cell phone had been detected near Prague during the summer of 2016 fell apart when a skeptical Joy Reid questioned one of the story's reporters.
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NB Year in Review: Tracking the Media's Hate for Conservatives
December 25th, 2018 8:00 AM
In 2018 there was a torrent of ugliness directed at conservatives. Vice President Mike Pence was disgustingly derided as a “dangerous” Christian with a “mental illness” on ABC’s The View. When White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was hounded by leftist activists at a Virginia restaurant, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin praised them as she condemned: “Sarah Huckabee has no right…
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MSNBC: Trump's Base Is 'Scared of Anyone Who Is Not Visibly White'
December 18th, 2018 6:37 PM
During Sunday’s AM Joy, host Joy Reid and her panel took shots at White House adviser Stephen Miller, President Trump and his base for their “radical” views on immigration. The panel ultimately concluded that “Trump and his base are in a closed universe” and that “his base is scared of anyone who is not visibly white.”
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MSNBC Uses Obama-Era Video to Claim Trump Denies Water to Illegals
December 16th, 2018 11:27 PM
Following the lead of MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell from Friday night, host Joy Reid on both Saturday and Sunday cited video dating back to the Barack Obama era as evidence that, under President Donald Trump, the U.S. Border Patrol destroys water supplies left in the desert for illegal immigrants, thus putting them at greater risk of dehydration.
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Joy Reid's Racial Test: Democrats 'Can't Run Two White Guys' in 2020
December 16th, 2018 1:15 PM
Joy Reid guest Jason Johnson warns: "I've heard plenty of black women say, if there's not a black woman on this ticket, I'm not voting." And Reid declares that the Democrats: "can't run two white guys," warning that "women are going to be outraged," and "voters of color are going to say: well, then why are we participating?"
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Joy Reid Show: Ivanka in 'Crosshairs,' Go After Her to Get Trump
December 15th, 2018 11:23 AM
MSNBC host Joy Reid and guest Elie Mystal on Saturday openly connived about the best way to "get to" Trump. They concluded that it would be to "go after" Ivanka. Gloated Mystal: "this is the first time that we have Ivanka . . . in the crosshairs . . . The only way we're really going to get to Trump is if you go after his kids . . . And this [going after Ivanka] could be the way to do it."
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MSNBC Guest Trashes 'Huckster-in-Chief,' 'Racist-in-Chief' Trump
November 25th, 2018 3:09 PM
During Saturday’s edition of AM Joy, host Joy Reid engaged in a discussion with Will Fischer of votevets.org, Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post, and MSNBC Contributor Malcolm Nance about what they saw as the President’s lukewarm attitude toward the military and his tendency to use them as political props. Throughout the roughly ten-minute long segment, Reid and her guests did not hesitate to…
