Politico Spins Biden Email Story as Possible Russian Disinformation

October 17th, 2020 5:33 PM

Russian disinformation! Ah! That old fallback excuse for liberals to explain away unpleasant news for them. Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2016. And of course, the left has made it perfectly clear they believe he's an illegitimate officeholder due to Russian disinformation. And now we have a bombshell report in the New York Post revealing inconvenient emails suggesting corruption…

MSNBCer Says Russia Wanted To Elect Trump After Video Says Otherwise

November 23rd, 2019 11:37 AM

MSNBC contributor and Politico national security correspondent Natasha Bertrand twisted herself into a rhetorical pretzel on Friday where she declared that Vladmir Putin interfered in the 2016 election in order to see Donald Trump elected president. This assertion occurred less than a minute after MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle played a clip of Dr. Fiona Hill's Thursday testimony saying that…

Poppycock: Politico Claims Brennan Never Accused of Lying to Congress

October 23rd, 2019 12:22 PM

Conservative Twitter bubbled over when Politico's Natasha Bertrand and Daniel Lippmann baldly contradicted the facts about Obama CIA director John Brennan's self-defensive lying -- as even Politico has reported.

Facebook's Latest Crime, According to MSNBC: Talking to Conservatives

October 16th, 2019 10:03 AM

On her Monday show, MSNBC Live host Katy Tur theorized that the future of Facebook as a company is very much up in the air. The latest controversy surrounding the social media company? CEO Mark Zuckerberg dared to talk to conservatives and yield to Elizabeth Warren's demands.

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Maddow's Hot Story on Trump-Dealing Military 'Markups' Fell Apart

September 15th, 2019 6:56 AM

Rachel Maddow touted another Trump scandal on September 6, that the Air Force was putting "taxpayer money directly into the president's pocket" by using Glasgow Prestwick Airport near his Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to Politico. But Byron York reported "The only problem with the Politico story was that it was not the whole story. In fact, it omitted so much important information…

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Media Worry ‘Anti-Climactic’ Mueller Hearing Could ‘Backfire’ on Dems

July 2nd, 2019 4:11 PM

During her 10:00 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson expressed concern that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s upcoming congressional testimony might be “anti-climactic” and possibly “backfire” on Democrats investigating President Trump. In the segment that followed, guests attempted to reassure Jackson that the hearing would pay off.

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Matthews Spends Hour Hitting Dems from the Left on Impeachment

April 24th, 2019 5:07 PM

On Tuesday night, MSNBC host Chris Matthews spent the duration of Hardball going after his fellow lefties from their own even more fanatical flank, pushing impeachment because America has “a President who broke his oath” who’s illegitimate on similar footing with disputed home run king Barry Bonds due to his reported use of steroids.

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NBC's Dilanian: Mueller Gave 'Complete Vindication of the President'

March 25th, 2019 10:59 PM

While many of his colleagues have spread conspiracy theories about the Mueller report and even called it racist, MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian seemed open to self-reflection; declaring that “those of us and members of the public who placed stock in the idea that this was a criminal case…we have to acknowledge today that what Robert Mueller found on collusion and conspiracy was a complete vindication of…

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‘The Russians Have Clearly Won’; MSNBC's Nance Melts Down After Letter

March 25th, 2019 5:19 PM

As NewsBusters illustrated all day on Sunday, MSNBC’s nonsense was shooting out into the ether like water from a fire hose During the 6:00 p.m. Eastern hour, so-called experts offered hot takes such as “the Russians have clearly won” and “Mueller basically seem to abdicate or punt on” the obstruction portion of the investigation.

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Watch Chris Matthews Suffer an EPIC Meltdown Over the Mueller Report

March 22nd, 2019 10:50 PM

Perhaps no single reaction Friday night to the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation rivaled that of MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews, who was apoplectic, inconsolable, and irate at the notion the Mueller team will not offer any further indictments in hopes of criminal charges concerning Russian collusion. And even his most adored guests couldn’t avoid his scorn.

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REALLY? MSNBC Still Pretending BuzzFeed Story Might Be True

January 24th, 2019 11:46 AM

For most, BuzzFeed’s recent reporting debacle is, both literally and figuratively, last week’s news. However, there are still some holdouts over at MSNBC who have continued to imply that the story might be true, even after Special Counsel Mueller’s office flatly denied it

Worst of the Year: CNN’s Pathetically Brazen Chyrons

December 28th, 2018 3:10 PM

CNN’s often misleading, snarky, stupid and pompous chyrons served only to highlight just how partisanly biased the network was this year. We’ve rounded up the worst of the year to remind you just how far the network has drifted from its supposed “facts first” messaging.

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MSNBC Contributor Suggests Trump Might Not Be ‘Democratically Elected’

December 13th, 2018 12:11 AM

On Wednesday’s Hardball, two separate MSNBC panelists suggested that not only did then-candidate Donald Trump’s hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal “[rob] the American people of their right to vote,” but that he was not a “democratically elected” President because of them and possible collusion with the Russians.

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Matthews Hails Heitkamp’s ‘Profile in Courage’ Opposing Kavanaugh

October 4th, 2018 9:46 PM

On Thursday night, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was in a more jubilant mood than he might have been earlier in the week on the issue of stopping Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh thanks to the “profile in courage” from Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp (ND) in opposing Kavanaugh. With Heitkamp opposing the Judge, Matthews expressed optimism that there was a “road to hope” paved by…