More Emerging Bias: Maddow Guest Suggests Lack of Health Funding Motiv
November 6th, 2009 9:24 PM
When in doubt, cite the need for more government funding of health care. You won't find an argument on MSNBC. Among the guests offering their perspectives about the Fort Hood massacre on Rachel Maddow's show last night was Salon.com national correspondent Mark Benjamin, who tried to downplay growing evidence that suspected assailant Nidal Malik Hasan was motivated by a jihadist's hatred of…
Maddow Wrongly Claims 'Constitution Doesn't Have A Preamble
November 6th, 2009 10:23 AM
Did you know the United States Constitution doesn't have a Preamble?Well, that's what the oh so arrogant, high and mighty MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told her audience Thursday night.In a segment attacking the attendees of yesterday's "House Call" protests on Capitol Hill, Maddow chided Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for claiming he was quoting from the Preamble of the Constitution (video…
Not as Advertised: MSNBC Goes with Taped Olbermann During 10 P.M. Hour
November 4th, 2009 2:51 PM
It's probably safe to assume many Democrats weren't happy about last evening's election results, no matter how they spun them and how they pertained to President Barack Obama. And to his credit, that's something MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews admitted was not good for the Democratic Party. However, MSNBC, the so-called "Place for Politics" hyped up its Nov. 3 "Super Tuesday" election…
Maddow Guest Jane Hamsher: Democrats Could Close Groton Sub Base to Pu
October 31st, 2009 2:28 PM
Yet another example of the folly of assigning liberals to guard duty. Joining Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Thursday to vent about that pesky wabbit Joe Lieberman was Fire Dog Lake firedoglake blogger Jane Hamsher.Democrats wield considerable leverage over Lieberman, Hamsher opined, to keep him from joining a GOP filibuster of ObamaCare or punish him if he does --MADDOW: ... I think you're…
MSNBC's Maddow Hypocrisy: Bashes Opinion Journalist John Stossel for A
October 29th, 2009 1:59 PM
Over the past few weeks, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has had a serious fascination with the grassroots advocacy group Americans For Prosperity (AFP) and how a "news organization" should be defined when it comes to press policy at the Obama White House. But Maddow, on her Oct. 28 show, was able to merge the two topics in an attack on Fox Business Channel's John Stossel. Stossel recently came from…
The Obsession Continues: Olbermann Condemns George Will’s Praise of
October 28th, 2009 1:14 AM
Want to be noticed by any one of the hosts that have a primetime show on MSNBC's weeknight lineup? Just figure out a way to make Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. the subject matter, and there's an excellent chance either Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow will take a shot at it, or her, during their shows. In the Oct. 25 Washington Post, George Will penned a column about…
Mediaite: Is Rachel Maddow the Glenn Beck of the Left
October 27th, 2009 10:14 AM
Rachel Maddow: The Glenn Beck Of The Left?So reads the headline of a column published Tuesday in the left-leaning website Mediaite.For those unfamiliar, Mediaite is the brainchild of former MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams, and was described by managing editor Colby Hall as "Huffington Post meets Gawker." No surprise there, for two of its other editors, Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol, both…
Unflappable Guest Motivates Maddow to Avoid Egregious Omissions
October 24th, 2009 10:33 PM
Can you believe it, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow joked with Dallas Morning News reporter Wayne Slater -- George W. Bush, along with George H.W. and Laura Bush, have been lined up as speakers at Get Motivated! seminars.The conversation on Maddow's show Tuesday night dripped with condescension, as if to say -- what losers!Not surprisingly, both Maddow and Slater neglected to mention something that many…
Maddow’s Hypocrisy: Fox Not a 'Normal News Channel' Due to Tea Party
October 24th, 2009 2:02 AM
Big shock here - MSNBC's Rachel Maddow agrees with the White House, which is the Fox News Channel is not really a news organization. Sarcasm aside, on her Oct. 23 MSNBC program, Maddow attempted to justify the Obama administration's tack over recent months with Fox News. She laid out a series of events over the past few days that indicated an escalation of the feud between Fox News and the White…
MSNBC’s Olbermann and Maddow: Nothing Wrong with Off-the-Record Obam
October 23rd, 2009 1:17 PM
Throughout the previous administration, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann would nightly attack President George W. Bush and members of his administration and regularly bash some conservative personalities for being too cozy with Bush. However, when he and his MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow engage in the same brand of coziness, meeting with President Barack Obama earlier this week, it's no longer an…
White House Met Privately With Many Left-Wing Opinionistas
October 23rd, 2009 1:15 PM
The White House has berated Fox News for days now for purportedly pushing an agenda and calling it news. So Americans may have been surprised when, as reported by Noel Sheppard, Obama invited two of MSNBC's most divisive liberal pundits--Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow--to the White House for an off-the-record briefing.As it turns out, Maddow and Olbermann were only two of the left's…
Maddow Runs What Passes for Correction on MSNBC About Limbaugh
October 22nd, 2009 12:58 PM
As to be expected from a person who plays a journalist on TV -- a correction more accurately described as a "correction".With forced ebullience, Rachel Maddow sought to set the record straight on her MSNBC show Monday about a dubious quote from radio host Rush Limbaugh, which Maddow claimed back on June 3 that Limbaugh had once stated. As in, last spring. It's now autumn. In fairness to Maddow,…
Obama Meets With Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow
October 21st, 2009 7:45 PM
A day after key White House officials declared the Fox News Channel wasn't a news organization, President Obama met with MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.Talk about your delicious hypocrisy.Fittingly, the news was broken by FNC's Bret Baier during Tuesday's "Special Report" (video embedded below the fold with transcript, relevant section at 1:45, h/t Hot Air via NBer Thomas…
