Richard Stengel

Tensions with Iran remain high, but on Saturday's edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend, former MSNBC analyst turned Obama State Department official turned MS NOW analyst Richard Stengel found the real villain: President Trump’s blunt deterrent threat. Stengel’s verdict? That amounts to “threatening genocide.” He called it “more than unseemly” for an American president to issue a threat “in…

Over the years, the Media Research Center has caught journalists ridiculing and deriding America. The following is a countdown of the Media’s  Worst Anti-American Outbursts (as culled from the MRC’s archives).

During Wednesday’s Katy Tur Reports, the eponymous MS NOW host Katy Tur and her panel defended Europe amid President Trump’s attacks due to their lack of assistance in the Iran war. They instead wanted Trump to attack Gulf allies, like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, for not helping enough, even though they have pledged to do that exact thing, even though they do not have the same…

After Cardinal Robert Prevost became the first American ever to be elected Pope on Tuesday and took the name Leo XIV, MSNBC’s Katy Tur picked and chose what aspects of his beliefs to amplify and which ones to downplay or ignore. Naturally, for MSNBC, she highlighted his “rebuking” of conservatives and Republicans, but not of liberals and Democrats.

The cast of MSNBC’s Thursday installment of Deadline: White House was not a fan of the Trump Administration’s moves to deport Hamas supporters and anti-Semitic students. As they tell it, to do so is to bring the U.S. down to the moral level of “fascist regimes” and “countries behind the Iron Curtain.”

The assembled cast of MSNBC's Morning Joe joined former Obama State Department official and former managing editor of Time magazine, Richard Stengel, on Thursday in hailing Vice President Kamala Harris for supposedly taking back the mantle of American exceptionalism from Republicans.

Calling himself the "skunk at the garden party," MSNBC's Rick Stengel, appearing on Nicolle Wallace's show, says that the extensive coverage by US media of the passing of Queen Elizabeth reflects "a weakness in the American character." 

For years, journalists and experts alike have argued in favor of the definition which the Biden administration has just tried to undo: that at least two straight quarters of negative GDP growth means the country is in a recession.

On Tuesday, President Biden met with Vladimir Putin to discuss the latter amassing of a potential invasion force on the Ukrainian border. That afternoon, MSNBC's Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace wildly wondered if Biden's job has been made more difficult by former President Trump and a supposed "Republican-Russian Alliance" that she claimed seeks to serve Russian interests…

On Monday's Craig Melvin Reports on MSNBC, analyst Richard Stengel claimed that the drone strike that killed ten civilians in Afghanistan confirmed the "rightness" of Biden's policy of evacuating Afghanistan. 

Former Time magazine managing editor, former Obama State Department official, and current MSNBC analyst Rick Stengel joined Deadline: White House on Tuesday to react to President Biden's latest speech on Afghanistan. Stengel predicted that when the history books are written, "people will say, yep, he got us out of there."

All week, MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid has shilled for the Biden administration amidst the embarrassing and deadly collapse of Afghanistan that’s trapped thousands of Americans and Afghan allies. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Reid’s spin ranged from arguing this was what the American people wanted to blaming Donald Trump for the calamity to denouncing Afghans and the U.S.…

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, former Obama aide Rick Stengel says foreign leaders see the United States as "a God------ s--- show." Wallace responds: "And now you know why Rick Stengel was coveted at the highest levels of government, because he spoke in brutal truths: "I love it: "a God------ s--- show. It's perfect: you're perfect."

There's a lot of irony to Andrea Mitchell and MSNBC getting worked up over a supposed "propaganda" takeover by the Trump administration. The cable host fretted over the ongoing remake of Voice Of America, a U.S government owned and operated radio network that operates both domestically and internationally. After describing VOA as an “independent” media organization, Mitchell made a dubious…