Sam Stein

MSNBC’s Sam Stein traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to express his disappointment in conservatives for not defending Mahmoud Khalil as he faces deportation for his role in pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University. As Stein tells it, people who made such a big deal about cancel culture on campus need to stand up and claim, “This is chilling.”

Former NBC and MSNBC political referee (self-described) Chuck Todd resurfaced on The Bulwark’s podcast with his former MSNBC colleague Sam Stein, on Wednesday. Together, they reminisced about covering the White House and lamented the “collective weakness” of the current press pool in not standing up for the Associated Press during their feud with the Trump administration over not using “Gulf…

The Bulwark’s managing editor, Sam Stein, joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday to claim that it is possible that the incoming Trump Administration will arrest people “simply because they disagree with” it. However, a closer look at Stein's main example would suggest that he was simply being hysterical.

Was that David Plouffe? Brian Fallon? Maybe the Second Gentleman himself? Surely no one from outside the inner circle of Kamala Harris' campaign would have the chutzpah to use the term "soaring rhetoric" to describe Kamala Harris' pedestrian-at-best performance during her CNN interview last night! But no! It was actually Jeremy Peters, an MSNBC contributor and New York Times "reporter…

It was a tale of two networks on CNN and MSNBC in their 6 am hours today. CNN This Morning devoted a long opening segment to the strike that reportedly killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. Meanwhile, over on Morning Joe, Joe and Mika might be on vacation, but under the baton of Jonathan Lemire, that same crucial opening segment was all about "cat ladies," "weird,"…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks Rudy Giuliani for marketing his own eponymously named coffee brand, lamenting, "Unfortunately, this is our world, 2024." Scarborough apparently forgot that for years, he's had his own "Morning Joe" brand of Starbucks coffee.  Scarborough also slurs Trump voters as "stupid."

Morning Joe mocks Speaker Mike Johnson for partially blaming the Republican loss in the NY-3rd special election on an Election Day snowstorm. But the show ignored the fact that Democrats enjoyed a major advantage over Republicans in early voting and mail-in voting, and thus were not as affected for same day voting by the snowstorm.

On Morning Joe, David Ignatius, the Washington Post columnist and Morning Joe regular, repeatedly sighs while trying to defend Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for his failure for several days to inform the White House of his ICU hospitalization for complications from cancer surgery.

The Morning Joe panel unanimously condemns people like Dem Rep. Pramila Jayapal and others who refuse to unequivocally condemn Hamas' use of rape as a tool of war. 

On Morning Joe, Willie Geist says that Trump lawyers John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani make frequent TV appearances because they "crave" attention. Meanwhile, Geist himself is omnipresent on NBC and MSNBC, with eight different gigs.

On Thursday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, co-host Mika Brzezinski, Politico White House editor Sam Stein, and former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) desperately peddled crazed claims about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. They claimed a new ProPublica report on Justice Thomas’s gifts received while in office was evidence he was being bribed in order to rule in favor of…

As President Biden prepares to travel to Arizona to declare a new national monument around The Grand Canyon, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell used her Tuesday show to lament how people’s basic needs to heat their homes and not break their wallets over gas prices have hurt his ability to cut back on fossil fuels. Mitchell and Politico White House editor Sam Stein also insisted that those gas prices have…

Fox & Friends leads with the expected testimony before a congressional committee by Devon Archer, a former business colleague of Hunter Biden, that Joe Biden was aware of and involved in Hunter's influence-peddling schemes. Meanwhile, Morning Joe trashes Trump for raising the Biden-Burisma connection, but fails to make any mention of Archer's expected testimony.

On Morning Joe, Eugene Daniels of Politico says that Ron DeSantis has adopted an anti-woke approach to the teaching of American history because he and others feel that "we can't teach the correct history of this country, because it makes white kids uncomfortable."