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Matthews, Panel Bash Trump’s 4th Plans as ‘Un-American’ Like the USSR

Curtis Houck
July 2nd, 2019 10:13 PM
Wish that President Trump would not have inserted himself into Washington, D.C.’s Fourth of July celebrations, allowing A Capitol Fourth to remain on its own? Fine. But to declare the President’s plans “un-American” and a sign he wants to make America like North Korea or the former Soviet Union? That’s nonsense, folks. And as evidenced by those hot takes on Tuesday’s Hardball with MSNBC host…
 
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PBS's Yamiche Alcindor Fears Biden Sounds Like a MAGA Trump Backer

Gregory Price
June 26th, 2019 8:10 PM
It is officially election season and the time for cordiality in the Democratic Primary will soon come to an end. With the first debate set to go down Wednesday night, the candidates will quickly be chasing the Democratic nomination like a pack of hungry wolverines in pursuit of the opportunity to run against President Trump.
 
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MSNBC's George Will Hits GOP from Left on Immigration

Brad Wilmouth
June 6th, 2019 7:30 AM
On Wednesday morning, MSNBC again displayed why the stridently liberal news network has a reputation for taking in conservatives as contributors and then inspiring them to deliver commentary that sounds like it comes from the left. Right-leaning contributor George Will actually hit Republicans from the left on the issue of immigration as he and host Stephanie Ruhle conflated legal and illegal…
 
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MSNBC Guest Insults Voters, Hints Reelecting Trump Will Show Ignorance

Curtis Houck
May 9th, 2019 2:37 PM
On Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC contributor and PBS NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor suggested that the President’s reaction to the Mueller report is a sign of how authoritarian regimes come to power and questioned the intelligence of anyone who watched (or, by extension, reads this) that a reelected President Trump in 2020 would cast doubt on whether Americans understand the Constitution.
 
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Matthews: Trump Is Illegitimate Because He ‘Won a Fluke Election’

Curtis Houck
April 25th, 2019 2:30 PM
Having decided that a new life goal is to lobby for the impeachment of President Trump, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews also made clear over the last week that another objective is to make clear to guests and viewers that Trump’s an illegitimate President because he “won a fluke election” with “Russian help” and that Democrats need “a cheering section.”
 

WH Reporters: Trump Bashing Us Poses ‘Serious Danger’ to Our Lives!

Curtis Houck
April 13th, 2019 4:30 PM

Four White House correspondents flew out to Las Vegas for this past week’s 2019 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show and, as is usually the case with such public events, journalists offer revealing takes that are both good and bad. Most notably, they condemned the President’s rhetoric toward the media, suggesting it places their lives in “serious danger.”

 
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Convention Hails WH Reporters as ‘Heroes and Icons’ Battling Trump

Curtis Houck
April 12th, 2019 3:40 PM
The 2019 National Association of Broadcasting convention wrapped on Thursday and, back on Monday, NAB CEO (and former Republican Senator) Gordon Smith waxed poetic love notes to four prominent White House correspondents on-stage as “heroes and icons” to “this younger generation” as the supposedly dastardly Trump administration has made journalism cool again.
 
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Crazy Train: ‘Hardball’ Panel Offers Conspiracies on Mueller Report

Curtis Houck
March 26th, 2019 10:27 PM

Tuesday’s Hardball saw an opening panel led by host Chris Matthews that showed the desperation of the liberal media following Attorney General Bill Barr’s Sunday letter on the main conclusions of the Mueller report. In roughly 15 minutes, they peddling conspiracy theories that this rollout was conceived of sometime ago, that Barr was picked solely to save Trump, and that America’s now a “crazy…

 
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Morning Joe Fawns Over Stacey Abrams Considering 2020 Run

Alex Christy
March 12th, 2019 1:24 PM
In 2018, Stacey Abrams' national claim to fame was being a member of the Georgia House of Representatives that lost the the state's gubernatorial election and refused to accept the legitimacy of the outcome, all of which earned her the chance to deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union in 2019. On Tuesday, her political resume resulted in MSNBC's Morning Joe heaping copious…
 
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Morning Joe Blasts Trump 'Spewing Lies,' Hails 'Inspirational' Abrams

Alex Christy
February 6th, 2019 3:33 PM

One of the favorite pastimes of news media since the election of Donald Trump has been to roll out the fact checkers every time he gives a public statement or speech on anything that might be of relevance.  This newfound appreciation for incessant fact checking only seems to go one way-- a notion that was on full on full display during MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday as the hosts reacted to…

 

Buckle Up! Here’s Five Kooky Takes from MSNBC's Late-Night ‘Hardball’

Curtis Houck
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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Morning Joe Excited By Pelosi Continuing To Block SOTU

Alex Christy
January 28th, 2019 1:19 PM
MSNBC's Morning Joe has spent the better part of the last few weeks lamenting the government shutdown, framing the the budget impass as a 35-day exercise in futility based around a concocted crises.  On Monday, the morning show cheered the end of the "petty" stalemate while also applauding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for having "schooled" the President by still refusing to schedule the State of…
 
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Brokaw Claims GOPers Tell Him They’re Not Fans of ‘Brown Grandbabies’

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 27th, 2019 1:37 PM
In another iteration of the liberal media’s suggestion that support for the border wall was driven primarily by racism, longtime NBC newsman Tom Brokaw appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press and claimed Republicans have told him they’re not enthusiastic about the idea of having “brown grandbabies”.
 

Rush Gloats Over Liberal Media’s Obsessing with Him as D.C. ‘Villain’

Curtis Houck
December 21st, 2018 6:45 PM

Seeing as how he had been the bane of the liberal media’s existence for the last 24 hours plus as he’s supposedly the real president, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was in an ebullient mood for his Friday show. He said that he was supposedly “the new villain in Washington D.C.” ahead of a possible government shutdown that was portrayed as if the world was “end[ing] even before…