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MSNBC Host More Worried About Defunding Than Planned Parenthood Prez

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Katie Yoder
July 21st, 2017 3:26 PM
In an interview earlier this week, an MSNBC host appeared more worried than even Planned Parenthood’s president over the push to defund the abortion giant. On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards appeared on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC show, The Last Word, to discuss the GOP health care bill and its inability to win enough support in the Senate.
 
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MSNBC Guest Cheers ‘Conservatives’ like Scarborough Quitting GOP

Curtis Houck
July 13th, 2017 7:43 PM

If you’re a regular NewsBusters reader and not chuckling after reading the above headline, kudos to you. Wednesday night on MSNBC’s The Last Word, former CIA official and MSNBC analyst Ned Price expressed hope that more Republicans and “principled conservatives” follow supposed compatriot Joe Scarborough in rejecting Trump by leaving the party.

 
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MSNBC Panel Decries 'Monster' Paul Ryan, 'Criminal' Health Plan

Brad Wilmouth
June 25th, 2017 7:27 PM
On Friday's The Last Word on MSNBC, it was the place for demonizing Republicans as regular MSNBC guests Joan Walsh and Nancy Giles called Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan a "monster" and declared that the way Senate Republicans had handled health care reform has been "criminal."  
 
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MSNBC's Kornacki Finally Notices GA-06 Maybe Not Solidly Republican

Brad Wilmouth
June 21st, 2017 4:31 PM

You read it here first. Two months ago -- and again last night -- NewsBusters pointed out that there was a major hole in the dominant media theory that GA-06 was a "solidly Republican" district that Republicans should be embarrassed about having to defend in yesterday's special election. In spite of Donald Trump just barely winning the district last November, many journalists and commentators…

 
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MSNBC Guest: ‘Koch Money’ GOP Won’t Impeach Trump Thanks to Limbaugh

John Hirschauer
June 6th, 2017 5:40 PM
On Monday’s The Last Word, one would think that Nixon biographer and voracious student of presidential history Elizabeth Drew would be able to speak specifically about the political landscape when asked to tie the (tired) Trump-Watergate knot on MSNBC, and avoid trite partisan talking points. Nevertheless, she persisted.
 
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Dan Rather’s Diagnosis: President Trump 'Psychologically Troubled'

John Hirschauer
June 2nd, 2017 3:21 PM
Fake news pioneer Dan Rather was on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC show The Last Word Thurday night, and he knew exactly why President Trump disagreed with him on climate policy: it’s because of deep rooted psychological difficulties. 
 

USAA Backtracks, Will Resume Advertisements on ‘Hannity’

Curtis Houck
May 30th, 2017 3:32 PM
The Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday afternoon that, after severe backlash from conservatives and military supporters, the military financial services organization USAA will resume showing advertisements on conservative talk radio host Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show.
 
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Maddow: Flynn Development Might Be the Biggest POTUS Scandal Ever

Curtis Houck
May 17th, 2017 11:58 PM
Rachel Maddow has been spending a few minutes of the 10:00 p.m. Eastern hour on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on the heels of rumors O’Donnell could be axed, so it was during Wednesday's chat that Maddow suggested a report that the Trump White House hired Flynn as National Security Adviser despite knowing Flynn was under federal investigation would mark the biggest scandal in…
 
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MSNBC's O'Donnell Predicts Trump Will Get Impeached for 'Ignorance'

Kristine Marsh
May 17th, 2017 3:59 PM
After wrongly and confidently predicting that Hillary Clinton had a 99% chance to beat Donald Trump in the presidential election, late-night MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell was back at it again with the brazen speculation Tuesday night. To open his show, O’Donnell went on a lengthy takedown of the President, comparing him to Richard Nixon and his Watergate scandal, even claiming that Trump had done…
 

Is MSNBC Tiring of Lawrence O’Donnell’s Lunatic Conspiracy Theories?

Scott Whitlock
May 15th, 2017 5:27 PM
According to the Huffington Post on Monday, liberal MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell’s future at the network is “unclear” and a renewal of his contract “doesn’t appear to be on the horizon.” Writer Yashar Ali explained that O’Donnell “has just four weeks left in his contract, and the cable network does not appear to be interested in renewing his deal.” 
 

Writer: MSNBC Boss Prefers the ‘Mushy Center’ to Profitable Liberalism

Tom Johnson
May 13th, 2017 1:16 PM
For a real-life example of how to succeed in business without really trying, check out the “Lean Forward” channel, suggests The Week’s Ryan Cooper. Cooper asserts that MSNBC is “attempting to ditch its entire brand as a liberal network just as it is starting to pay off handsomely,” and indicated that the driving force behind the ditchery is Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC.
 

Even This MSNBC Regular Thinks Lawrence O’Donnell’s Theory Is Nuts

Scott Whitlock
April 11th, 2017 4:00 PM
You know it’s bad when even a MSNBC regular is calling out a MSNBC host’s nutty theories. But that’s what happened on Tuesday as liberal Dana Milbank compared fellow liberal Lawrence O’Donnell to 9/11 truthers, birthers and people who worry about mind-controlling fluoride. 
 
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O’Donnell: Trump ‘Okay’ With Syria Gassing ‘Women and Children'

Jackson Richman
April 6th, 2017 1:10 PM
On Wednesday's The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell blasted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the Trump administration for Tuesday's chemical attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against his own people, which has killed almost 90 people, according to the count so far by human rights groups. "Men, women, children, and babies got gassed in Syria this week because last week, the Trump…
 
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Lawrence O’Donnell Calls Trump ‘Laziest, Most Ignorant President'

Randy Hall
March 24th, 2017 4:57 PM
Never one to miss a chance to slam President Donald Trump, Lawrence O’Donnell -- host of The Last Word, a weeknight program on the MSNBC cable channel -- called the Republican occupant of the White House “the laziest, most ignorant president in history.”