The Last Word
WashPost Media Critic: 'NBC News Whiffed on Russiagate Story'
September 3rd, 2017 4:34 PM
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple spends a lot of his time lamenting the pro-Trump tilt of Fox News, but on Friday, he faulted NBC News for “whiffing” on a Russiagate story that quickly unraveled. MSNBC was breaking its news, and it was quickly broken into a mess.
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O’Donnell: GOPers Oppose Disaster Funding Since That's Who They Are
August 29th, 2017 4:41 PM
Avowed socialist and liberal MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell insinuated on Monday’s The Last Word that Republicans are heartless on hurricane recovery funding due to simply who they are as people as exhibited by opposing Hurricane Sandy funding bill. With help from ex-Al Gore flack Ron Klain, the duo promoted their prediction that President Trump will fail in responding to Hurricane Harvey and…
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MSNBC Cuts Away from Trump Rally to Smear Him and Supporters
August 23rd, 2017 12:14 AM
Throughout President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday, MSNBC’s The Last Word would break away from the live video in order to do on-the-fly commentary, which often included attacking the President on what he was saying. Towards the end of the of the 10 o’clock hour, host Lawrence O’Donnell left the Trump rally behind to really give his stacked liberal panel a good go…
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O’Donnell Eagerly Hopes for Leaks on Afghanistan Troop Deployments
August 22nd, 2017 12:07 AM
All eyes were on President Trump Monday night as he addressed the nation about the country’s future actions in regard to the war in Afghanistan. And without giving too many details, the President declared that there would be some form of troop increase but noted that there were conditions to our aid and limits to the costs we were willing to bear. But that wasn’t enough for MSNBC’s Lawrence O’…
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MSNBC Host More Worried About Defunding Than Planned Parenthood Prez
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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
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
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
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
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'
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’
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
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'
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?
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.”
