The Last Word

MSNBC has become a safe space for those on Joe Biden’s vice presidential short list. On Thursday night’s episode of The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell threw Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) softballs, and pushed bribery claims against Attorney General Bill Barr.

For almost two months in his Fourth Watch newsletter, the indispensable Steve Krakauer has been chronicling the strange case of MSNBC/NBC medical and science contributor Joseph Fair, who had claimed in May that he not only contracted the virus, but was hospitalized. Even worse yet, he surmised he contracted it through his eyes on a flight. But as Krakauer’s reporting showed, it was all a lie…

On Tuesday night’s Last Word, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, proved that the network will give a platform to anyone who hates President Trump, regardless of how radical they may be. Dr. Lance Dodes, a retired Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, called Trump a “killer” along the lines of “Hitler or Stalin.”

Appearing as a guest on Friday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter declared that President Donald Trump and Republican governors have "rivers of blood" on their hands because of the pandemic, and that the President is a "public health menace."

On Thursday night’s episode of The Last Word, NBC News National Affairs Analyst John Heilemann, blamed the recent coronavirus spikes on President Trump, by claiming he wants to make the virus about a “culture war.” Heilemann cherry picked data and put the blame entirely on Trump. Essentially, the network is trying to use the virus to try and torpedo the President's reelection. 

When guest hosting The Last Word on Friday, MSNBC's Ali Velshi declared that given the protests and reaction to the death of George Floyd, Joe Biden has been prophetic in his calls for the country to move past President Trump's racial divisiveness. Similarly, Jonathan Alter was amazed at Biden's "perfect message for 2020."

The liberal media appear to have adopted Rahm Emanuel’s saying “never let a good crisis go to waste” as their official slogan; especially when a crisis gives them an opportunity to trash President Trump. On-air personalities on both MSNBC and CNN have used Trump’s tweet announcing his plan of action to handle the unrest and riots in Minneapolis, namely “when the looting starts, the shooting…