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Marcus: Republicans Won't Accept 'Facts' on Kavanaugh, Impeachment
December 3rd, 2019 6:55 PM
Liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus bashed the right as having trouble "accepting the facts,” on Morning Joe Tuesday. She was on MSNBC plugging her new anti-Kavanaugh book “Supreme Ambition,” which compares last year’s Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings to the present day impeachment hearings. In it, Marcus argues that Republicans were unwilling to believe “the evidence”…
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MSNBC Meltdown: ‘Can’t Survive’ ‘Machine Gun’ GOP and More Trump
December 3rd, 2019 5:30 PM
Sometimes, MSNBC analysts manage to pack an unbelievable amount of stupid into a short amount of time. Such was the case on Tuesday as Donny Deutsch ranted about Republicans bringing metaphorical machine guns to the impeachment fight, the country not surviving Donald Trump, and how the “facts” and “laws” “are not going to protect us.
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MSNBC Cheers: Now Kamala Is Free to Prosecute Trump!
December 3rd, 2019 3:49 PM
At the announcement that the media and Hollywood’s favorite candidate Kamala Harris had told her staff she was dropping out of the 2020 presidential race Tuesday, many cable news analysts expressed dismay. Yet MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle found a glimmer of hope in the whole situation: Now the former California attorney general would be free to prosecute President Trump!
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Bitter Morning Joe Demands Dems Expand Impeachment
December 3rd, 2019 1:06 PM
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough launched into a bitter anti-Trump screed demanding that House Democrats expand the impeachment inquiry in order to “show the American people the full breadth and the full scope of Donald Trump’s corruption” and expose the supposed “lawlessness” of the administration.
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MSNBC: GOP ‘Reversed’ Direction From Anti-Slavery Origins
December 3rd, 2019 10:45 AM
During the final segment of Saturday’s edition of AM Joy, host Joy Reid interviewed Brenda Wineapple, author of the book The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. Reid prefaced the interview by comparing President Trump to the notoriously racist President Johnson, whom she described as “another presidential villain.” The MSNBC host repeatedly doubled down on that…
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MSNBC Hypes UN Report, Fearmongers Over Global Warming
December 3rd, 2019 10:22 AM
Between Tuesday and Thursday of Thanksgiving week, a number of MSNBC hosts seized on the latest United Nations report making questionable predictions about a "dire" future, and pushing for regulations to cut carbon dioxide emissions. The hype included Chris Matthews accusing President Donald Trump of exploiting the push for regulations to advocate "idiot nationalism," and Katy Tur fretted that…
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Mitchell Turns to Democrat: ‘Help Us Fact Check’ Your GOP Colleague
December 2nd, 2019 4:24 PM
Who better than a Democratic Senator to fact check his Republican colleague? That, apparently, is the view at MSNBC. Network anchor Andrea Mitchell on Monday erupted in anger that Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana would dare spar with Chuck Todd. Regarding his appearance on Meet the Press, the MSNBC host assailed Kennedy for “embracing the discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine…
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Malcolm Nance: Trump's Fave Dirty Dozen Character the Murderer/Rapist
December 1st, 2019 3:30 PM
On Joy Reid's MSNBC show today, MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance went on a rant about Trump's pardoning of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher and other members of the military. Among other things, speaking of the Telly Savalas character in The Dirty Dozen—a murderer and rapist—Nance said: "It's almost as if Donald Trump thought, 'hey, that's my favorite character!' He has a mindset of where he thinks his…
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Joy Reid's Economic Ignorance Drives Ron 'Insana'
November 30th, 2019 2:04 PM
Just how unknowledgeable about the economy is Joy Reid? So much so that it drove even the liberal Ron Insana . . . insane, obliging him to correct her misstatements.
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FLASHBACK: Hours After Bush Died, MSNBC, CNN Hit ‘Racial Animus’
November 30th, 2019 12:15 PM
One year ago today, on November 30, 2018, George H.W. Bush passed away. And while there was some very positive coverage, MSNBC and CNN made sure to hammer the former President for “racial animus.” He was, after all, a Republican. During live coverage on December 1, just hours after Bush’s death, MSNBC analyst Eddie Glaude insisted, “We have to bring up with Willie Horton.” Glaude sneered, “…
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MSNBC Hypes Republicans Saying GOP Must Drop Litmus Tests on Abortion
November 29th, 2019 10:08 PM
It has been a constant theme in the media for many years that Republicans need to do a better job of recruiting female candidates and on Wednesday's MSNBC Live, Chris Jansing highlighted the efforts of some Republican women to address that concers. While the segment started off dealing with practical concerns such as the lack of political connections and fundraising abilities, it ended with the…
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Sharpton Slams Evangelicals for 'Submitting to White Nationalism'
November 29th, 2019 6:51 PM
Appearing as a guest on Morning Joe Wednesday, liberal Rev. Jim Wallis discussed his book Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus. Not surprisingly, it did not take long for Wallis to begin trashing President Trump and white evangelical Christians. Another member of the panel, the incendiary Al Sharpton, accused white evangelicals of “submitting to white nationalism and Trump,” a point…
Ruhle Calls Trump's Thanksgiving Visit to Afghanistan a 'Photo-Op'
November 29th, 2019 5:47 PM
Surprise presidential visits to war zones to spend time with the troops during Thanksgiving or other holidays have become a bipartisan tradition that everyone can support. While most view such visits as a way to honor the troops and express amazement at the amount of planning and secrecy that goes into such trips, MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle took Friday to call Trump's Thanksgiving visit to…
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MSNBC Pushes Patriotic Impeachment Ad: ‘Why We Fought the Revolution’
November 29th, 2019 11:00 AM
Be a patriot, support impeachment? MSNBC is currently running a new ad, set to the tune of America the Beautiful. As images of our founders and impeached presidents like Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton appear, audio of John Meacham (originally from the October 4 edition of Morning Joe) insisted, “We have nearly two and a half centuries of examples where checks and balances of the…
