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MSNBC Panel Denounces Trump’s ‘Assault on Civil Rights’
After all three broadcast networks fretted Wednesday morning over the Justice Department taking steps to challenge Affirmative Action policies that may discriminate against white students, on her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show, anchor Andrea Mitchell worried the move had the “potential to reopen long decided cases of Affirmative Action, which is alarming civil rights groups and academic institutions…
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Stengel Claims 'Epidemic' of 'Excessive Police Violence,' 'Racism'
On Tuesday's Deadline: White House, MSNBC contributor Rick Stengel claimed that there has been an "epidemic" of "excessive police violence" and "targeted racism" from the last few years during a discussion of President Donald Trump's recent comments joking about treating criminals roughly.
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Matthews Swoons Over Flake’s ‘Tough, Hard-Hitting' Anti-Trump Book
While on his book tour, Republican Senator Jeff Flake (Ariz.) stopped by Tuesday’s Hardball for an interview in which host Chris Matthews heaped effusive praise on Flake’s book Conscience of a Conservative as one that’s not only “tough” and “hard-hitting” on the GOP and President Trump, but a “very compelling” one too.
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Joy Reid: Trump Just Built on ‘Vulgarity’ of ‘Right Wing Talk Radio’
Race-baiting MSNBC anchor Joy Reid brought her typical slime to MTP Daily on Tuesday, insisting that Donald Trump just highlighted the “vulgarity” of “right wing talk radio.” Talking to Chuck Todd about Arizona Senator Jeff Flake’s new anti-Trump book, Reid sneered, “If you've been listening to right wing talk radio over the last 20 something years, the same anger and rage and anger at the…
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Fake Journalist Williams Hates Use of 'Fake News' Phrase: 'Insidious'
Brian Williams is not a man for irony. The disgraced MSNBC host, who lost his NBC anchoring job because of repeated false statements and exaggerations about his own reporting, does not like the phrase fake news. On Monday’s show, he derided the use of the words as "pernicious” and “insidious.”
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MSNBC Conservative Seems to Cheer 'Dying Off' of Social Conservatives
The caricature of an MSNBC conservative is a commentator with a right-leaning background who -- when appearing as a panel member on the liberal news network -- either agrees with the liberal guests or fails to rebut liberal analysis while offering little actual right-leaning analysis to the discussion. Washington Post columnist and regular MSNBC guest Jennifer Rubin may have gone beyond…
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MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts: Any Network That Hires Spicer Is Hypocritical
The fallout from last week’s departure of Sean Spicer as White House press secretary and Reince Priebus as chairman of the Republican National Committee spilled into MSNBC’s liberal programming on Sunday. Our friends at Mediaite found that one-time weekday host Thomas Roberts -- now a weekend host -- made a harsh assertion about Spicer’s future during an edition of MSNBC Live.
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Brian Williams Cheers McCain’s ‘Moral Courage’ to Preserve ObamaCare
Late night MSNBC anchor Brian Williams on Friday cheered the “moral courage” of John McCain and two other Republicans to derail ObamaCare repeal efforts. The journalist also hoped for GOP “heroes” in the mode of Republicans who stood up during Watergate. Narrating McCain’s vote against repeal, Williams touted, “In the well of the Senate, it came down to one very dramatic moment... Much was made…
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Sharpton Glosses Over Use of 'Ethnic Slurs,' Claims 'Corrected Them'
On Sunday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton slammed President Donald Trump for recently using the term "paddy wagon," calling it an "anti-Irish ethnic slur." He then went on to absolve himself of his own long history of using ethnic slurs by vaguely admitting to doing so in the past, but by lumping himself in with everyone else as "we," as he claimed he already "corrected" his offensive…
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MSNBC's Johnson: 'Black Guy' Obama Elected Because 'Bush Was So Bad'
Appearing as a panel member on Saturday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson -- known for his many race-obsessed comments and his column at The Root -- fretted that, allegedly unlike white men, California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris would face questions about her "competency" if she runs for President in 2020.
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Remember the IRS? Hayes, Reid Fear Trump WH Will Turn FBI on Enemies
The Thursday edition of MSNBC’s All In saw quite some rhetorical hyperventilating as host Chris Hayes and AM Joy host Joy Reid expressed grave concern that the Trump administration will use the FBI as their “political tool” against their enemies a la “lions eat[ing] Christians” at the Roman Coliseum.
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MSNBC Gushes Over McCain’s ‘Courageous’ ‘Moment’ Standing Up to Trump
After the all-night battle over the GOP’s attempt to repeal parts of ObamaCare, that ended in failure early Friday morning, MSNBC couldn’t stop gushing over the “maverick” Republican whose casting vote against the bill was the lynchpin that sealed the deal. Senator John McCain was one of the three Republicans who voted against their own party’s bill, and the liberal news network couldn’t stop…
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Brian Williams Lauds McCain as a 'Profile in Courage' on ObamaCare
Wrapping up his coverage of Friday’s early morning Senate vote that at least temporarily scuttled GOP hopes for a repeal of ObamaCare, MSNBC anchor Brian Williams could not help but admire Senator John McCain’s decision to align himself with Democrats, calling him and two other GOP defectors a “profile in courage,” and he welcomed the vote against the Republican bill as “the people of this…
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Reporter Lays Into Media on DWS Cover Up
On Thursday, The Hill reporter Joe Concha put the media on notice. Speaking about the news that a staffer for Florida Congresswoman and former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had been arrested trying to flee the country, he blasted the liberal media for ignoring the scandal.
