Eric Alterman: ‘Trump TV’ Might Want Scarborough, Halperin

October 29th, 2016 10:53 AM
If there’s ever a Donald Trump-centric TV channel, it’s likely that not all of its big names would be from the populist right, hinted What Liberal Media? author Alterman in his column for The Nation's November 14 issue. Alterman claimed that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough “has made some of the most egregious pro-Trump arguments heard anywhere during this election cycle” and, regarding Bloomberg’s Mark…
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'Unprecedented' Oct. Surprise? Nothing Tops Lawrence Walsh's '92 Stunt

October 29th, 2016 6:42 AM
FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress indicating that the bureau has "learned of the existence of (Hillary Clinton) emails" which he concluded must be reviewed "to determine whether they contain classified information" has led to all kinds of people declaring the move an "unprecedented" October surprise. Even some people who should know better have called it the "Mother of All October…
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MSNBC Demands Trump Camp Retract ‘Rigged’ Comments Post-FBI News

October 28th, 2016 5:29 PM
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway naturally took to the cable news airwaves on Friday afternoon to comment on the bombshell news concerning new details the FBI will investigate regarding Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server and on MSNBC, she was pressured to withdraw her candidate’s insistence that the “system” is rigged to benefit Clinton.
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LOL! BBD's 'Poison' Played at Hillary Rally

October 28th, 2016 3:45 PM
“That girl is poison” That’s one of the lyrics of Bell Bill Devoe’s 1990 R&B hit “Poison.” It was a song played at a Hillary Clinton rally, on the very day that the FBI announced it was re-opening its investigation into the e-mail scandal. Listen closely to the background music in MSNBC’s Kristen Welker live report at 2:35pm EDT. 
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CNN, MSNBC Go Gaga for ‘Master Class’ FLOTUS Rally; Look at the Hug!

October 27th, 2016 4:43 PM
Right on cue with the conclusion of Thursday’s rally between Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama, CNN and MSNBC went numb in praising Obama’s “master class in political speech-making” and marveling at “even just the embrace, the way the two walked out the embrace between the two, the clearly — the gratitude, the heaping of praise from, you know, Hillary Clinton to the First Lady.”
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MSNBC Journalist: ‘Clinton Enjoying Honeymoon with Press'

October 27th, 2016 4:00 PM
While WikiLeaks revelations concerning corruption at the Clinton Foundation where released today, on Thursday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC’s political correspondent Kasie Hunt obnoxiously stated that “Hillary Clinton is enjoying an enormous honeymoon period. Whether it’s with the press who covers her or whether it’s with the polling. She's really riding high.”
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Matthews Lets Biden Falsely Claim He's Never Criticized Tea Party

October 26th, 2016 11:00 PM
Joe Biden appeared on MSNBC's Hardball on Tuesday, and claimed that "You never heard me criticize the tea party." Millions of people with decent memories and the ability to hear know that this is not true. Those with longer memories know that Biden's strident criticisms of the Tea Party movement, its members and its political candidates and officeholders go back over six years.
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'Morning Joe' Beats 'NBC Nightly News' in Noting ObamaCare Hikes

October 25th, 2016 7:03 PM
Monday night, Nicholas Fondacaro at NewsBusters noted that NBC Nightly News failed to cover steep price increases averaging 25 percent being imposed next year in Obamacare plans purchased through the program's national exchange.
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BBC Journalist Rewrites Brexit History to Avoid Comparison to Trump

October 25th, 2016 5:00 PM
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this Tuesday, the BBC’s Katty Kay burst out laughing at attempts to compare Donald Trump’s campaign to the successful Brexit referendum and revolution in Britain. On this Tuesday’s Morning Joe, exactly two weeks before election night, host Joe Scarborough initiated the discussion stating that “the Trump campaign has been saying for a week now that this is going to…
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Matthews Traps NYT Reporter Over Whether She Has Pro-Life Co-Workers

October 25th, 2016 4:10 PM
Occasionally, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews flashes a pillar of his Catholic upbringing and Monday night was one such instance as he pressed New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor on whether or not she has any pro-life co-workers at the liberal paper after she laughed at the idea of liberal media bias. 

MRC’s Notable Quotables: GOP Office Firebombed and Trump Is to Blame?

October 24th, 2016 9:32 AM
In the October 24 edition of Notable Quotables: CNN host Brian Stelter reports on a North Carolina Republican headquarters being firebombed and wonders if Donald Trump is to blame. NBC News’s Kristen Welker claims the media would be spending more time on Hillary Clinton’s scandals but Trump’s “unforced errors” keep getting in the way. Also in this issue Chris Matthews is transfixed by Hillary…
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MSNBC Panel: Some on Right Find FNC 'Too Lazy to Join' KKK

October 23rd, 2016 3:02 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, during a discussion of the possibility Donald Trump might start a right-wing news network, host Joy Reid suggested that such a network could exist for some on the right who think "Fox News doesn't hate Muslims enough." Liberal comedian and Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah then cracked that some believe Fox News is "too lazy to join the Klan," and, after recalling…
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WATCH: Sharpton Struggles Against Project Veritas Videos, Voter Fraud

October 23rd, 2016 11:32 AM
Tax dodger and riot starter Al Sharpton had a bone to pick with GOP nominee Donald Trump, on his MSNBC Sunday show Politics Nation, for playing coy with accepting the outcome of the election. Sharpton brought on Trump’s Senior Campaign Adviser Boris Epshteyn to browbeat him over the comments saying, “Boris, just how big would Clinton's win have to be for Trump to admit it is, quote, “Not…
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MSNBC Promo Proudly Touts Trump Rally Chanting ‘Paul Ryan Sucks'

October 20th, 2016 8:41 PM
Early Thursday evening during Hardball, a new MSNBC promo highlighted their unabashedly liberal slant with footage from Monday’s All In of host Chris Hayes giggling over a Donald Trump rally in Wisconsin chanting “Paul Ryan sucks” and an on-screen chryon reading “[t]his is a party foul.”