MSNBC Tees Up Grieving Dad on NRA's LaPierre: 'Hope He Rots in Hell'
On Saturday afternoon, MSNBC host Katie Phang allowed liberal activist Fred Guttenberg to indulge in a hateful rant against the NRA and Donald Trump supporters as he declared that he hopes that former NRA head Wayne LaPierre "rots in hell."
MSNBC Decries McConnell's 'Very Hypocritical' And 'Tainted' Legacy
Sen. Mitch McConnell announced his decision to step down as the Republican leader in November on Wednesday and MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports was quickly ready to kick the “very hypocritical” and “tainted” McConnell out the door.
MSNBC Tries To Have It Both Ways On Alabama's Embryo-Personhood Ruling
Ever since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that an embryo is a life, the media has tried to have it both ways. They have tried to mourn the supposed threat to IVF, which means aspiring parents will have their dreams of having a baby crushed while also denying the embryo is a life. Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC was just the latest example, as Washington correspondent…
Morning Joe Suggests GOP Tries To 'Gerrymander' Presidential Elections
On Morning Joe, Eugene Robinson, MSNBC's chief political analyst, suggests that Republicans try to overcome their loss of the popular vote in presidential elections by "gerrymander[ing] the hell out of everything, to try to build an advantage." But 48 out of 50 states, representing 98.3% of the 538 Electoral College votes, award all their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular…
'Big Guy' Scarborough Raises 'Warning Signs' For Trump Campaign
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough calls himself a "big guy" and raises "warning signs" for the Trump campaign. He notes that Nikki Haley got 40% of the vote in South Carolina -- a lot considering that she was run against a virtual three-time incumbent. Scarborough says that when he was a congressman and a primary opponent got 19-20%, he "melted down."
Sunday Move: Michael Steele Half-Crosses Himself Over Black Republican
On the Sunday edition of the MSNBC show The Weekend, co-anchor Michael Steele half-crossed himself and said "it's Sunday" after playing a clip of a Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina making remarks at CPAC. At the end of the show, Ali Velshi, whose show came on next, singled out Steele's move for praise, calling it "precious."
FLASHBACK: Recalling Years of Liberal Media Mockery of CPAC
For years, both journalists and late-night comics have ridiculed CPAC as akin to “the bar scene in Star Wars,” “an aviary for far-right ‘wacko birds,’” and an “audience of malignant children.”
MSNBC Falsely Claims Alabama IVF Case Upends Pro-Life Logic
MSNBC’s host of The ReidOut, Joy Reid, and political analyst Michelle Goldberg continued the discussion of the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that embryos are people by arguing that the Republican reaction to the ruling proves that pro-life ideology is full of “actual consequences” and “contradictions.” However, they ultimately failed in this attempt, as their efforts led them…
MSNBC: Bathroom Bills, 'Gender-Affirming Care Bans' Lead to Death
If you believe that men should use the men’s restroom and that minors should not be given gender-altering care, then the Friday edition of MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports thinks you are partly responsible for the recent death of an Oklahoma teenager who identified as non-binary.
Civics Illiterate: Politico Reporter Denies Our Rights Come from God
Someone failed their high school civics class! Or at least that’s the impression Politico’s democracy investigator, Heidi Przybyla left during an appearance on MSNBC’s All In Thursday night. According to the reporter who’s supposedly brushed up on American governance, if you understood that your rights as a human came from a higher power, it made up part of a dangerous “…
O’Donnell Scolds Skittish Democrats for Questioning Biden’s Fitness
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell utilized his platform, The Last Word Wednesday night to scold skittish Democrats and rant about how President Joe Biden’s inability to make speeches and form coherent sentences was not a part of his job as president. “The notion that Joe Biden is too old is based on a complete and utter misunderstanding of the work of the presidency. The job is to make decisions, not…
Harold Ford, Jr. on Fox? Not Liberal Enough For Joe Scarborough!
On Morning Joe, when Mika Brzezinski refers to former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. as the lone liberal co-host on the top Fox News program The Five, Joe Scarborough interrupts to deny that Ford is a liberal, branding him merely an "agreer." As a Congressman, Ford had a solidly liberal record.
MSNBC Accuses Evangelicals Of Wanting To Remove Women From Workplace
The media freakout over the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are people continued on Thursday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, where the MSNBC eponymous host welcomed OBGYN Jennifer Lincoln to label the state “dangerous” and claim Evangelicals are trying to kick women out of the workplace.
McCaskill Angrily Demands NY Times Stop Fact-Checking Biden
The New York Times dared to publish an unflattering fact-check of President Joe Biden’s economic talking points on Wednesday and MSNBC contributor and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill was infuriated about it. Reacting on Thursday’s Morning Joe, McCaskill did not care to rebut the substance of the article, but demanded that no newspaper fact-check Biden unless they…