Sharpton Keen on Extending Social Security, Medicare and Food Stamps

June 26th, 2012 7:51 PM
You'd think he wouldn't have such persistent trouble with the "illegal" part of that. Bad enough, as far as "the Rev" Al Sharpton is concerned, that Republicans want to rein in entitlement spending before America morphs into Greece and brings down much the world with it. (video clip after page break)

Chris Matthews: 'I'm With' Obama 'Putting the Knife In' Romney On 'Out

June 26th, 2012 7:19 PM
Remember all those demands for civility in politics after the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January, 2011? On Tuesday's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews said, "I’m with' [the Obama campaign] putting the knife in" Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for the supposed outsourcing that happened at companies Bain Capital invested in (video follows with…

Chris Matthews Foams: Voter ID Law Is a GOP Plot to 'Kill Off the Olde

June 26th, 2012 6:12 PM
Chris Matthews on Tuesday smeared Pennsylvania Republicans as attempting to "kill off the older voters" by enacting a new voter ID law in the state. The liberal Hardball host offered this baseless charge during a discussion of the true motive behind such GOP legislation across the country. Matthews referenced Pennsylvania Majority Leader Mike Turzai's gaffe that a voter ID law will help the…

College Republican Totally Schools MSNBC's Touré on Why Young People

June 26th, 2012 4:27 PM
Alex Schriver, the Chairman of the College Republican National Committee, totally schooled MSNBC's new co-host Touré Neblett Tuesday on why young people in America aren't just Democrats. Schriver did such a marvelous job that you have to wonder if MSNBC's new program The Cycle will consider inviting him back on (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Matthews Sneers: 'Most Conservative' Supreme Court Would Have Upheld

June 25th, 2012 6:29 PM
Chris Matthews, clearly worried that the Supreme Court will overturn part or all of Obamacare, frothed about this "most conservative" court, Monday, insisting that the current right-leaning judges would have upheld "separate but equal" and struck down the 1964 Civil Right Act. Matthews sneered, "I wonder whether this court would have backed desegregation in the Brown case? I doubt this pack…

Chuck Todd on Supreme Court AZ Immigration Ruling: 'Worst of All Outco

June 25th, 2012 11:20 AM
NBC News political director Chuck Todd said Monday the Supreme Court's ruling regarding Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law "is probably the worst of all outcomes if you’re Mitt Romney." Such was said on MSNBC's Jansing and Company moments after the announcement (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MSNBC Debuts New Show Starring 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist

June 25th, 2012 8:47 AM
MSNBC will debut a new program, Monday, featuring a 9/11 truth conspiracy theorist as a co-anchor. Toure Neblett will be one of the hosts for The Cycle, airing at 3pm on the cable network. Toure (who doesn't use his last name on MSNBC) has tweeted his suspicions about whether the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an inside job.One entry on Twitter reads: "How could a plane crash into the Pentagon? And…

Howard Kurtz Scolds Andrea Mitchell for Expressing 'No Regret' for 'De

June 24th, 2012 3:54 PM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, on the MSNBC program bearing her name, aired a video of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney selectively edited in a fashion designed to make him look like an out of touch imbecile. On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, host Howard Kurtz scolded Mitchell for expressing "no regret" for airing the clip (video follows with…

Matthews Panel: Romney 'Better Off' If Seen as 'Pragmatic, Deal-Making

June 24th, 2012 1:00 PM
During the concluding "Big Question" segment of this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the entire panel voiced their belief that Mitt Romney is "better off" if he is perceived by voters to be a "pragmatic, deal-making moderate" rather than a "true blue conservative." Matthews posed the question:

Fineman Sees 'Superhero's Challenge' for Obama

June 24th, 2012 12:27 PM
Appearing as a panel member on this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, MSNBC's Howard Fineman - also of the Huffington Post - described President Obama as having a "superhero's challenge" in Washington in having to deal with "a different planet than the one he originally was on." A bit earlier, Fineman had recounted that President Obama was "confused" when he came to Washington and…

Maddow Melts Down on HBO's Real Time: 'Leave Me Alone About RomneyCare

June 23rd, 2012 3:51 PM
MSNBC's supposedly most intelligent "news" anchor almost had a total meltdown on HBO's Real Time Friday. When repeatedly asked by host Bill Maher and guest Nick Gillespie for her opinion of  Massachusetts' healthcare program, Maddow whined like a little girl, "Leave me alone about RomneyCare, all of you" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Reason's Nick Gillespie Schools Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher on Fast a

June 23rd, 2012 12:36 AM
One of the finest examples of how liberal media members really don't know what they're talking about occurred on HBO's Real Time Friday when Reason's Nick Gillespie gave a much-needed education to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and host Bill Maher on the issue of Fast and Furious. In the end, Maddow and Maher embarrassed themselves in a fashion that should have both of their respective networks…

New MSNBC Host Spews: Racist Conservatives Fear Obama Taking Money Fro

June 21st, 2012 6:14 PM
Steve Kornacki, who will debut as a new MSNBC host on Monday, appeared on Hardball, Thursday, to smear conservative opposition to Eric Holder and Barack Obama as racist. Asked why some on the right oppose the attorney general, Kornacki derided the "caricature of Obama" as a "secret black radical" who is trying to "take away rights or...money from, you know, from white people." Kornacki saw…

Unlike the 2,000-Death Count in Iraq, ABC, NBC, PBS, MSNBC Skip

June 21st, 2012 5:45 PM
On June 13, the CBS Evening News devoted a story by David Martin to the Afghanistan death count reaching 2,000, as Martin interviewed a mother of a fallen Marine. CBS was alone. There was no story last week on the Afghanistan death “milestone” on ABC, NBC, the PBS NewsHour – or even on the MSNBC programs found in Nexis, including Rachel “Our Military’s In a Perilous Drift” Maddow. But the…