Panic in the Newsroom: CNN, MSNBC Spend 211 Minutes Trashing Sinclair

April 3rd, 2018 6:00 PM
Since Sunday night, the liberal media have been haranguing network affiliate owner Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) for a new “must-run” promo that warned against “biased and false news.” The two have slammed it as Trump-backed “state-run TV” on par with the former Soviet outlet Pravda that's “chilling,” frightening” and “a really embarrassing moment for journalism.” A NewsBusters study examined…
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NBC's Alexander Urges MSNBC Viewers to Sign Promise to Vote Anti-Gun

March 26th, 2018 11:58 PM
On Monday afternoon, NBC national correspondent and sometimes MSNBC anchor Peter Alexander went beyond simply giving a forum to anti-gun activists to promote their views, but he encouraged MSNBC viewers to go to their website and sign a contract promising to vote for anti-gun candidates.
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MSNBC Highlights Illinois Nazi Running as GOPer, But Ignored Farrakhan

March 21st, 2018 9:17 PM
On Wednesday morning, MSNBC anchors Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi both on separate occasions highlighted a Nazi and perennial congressional candidate in Illinois who won the Republican nomination by default because no other candidates filed to run in the heavily Democratic district. Ruhle did not mention that Republicans have condemned his most recent congressional run -- only noting that they…
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MSNBC Shuns 'Pro-Life' Tag for Lipinski; 'Looking for Next Conor Lamb'

March 18th, 2018 11:14 PM
On Sunday afternoon's MSNBC Live with David Gura, MSNBC senior politics editor Beth Fouhy appeared as a guest to preview upcoming congressional elections and she employed the typical journalistic double standard of using the "pro-choice" euphemism that supporters of legal abortion prefer while staying away from the "pro-life" label that abortion opponents prefer to be labeled by.
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MSNBC Frets Over Trump Pushing More Death Penalty, Tougher Sentencing

March 17th, 2018 7:39 PM
On Friday, several MSNBC shows reacted negatively to President Donald Trump's call for more death penalties and tougher sentencing for some drug dealers. After host Stephanie Ruhle mocked the plan by wondering what should happen to drug companies, substitute host Chris Jansing the next hour suggested that the President has been too quick to support capital punishment in past cases, as she oddly…
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'Are You a Goner?': Craig Melvin Viciously Interrogates GOP Rep.

March 13th, 2018 5:54 PM
On Tuesday, MSNBC host Craig Melvin read aloud to Congressman Ryan Costello (R-Pa.) an anonymous quotation that painted a bleak image of his electoral prospects, before asking him, “Congressman, are you a goner?”
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MSNBC Host Awkwardly Butts Heads With Grieving Father on Gun Control

March 5th, 2018 3:50 PM
As with all of the usual suspects on cable news, MSNBC ran more than a week-long full court press for gun control following the tragic Parkland, Florida school shooting. Thus it should come as no surprise that stand-in host Chris Jansing struggled to remain neutral while interviewing Andrew Pollack, a grieving father who disagreed with the network’s stance on gun restrictions.
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MSNBC's Velshi Admits He Considered Boycotting Amazon Over NRA TV

March 1st, 2018 9:09 AM
On Wednesday's Velshi and Ruhle show on MSNBC, co-host Ali Velshi -- who also serves as a business correspondent for NBC News -- admitted that he had considered boycotting Amazon because it provides a forum to NRA TV, as he lamented that it is difficult for consumers to switch to companies that in some way do not support the gun industry. Additionally, this week the show has begun what appears to…
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MSNBC: Criticizing FBI, FL Deputies 'A High Crime and Misdemeanor'

February 26th, 2018 12:06 PM
Since the release of the Devin Nunes memo in early February, both Democrats and the media have pushed the narrative that Republicans have become the anti-law enforcement party. But on Monday, panelists on MSNBC’s Live With Stephanie Ruhle took that argument a step further when they claimed that criticism of the FBI – and of the Florida deputies who remained outside of a Parkland school as an…
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MSNBC Freaks: ‘Lying’ Trump’s ‘Strange’ Speech Just Like Dictators

February 23rd, 2018 12:12 PM
MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle on Friday suffered a total meltdown after Donald Trump’s CPAC speech, foaming that the “strange,” “lie”-filled address was reminiscent of brutal dictators such as Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ruhle labeled the speech “absurd across the board.” 
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Tur Claims Gov. Scott Refused to Speak With Students; Was at a Funeral

February 21st, 2018 9:06 PM
MSNBC’s Katy Tur has a glaring habit of letting her anti-Republican hatred run wild while confronting and slamming GOPers on issues she knows little about. The same was true when she hosted the 2:00 p.m. hour of MSNBC Live on Wednesday when the network’s cameras were in Florida Governor Rick Scott’s office documenting anti-gun protestors screaming at the receptionists while he wasn’t there.
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MSNBC Dubs Student Anti-Gun Protests a 'Civil Rights Campaign'

February 21st, 2018 4:46 PM
As members of the news media, the anchors at MSNBC would have you believe that they are but dispassionate observers in all things political. Whether they themselves believe this self-styled characterization is unclear, but their coverage of the anti-gun student protests in Florida has been especially replete with just such disingenuous posturing.
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CNN/MSNBC Helped Russia Sow Discord by Promoting Fake Anti-Trump Rally

February 19th, 2018 1:09 PM
One of the revelations in Friday’s indictment handed down by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was that alleged Russian attempts to sow disunity in 2016 included the organization of both pro- and anti-Trump rallies in New York City on the Saturday after Election Day. A check of their November 12 coverage showed both CNN and MSNBC gave enthusiastic coverage to the Russian-organized anti-Trump rally…
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MSNBC Paints NRA Funding as Negating 'Thoughts & Prayers' By GOPers

February 16th, 2018 10:03 PM
On Thursday, several MSNBC anchors at various times of day were fixated on how NRA spending had benefited a number of prominent Republican political figures who had tweeted out sentiments regarding "thoughts and prayers" after the Florida shootings. After MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle first raised the issue Thursday morning and spent almost three minutes listing and showing images of nine…