Duck Dynasty Returns with Stellar Yet Slightly Lower Ratings; MSNBC.co

January 17th, 2014 4:13 PM
Duck Dynasty returned to A&E last night with brand new episodes, the first since the row last month about Phil Robertson's comments regarding sin and homosexuality. The reality show, entering its fifth season, had strong numbers, but they were lower than the season 4 debut. That number was all MSNBC needed to seize on to see a moral victory for the gay-rights groups that had pressured A…

MSNBC.com Hypes Fear That 'Workers' Could 'Lose... Right to a Weekend

January 17th, 2014 12:45 PM
A bill before the Wisconsin state legislature would repeal a provision in state law which mandates that employees of private businesses must get one day off after every six worked. Proponents of the bill argue the measure will allow business owners and their employees to have greater flexibility in scheduling and permit an employee to volunteer to work a seventh-straight day. But to the folks…

MSNBC.com: SCOTUS 'May Let GOP Block Obama Recess' Appointments, But L

January 14th, 2014 1:30 PM
When the Supreme Court sat yesterday to hear the matter of NLRB v. Noel Canning, virtually every justice was highly skeptical of the Obama administration's claim that President Obama's January 2012 "recess appointments" were a valid exercise of his constitutional authority. After all, the president made the appointments when the U.S. Senate was technically in session -- a minutes-long pro forma…

MSNBC's Alex Wagner Laments Lack of 'Gender Parity' in Congress

January 13th, 2014 2:59 PM
Arguing that "[o]ur laws need to be drafted not just in the spirit of equality, but in the practice of it," MSNBC's Alex Wagner insists that "we must continue to ask ourselves why there isn't gender parity in Congress." In other words, in Wagner's mind, it's patently unjust to have federal law shaped by a Congress which is disproportionately male compared to the general population, never mind…

MSNBC.com Hypes ’Women to Watch in 2014' -- And 32 of 36 Are Democra

January 13th, 2014 1:00 PM
For more than a year, MSNBC and its affiliate MSNBC.com have argued that the GOP have been engaged in a so-called “war on women.” Despite this false and insulting claim by the liberal “news” network, a new piece at MSNBC.com seems to indicate that MSNBC is actually engaged in a war on conservative women. In an article/slideshow published on January 13, authors Johnny Simon and Maria Lokke…

MSNBC’s Abortion-obsessed Irin Carmon Chides Republicans For... Talk

January 10th, 2014 12:55 PM
MSNBC contributor Irin Carmon continued her obsession with abortion on Thursday, penning an article for MSNBC.com titled “Why the GOP Is Still Talking About Abortion.” Carmon mocked Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and RNC chairman Reince Priebus for holding up the protection of innocent life as a core principle of the Republican Party. Yes, the party which got its start advocating the sanctity…

MSNBC.com's Noah: Christie's 'Bridgeghazi' Discredits 'Bipartisanship

January 10th, 2014 12:40 PM
In a strange way, you have to hand it to Timothy Noah. The msnbc.com contributing writer has found a way to twist the Chris Christie bridge scandal into a blanket indictment of "bipartisanship" and serve as an rally cry t to liberal MSNBC fans of the moral superiority of full-throated, left-wing Democratic partisanship. After all, the Lean Forward network is convinced it needs to energize Obama…

MSNBC.com Wildly Spins: 'Obama Approval Ratings Turn Around

January 9th, 2014 5:29 PM
"Obama approval ratings turn around," exulted the msnbc.com landing page headline for Traci G. Lee's January 9 story, "Positive start to 2014 for Obama: poll." Lee set about spinning the results of the latest Quinnipiac Poll, which shows President Obama sitting atop a 41 percent approval rating, up from a low of 38 percent in December, but still a net negative approval rating. Lee used the…

MSNBC Quotes Liberal Group's Poll to Declare How to Help End Poverty

January 9th, 2014 10:56 AM
Since Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon Johnson’s announcement of an “unconditional war on poverty” during his State of the Union address in 1964, MSNBC used the occasion to promote a poll conducted by a far-left think tank to assert that a government program providing “affordable access to quality child care could help lift millions of Americans out of poverty.”…

MSNBC Guest Columnists Hint They'd Be Cool with Raising 'Age of Crimin

January 8th, 2014 7:20 PM
"The New York State Legislature needs to Raise the Age of criminal responsibility, and they need to do it this year," demands the subheadline on MSNBC.com's landing page this afternoon for a story headlined, "Stop charging kids as adults." The column, co-authored by former NAACP president Ben Jealous and actress Rosario Dawson, promotes a push by the Citizens Committee for Children of New York…

MSNBC.com Article Omits Gates Criticism of Hillary in New Book

January 8th, 2014 1:49 PM
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently wrote a tell-all book that slams Congress, President Obama, and several members of the Obama administration. Over at msnbc.com, Sarah Muller highlighted some of Gates’ criticisms in a Tuesday article. However, Muller did not mention Gates’ major criticism of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In fact, Muller outright lied when she wrote…

MSNBC’s Irin Carmon Whines About New ‘Abortion Restrictions’ in

January 6th, 2014 2:56 PM
MSNBC’s Irin Carmon -- the New York Abortion Access Fund's 2013 Champion for Choice award winner-- never hesitates in showing her support for “reproductive rights.” Whether it be in the newly established MSNBC.com website or on the airwaves of MSNBC, Carmon bemoans any attempts made by state legislatures to make abortion clinics safer through health department regulation. It should come as no…

New Year, Same Old ‘War on Voting’ Shtick at MSNBC.com

January 3rd, 2014 4:00 PM
MSNBC.com’s Zachary Roth has an obsession pitting “voting rights activists” against Republicans in his running series on the supposed “step backwards” that voting rights have taken in the past year. In a January 2 online piece, Roth whines that, “Republican legislatures in states across the country continued to advance restrictive voting laws.” In typical MSNBC fashion, the piece is peppered…

MSNBC's Carmon Tweets 'Et Tu, Sotomayor' in Reax to Justice's Obamacar

January 2nd, 2014 8:21 AM
Apparently, "I will think before I tweet" should be on Irin Carmon's New Year's resolution list. Her failure to do so shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square signaling the beginning of 2014 has caused her considerable embarrassment. On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an injunction which "temporarily prevented(the government) from enforcing contraceptive coverage…