Laid-Off Worker in Anti-Romney Ad Now Says He Won't Vote for Obama; Wi
July 18th, 2012 3:32 PM
Donnie Box, a steelworker in Missouri who lost his job and is the focus of an anti-Mitt Romney advertisement being run by a Super PAC that supports President Barack Obama, now says he will not vote to re-elect the president in November.
"I could really care less about Obama," the lifelong Democrat says in an article written by Mike Elk on the In These Times website before criticizing the…
Huh? Rachel Maddow Claims GOP 'Being Taken Over' by Ron Paul
July 11th, 2012 10:16 PM
Rachel Maddow is indignant that more people in media don't share her penchant for elevating minor news to mountainous stories.
Last night, for example, Maddow flogged away at one of her favorite hobby horses, her dubious claim that Ron Paul's spectral presence in the presidential campaign portends seismic upheaval within the GOP. (video and audio clips after page break)
Christian Rocker Seeks Recusal of 'Leftist' Judge in Defamation Suit A
July 10th, 2012 7:30 PM
In response to a judge's ruling that he pay Rachel Maddow's legal fees in his $50 million lawsuit against her, Christian rock n'roll preacher Bradlee Dean is alleging bias on the part of the judge.
Dean filed suit against Maddow in July 2011 claiming she defamed him as "bloodthirsty" and homicidal toward gays based on remarks he made during a broadcast of his Sons of Liberty radio show in…
Maddow Lapses Into Amnesia About Proposed Brown-Warren Debate
June 28th, 2012 7:00 PM
For someone seemingly so bright, Rachel Maddow sure has a short memory.
There she was on June 19, talking about a proposed debate between GOP Sen. Scott Brown and Democrat challenger Elizabeth Warren and mocking Brown with her trademark brand of arm-waving, arrested adolescent sarcasm (video after page break) --
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…
Rachel Maddow Reprises Role of Anguished Diva Scorned by Scott Brown
June 20th, 2012 9:10 PM
Has Rachel Maddow ever considered trying her hand at fiction?
What am I saying? She already does, just about every night on MSNBC. (video after page break)
Ezra Klein Describes Soros-Funded Brennan Center as 'Non Partisan
June 15th, 2012 5:00 PM
Whenever a liberal labels an organization "non partisan," consider yourself duly alerted that it is nothing of the kind.
Here is what said liberal is actually saying if he or she could stomach the candor -- This is an organization that shares my views. I call it "non partisan" in a feeble attempt to provide legitimacy it would otherwise not possess. (video after page break)
Maddow Slams Romney for Same Ploy She Used Against McCain in
June 11th, 2012 8:11 PM
Rachel Maddow to Mitt Romney: Do as I say, not as I've done too.
On her MSNBC show June 7, Maddow criticized the presumptive GOP nominee as unusually dishonest even by the low standards of national politics. (video, audio clips after page break).
Rachel Maddow Actually Believes Citizens United Ruling 'Got Rid of All
June 8th, 2012 9:30 PM
The same Rachel Maddow, not incidentally, who considers what she perceives as lies from Mitt Romney to be so utterly disgraceful.
But no problemo when the deceit flows from her. After all, Maddow works amid that rarefied cadre of humanity known as MSNBC where rules of conduct governing less evolved beings don't apply. (video clip after page break)
Rachel Maddow Backs Off Bogus Claim About Wisconsin Recall Polling
June 7th, 2012 5:52 PM
After getting slammed by NewsBusters for making a demonstrably false claim, Rachel Maddow refrained from repeating it when given the opportunity 24 hours later.
Here's Maddow on her MSNBC show Monday, the eve of the epochal recall election in Wisconsin, saying this about pre-recall polling (video after page break) --
Maddow Vents About Romney Deceit - After She Lies About Wisconsin Reca
June 5th, 2012 5:00 PM
You'd think MSNBC's resident brainiac would know better than to engage in the very thing she condemns in others.
Apparently this ethical tenet understood by most children is beyond Rachel Maddow's grasp as she demonstrated once again on her cable show last night. (video, audio clips after page break)
Conservative Think Tank Challenges Comcast CEO on 'Potentially Libelou
June 1st, 2012 7:31 PM
An attorney for the National Center for Public Policy Research, speaking yesterday at Comcast's annual shareholder meeting, demanded an on-air correction and apology for defamatory claims by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
National Center general counsel Justin Danhof directed his statement to Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, majority owner of NBCUniversal, which in turn owns MSNBC. In his remarks,…
NBC’s Brian Williams Apparently Didn't Get the Memo About MSNBC's Sp
May 24th, 2012 2:33 PM
As NewsBusters’s own Brent Baker pointed out, Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News Wednesday night called Mitt Romney’s pledge to reduce unemployment to 6 percent "unrealistic." But apparently Brian didn't get the MSNBC spin memo, as three of his colleagues agreed that 6% unemployment is actually inevitable, and scolded Romney for making such a wimpy prediction.
During his 6:00 show…