The Narrative Is the Priority
According to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was a white supremacist. According to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was an active shooter. According to the media, Kyle Rittenhouse was a murderer. In reality, he was none of these. Kyle Rittenhouse was a 17-year-old young man who went to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in order to protect businesses and administer medical aid to those who needed it.
David Frum Goes BIBLICAL in Urging Us All to Fight Back Against Trump
It sounded like a scripture study on CNN's New Day as Never Trumper David Frum quoted the prophet Isaiah in urging Americans to fight back against Trump. "Whom shall I send?" said the Lord. Isaiah said "Send me!"
Column: When the News Feels Like the Weather
One way to think of the national news is like a political weather forecast. Facts don’t come first. The emotional tone does. The Trump project always sounded doomed, perpetually on the verge of dying in darkness. During the 2016 campaign, Time magazine covers had Trump’s face melting, and then melting into an orange puddle. And then he won.
LAME: NYT Asks How Media Got Trump ‘Dossier’ Wrong, Employs Instigator
Has the day of media reckoning for the infamous Trump dossier finally dawned? Bill Grueskin, a former academic dean at Columbia Journalism School, raised eyebrows with his opinion piece in the Tuesday edition of the New York Times: “How Did So Much of the Media Get the Steele Dossier So Wrong?” BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith, the person responsible for injecting the dubious dossier into the…
Scarborough Whistles Past Biden's Pitiful Poll Numbers
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough takes a two-fold approach to covering for Biden's terrible poll numbers. First, he claims that the 17% of Democrats who have deserted Biden would "obviously...come home": i.e., vote Democrat, when the electoral chips were down. Scarborough's second move was to quickly pivot away from Biden's bad numbers, and switch to touting support for the recently-passed…
Cross Accuses GOP of 'White Supremacy,' Attacks Journalists From Left
Tiffany Cross used her Saturday show on MSNBC to accuse the Republican Party of supporting a "a system of white supremacy" and with self-proclaimed journalist Errin Haines, said there was no difference between political and racial divisions, essentially declaring conservatism is, by definition, racist and criticized journalists for not being willing to see it as such.
‘They Don't Care’; Reid, Pals Paint Conservatives as Terrorists
Prior to a maddening segment about Kyle Rittenhouse, MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid opened Wednesday’s show by spewing more viperous rhetoric against the right as a millions-strong terrorist organization carrying out a “slow rolling insurrection” and “apartheid democracy” whose electoral victories are illegitimate and pose a deadly threat to their fellow Americans.
Scarborough Wails: Someday a Bezos-Like Billionaire Will Take Over US!
Morning Joe was baying for Steve Bannon's blood this morning, demanding that the Justice Department prosecute him for refusing to testify before Congress. Joe Scarborough took things to an outlandish extreme, predicting this dire consequence if the DoJ doesn't go after Bannon and other Trump allies: "I swear to God. Ten, fifteen years from now, if people get away with this now, we're going to…
MSNBC Regular: 'Sick of White Men' Like Carville, 'Shut the F Up'
On Saturday morning's The Cross Connection, MSNBC viewers got a triple helping of racist comments as frequent guests Roland Martin and Elie Mystal took aim at whites. After Mystal claimed in the show's first hour that blue collar whites only care about "using their guns on black people and getting away with it," Martin in the second hour declared that he was "sick of white men" like veteran…
Velshi Gets Upset At GA Sec. of State Condemning Stacey Abrams
On his Saturday show on MSNBC, Ali Velshi was utterly confused by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's claim that Stacey Abrams' stolen election conspiracy theories are no different than Donald Trump's. After all, voter suppression, unlike fraud, is a legitimate concern.
Andrea Mitchell Lets Al Gore Push Global Warming Alarmist Agenda
On Thursday afternoon, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell devoted a segment to letting environmental alarmist and former Vice President Al Gore promote his anti-fossil fuel views as he prepared to take part in the Glasgow climate summit. The MSNBC host lauded Gore for helping to make his alarmism more popular according to some polls, and fretted that former President Donald Trump had undermined her…
Morning Joe: Biden Unpopular? Blame Trump!
While Democrats try to dig out from their electoral disaster on Tuesday, Morning Joe has come up with an explanation for Biden's unpopularity, which dragged Dems down across the country: it's Trump's fault! As Mika Brzezinski put it on Thursday: "This administration is grappling with the problems that it adopted from the last administration, these problems are in some ways either still…
You Mean There Were More? Behold, the Worst Overnight MSNBC Hissy Fits
Just when you think we had covered all of the MSNBC meltdowns from Tuesday night over the results of the Virginia gubernatorial election and down ballot races, there were plenty more to cover from both late Tuesday and early Wednesday that, as we saw in the previous coverage, ranged from despondence to hysteria to denial of basic reality. Co-hosts Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Brian Williams…
Scarborough Slaps At MSNBC Sore Losers Crying 'CRT Not Real'
Joe Scarborough didn't name names. He wants, after all, to be able to walk through the MSNBC cafeteria without being hit in the back of the head with a kale-quinoa salad. But the Morning Joe host did take repeated shots this morning at MSNBC colleagues like Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid who last night blamed McAuliffe's loss on Youngkin focusing on Critical Race Theory even though, they claimed…
