There has been a lot of harsh criticism for Barack Obama's performance at Wednesday's presidential debate, but maybe the strongest came Thursday from former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.…
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October 4th, 2012 10:50 AM | Noel Sheppard
October 4th, 2012 8:54 AM | Tom Blumer
As Matt Vespa at NewsBusters noted earlier this morning, MSNBC's Howard Fineman was extremely unhappy with Jim Lehrer's performance as moderator in last night's first presidential debate. Vespa…
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October 4th, 2012 2:11 AM | Matt Vespa
MSNBC contributor Howard Fineman lamented how the president was on the defensive in his first bout with Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Jim Lehrer, who moderated the October 3 debate, has a…
October 3rd, 2012 11:33 PM | Mark Finkelstein
How resounding was Mitt Romney's rout of Barack Obama tonight? In the post-debate spin room, a hopelessly muddled Martin O'Malley, Dem guv from Maryland and supposedly an Obama surrogate, wound…
October 3rd, 2012 11:30 PM | Noel Sheppard
The negative reviews for Barack Obama's performance during Wednesday's debate continue to pour in from a very unlikely source - his friends on MSNBC.
Shortly after the debate ended, a "…
October 3rd, 2012 11:09 PM | Noel Sheppard
Judging from the reaction by the commentators on MSNBC, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had a big night during Wednesday's debate with Barack Obama.
Shortly after it's…
October 3rd, 2012 10:48 PM | Matthew Sheffield
An angry Chris Matthews sharply denounced President Obama's performance in the presidential debate tonight, implying his knowledge of the facts was "first grade." Matthews also urged Obama to…
October 3rd, 2012 8:48 PM | Ann Coulter
If one were trying to prove in court that MSNBC is crazily biased, you could do worse than submitting Rachel Maddow's Tuesday night show.
She was discussing the recently released June…
October 3rd, 2012 5:31 PM | Tim Graham
On Wednesday’s Jansing & Co., MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing tried to establish that there is one question “we can all anticipate and not be surprised by,” and that is a question to Mitt Romney…
October 3rd, 2012 11:06 AM | Randy Hall
Remember the saying "I think, therefore I am?" Well, MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry does, and she used it to defend Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren against claims that…
October 3rd, 2012 10:22 AM | Noel Sheppard
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama is claiming that if reelected, he would save Medicare while Mitt Romney will kill it.
Yet the Washington Post's Bob Woodward said on MSNBC's Morning…
October 2nd, 2012 5:54 PM | Ken Shepherd
As even the casual reader of NewsBusters is well aware, the MSNBC cable news network is forever on the lookout for racially-tinged "code words" in Republican speeches and "dog whistle" ads by…
October 2nd, 2012 4:10 PM | Jack Coleman
The sky is falling, Mitch McConnell warns. Correction: the sky is falling, Mitch McConnell warns, according to Rachel Maddow. Big difference. (video after page break)
On her MSNBC…
October 2nd, 2012 1:44 PM | Clay Waters
The latest cover story in the New York Times Book Review is a long, pseudo-erudite bashing by Mark Lilla of a conservative book, marinaded in Lilla's selective view of the history of…
October 2nd, 2012 10:25 AM | Matt Vespa
In the October 1 broadcast of NewsNation with Tamron Hall, a segment featuring former State Department Middle East officer Joel Rubin focused on how the Romney campaign was “trying to put all of…
October 1st, 2012 6:02 PM | Ken Shepherd
In an interview last Thursday with Reno, Nevada, station KTVN, Ann Romney said her chief concern with her husband winning the presidency would be his "mental well-being," adding, "I have all the…
October 1st, 2012 5:40 PM | Ryan Robertson
Election Day is still six weeks away, but the all important battleground state of Ohio will begin early voting -- both in-person and via absentee balloting -- on Tuesday, Oct. 2. At least a…
October 1st, 2012 2:59 PM | Jeffrey Meyer
Following in the shoes of fellow NBC News employee Brian Williams, John Heilemann has entered the world of crude humor. Appearing on MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner on Monday, Heilemann was…
October 1st, 2012 1:10 PM | Ken Shepherd
Worried that anti-Obama TV spots focused on women voters may have an impact in narrowing the so-called gender gap, MSNBC today brought on former Clinton-Gore ad woman Linda Kaplan Thaler of the…
October 1st, 2012 1:09 PM | Matt Hadro
In an irony of ironies, a CNN roundtable on media bias featured a liberal figure of the institutional media, Chrystia Freeland, claiming that Paul Ryan has gotten "pretty fabulous treatment" at…
October 1st, 2012 9:22 AM | NB Staff
On Thursday, NewsBusters published part II of our interview with Ann Coulter regarding her new book Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama.
In part III, she discusses…
October 1st, 2012 9:09 AM | Matthew Sheffield
In an essay published on page B1 of today’s New York Times, columnist David Carr seeks to contradict an open letter which MRC president Brent Bozell and other leading conservatives signed which…
September 30th, 2012 1:00 PM | Tim Graham
From his spot on the Time Ideas blog, the MSNBC anchor Toure admitted "If President Obama had to run against Senator Obama of 2008, he’d probably be crushed. Back then, Obama seemed superhuman;…
September 29th, 2012 3:14 PM | Tim Graham
Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton explored conservative dissatisfaction with the national news in polls and then wondered if the Post’s own columnist corps didn’t lean dramatically to the…
September 29th, 2012 6:53 AM | Brent Bozell
Two weeks ago, Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “2016: Obama’s America” passed Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” for second place on the all-time box-office money list for political documentaries.…