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February 16th, 2011 7:09 PM | Noel Sheppard
February 16th, 2011 5:30 PM | Kyle Drennen
Opening Wednesday's 12PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer proclaimed that President Obama was "driving Republicans in a corner" by calling their "budget bluff with his big proposal to…
February 16th, 2011 5:09 PM | Scott Whitlock
Despite the fact that the 2012 presidential election is still 20 months away, MSNBC apparently has an idea who might win. On Monday's News Nation, a network graphic featured a picture of Barack…
February 16th, 2011 4:03 PM | Matt Hadro
"Crazy Larry" O'Donnell is at it again. On "Morning Joe" Wednesday, the MSNBC host questioned the entire debate over which government spending programs to slash, asking why the president and…
February 16th, 2011 1:30 PM | Kyle Drennen
In Tuesday's Kansas City Star, reporter Aaron Barnhart revealed that Current TV, the cable channel launched in 2005 by Al Gore, would be the least missed, only managing to be viewed by 18,000…
February 16th, 2011 9:36 AM | Noel Sheppard
President Obama and the Democrats have spent trillions of dollars in the past two years without successfully growing the economy enough to produce jobs.
Despite this immutable fact,…
February 15th, 2011 6:54 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
A defensive Joe Scarborough showed up on Tuesday's Hardball, to tell off all his Republican doubters as he defiantly declared: "I'm more ideologically conservative" than most on Capitol Hill "…
February 15th, 2011 5:33 PM | Matt Hadro
Liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson trashes conservative leaders in his latest column – for not taking a clear stand on the Egyptian crisis and for not supporting the populist…
February 15th, 2011 8:25 AM | Tim Graham
Ed Schultz is not completely happy with his new 10 pm Eastern time slot. On his radio show Friday, he said to his Ed-heads: "Where is Ed Friday night? Well they’ve always run the prison junk on…
February 15th, 2011 12:58 AM | Noel Sheppard
With his total number of viewers having declined by 45 percent since his premiere in the 8PM time slot, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell appears to be taking a page from his predecessor Keith…
February 14th, 2011 11:43 PM | Noel Sheppard
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday expressed concern that someone like conservative author Ann Coulter has the "freedom" to make a joke about jailing journalists.
This was amazing…
February 14th, 2011 11:35 PM | Tom Blumer
Back in August and September, Lachlan Markay at NewsBusters did roundups of media infamy in connection with the exposure and subsequent arrests of eight officials and politicians associated with…
February 14th, 2011 6:21 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Monday's Hardball Chris Matthews, who devoted much of last week's shows to Egypt, got caught up on some conservative bashing as he mocked those who attended CPAC as "zany" and likened the…
February 14th, 2011 5:44 PM | Matt Hadro
For about ten minutes on MSNBC Monday, Harvard History professor Niall Ferguson offered a articulate, detailed, and biting indictment of President Obama's handling of the crisis Egypt – and…
February 14th, 2011 12:02 PM | Ken Shepherd
Update (12:08 p.m. EST): Brewer just made this her question of the day on her MSNBC Live program.
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer injected a bit of liberal commentary to a link she posted…
February 13th, 2011 10:52 PM | Noel Sheppard
For the second week in a row, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift found herself in a hostile crowd on PBS's "McLaughlin Group."
During a lengthy segment about the crisis in Eqypt, after Clift…
February 13th, 2011 6:08 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday’s Last Word show on MSNBC, host Lawrence O’Donnell trashed conservatives for raising concerns about the possibility of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt as the MSNBC host…
February 12th, 2011 12:42 PM | Noel Sheppard
Whether it's the departure of Keith Olbermann or the weakness of the new prime time lineup, the ratings at MSNBC are collapsing.
Take a look at how this so-called news network fared…
February 12th, 2011 11:21 AM | Brent Baker
President Barack Obama is “a pragmatic centrist,” Norah O’Donnell, NBC News reporter/MSNBC chief Washington correspondent, insisted Friday night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, though not…
February 11th, 2011 7:14 PM | Noel Sheppard
Chris Matthews on Friday said that Hosni Mubarak's exit from Egypt and the jubilation now happening in Tahrir Square took Barack Obama to have happen.
As soon as he said it on the 5 p.m…
February 11th, 2011 10:29 AM | Noel Sheppard
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey said Monday that MSNBC's Chris Matthews is slipping out of touch with reality.
After reading New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's idiotic…
February 11th, 2011 9:42 AM | Dan Gainor
Arianna Huffington's crazy left-wing, pro-Democrat website gets bought out by AOL for $315 million. Professional Angry Man Keith Olbermann follows up by joining Al Gore's deservedly unknown…
February 10th, 2011 8:34 PM | Dan Gainor
Arianna Huffington's crazy left-wing, pro-Democrat website gets bought out by AOL for $315 million. Professional Angry Man Keith Olbermann follows up by joining Al Gore's deservedly unknown…
February 10th, 2011 4:39 PM | Scott Whitlock
Chris Matthews on Thursday used the ongoing developments in Egypt as a way to bash conservatives, deriding the "tea-bag" types who don't fully grasp the situation. Matthews appeared on Andrea…
February 10th, 2011 3:43 PM | Alex Fitzsimmons
Civility was in short supply yesterday on "The Dylan Ratigan Show," as the MSNBC anchor after which the show is named used words and phrases such as "moronic" and "dog's ass" to demagogue the…