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November 17th, 2008 8:31 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Before a few weeks ago, I don't recall seeing Kathleen Parker much on TV. But tuning into Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show this afternoon, there she was. And when I got back from the gym and fired up…
November 15th, 2008 7:47 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Is MSNBC being rewarded for having backed Obama? That's what Jim Pinkerton suggests. On this evening's Fox News Watch, the columnist and New America Foundation fellow cited the news that GE…
BusinessWeek Pronounces Auto Industry 'Needs' Bailout, Says Republicans Tell Industry to 'Drop Dead'
November 15th, 2008 5:21 AM | Warner Todd Huston
Well, I guess that settles it. We don't need any political discussion or economist's studies. The auto industry officially needs a bailout. It's just a fact. After all, MSNBC and BusinessWeek have…
November 14th, 2008 10:31 PM | Mark Finkelstein
By definition, projection is revealing of what lurks in a person's heart and mind. Arianna Huffington projected tonight, and what she revealed wasn't pretty. So much so, that even her liberal…
November 14th, 2008 2:35 PM | CMI Staff
Presidential debates are crucial, especially for Americans who have not made up their minds about who could best lead the nation. Although reporters often focus on policy differences, many…
November 14th, 2008 1:12 PM | Jack Coleman
Most recent unintentionally hilarious moment on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC cable show -- her interview with Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie over the upcoming recount in the Senate race…
November 14th, 2008 10:11 AM | Noel Sheppard
A high-level adviser for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cali) was charged Wednesday with receiving and distributing child pornography.
UPDATE AT END OF POST: this is the second person with ties to…
November 14th, 2008 10:03 AM | Rusty Weiss
How is it that in this time of historic change and euphoria, the media can remain so pessimistic?
The messiah has been elected, ACORN and Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie are…
November 13th, 2008 11:03 AM | Noel Sheppard
MSNBC's David Shuster was duped Monday by someone erroneously claiming to be the McCain campaign adviser who leaked derogatory information to the press about Sarah Palin.
In his rush to…
November 12th, 2008 1:51 PM | Jeff Poor
It seems General Electric, the parent company of NBC Universal, has decided to make its “Green Week” a pre-holiday tradition. Another installment of the environmentally-conscious week of…
November 12th, 2008 12:00 AM | Jeff Poor
MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews got upset whenever people mentioned President-elect Barack Obama's connections to confessed domestic terrorist William Ayers. He was disturbed when a New…
November 11th, 2008 5:57 PM | Tim Graham
On Monday night’s edition of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, radical MSNBC/Air America talk show host Rachel Maddow rehashed the antiquated argument that since conservatives do not believe…
November 11th, 2008 11:11 AM | Ken Shepherd
In response to an accidental dropping of the F-bomb by "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough yesterday, MSNBC opted to put the program on a delay, reports TVNewser's Chris Ariens in a November 11…
November 10th, 2008 6:43 PM | Mark Finkelstein
What's gotten into the NBC/MSNBC water? Chris Matthews's verbal miscue on this evening's Hardball makes a triple-header of gaffes on the family of networks today. As we've noted, Joe Scarborough…
November 10th, 2008 5:20 PM | Jeff Poor
Economists generally frown upon raising taxes in times of an economic downturn. Historians point to President Herbert Hoover’s Revenue Act of 1932 as an example – “the largest – and most…
November 10th, 2008 1:01 PM | Jack Coleman
"Rachel Maddow is the smartest person on TV," proclaims The Advocate magazine in a cover story on the newly christened MSNBC pundit and Air America Radio host.That being the case, Maddow ought to…
November 10th, 2008 9:23 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Whoops. It's turning into quite the morning for gaffes on the NBC/MSNBC family of networks. As noted here, during the Today opening, Meredith Vieira stumbled onto the sensitive subject of Matt…
November 9th, 2008 11:13 PM | Brent Baker
File under: Don't believe your lying eyes and ears. Barely two weeks after a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey determined that “by a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most…
November 9th, 2008 9:31 PM | CMI Staff
Introduction
The mood was sour on Capitol Hill in June 2007. Powerful members of the Senate were humiliated when they were forced to withdraw a wildly unpopular immigration bill that…
November 9th, 2008 11:48 AM | NB Staff
It's week ten...do you know where your children are?
Joe Concha below the fold:
Pigskins and Politics: Week 10Joe Concha
What a horrific week for everyone at Pigskins and…
November 9th, 2008 11:04 AM | Noel Sheppard
In response to Chris Matthews' claim that his job is to make the Barack Obama presidency a success, the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus suggested the MSNBC host needs to…
November 8th, 2008 7:56 PM | Noel Sheppard
Is there anything a Republican can do that would please the folks at the New York Times short of losing an election, resigning from office, or getting caught in a career-ending scandal?
You…
November 8th, 2008 12:36 PM | Noel Sheppard
The post-election unity was on full display Friday evening when MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell told syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan that the Republican Party celebrates ignorance.…
November 7th, 2008 11:43 PM | Kerry Picket
Since U.S. troops have been in Iraq, the media instilled baseless fears around college campuses that President Bush would bring back the draft. The Washington Post reported in 2004 the…
November 7th, 2008 9:33 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Message to Scott McClellan: when your guy's gaffe merits a screaming headline at Drudge [see after the jump] about how he's had to apologize for what he said, he's messed up. Big time. But that…