During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's West Virginia Democratic primary, Chris Matthews three times compared Hillary Clinton to Al Sharpton because she recently cited her popularity with white…
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May 14th, 2008 6:17 AM | Brad Wilmouth
May 13th, 2008 6:18 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Toeing the "Green is Universal," corporate line, MSNBC's Chris Matthews seemed shocked that anyone would dare question whether climate change was real. During a discussion about John McCain's eco-…
May 13th, 2008 4:28 PM | Scott Whitlock
Guest hosting on Tuesday's "Morning Joe," MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews assigned dark motives to the voters of West Virginia and repeatedly reaffirmed that nobody should be surprised if Barack Obama…
May 13th, 2008 10:44 AM | Matthew Sheffield
Along with racist, the word fascist is one of the most common epithets you hear tossed around. Has the constant repetition of the word made it lose its meaning? Does anyone really know what it…
May 12th, 2008 8:16 PM | Richard Newcomb
Does the media treat hypocrites of differing political preferences similarly? The evidence would suggest not. When noted Christian televangelist Jim Bakker was found to have committed adultery and…
May 12th, 2008 12:13 PM | Ken Shepherd
Poor teaser headline selection by MSNBC.com? I report, you decide.
At right is a screencap of a teaser headline from the Web site about U.S. humanitarian aid reaching Myanmar Burma. As the…
May 11th, 2008 11:56 PM | Tom Blumer
During the 1992 presidential campaign, when incumbent Vice President Dan Quayle made a spelling mistake, the New York Times was all over it. It's clear from the Times's story that the rest of the…
May 11th, 2008 1:40 PM | Mike Bates
Today's Chicago Tribune carries a story centering on talk show pioneer Phil Donahue and the anti-war documentary he's peddling these days. The article is headlined:
"Phil Donahue, 'Body of War…May 10th, 2008 7:09 AM | Tim Graham
Reporter Fred Lucas of CNSNews.com (a project of the MRC) has found an interesting quote for Tim Russert or others at NBC and MSNBC to ask Barack Obama about in their next live interview. A "…
May 9th, 2008 8:32 PM | Noel Sheppard
It certainly has been a fun day for folks that believe beyond a shadow of a doubt the media have a decidedly leftward slant.
Not only did we learn that Hillary Clinton confidant Lanny Davis…
May 9th, 2008 4:15 PM | Paul Detrick
Gas prices got you down? Ride a horse, says MSNBC.
On a "MSNBC Live," report on "sky high gas prices" anchor Tamron Hall relayed the story of one man who is using a horse rather than a…
May 9th, 2008 2:48 PM | Jeff Poor
It's not unusual for journalists to attempt to distance themselves from the appearance of political ties, especially when trying not to be perceived as biased. But saying you do and…
May 9th, 2008 1:55 PM | Scott Whitlock
Four years before Barack Obama gave Chris Matthews a "thrill" up his leg, the senator produced a "chill" in the MSNBC host's leg. On July 27, 2004, during coverage of the 2004 Democratic…
May 9th, 2008 12:19 PM | Jeff Poor
Professional journalism ethics suggest reporters should avoid conflicts of interest and, well, be accurate. Maybe Mortimer Zuckerman didn’t get that memo. Zuckerman said he couldn’t make…
May 9th, 2008 9:39 AM | Noel Sheppard
Here's something you probably never thought in your wildest dreams you'd hear a Democrat say about MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews:
Do I think he is shamelessly biased and doesn’t care…
May 9th, 2008 9:35 AM | Tom Blumer
I noted a few weeks ago (at BizzyBlog; at NewsBusters) that Mike Celizic at MSNBC couldn't get though his article about Jenna Bush's upcoming wedding without bringing up her misdemeanor arrests…
May 9th, 2008 8:24 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Is it the province of a "correspondent" of an ostensibly objective network to proclaim the tactics of a presidential candidate "inappropriate"? Apparently so, when the network is MSNBC and the…
May 8th, 2008 8:28 PM | Brent Baker
Brian Williams, who slobbered over Barack Obama in their last interview in early January, did so again in a Thursday session conducted at Washington, DC's Newseum and excerpted on the NBC Nightly…
May 8th, 2008 7:59 AM | Mark Finkelstein
"Thrill up my leg"? Forget about it. Chris Matthews's famous description of the excitement he gets from Barack is nothing compared to the tumescent terms in which MSNBC senior campaign…
May 7th, 2008 11:21 PM | Warner Todd Huston
There is a news report starting to make the rounds amongst the MSM on a study that claims to have discovered why conservatives tend to be happier than liberals and it is just the sort of bilge…
May 7th, 2008 11:18 PM | Tim Graham
Wednesday’s broadcast network morning shows sounded eager to drum Hillary Clinton out of the Democratic presidential race and turn all critical eyes on John McCain. NBC was most emphatic. Today…
May 7th, 2008 9:14 PM | Terry Trippany
As reported earlier by Noel Sheppard, the drive-by media that previously downplayed Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos has changed it's tune now that Barack Obama's campaign is blaming the Limbaugh…
May 7th, 2008 1:16 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Hillary's odds of overtaking Obama among elected delegates are not much better than those of the milk-wagon nag's winning the Preakness. But is it "mathematically impossible" for Clinton to win the…
May 7th, 2008 10:07 AM | Noel Sheppard
Are "Totally in the Tank for Obama" media members focusing on Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" in order to force Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton out of the race?
Consider if…
May 7th, 2008 5:59 AM | Brad Wilmouth
During Tuesday's coverage of the Democratic primaries in Indiana and North Carolina on MSNBC, co-anchor Keith Olbermann dismissed the importance of the finding that approximately half of primary…