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Rachel Maddow Show Producer Agrees With Obama That GOP Is Globally Unique, and Not In a Good Way
By Tom Johnson | December 27, 2015 | 1:32 AM EST

President Obama considers the Republican party an international outlier, and so does MSNBC's Steve Benen. (That’s “outlier,” not “outlaw,” though, who knows, for them that may be a distinction without a difference.)

After quoting Obama’s recent comment that the GOP is “the only major party that I can think of in the advanced world that effectively denies climate change,” Benen, who’s also the primary blogger for the Maddow show's website, wrote in a Monday post that “hearing Obama talk about this got me thinking about other ways in which the contemporary GOP is an international ‘outlier.’”

MSNBC Reporter Trumpets 'Fact' That Illegals Should Be Granted Citizenship
By Jack Coleman | December 22, 2015 | 8:14 PM EST

Whenever a liberal includes "fact" at the start of a sentence, rest assured that whatever follows is usually more accurately described as opinion -- and dubious opinion at that.

This amusing phenomenon could be seen last night on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show during a segment about South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham dropping out of the GOP presidential race.
 

Maddow Producer: On Foreign Policy, GOP Has Gone From Dominant to ‘Cringe-Worthy...Pathetic’
By Tom Johnson | December 21, 2015 | 8:48 PM EST

Though Steve Benen, who's also the primary blogger for the MSNBC program's website, is a true-blue liberal, he thinks highly of the foreign-policy chops of some recent Republicans. In a Thursday post, Benen wrote that GOPers such as Richard Lugar and Brent Scowcroft were “learned” and “approached international affairs with [a] degree of maturity.”

That was then; this is now. Benen touched on, among other things, Ted Cruz’s pledge to “carpet bomb” ISIS and Marco Rubio’s remark that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was “not a mistake” to build a case that today’s Republican party “approaches foreign policy…with all the maturity of a Saturday-morning cartoon…The national GOP candidates are speaking to (and for) a party that has no patience for substantive details, historical lessons, nuance, or diplomacy.”

Year-End Awards: The Biggest Obamagasms of 2015
By Rich Noyes | December 21, 2015 | 9:11 AM EST

Last week, the Media Research Center announced our “Best Notable Quotables of 2015.” Over the next few days, we’ll present the most outrageous of this year’s Notable Quotables as a way to review the worst media bias of 2015. Today, the winner and top runners-up of our “Obamagasm Award,” for journalists who get thrills and tingles when they think about Barack Obama.

While Hitting Trump, Rather Smears Barry Goldwater as ‘George Wallace’
By Scott Whitlock | December 10, 2015 | 12:43 PM EST

Disgraced ex-CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather appeared on Wednesday’s Rachel Maddow Show to attack Donald Trump. In the process, the journalist smeared conservative icon Barry Goldwater. Asked about Trump’s policy of banning all Muslims from America, Rather excoriated, “[Trump’s] related to the candidacy of the late George Wallace. Barry Goldwater, if you will. Huey Long. He’s in that line.”

NBC's Richard Engel Doubts Paris Attacks Will Bring U.S., Others Together to Stop ISIS
By Curtis Houck | November 18, 2015 | 7:17 AM EST

In a welcome change of pace for MSNBC programming on Tuesday night, liberal primetime host Rachel Maddow was given the night off in favor of NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, who anchored the network’s 9:00 p.m. Eastern coverage of the Paris Islamic terror attacks and closed with a brief but astute commentary on how it’s doubtful that Paris will change the global ISIS strategy.

Lefty Bloggers on the GOP Debate: ‘A Two-Hour Slog Through a Septic Tank Overflowing With Bulls**t’
By Tom Johnson | November 11, 2015 | 5:29 PM EST

Robin Williams’s first album was called Reality…What a Concept. More than one lefty blogger implied that Unreality…What a Concept would have been a fitting title for Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate.

Rachel Maddow Dismisses Criticism of CNBC’s Republican Debate
By Jeffrey Meyer | November 5, 2015 | 2:52 PM EST

During an interview with the Charlotte Observer to preview MSNBC’s Democratic presidential forum on Friday night, host Rachel Maddow strongly downplayed criticism leveled against CNBC for its handling of the Republican presidential debate. 

'Keystone Is Dead,' Rachel Maddow Proclaims - of Project Suspended, Not Ended
By Jack Coleman | November 3, 2015 | 6:14 PM EST

There she goes again, demonstrating that self-proclaimed but seldom-observed "devotion" to facts that "borders on obsessive."

If a Republican president is elected next November, one of his or her first actions as president would likely be approval of the remaining leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. The second part of that equation is less of a stretch, seeing how all the GOP candidates support completion of the project.

Frank Rich: ‘Fascistic’ GOP Debate Letter Appears ‘to Have Been Drafted by Stalin’
By Curtis Houck | November 3, 2015 | 12:57 AM EST

Appearing on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, New York magzine writer-at-large Frank Rich denounced the letter written by numerous Republican presidential campaigns to media organizations concerning the format of future debates as “fascistic” and written by “scared little children” but “seem[s] to have been drafted by Stalin.”

Gasp! Rachel Maddow Actually Admits Money Can't Buy Elections
By Jack Coleman | November 1, 2015 | 5:07 PM EST

At long last, irrefutable proof -- not only can pigs fly, that they did on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show when its namesake host opined about Jeb Bush's flailing campaign this past Thursday.

In the process, Maddow refuted one of the central tenets of contemporary liberalism, a belief so dear to its adherents that they want to amend the Constitution to legitimize their delusion.

CNN Calls Out Clinton's Dismissal of VA Problems: 'Stunned a Lot of People'
By Brad Wilmouth | October 29, 2015 | 12:54 AM EDT

On Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, host Anderson Cooper and Senior Investigative Correspondent Drew Griffin called out Hillary Clinton for claiming that the VA's backlog problems have "not been as widespread as it has been made out to be," as Griffin asserted that her words "stunned a lot of people," and that veterans he spoke to, on both sides of the political divide, "None of them, I should say, Anderson, are happy that she's tried to make this a political issue."