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Matthews: Trump 'Playing to Racists,' Obama 'Not One of Us, He's Black' View

By Brad Wilmouth | December 21, 2015, 9:23 AM EST

Appearing as a guest before MSNBC's live coverage of President Barack Obama's Friday press conference, during a discussion of Donald Trump's history of promoting birtherism against the President, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews recalled ...

Brian Williams Asks About How Paris Attacks Will Affect Climate Summit Messaging

By P.J. Gladnick | November 14, 2015, 11:39 AM EST

Right in the middle of the reports of the Paris attacks yesterday comes a really bizarre and tone deaf note of concern from Brian Williams of MSNBC. Brian was concerned about how the attacks will affect the messaging of the Paris Climate Change Conference ...

Even MSNBC Hosts Not Impressed With Their Own ‘Breaking News’ on Keystone Pipeline

By Kyle Drennen | November 6, 2015, 2:52 PM EST

In a humorous exchange during MSNBC’s 12 p.m. ET hour coverage of President Obama rejecting the Keystone Pipeline, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and breaking news anchor Brian Williams mocked the idea that the long-expected decision was in any way a ...

Liberal Media Stood Against Sitting For Years; New Research Suggests Sitting Isn’t Deadly

By Michael Greibrok | November 3, 2015, 12:14 PM EST

The media love a good scare and a sensational headline, but new research indicates the fear they spread about the dangers of sitting too much may be overblown. In recent years, media outlets compared sitting to health risks like smoking, and even warned “ ...

Ted Koppel: Brian Williams’s ‘Tales’ Are Fine ‘Sitting at a Bar’

By Scott Whitlock | October 27, 2015, 3:51 PM EDT

Former Nightline anchor Ted Koppel attempted to explain away disgraced journalist Brian Williams’s lies as “tales” that would be acceptable at a bar. In an interview for the November 2 Time magazine, Koppel spun, “There is a difference unfortunately betwe ...

Watch Larry Wilmore Mock 'Fake News' Host Brian Williams for Leaving Before Mets Won NLCS

By Curtis Houck | October 24, 2015, 4:51 PM EDT

At the top of his Comedy Central program The Nightly Show on Thursday, host Larry Wilmore brought up the New York Mets advancing to the World Series and had some fun with the news at the expense of his viewers, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, and disg ...

‘08 McCain Adviser on MSNBC: McCarthy News Shows GOP 'Hunts Heretics,’ Not ‘Converts’

By Curtis Houck | October 8, 2015, 3:12 PM EDT

To the surprise of no one, MSNBC ran to find the nearest token Republicans it could after shocking news that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) dropped out of Speaker of the House race and once such person was MSNBC political analyst and form ...

Just Like Newtown, Aurora, Columbine Before, Media Exploit OR Shooting

By Geoffrey Dickens | October 7, 2015, 12:36 PM EDT

Like prior high profile mass shootings (Aurora, Newtown, Columbine) the liberal media wasted no time in exploiting the latest tragedy in Oregon to call for more gun control. On Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley hyped that “each mass shooting ...

Oregon Attorney General to Brian Williams: Gun Laws 'Not Relevant' in Mass Shooting

By Matthew Balan | October 2, 2015, 9:04 AM EDT

On Thursday, Brian Williams predictably raised the gun control issue as he anchored MSNBC's breaking news coverage of a mass shooting in Oregon. Williams asked Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, " Can I ask you about your gun laws – concea ...

MSNBC Panelists Fret Obama Syria Policy That Is 'Failure,' 'Disaster'

By Brad Wilmouth | September 29, 2015, 9:30 AM EDT

During MSNBC's live coverage before President Obama's speech to the United Nations on Monday, a panel consisting of NBC's Chuck Todd and guest Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group fretted over the "disaster" of President Obama's Syri ...

Tactless Williams, Matthews Knock Catholic Dogma During Papal Mass

By Matthew Balan | September 28, 2015, 5:11 PM EDT

Brian Williams and Chris Matthews couldn't resist the opportunity to harp on the lack of married and women priests in the Catholic Church, as MSNBC provided live coverage of Pope Francis's open-air Mass in Philadelphia on Sunday. Williams pointe ...

Chris Matthews Cheers Obama's UN Speech: He’s Going to Be a 'Post-Presidential Mandela'

By Jeffrey Meyer | September 28, 2015, 1:20 PM EDT

On Monday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews swooned over President Obama’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly and called it evidence that he was a “presidential figure who's become a global leader.”  The MSNBC host proclaimed that Obama’s speech sho ...

MSNBC’s Maddow Fawns Over ‘Refreshing and Lovable’ Speaker Boehner

By Curtis Houck | September 28, 2015, 1:54 AM EDT

During MSNBC’s live coverage Friday morning of Pope Francis in New York City and the sudden announcement that House Speaker John Boehner will resign October 30, liberal personality Rachel Maddow couldn’t help but speak in admiration for Boehner, describin ...

Brian Williams on Boehner Resignation: He Had to ‘Put Up’ With Tea Party

By Scott Whitlock | October 9, 2015, 2:30 PM EDT

Brian Williams, now demoted to breaking news anchor for MSNBC, on Friday lamented that John Boehner had to “put up” with the Tea Party as Speaker of the House. His colleague Chris Matthews cheered, “Everybody likes John Boehner. I can tell you the media l ...

Matthews Slams ‘Coldness’ of Pope Benedict XVI; Williams Gushes over Matthews’s ‘Patriotism’

By Curtis Houck | September 24, 2015, 9:25 AM EDT

Joining Brian Williams for his second day back anchoring MSNBC’s coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States on Wednesday afternoon, Catholic and Hardball host Chris Matthews blasted Francis’s predecessor Pope Benedict XVI for being “so fragile ...