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NBC, ABC Gush Over First Lady Rapping; Ignore Obama ISIS Strategy

By Kyle Drennen | December 10, 2015, 3:05 PM EST

While both NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America found the time on Thursday to devote minute-long segments to First Lady Michelle Obama rapping about kids going to college, neither morning show bothered to mention President Obama’s strategy or lack t ...

Chuck Todd Shudders at Coming ‘Islamophobia’ – ‘It’s Going to Get Ugly’

By Michael McKinney | December 3, 2015, 4:11 PM EST

MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall had Chuck Todd on for two segments related to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino on Wednesday. When confronted with the idea that this could be terrorism, as many labeled the Colorado Springs shooting, Todd hesitantly said, ...

Spike Lee on NBC: Easier for African-American to be POTUS Than Head of a TV Network

By Kyle Drennen | December 1, 2015, 3:13 PM EST

While promoting his new movie, Chi-raq, about gun violence in Chicago, during the 9 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday’s NBC Today, director Spike Lee claimed: “...it's easier for an African-American, a black person, to be President of the United States than to ...

MSNBC Feminists Roll Out Plush Carpet for Planned Parenthood

By Michael McKinney | November 30, 2015, 4:31 PM EST

Planned Parenthood executives appeared twice on MSNBC on Monday with female interviewers who acted more like facilitators than journalists. Planned Parenthood boss Cecile Richards appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports. Mitchell noted that Republican respons ...

NBC: GOP ‘Defying’ Obama With ‘Fearmongering and Heated Rhetoric’

By Kyle Drennen | November 20, 2015, 1:00 PM EST

On Friday, NBC’s Today lambasted Republicans for daring to oppose President Obama on the process of accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. Co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Defying the President, the House on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to impose s ...

MSNBC Frets 'Tsunami of Hatred' Will Meet French Muslims, Right Wing Will 'Take Advantage'

By Brad Wilmouth | November 15, 2015, 8:41 PM EST

During Saturday morning's live MSNBC coverage of the Paris terror attacks, Daily Beast Foreign Editor Christopher Dickey worried that "the right wing politicians" in France "are going to do their best to take advantage of it and probab ...

Tamron Hall: Dr. Carson Would Advocate Children Charge the Shooter

By Michael McKinney | October 9, 2015, 3:42 PM EDT

Friday on MBSNC’s NewsNation, Tamron Hall addressed Ben Carson’s statements on gun control and how he would have dealt with the gunman at Umpqua. Towards Joan she remarked, “Joan, you have this following, of course, the comments in Oregon, saying that, yo ...

'We're Done'-- Outraged Tamron Hall Slams GOPer for Reminding of 2000 Hillary Furniture Scandal

By Tim Graham | October 5, 2015, 2:45 PM EDT

MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall displayed her disgust at GOP strategist Matt Schlapp on her show Monday when she pounded away at Carly Fiorina over a hard-charging Washington Pos t story today hitting Carly Fiorina for failing to pay bills from her “quixotic” 20 ...

Networks Tout Cecile Richards ‘Staunchly Defending’ Planned Parenthood

By Scott Whitlock | September 29, 2015, 12:20 PM EDT

All three networks on Tuesday hyped Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards appearing before Congress, insisting the pro-abortion leader will “staunchly defend” her organization in the wake of the sting videos. During the news briefs, ABC and CBS didn’t show ...

NBC Promotes Bill ‘On the Attack’ Defending Hillary Over E-Mail Scandal

By Jeffrey Meyer | September 29, 2015, 10:28 AM EDT

Amidst the ongoing controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server, on Tuesday NBC’s Today rushed to promote former President Bill Clinton’s efforts to defend his wife from criticism.  News reader Tamron Hall introduced the segmen ...

MSNBC Slams Fiorina’s ‘Serious Misstatements’ on Planned Parenthood

By Kyle Drennen | September 17, 2015, 3:04 PM EDT

Eager to provide supposed “fact-checking” of the Republican presidential debate, on Thursday, MSNBC NewsNation host Tamron Hall declared: “But to Carly Fiorina's moment regarding Planned Parenthood. While that comment was applauded by conservatives, ...

NBC Hosts Pan GOP Debate: Like ‘Real Housewives,’ Not Presidential, ‘A Little High School’

By Kyle Drennen | September 17, 2015, 11:27 AM EDT

At the top of the 9 a.m. ET hour on NBC’s Today, co-host Tamron Hall slammed the Republican presidential debate as being like a bad reality show: “...a friend of mine said it was like The Real Housewives with Andy Cohen, because they were just pitted agai ...

MSNBC: Katrina a ‘Stain’ on Bush Presidency ‘He Could Never Recover From’

By Kyle Drennen | August 28, 2015, 3:08 PM EDT

MSNBC hosts on Friday jumped at the chance to bash former President George W. Bush over his handling of Hurricane Katrina on the 10th anniversary of the storm that ravaged the gulf coast. On NewsNation, host Tamron Hall proclaimed: “Many have said, includ ...

On MSNBC, Dad of Hero Slams 'Terrorist Coward' and the 'PC Crowd'

By Scott Whitlock | August 24, 2015, 11:46 AM EDT

The dad of an American hero who foiled a terrorist attack on a French train took to MSNBC to slam the "terrorist coward" as well as the "PC crowd" who won't stand up against evil. Talking to Tamron Hall, Monday, Emanuel Skarlatos, ...

‘Rubi-ow’: Nets Pounce on Boy Missing Football Pass from Rubio

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 20, 2015, 9:31 AM EDT

On Wednesday morning, the “Big Three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) networks eagerly pounced on video of Florida Senator Marco Rubio mistakenly hitting a boy with a football while throwing him a pass, giving the video a combined 2 minutes 43 seconds of coverage fro ...