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MSNBC: Trump’s Muslim Policy a ‘Logical Extension’ of Rest of GOP Field

By Scott Whitlock | December 9, 2015, 9:13 AM EST

Despite the fact that numerous Republican presidential candidates have condemned Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the country, an MSNBC political analyst tried to connect it to all members of the GOP. Actor and liberal radio host Sam S ...

Chris Hayes & Co. Baffled By San Bernardino Motive

By Mark Finkelstein | December 3, 2015, 10:31 PM EST

Rudy Giuliani has said that if you can't figure out that what happened in San Bernardino was an act of terror, "you're a moron." But from Chris Hayes, to the FBI, to a representative of the Muslim community, to a Mother Jones reporter, ...

MSNBC Gives Free Rein to Lefty Blogger Railing Against ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ GOPers, NRA

By Curtis Houck | December 3, 2015, 12:42 PM EST

In addition to his hours-long Twitter tirade on Wednesday attacking God-fearing people for offering their “thoughts and prayers” in reaction to the San Bernardino, Think Progress contributing editor Igor Volsky capped off his day on the 11:00 p.m. Eastern ...

Howard Dean: GOP ‘Is an Authoritarian Party’; Has Had ‘Strong Authoritarian Bent’ ‘for a Very Long Time’

By Curtis Houck | November 27, 2015, 7:24 PM EST

Joining host Chris Hayes on Wednesday’s pre-Thanksgiving edition of MSNBC’s All In, MSNBC political analyst and former Democratic Vermont Governor Howard Dean tried to trash the Republican Party as nothing but “an authoritarian party” “for a very long tim ...

MSNBC's Joy Reid: NRA Cares About Nothing But 'Maximizing Gun Sales'

By Tim Graham | November 25, 2015, 12:57 PM EST

From the Things Hacks Say department: on Monday night's All In, in a discussion of the rock-concert shootings in the Paris terrorist attacks, MSNBC’s Joy Reid claimed that the National Rifle Association doesn’t care at all about the loss of life in s ...

'Victim' of 'Islamophobia' Three Years Ago Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell

By Tom Blumer | November 24, 2015, 9:50 PM EST

There are plenty of problems with the government's "no-fly list," and especially the plans by some congressmen and senators to abuse it. That said, it appears, almost three years later, to have gotten one name right. In late 2012 and early ...

Salon Writer: Those Raising Free Speech Concerns in Student Protests Want to Assert ‘White Privilege’

By Curtis Houck | November 13, 2015, 12:49 PM EST

Speaking on MSNBC’s All In Thursday night about the ongoing protests on college campuses over race, Salon writer and Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper asserted that the real focus of the discussion should about how black students supposedly fee ...

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Denies Existence of Liberal Media Bias

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 12, 2015, 10:57 AM EST

Appearing on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Wednesday night, MSNBC host Chris Hayes rejected the idea that the “mainstream media” is biased against conservatives.  While Hayes acknowledged he was part of the “mainstream media” he argued ...

On MSNBC, Grayson Compares Ted Cruz to Miley Cyrus; ‘Twerking Every Right-Winger in Sight’

By Curtis Houck | November 10, 2015, 1:44 AM EST

Speaking with host Chris Hayes on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s All In, Democratic Congressman and 2016 Senate candidate Alan Grayson (Fl.) made a crude joke in comparing Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to Miley Cyrus as he’s “twerking every ri ...

Quentin 'Murdering Cops' Tarantino Whines About His First Amendment Rights

By Mark Finkelstein | November 5, 2015, 5:42 AM EST

Would somebody please  explain the First Amendment to  Quentin Tarantino? The film director apparently thinks that freedom of speech is a one-way street: he gets to call cops "murderers," but they don't get to defend themselves. Appearing o ...

Hardball's Matthews Ignores Bad News for Dems in 2015 Elections; Chris Hayes Looks at 'Political Chaos'

By Ken Shepherd | November 4, 2015, 8:41 PM EST

"Under President Obama, Democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. That's some legacy," tweeted Purple Strategies managing director Rory Cooper, a former congressional staffer for Eric C ...

NYT Writer to MSNBC Host: Conservatives Exist in Echo Chamber

By Scott Whitlock | November 4, 2015, 8:49 AM EST

A liberal New York Times writer told a liberal MSNBC host that the problem with conservatives is they exist in their own ideological echo chamber. Without a sense of irony, All In host Chris Hayes on Monday night wondered, “What do you make of this sort o ...

Charles Pierce Grumbles GOPers Are ‘Unruly, Nasty’ Kids; Debate Should Be ‘in a Sandbox’

By Curtis Houck | October 30, 2015, 11:36 AM EDT

Making his now semi-frequent appearance on a primetime MSNBC show, lefty blogger Charles Pierce was on Thursday’s All In to trash the 2016 Republican presidential candidates as merely “a bunch of unruly, nasty children” during Wednesday’s CNBC debate and ...

Chris Hayes Slips Up, Lists Abortion Among 'Touchstones of Human Evil'

By Matthew Balan | October 27, 2015, 4:12 PM EDT

Chris Hayes made an inadvertent admission about the morality of abortion on his All In program on MSNBC on Monday. Hayes contended that in the case of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, "It's very hard to get through an interview in w ...

MSNBC's Hayes Frets 'Pain' of Free Voter IDs, 'Disenfranchised' in Alabama

By Brad Wilmouth | October 19, 2015, 12:32 AM EDT

On Tuesday's All In, MSNBC host Chris Hayes devoted a segment to the recent announcement that Alabama will be closing a significant number of the state's DMVs-- some in majority black counties-- as he fretted that Alabama may be making it more d ...