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CNN and MSNBC Rush to Excuse Cruz Girls Cartoon; ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Weird’ for Cruz to Fundraise Off It

By Curtis Houck | December 24, 2015, 12:40 AM EST

After the Wednesday editions of CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today attempted to excuse the disgusting Washington Post cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as moneys, various hosts and guests throughout the day on CNN and MSNBC followed suit by chiding the ...

NBC's Mitchell Claims 'A Lot of Discrimination' Vs. Muslims, GOP Says 'Really Troubling' Things

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 10:02 PM EST

Nearing the end of her MSNBC program Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell claimed that "there is a lot of discrimination" against Muslims as she was introducing President Barack Obama' ...

Daily Beast's Dickey: 'Shameful' for US to Bar Refugees, Will 'Earn' 'Hatred' of the World

By Brad Wilmouth | November 17, 2015, 1:44 AM EST

Daily Beast Foreign Editor Christopher Dickey made another MSNBC appearance on Monday afternoon, this time on MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts, where he again went after the "right wing" over negative reaction to taking in Muslim refugees in the a ...

Ayman Mohyeldin Excuses Palestinian Violence: They Want a Peaceful Life

By Michael McKinney | November 4, 2015, 8:53 PM EST

On Wednesday’s   MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts, reporter Ayman Mohyeldin presented a video of his interviews with two college kids from Jerusalem, one an Israeli, the other a Palestinian. After playing excerpts, Roberts and Mohyeldin discussed the video, ...

MSNBC Helps Planned Parenthood Spin End of 'Reimbursement' for Baby Parts

By Michael McKinney | October 13, 2015, 5:04 PM EDT

On Tuesday's  Live with Thomas Roberts, the MSNBC host relayed the recent decision by Planned Parenthood to no longer seek "reimbursement" for tissue from aborted fetuses. Roberts noted that the criticism against Planned Parenthood’s operat ...

MSNBC Got a Big Surprise While Pushing the Abortion Agenda

By Scott Whitlock | September 30, 2015, 9:14 AM EDT

MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts got a big surprise on Tuesday when he tried to use the mother of a stillborn child to attack a pro-life organization’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood. Roberts talked to Lexi Oliver Fretz about her deceased son Walter. An i ...

MSNBC's Roberts Spotlights Dissident Catholics; Likens Church to Abusive Spouse

By Matthew Balan | September 22, 2015, 7:43 PM EDT

Thomas Roberts set aside four full segments on his MSNBC Live program on Monday and Tuesday to a panel of six Catholics who dissent from the Church's teachings on sexuality and abortion. Roberts hyped his guests as " Catholics like me who have b ...

MSNBC's Roberts Presses Howard Dean On Clinton Email Scandal

By Melissa Mullins | September 8, 2015, 9:07 PM EDT

It got  rather heated  yesterday when MSNBC host Thomas Roberts interviewed former Gov. Howard Dean (D-Vermont) over whether or not Hilary Clinton’s email controversy is a made-up media obsession or a legitimate point of concern for the Democratic preside ...

NBC and ABC Yawn as Obama Bypasses Congress on Mountain

By Scott Whitlock | September 1, 2015, 9:11 AM EDT

Barack Obama bypassed Congress yet again, Sunday, but NBC and ABC barely noticed or offered much of an objection. The President unilaterally changed the name of Alaska's Mount McKinley to Mount Denali. Republicans swiftly objected, including Speaker ...

Not a Joke: MSNBC Has 'Breaking News' on Donald Trump's Hair

By Scott Whitlock | August 29, 2015, 10:15 AM EDT

The journalists at MSNBC may have too much time on their hands. On Thursday, the network played a graphic of a Donald Trump speech with the "breaking news" about his hair. MSNBC blasted, "Breaking News: Trump Has Woman Pull Hair to Prove It ...

Activist On MSNBC Compares EPA Disaster To Defusing 'A Bomb In A Crowded Market', Blames Local Mines

By Spencer Raley | August 14, 2015, 12:08 AM EDT

While filling in for Thomas Roberts on  MSNBC Live, Frances Rivera brought on Dan Olson from the San Juan Citizens Alliance to defend the EPA and cast all the blame on local mines in the region. The Environmental Protection Agency broke a dam holding back ...

MSNBC Tries to Blame ‘Locals,’ Not EPA, for River Pollution

By Kyle Drennen | August 10, 2015, 4:59 PM EDT

On MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts Monday afternoon, environmental reporter Tony Dokoupil described the Environmental Protection Agency causing three million gallons of toxic waste to spill into a Colorado river as “good intentions leading to a bad outcome ...

Shock: MSNBC's Roberts Hounds Hillary Flack on Abortion Videos

By Matthew Balan | August 5, 2015, 6:55 PM EDT

MSNBC's Thomas Roberts surprisingly pursued Hillary Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney on his Wednesday program over the ongoing controversy surrounding the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of the organs of aborted ...

MSNBC’s Jansing, Roberts, Todd Lament Lack of Gun Control Win By President Obama

By Curtis Houck | July 27, 2015, 1:29 AM EDT

At two separate points on the Friday morning edition of MSNBC’s The Rundown, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd, NBC News senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing and fill-in host Thomas Roberts joined fellow cable channel CNN in bemoaning the lack ...

MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell: Neocons ‘Wrong About Every Single Thing’ This Century

By Connor Williams | July 16, 2015, 9:10 AM EDT

On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell slammed neoconservatives who voiced their opposition to President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Appearing on MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts, O'Donnell lashed out at opponents of the deal: “Well, ...