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Year-End Awards: The Biggest Obamagasms of 2015

By Rich Noyes | December 28, 2015, 1:11 AM EST

Last week, the Media Research Center announced our “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” with MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry “winning” Quote of the Year for objecting to the phrase “hard worker,” as somehow a violation of the rules of political corr ...

While Hitting Trump, Rather Smears Barry Goldwater as ‘George Wallace’

By Scott Whitlock | December 10, 2015, 1:08 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, R ...

Scarborough: Megyn Kelly 'Vicious,' Attacked Trump 'Like Rachel Maddow'

By Mark Finkelstein | December 1, 2015, 11:51 AM EST

Here at NewsBusters, we usually reserve popcorn-popping for times when Democrats are scrapping among themselves. But in this strange political season, it looks like we could be in for some Orville Redenbacher moments among Republicans, too. On today' ...

Bozell & Graham Column: Comcast Keeps Faking Debates

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham | November 11, 2015, 8:01 AM EST

After the CNBC debate, Republicans were outraged at the vicious personal attacks not even  disguised as questions from the moderators. Defenders of CNBC suggested the Republicans were just whining. President Obama joked that if GOP candidates can’t handle ...

MRC Crashes MSNBC's Democratic Presidential Candidates' Forum

By NB Staff | November 6, 2015, 11:12 PM EST

One of the Media Research Center's famous "Don't Believe the Liberal Media" signs made a live appearance on MSNBC on Friday — minutes after Rachel Maddow completed a forum with the three remaining Democratic presidential candidates. Ch ...

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.  The MSNBC host ...

Frank Rich: ‘Fascistic’ GOP Debate Letter Appears ‘to Have Been Drafted by Stalin’

By Curtis Houck | November 3, 2015, 2:45 PM EST

Appearing on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, New York magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich denounced the letter written by numerous Republican presidential campaigns to media organizations concerning the format of future debates as “f ...

CNN Calls Out Clinton's Dismissal of VA Problems: 'Stunned a Lot of People'

By Brad Wilmouth | October 29, 2015, 12:58 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 ...

MSNBC's Maddow Treats Clinton to Gushy Softball Interview

By Melissa Mullins | October 26, 2015, 9:31 PM EDT

Fresh off her 11-hour testimony at the Benghazi hearing, Democratic presidential candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton sat down on Friday for her first one-on-one interview with none-other than the most leftist show possible – MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow S ...

Hillary's Cure for Inept VA Bureaucracy: Hire More Bureaucrats

By Jack Coleman | October 25, 2015, 9:56 PM EDT

During Rachel Maddow's live but actually not interview with Hillary Clinton on Friday night, Maddow asked Clinton if she had any "new ideas" on improving health care for veterans provided by the notoriously schlerotic Veterans Affairs depar ...

Rachel Maddow Swoons Over ‘Universally Well-Liked’ Biden

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 22, 2015, 1:18 PM EDT

Following Rachel Maddow’s over-the-top praise of Vice President Joe Biden after he decided against a 2016 White House bid Wednesday afternoon, the liberal MSNBC host used her prime time show that night to continue to cheer the “universally well-liked” Bid ...

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Cheers ‘Universally Beloved’ Joe Biden

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 21, 2015, 2:22 PM EDT

On Wednesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reacted to the news that Vice President Joe Biden had decided to not run for president by touting how “universally beloved Joe Biden is as an American political figure.”  Maddow began her re ...

Bizarro World: Rachel Maddow Claims NYT Has the ‘Knives Out for Hillary’

By Scott Whitlock | October 16, 2015, 3:38 PM EDT

According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, it’s shocking that the liberal New York Times would praise the liberal Hillary Clinton. While recapping the Democratic presidential debate, host Maddow seriously claimed, “... The New York Times has its knives out for H ...

Lawrence O'Donnell Wins 2015 Puppy Love Award; Judge Napolitano Takes Bite Out of Liberal Media In Acceptance

By NB Staff | October 9, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

He had stiff competition at Thursday night's MRC DisHonors Awards in Rachel Maddow and Charlie Rose, but MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell richly deserved his Puppy Love Award for gushing over President Obama as having written "the most hones ...

Maddow Bemoans ‘Demagoguery’ in Planned Parenthood Hearing; ‘It Went Very Badly’ for GOP

By Curtis Houck | September 30, 2015, 9:46 AM EDT

Not surprisingly, liberal MSNBC host Rachel Maddow led off the Tuesday edition of her eponymous show by opining on the House hearing featuring Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and lamenting how “the whole Republican Party is more unified to tr ...