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NBC Developing 'Dramedy' Based on Wendy Davis

By P.J. Gladnick | October 9, 2015, 12:23 PM EDT

What happens if you are a candidate for governor and you lose badly? Not just a mere bad loss but one of historically bad proportions following an absolutely horrible campaign marked by the cowardice of shying from previously well known positions. Well, i ...

To Bash Kevin McCarthy on Benghazi, MSNBC’s Hayes Turns to...Wendy Davis??

By Curtis Houck | October 1, 2015, 12:19 AM EDT

During his segment on the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s All In attacking Speaker of the House candidate Kevin McCarthy for his comments about Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi Committee, host Chris Hayes made quite the choice of liberal pundits in none othe ...

MSNBC.com's Promoting Wendy Davis's Latest Project

By Ken Shepherd | June 12, 2015, 6:01 PM EDT

Back in 2013 and 2014, MSNBC did their darndest to promote and, well, elect Wendy Davis. That didn't go over well, but the abortion-rights enthusiast has set about on a new project. So naturally MSNBC.com's own Irin Carmon-- a former "Champ ...

Chris Hayes, Wendy Davis Tag Team to Hit Jeb Bush on Parenting, Lindsey Graham on Abortion

By Curtis Houck | June 11, 2015, 11:17 PM EDT

On Thursday night’s edition of MSNBC’s All In, host Chris Hayes turned to none other than former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate and abortion activist Wendy Davis to trash Jeb Bush over his views concerning the need for two-parent households and ...

NYT's Ross Douthat: Wendy Davis Shows Media's Liberal Bias Can Hurt Democrats

By Tim Graham | November 7, 2014, 2:22 PM EST

Using a spin no one in the liberal chattering class would imagine, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat compared Wendy Davis to Delaware’s Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell. Both were ideologically mismatched with the states they were running in, but O’ ...

LOL: Lizz Winstead Blames Wendy Davis Defeat on... 'Redistricting'

By Mark Finkelstein | October 31, 2014, 3:54 PM EDT

Comedy gold! As the co-founder of the Daily Show, Lizz Winstead might be a funny lady. But what she came up with today was surely an unintentional laugh line. Appearing on Joy Reid's MSNBC show this afternoon, Winstead blamed Wendy Davis' impend ...

Eight Democratic Candidates That Are Embarrassing Their Party and What the Networks Aren't Telling You About Them

By Geoffrey Dickens | October 29, 2014, 2:47 PM EDT

Despite a plethora of Democratic candidates this year who have embarrassed their party – from  Wendy Davis attacking her opponent’s disability to Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Grimes refusing to say if she voted for the President to Nikki Ha ...

Networks Fail to Cover Gaffes from Democrats Wendy Davis and Mark Udall

By Curtis Houck | October 21, 2014, 9:24 AM EDT

With the midterm elections two weeks away from Tuesday, the major broadcast networks on Monday night ignored gaffes from Democratic Senator Mark Udall of Colorado and Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis as both seek to make up deficits ag ...

Wendy Davis Plays the Race Card and It Blows Up in Her Face, Will Nets Report?

By Geoffrey Dickens | October 20, 2014, 5:19 PM EDT

Wendy Davis keeps failing. The one-time media darling keeps whiffing in her attacks against her Republican opponent in the Texas gubernatorial race. On Monday she implied Texas Republican Attorney General Gregory Abbott was against interracial marriage- e ...

Charles Pierce: Wendy Davis Wheelchair Ad Shows ‘The Basic Principles of Modern Conservatism’ Are a ‘Lie’

By Tom Johnson | October 15, 2014, 11:12 PM EDT

Which major political party is based on getting free stuff from government? According to Esquire blogger Charles Pierce, it’s the Republicans. In a Tuesday post, Pierce argued that even though today’s movement-conservative-driven GOP claims to want a much ...

Networks Largely Ignore Lefty Wendy Davis's 'Wheelchair Ad' Attacking Republican Greg Abbott

By Curtis Houck | October 15, 2014, 5:38 PM EDT

On Friday afternoon, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis and her campaign released a new ad that took aim at her Republican opponent Greg Abbott as a “hypocrite” for supposedly not caring about the disabled after becoming a paraplegic in ...

All? Michelle O Ad for Wendy Davis: 'She Wants to Give All Our Kids a Chance To Build a Better Life'

By Mark Finkelstein | October 13, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT

"All our kids"—well, except for the ones who won't have a chance to build a life at all, thanks to Wendy Davis' ardent support of abortion... As a loyal member of the Wendy Davis email list, I just received today's fundraising mes ...

Austin Columnist: Wendy Davis's Despicable Anti-Abbott Ad May Be 'Daring Inspiration'

By Tom Blumer | October 12, 2014, 2:27 PM EDT

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis's "wheelchair" ad, her latest and most despicable attempt to smear her Republican opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, got favorable reviews in a Friday evening column by Jonathan Tilo ...

Even MSNBC Won’t Support Controversial Wendy Davis Wheelchair Ad

By Jeffrey Meyer | October 12, 2014, 10:57 AM EDT

Last week, Wendy Davis, the Democratic Party candidate for governor of Texas, aired a controversial ad attacking her opponent, Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott, depicting him as an empty wheelchair who had turned his back on disabled people in Texa ...

AP Dishonestly Headlines Report on Wendy Davis's Despicable Anti-Abbott Ad

By Tom Blumer | October 10, 2014, 11:42 PM EDT

Another day, another dishonest Associated Press headline. No one realistically expects the AP, aka the Administration's Press, to go after Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis for her vicious ad attacking her opponent, Greg Abbott. Th ...