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Chris Matthews, Michele Bachmann Exchange Notes On Photographic Media Bias

By Ken Shepherd | November 10, 2015, 8:55 PM EST

At the end of an interview segment tonight on Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews and former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) traded stories about their brushes with journalists who used goofy-looking photos of them as cover art to ador ...

NY Times Lines Up Smear of Bachmann: Compared to Thuggish Russian Pol Zhirinovsky

By Tim Graham | February 19, 2015, 1:39 PM EST

The New York Times Magazine for Sunday carries an article by acclaimed novelist (and Columbia University professor) Gary Shteyngart. The Russian-born writer was hired by the Times for a media-watching stunt: “For the next week, I will subsist almost entir ...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Attacks Every Voter Who Elected Michele Bachmann to Her Congressional Seat

By Ken Shepherd | April 25, 2015, 12:02 AM EDT

Chris Matthews is no fan of retiring conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R), but it's rare that he attacks everyday rank-and-file Republican voters. Tonight was an exception as the MSNBC Hardball host excoriated the voters of Minnesota's Sixth C ...

Disgraced Rolling Stone Writer Trashed Michele Bachmann for 'War on Gay Teens'

By Tim Graham | December 10, 2014, 11:32 AM EST

Fox News “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz reports yet another tilted article by disgraced Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely is getting scrutinized, an article obnoxiously titled “ One Town's War on Gay Teens: In Michele Bachmann's home dist ...

The Media's 'Real Women' at the Supreme Court

By Jeffrey Lord | July 6, 2014, 1:18 PM EDT

The Washington Post is apoplectic. In a front page story about a new Supreme Court decision involving birth control and Wheaton College, a conservative Christian school, the Post story  by Robert Barnes began this way: “The three female justices of the Su ...

Birth Control Mandate? Wolf Blitzer Doesn't Think Religious Liberty Is Threatened

By Matt Hadro | February 26, 2014, 8:25 PM EST

CNN's Wolf Blitzer hounded Rep. Michele Bachmann over Arizona's religious freedom bill on Wednesday and "disagreed" that religious beliefs of business owners are being violated when they are forced to act against their consciences and ...

Column: Michele Bachmann Is Undeterred and Undiminished

By Cal Thomas | February 18, 2014, 7:05 PM EST

With less than a year left in her fourth and final term in Congress, it's a little early for an exit interview, but not too early to get the views of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on issues dear to a "founding mother" of the Tea Party moveme ...

MSNBC's Wolffe: Tea Partiers Want Someone to Be 'Annoying and Inflammatory'

By Brad Wilmouth | January 24, 2014, 6:41 PM EST

Appearing on Wednesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC.com Executive Editor Richard Wolffe asserted that Tea Partiers want someone to "be annoying and inflammatory" in responding to President Barack Obama's State of ...

TMZ Snidely Mocks Tea Party Coloring Book: 'No Colors Allowed!'

By Geoffrey Dickens | January 17, 2014, 9:49 AM EST

Known more for getting in the faces of celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber the tabloid/paparazzi show TMZ turned its camera sights on conservative Ted Cruz and the Tea Party. Not surprisingly the cast couldn’t get through the segment without ...

MSNBC's Sharpton Accuses GOP of 'Demonizing' Single Mothers

By Brad Wilmouth | January 10, 2014, 4:05 PM EST

On Thursday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC host Al Sharpton accused Republicans of "demonizing" single mothers and placing "blame" on them for poverty in response to several Republicans who have recently complained about government polic ...

Ed Schultz Speaks for God: Obamacare Is Divinely Approved

By Matthew Sheffield | December 5, 2013, 9:43 PM EST

Most people don’t know this, but beyond being a professional gasbag, MSNBC host Ed Schultz is also a prophet in direct communication with God. He let the world know this on his program last night when he pronounced that President Obama’s very unpopular he ...

Ed Schultz, Judge of Patriotism: Michele Bachmann 'Is Anti-American'

By Scott Whitlock | November 20, 2013, 6:17 PM EST

MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz declared that his patriotism court was in session again on Wednesday and found another conservative guilty. The liberal host repeatedly smeared Michele Bachmann as "anti-American." In several media appearances, the Republ ...

Oh Horror! Liberal Media's Top Five Free-Market Monsters

By Sean Long | October 30, 2013, 12:04 PM EDT

As Halloween approaches, many people devour scary stories and the annual celebration of fear. But the media doesn't reserve frightening tall tales for October, they promote fear all year long, especially over the dangers of climate change, guns and t ...

Michele Bachmann Rips Media's 'False Narrative' Blaming GOP for Shutdown

By Matt Hadro | October 10, 2013, 5:51 PM EDT

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) slammed the "false narrative" of the media that Republicans are to blame for the shutdown. Her broadside came on Thursday's New Day. She insisted, "remember that the mainstream media really has given a f ...

Oh So Sensitive Liberals Smear Marcus Bachmann with Gay-Baiting Slurs

By Jack Coleman | October 4, 2013, 9:19 AM EDT

Bill Press shouldn't hold his breath waiting to be named marshal in any upcoming gay pride parades. The ex-"Crossfire" host and his radio show producer took time from their daily adoration of cradle-to-grave government dependency to malign ...