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MRC’s Year-End Awards: The Hopeless Haters Award

By Rich Noyes | December 30, 2015, 12:57 AM EST

Since last week, NewsBusters has been presenting each category from the Media Research Center’s “ Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “ Hopeless Haters Award,” for the worst quotes denigrating the ...

On MSNBC, Donny Deutsch Mangles Facts In Ripping Rubio, Oozing About Obama Success

By Bryan Ballas | May 8, 2015, 2:53 PM EDT

Marco Rubio’s leap into the Republican presidential race has provoked a variety of reactions, but the most unhinged Rubio backlash goes to Donny Deutsch, who reduced himself to a mess of inconsistency by claiming Rubio isn’t qualified for job, while defen ...

Donny Deutsch Attacks ‘Scary…Dangerous…Slimy’ Ted Cruz

By Jeffrey Meyer | March 24, 2015, 8:47 AM EDT

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, Donny Deutsch viciously attacked Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) following his announcement that he will be running for president, calling the Tea Party favorite “scary” and “dangerous.” After co-host Mika Brzezinski as ...

'Morning Joe' Analyst: GOP Senate Takeover Could Be Best Result for Obama, America

By Randy Hall | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

With only one day to go before the midterm elections, the panelists on Monday's edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe program focused on what could happen if the Republicans take the Senate and gain seats in the House of Representatives. “I think this ...

Joe Scarborough Shouts Down Pro-Israel Guest

By Laura Flint | August 5, 2014, 5:22 PM EDT

Joe Scarborough today continued his new Morning Joe routine of making anti-Israel remarks and then shouting down anyone who disagrees. Unlike the previous editions of the MSNBC morning show in which the former congressman focused on insulting his critics ...

'Morning Joe' Panelists Lament Media 'Lying In Wait' To Attack Hillary Clinton

By Laura Flint | July 25, 2014, 1:00 PM EDT

From numerous softball interviews to free publicity for her memoir Hard Choices, it is plain to see that the liberal media adores Hillary Clinton and pines for her to run as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2016. Except, of course, for the panelists ...

Eugene Robinson: Hobby Lobby Sort of Like Segregationists

By Mark Finkelstein | June 30, 2014, 8:57 AM EDT

Hobby Lobby's objection on religious grounds to paying for abortion-causing contraceptives for its employees reminds Eugene Robinson of segregationists who cited the Bible in support of their views.  In his great magnimity, Robinson allowed that the ...

Morning Joe on Mika's Obama Interview: Looks Like 'He Wants to Go Home, Not Taking Control'

By Mark Finkelstein | June 23, 2014, 12:31 PM EDT

Someday, Barack Obama might make a fine professor somewhere.  In the meantime, someone should remind him that he's still President of the United States... If President Obama thought he was going to score some easy media points by sitting down for an ...

Benghazi Whitewash: Could Chuck Todd Really Have Forgotten That Two Weeks Later Obama Was Still Citing Video?

By Mark Finkelstein | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

There was a real dust-up on today's Morning Joe over Benghazi and the House select committee empanelled to investigate it.  In the move-on-nothing-to-see corner were Chuck Todd and Donny Deutsch.  Opposing them was Nicolle Wallace, who made an impass ...

Joe Scarborough Eviscerates Donny Deutsch's 'Disgraceful' Defense of White House on Benghazi

By Kyle Drennen | May 1, 2014, 11:55 AM EDT

On Thursday's MSNBC Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough annihilated liberal pundit Donny Deutsch's attempt to defend the Obama White House over emails showing a cover-up of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack: " I got everybody here apologizin ...

MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch: ‘Bridgegate’ Worse Than Clinton Sex Scandals Because They ‘Didn’t Affect Me’

By Jeffrey Meyer | April 1, 2014, 11:37 AM EDT

Liberal MSNBC guest Donny Deutsch made some bizarre comments during his appearance on “Morning Joe” on Tuesday April 1 regarding the Chris Christie “Bridgegate” scandal. Speaking to the “Morning Joe” panel, Deutsch asserted that regarding “Bridgegate” he ...

Scarborough Shines Light on ObamaCare’s Impact on Small Businesses; Mika Pushes Back

By Paul Bremmer | December 18, 2013, 5:25 PM EST

Joe Scarborough highlighted a very important aspect of ObamaCare, one that has been too often overlooked by mainstream journalists, on Wednesday’s Morning Joe. During a roundtable discussion of the federal health care industry overhaul, Scarborough told e ...

Morning Joe Panelists Praise Boehner For Anti-Conservative Outburst

By Paul Bremmer | December 12, 2013, 5:06 PM EST

House Speaker John Boehner made himself a hero in the eyes of the liberal Morning Joe panel. All it took was lashing out publicly against conservative organizations which criticized the Ryan-Murray budget deal. Appearing on Thursday’s show, panelist Donny ...

Donny Deutsch: Obamacare So Damaged, Doubt It Ever Fully Comes Back

By Mark Finkelstein | November 13, 2013, 9:36 AM EST

If President Obama has lost Donny Deutsch, has he lost the Hamptons?  But seriously, the adman has generally been an an enthusiastic supporter of the President.  So when he gives a very pessimistic prediction as to the ability of Obamacare to rebound from ...

Donny Deutsch: 'I'm Shocked the Country Is Not Lining Up' Behind Obama on Syria

By Noel Sheppard | September 6, 2013, 5:09 PM EDT

It really has been amazing the past few weeks watching staunchly anti-war liberals in the media supporting an attack on Syria all because Barack Obama- who happened to run on an anti-war platform!- is for it. Take Donny Deutsch as an example, who on MSNBC ...