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During an interview with Cable News Network anchor Carol Costello on Monday, American Baptist Bishop Paul Morton-- who declined an invitation to attend a pastors' meeting with Donald Trump in New York City-- refused to assert that the GOP front-runne ...

Reduced to a daily podcast after his MSNBC show was cancelled in July, liberal Ed Schultz spent the first minute and a half of his Tuesday podcast basking in the departure of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker from the 2016 Republican field and slamming Walk ...

A movie dramatization of the Stanford prison experiment opened this weekend, but if you believe Salon writer Andrew O’Hehir, that’s not the first time the 1971 psychological study has been restaged in some manner. O’Hehir asserted in a Saturday piece that ...

Four Aprils ago, polling showed Donald Trump in or near the lead in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. In a Wednesday column, Salon ’s Heather Digby Parton suggested that Scott Walker could wind up as the Trump of this election cycl ...

Wednesday night must have been “Attack The Koch Brothers” night over on Comedy Central as both of the network’s late night hosts, The Daily Show ’s Jon Stewart and The Nightly Show ’s Larry Wilmore, eagerly tore into the libertarian businessmen for pledgi ...

On Sunday night, ABC’s Barbara Walters hosted her annual 10 Most Fascinating People  program which featured billionaire businessman and conservative donor David Koch as one of the “most fascinating people of 2014.”  A preview of the interview aired during ...

On Sunday, ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos previewed Barbara Walters’ upcoming “Most Fascinating People” special set to air on Sunday night by playing a clip from Walters’ interview with conservative donor and businessman David Koch. Fill-in ho ...

On Monday's Morning Joe, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough prompted hippie icon Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash fame to promote his new song about the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Nash wildly contended that "what ha ...

Over the weekend, Washington Monthly blogger D.R. Tucker swung between rhetorical extremes. As we’ve noted, he called a new lefty book “one of the greatest nonfiction works of all-time,” but in another post he utterly trashed New Jersey governor Chris Chr ...

When it comes to big money in politics, there’s only one name the broadcast networks dwell on – the Koch brothers. Billionaires David and Charles Koch are major contributors to both conservative and Republican causes. Democrats are “placing them at the ce ...

An article appearing in the Wednesday print edition of the New York Times (“In Wichita, Koch Influence Is Revered and Reviled”), reporter Carl Hulse traveled to the hometown of businessmen and libertarian donors Charles and David Koch in Wichita, Kansas.  ...

President Obama's newly-announced EPA regulations on coal-fired electric plants are  engendering opposition  from red-state Democrats hoping to win crucial Senate elections this November. For her part, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Mary Landrieu ( ...

The old saying goes that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but during Tuesday night's edition of  Comedy Central's The Daily Show, the same principle was applied to hypocrisy. Jon Stewart charged that Senate majority leader Harry Reid ...

On the Wednesday, April 30, PoliticsNation, Al Sharpton charged that the Republican Party "demonizes the working class" and that GOPers "attack the working poor" as the MSNBC host trashed Republicans for opposing a minimum wage increas ...

The host of MSNBC's weekday afternoon program The Ed Show has often hammered the donations to GOP candidates and projects made by wealthy conservative brothers David and Charles Koch, but does he feel the same when rich Democrats enter the political ...