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CNN's Cuomo: 'Despite Stats on Christian Terrorists,' 'White Kid' Can Bring Clock to School

By Brad Wilmouth | December 24, 2015, 12:29 AM EST

Near the end of Wednesday's New Day on CNN, during a segment about the top five stories on social media for 2015, co-host Chris Cuomo oddly declared that, "despite all the stats about Christian terrorists," if a "white kid" had br ...

On CBS, Yahoo News's Matt Bai Invokes George Wallace in Trump Discussion

By Brad Wilmouth | December 23, 2015, 8:16 AM EST

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, Yahoo News political columnist Matt Bai brought up 1960s era segregationist Alabama Democratic governor and former presidential candidate George Wallace during a discussion of Donald Trump's po ...

MSNBC's Russert Frets 'Hope and Change' Did Not 'Carry the Day,' Invokes George Wallace

By Brad Wilmouth | December 22, 2015, 5:08 PM EST

As MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports to promote his special on Donald Trump's life, substitute MSNBC host Luke Russert wondered why the "divisions that had ravaged the country" did not go away af ...

CNN's Bolduan: Lindsey Graham Debate Performances 'Really Widely Seen as Winners'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 22, 2015, 9:29 AM EST

Appearing as a guest on CNN's Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield to report on South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's departure from the GOP presidential race, CNN's Kate Bolduan oddly claimed that the low-polling candidate's debate per ...

CNN's Zakaria: Obama Thinks Cable News 'Massively Exaggerates' ISIS Threat

By Brad Wilmouth | December 19, 2015, 4:28 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, during a discussion of President Barack Obama's news conference, CNN's Fareed Zakaria downplayed the threat to the U.S. posed by ISIS as he forwarded the President's view tha ...

Matthews: Trump 'Playing to Racists,' Obama 'Not One of Us, He's Black' View

By Brad Wilmouth | December 21, 2015, 9:23 AM EST

Appearing as a guest before MSNBC's live coverage of President Barack Obama's Friday press conference, during a discussion of Donald Trump's history of promoting birtherism against the President, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews recalled ...

NBC's Mitchell Claims 'A Lot of Discrimination' Vs. Muslims, GOP Says 'Really Troubling' Things

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 10:02 PM EST

Nearing the end of her MSNBC program Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell claimed that "there is a lot of discrimination" against Muslims as she was introducing President Barack Obama' ...

Ex-Daily Beast Boss Tina Brown Cheers Lindsey Graham Calling Trump 'Poster Boy for ISIS'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 4:21 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's New Day on CNN, former Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown lavished praise on GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, as she pined for him to make it onto the main debate stage, and three times gushed that the ...

On MSNBC, Ron Fournier Slams 'Disgusting' GOP Debate, Sees 'Dog Whistling'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 17, 2015, 10:36 AM EST

Appearing as a guest in the final segment of Wednesday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, Ron Fournier of the National Journal slammed the previous night's GOP presidential debate as "disgusting" as he claimed to see "dog whistling" and & ...

MSNBC Guest: GOPers Want to 'Mass Murder Civilians' to Fight ISIS

By Brad Wilmouth | December 16, 2015, 7:53 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's MSNBC Live, Linda Sarsour of the Arab-American Association of New York received no pushback from host Jose Diaz-Balart over her inflammatory assertion that some of the Republican presidential candidates "think ...

CNN's Costello Compares Muslim Shariah to 'My Own Faith Within Catholicism'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 16, 2015, 2:25 PM EST

As the Reverend Franklin Graham appeared on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom to promote a national call to prayer, host Carol Costello raised charges that "heated rhetoric about Muslims" is "causing mosques to come under attack," and, after ...

CNN Touts CAIR Accusing GOPers of Inciting Attacks Against Muslims

By Brad Wilmouth | December 15, 2015, 11:41 AM EST

On Monday's Erin Burnett OutFront, CNN National Correspondent Jason Carroll delivered a heavily one-sided report highlighting charges by the Council on American-Islamic Relations that GOP presidential candidates-- specifically naming Ben Carson, Chri ...

MSNBC's Harris-Perry Gripes Over 'Totally Black Guy' Darth Vader As Evil Character

By Brad Wilmouth | December 16, 2015, 2:23 PM EST

On her eponymously named Sunday morning show, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry went into a mini-rant about racism in Star Wars as she complained about villain Darth Vader being "totally a black guy" when he was "cutting off white men's ...

CNN's Zakaria Slams Trump, Compares Himself to German Jews Criticizing Hitler

By Brad Wilmouth | December 14, 2015, 9:29 AM EST

As he opened Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, host Zakaria brought up his background as a secular Muslim as he condemned Donald Trump's "bigotry and demagoguery" in the show's regular "Fareed's Take" segment. At ...

Andrea Mitchell Compares Trump and George Wallace Voters, 'I've Seen This Before'

By Brad Wilmouth | December 12, 2015, 11:37 PM EST

On Friday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, as guest and NBC host Chuck Todd attempted to psychoanalyze Donald Trump supporters, host Mitchell compared Trump voters to those who supported segregationist Alabama Democratic Governor George Wallace in ...