Herman Cain Dismisses MSNBC's Fixation on Newt's 'Dog Whistle' Rhetori

On Monday’s Now with Alex Wagner, former presidential candidate Herman Cain joined the growing chorus of individuals who are denouncing the vicious attacks against Newt Gingrich.  Once again, MSNBC host Wagner implied that Gingrich’s recent comments about Obama were racially-charged, but Cain shot down such absurd attacks.  Cain, who has endorsed the former House Speaker, reiterated the…
Jeffrey Meyer
January 31st, 2012 4:16 PM

Chris Matthews Wants Gingrich in Race Long Time: 'It Will Create Mishe

MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday's Hardball comically used a little known Yiddish term to bash Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. "I'm rooting for Newt of course to stay in this thing. It will create mishegas for the Tea Party world and a compelling political spectacle for us" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2012 3:27 PM

MSNBC Mistakenly Tags Herman Cain As Dem, Laughably Considers Charlie

Herman Cain's political affiliation was incorrectly tagged as Democratic in an onscreen graphic during the 10 a.m. Eastern Chris Jansing Reports program today. Jansing was promoting the former Republican presidential contender's appearance on the noon Eastern Now with Alex Wagner program. It was most certainly an innocent mistake by the graphics designer, but less excusable was yesterday's…
Ken Shepherd
January 31st, 2012 3:20 PM

Not Very 'Interesting': ABC and CBS Morning Shows Ignore Obama Gaffe

While NBC correspondent Peter Alexander noted on Tuesday's Today how "Republicans are jumping on the president's choice of words" in telling a woman her husband's long-term unemployment was "interesting" to him, neither ABC's Good Morning America nor CBS's This Morning bothered to highlight Obama's aloof flub. The NBC report played the sound bite of the president's remark: "It is interesting…
Kyle Drennen
January 31st, 2012 2:56 PM

NPR Plays Dumb: 'Nothing Terribly Ideological' About Saul Alinsky

People at National Public Radio boast about themselves as a network for the smart people. So why must they try to tell smart people that a man who writes a book called “Rules for Radicals” offered “nothing terribly ideological” in his activism? In an attempt to "correct" Newt Gingrich on Monday night’s All Things Considered newscast, NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe became merely the latest in a…
Tim Graham
January 31st, 2012 2:06 PM

Scott Pelley's Obvious A.M. Error: Claims Florida's First High-Unemplo

Scott Pelley simply got it wrong on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, when he claimed that the Republican presidential candidates "have finally arrived in a state that was very hard hit by the great recession and has been suffering for a very long time. The unemployment rate here is about 10%." In reality, South Carolina, the state that held the last GOP primary, has about the same unemployment rate…
Matthew Balan
January 31st, 2012 1:50 PM

NBC Reporter: GOP Race 'Gotten So Nasty'; Obama 'Pokes Fun' at Romney

At the top of his Tuesday report for NBC's Today, correspondent Peter Alexander warned viewers about the state of the Republican primary race in Florida: "This campaign has just gotten so nasty lately. By some accounts, more than 90% of the ads that have run in this state have been negative." Remarkably, later in the same segment, Alexander was happily promoting a nasty line of attack by the…
Kyle Drennen
January 31st, 2012 12:45 PM

Politico's Jonathan Martin Mocks Conservative Florida Voters as the 'C

Politico reporter Jonathan Martin on Tuesday mocked the  "cracker counties" of Florida's conservative Panhandle. Talking to Daily Rundown host Chuck Todd, he derided, "Chuck, a lot of the counties in the Panhandle, in north Florida, the cracker counties, if you will...more resemble Georgia and Alabama than they do Florida." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd appeared…
Scott Whitlock
January 31st, 2012 11:41 AM

Audio: MSNBC's Chris Matthews Insists He Tries to Examine American Pol

The former Tip O'Neill staffer-turned-political analyst who'd never heard of congressional insider trading until President Obama mentioned it in last week's State of the Union  insists he is unaware of the Bush Derangement Syndrome of many on the Left during the former president's tenure in the Oval Office. What's more, that's not his bias talking, it's just objective reality. "There's a real…
Ken Shepherd
January 31st, 2012 11:20 AM

Washington Post's Richard Cohen: 'GOP Is Brain-Dead

It's only January and the vitriol being spewed at Republicans by the Obama-loving media is starting to crest. On Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen went after almost every high-profile right-leaning politician in the land in a piece that disgracefully ended "The GOP is brain-dead":
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2012 10:04 AM

Pro-Regulation NYTimes Laments 'Bureaucratic Nightmare'...When It Invo

Emily Ramshaw’s New York Times report on new abortion regulations in Texas, “Required Delay Between Sonogram and Abortion Creates Logistical Issues,” made the national edition Sunday. In an odd twist for the liberal Times, Ramshaw lamented the plight of abortion clinics having to comply with regulations. And isn’t it ironic for the pro-regulation Times to criticize a “bureaucratic nightmare…
Clay Waters
January 31st, 2012 9:31 AM

Mika Brzezinski Says 'Oh My God' When Told Romney Sang 'America the Be

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski on Tuesday gave quite a reaction to the news that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sang "America the Beautiful" at a rally in central Florida. "Oh my God," gasped the Morning Joe co-host (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
January 31st, 2012 9:26 AM

DNC Debbie: Romney Shows 'Extremism, Callous Disregard for Undocumente

In 2008, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz harshly attacked Sarah Palin: “She knows nothing.”  But when it comes to illegal immigration, the DNC chair is the one who sounds like she needs to study up, sounding amazed last year that the Republicans believed it “should in fact be a crime.” It has long been a crime, no matter how much liberals want to sell the self-negating notion of “law-abiding…
Tim Graham
January 31st, 2012 6:55 AM

Let's Honor, Not Stretch, the Buckley Rule

In the intense heat of the present, it is easy to forget even the relatively recent past, but it seems to me that this GOP primary season is more acrimonious than the past few, probably because the stakes are so high. When I've noted that this is the most important presidential election of our lifetimes, a few excitability-resistant conservative friends have said, "They have been saying that…
David Limbaugh
January 31st, 2012 6:15 AM