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NBC, ABC: ‘Major Risks’ in Tax Bill, ‘Dangerous Political Territory'
Ahead of congressional votes on Republican tax legislation on Tuesday, the NBC and ABC morning shows both predicted political doom for the GOP with passage of the bill. The network broadcasts painted the plan as one that would benefit the wealthy and veer into “dangerous political territory.”
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Ruhle: 'Income Inequality Is the Biggest Issue That Plagues' U.S.
On Monday's MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle -- also a business correspondent for NBC -- was inserting a left-leaning view of economics into the discussion of the Republican tax cut plan as she proclaimed that "income inequality is the biggest issue that plagues this nation -- one of the biggest issues." Right-leaning MSNBC contributor Bret Stephens had a mixed view of the plan as liberal…
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Knowledgeable Net Neutrality Foe's 'Legalese' Angers MSNBC's Velshi
On Thursday, MSNBC's Ali Velshi interviewed former FCC commissioner Robert McDowell about that agency's move to eliminate the Obama administration's "Open Internet Order," better known as its "net neutrality" regulations. Velshi was in over his head, and as people who find themselves in such a situation often do, he resorted to hostility, bluster, and an accusation of condescension to try to make…
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MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle: It ‘Isn’t an Opinion’ That Trump Is a ‘Bully’
It’s hard to notice, given all the other vitriol on the cable network, but MSNBC’s 9am hour has morphed into one of the liberal network’s most biased. On Friday, an agitated Stephanie Ruhle flat-out declared that it “isn’t an opinion” to say Donald Trump is a “bully.” Apparently, it’s just a fact.
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Amid NYC Terror Coverage MSNBC Panel Complains About Guns in America
As information was still coming in regarding Monday’s attempted terror attack in the New York City subway, an MSNBC panel discussing the news ridiculously shifted the topic to outrage over guns and gun crime in the U.S. And on top of that, they bemoaned how President Trump would try to make the attack an immigration issue to support his temporary travel ban.
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MSNBC Touts GOP Guest Who Switched to Democratic Party
On Friday's Velshi and Ruhle show, MSNBC co-hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle gave a forum to frequent MSNBC guest Kurt Bardella -- known for being a Republican who trashes his right-leaning former client Breitbart News -- so that he could discuss his decision to finally officially switch to the Democratic party.
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MSNBC's Clemons Uses Hitler Quote to Smear Trump, Netanyahu
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, The Atlantic editor-at-large and MSNBC contributor Steve Clemons actually made a veiled Adolf Hitler reference to attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as President Donald Trump over the U.S. relocating its embassy to Jerusalem.
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MSNBC Hopes Flynn Flip Brings GOP Agenda to ‘Screeching Halt’
During MSNBC’s Velshi & Ruhle on Friday, the liberal co-anchors were giddy at the prospect that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI in the Russia investigation would bring the entire Republican legislative agenda to a “screeching halt.”
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Ali Velshi at MSNBC Wrong About Tax Plan's Impact, Doesn't Know It
MSNBC's Ali Velshi and co-host Stephanie Ruhle apparently gained a bit of far-left street cred in August when they fiercely berated a Donald Trump supporter with an usually strong dose of condescension, telling him that "you can't just lie on TV" about the economy. On Monday, Velshi lied about the estimated impacts on various income groups of the GOP tax plan published by Congressional Budget…
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Media Thrilled That ‘Complicit’ is ‘Word of the Year’ Under Trump
On Monday, Dictionary.com announced that it’s 2017 Word of the Year was “complicit,” citing left-wing accusations that anyone not fighting against the Trump administration was endorsing hate or racism. Liberal media outlets like The Washington Post and MSNBC gleefully seized on the dubious ranking as an exemplification of the Trump era.
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MSNBC’s Ruhle Turns to Dan Rather to Attack Trump’s ‘Fake News’ Tweets
Sometimes, the jokes and stories write themselves, folks. On Monday morning’s MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle turned to none other than fake news anchor Dan Rather to decry President Trump’s tweet calling for a “FAKE NEWS TROPHY” and smugly defend the news media as the one “red beating heart of freedom and democracy.”
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Nets Fear Political Conspiracy in DOJ Blocking Media Merger
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows fretted over the Justice Department filing a lawsuit to block a planned merger between telecommunications giants AT&T and Time Warner. Hosts and correspondents warned of “politics” being “at play” in the decision and touted how critics were “raising concerns about the motive behind the government’s legal challenge.”
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MSNBC: ‘Slippery Slope’ to Hold Franken Accountable for Groping
As reports came in Monday morning of another woman claiming she was groped by Minnesota Senator Al Franken, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle seemed to downplay the new allegations against the Democratic lawmaker. She warned that judging Franken’s behavior too harshly would lead down a “slippery slope.”
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MSNBC’s Matthews Repents: ‘I Was Too Tough' On Bill Clinton
While a number of liberal journalists and politicians have had the sudden revelation that they supported a “sexual predator” in the White House twenty plus years ago, some are having the exact opposite reaction. MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews lamented on his show last Friday that he was actually “too tough” on Bill Clinton back then, despite being one of the few journalists who was critical…
