Todd Hopes Dems Regain ‘High Ground’ With Franken Resignation

During NBC’s Wednesday special coverage of President Trump’s White House address, anchor Lester Holt also covered breaking news about a growing list of Democrats calling on Minnesota Senator Al Franken to resign amid sexual harassment allegations. Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd hoped the move would help the Democrats regain the “high ground” on the issue. 
Kyle Drennen

Meltdown! MSNBC Loses It Over Trump’s ‘Delusional,’ ‘Orwellian' Speech

MSNBC suffered a meltdown for the ages on Wednesday afternoon following President Trump’s speech recognizing of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, unleashing guest after guest condemning the “delusional” and “Orwellian” speech that will cause people to die now that America’s credibility has been “shot.”
Curtis Houck

MSNBC/NBC: Trump’s Jerusalem Decision ‘Profoundly Unsettling’

Less than half an hour before Trump made his speech today recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell brought NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel onto her MSNBC show to discuss the implications of the President’s announcement. Reporting from the Palestinian Territories in Ramallah, Engel went to great pains to promote his…
Chris Reeves

Accused Congressman Tells ABC Pelosi Knew of Charges: Coverage=Zero

NBC News still hasn’t reported on the sexual harassment accusations against Democratic Congressman Ruben Kihuen, but ABC took things a step farther. ABC isn’t just ignoring Kihuen: the network buried its own bombshell scoop on him. In an interview with ABC News Congressional Correspondent Mary Bruce that was posted on the network’s website but never made the cut for television, Kihuen accused…
Mike Ciandella

Conway Blasts Cuomo and CNN: Stop the ‘Flat-Out Lies’

Liberal CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway battled it out again on New Day, Wednesday. The Counselor to the President blasted Cuomo and lobbied that he stop telling “flat-out lies.” At one point, she jabbed, “You work for the Cable News Network, CNN. It's not the CON, C-O-N, Cable Opinion Network.” 
Scott Whitlock

Planned Parenthood Prez Calls Natural Family Planning ‘Insane’

You wouldn’t expect the president of Ford to talk up Chrysler models, so you can’t expect the head of America’s largest abortion provider (and contraception distributor) to give the nod to “Natural Family Planning” -- or, rather, what she thinks is Natural Family Planning.  
Katie Yoder

Obama Warns Trump Will Lead America to Genocide Like Hitler

In a friendly interview with CBS News financial expert Mellody Hobson, President Obama suggested we could have an American genocide akin to what happened in Nazi Germany with Donald Trump as President.
Kristine Marsh

Jennifer Lawrence: I Want to Throw ‘A Martini to the Face’ at Trump

Childish animosity or “a political passion?” Apparently Jennifer Lawrence classifies her hatred of the president as the latter.
Corinne Weaver

Megyn Kelly in Time Story: Trump's Election 'A Setback for Women'

It’s not a surprise that Time would pick the “Silence Breakers” (Sexual Harassment Plaintiffs) as their Person of the Year feature. But it is surprising that Time features so prominently NBC’s Megyn Kelly – not to talk about sexual harassers on her current show, but on Fox News. It came more than 30 paragraphs into the cover story, but Kelly sounds like an NBC employee by declaring "I have real…
Tim Graham

Angry Esquire Writer Furious That Trump Has Been 'Normalized'

Although most of the mainstream media are reluctant to concede that President Donald Trump has been on a win streak lately, we have confirmation of this from a rather unlikely source: Charles Pierce of Esquire magazine. The politics section writer has been in a perpetual state of rage ever since the 2016 election. There are five stages of grief but Pierce skipped most of them to go directly from…
P.J. Gladnick

Nets Panic: Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Jerusalem Move Will Cause ‘Violence’

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows were in full panic mode over President Trump’s upcoming decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In the midst of the collective freak-out, hosts and correspondents warned that the “dangerous” move could lead to a “new wave of violence” across the Middle East and even inspire “terrorist attacks in the west.”
Kyle Drennen

Morning Joe: 'Deaths Are Coming' Because of Trump's Jerusalem Speech

Wednesday’s Morning Joe devoted a significant portion of its broadcast to covering President Trump’s upcoming speech that will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. In response to reports that the Palestinian Authority is reacting to this development by calling for potentially violent protests and a “day of anger,” MSNBC’s top liberal pundits knew precisely where the blame for…
Chris Reeves

Hayes Slams 'Extremely Provocative Move' of U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

On Tuesday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes and Republican-leaning MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt were beside themselves over President Donald Trump's expected announcement that he would finally break with past Presidents and abide by the 1995 law calling for the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv to be moved to Jerusalem.
Brad Wilmouth

ABC Skips Damning New Report: Hillary KNEW of Weinstein Rape Claims

Despite two hours of available air time, ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday skipped a damning New York Times story with a bombshell claim: Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 presidential campaign, was told that Harvey Weinstein was a rapist, but still took his donations and raised money off him. 
Scott Whitlock