NBC Treks to Alaska to Find ‘America’s First Climate Change Refugees'

As part of President Barack Obama’s visit to Alaska this week to promote climate change, Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News showcased investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden’s trek to Arctic Alaska ahead of Obama to meet “some of America’s first climate change refugees” due to rising seas near their villages.
Curtis Houck
September 1st, 2015 9:53 PM

Vox Lauds Obama Comment That’s ‘Likely to Enrage Conservatives’

In a Tuesday post, David Roberts opined that “nativist conservatives” won’t accept that America shares responsibility for climate change, or for any other “ills in the world,” because they believe that the very idea is “unpatriotic.” “Conservative psychology is averse to ambiguity and nuance,” asserted Roberts, “so for ideological conservatives America is either God's chosen country, a force for…
Tom Johnson
September 1st, 2015 9:42 PM

Esquire's Pierce: IA Caucus Controlled by 'Freakish Minority' of GOP

The cavalcade of liberal contempt for conservatives continued on Chris Hayes' MSNBC show on Tuesday night, as Esquire's Charlie Pierce, formerly with the Boston Globe, described the Republican Iowa caucuses as being controlled by "a political party that's gone insane. The Iowa caucuses are a freakish mechanism that have been controlled since about 1988, by a freakish minority of a freakish…
Mark Finkelstein
September 1st, 2015 9:35 PM

Black Lives Matter Activist: 'Bacon' Chant Was In 'Playful' Context

The "Pigs in a blanket. Fry 'em like bacon!" chant by Black Lives Matter activists this weekend at the Minnesota State Fair was taken out of context, an organizer told MSNBC's Chris Hayes tonight, insisting that the chant was sort of an inside joke, in a "playful" context between activists and the cops who were escorting the marchers. 
Ken Shepherd
September 1st, 2015 9:03 PM

Petition: Obama Should Drink Urine During Appearance on Reality Show

You kind of have to give it to MSNBC.com for publishing this article, if only because it shows the folly that inevitably comes with demeaning the office of the president with cheap pop-culture stunts.
Ken Shepherd
September 1st, 2015 6:45 PM

Hasselbeck, O'Donnell Clash: Is Black Lives Matter a Hate Group?

During Monday morning's edition of the Fox & Friends program, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked black guest Kevin Jackson: “Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group?” The segment drew a tremendous negative online response, with one of the most unusual coming from Hasselbeck's former co-host on The View ABC program, who tweeted that “some r slow 2 wake…
Randy Hall
September 1st, 2015 6:30 PM

Trump Still Rules Spanish-Language Political Talkers

The nation’s two top Spanish-language public affairs shows led once again this week with coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign, with many interesting takeaways and conclusion from both programs. At this point, Univision is about to transform into The Trump Channel, so prevalent is its coverage of Trumpmania.
Jorge Bonilla
September 1st, 2015 5:54 PM

Curt Schilling Fires Back At The Sports Media

Curt Schilling took his suspension from ESPN last week for a tweet that compared the number of Muslim extremists to the number of German extremists in Nazi Germany. However, he’s not taking it lying down
Dylan Gwinn
September 1st, 2015 5:28 PM

Ex-Spider-Man Star Laments Marketing to 'Bigot Homophobes'

Actor Andrew Garfield, who after two films was dumped from his role as Spider-Man, lamented on Monday how broadly the films were promoted, sneering that he had to appeal to American "bigots." He complained of Sony's marketing for the comic book movies: "The pressure to get it right, to please everyone… it's not going to happen." 
Scott Whitlock
September 1st, 2015 4:54 PM

Mitchell: 'Are We Ever Going to Get Out of Cycle' of Hillary E-Mails?

Fretting over Hillary Clinton’s ongoing e-mail scandal on Tuesday, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell wondered: “Is she ever going to get out of this cycle?” The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza bemoaned: “...when the federal judge ordered the release of these things at pretty regular intervals....this was the worst outcome for her presidential hopes....We're not talking about her plan for college…
Kyle Drennen
September 1st, 2015 4:44 PM

Yahoo!: ‘If I Knew My Daughter Had Downs, I Would Have Aborted Her'

Parenting is about abortion, according to Yahoo! Yahoo! Parenting recently published a piece by freelancer Hallie Levine with the headline, “If I Knew My Daughter Had Down Syndrome, I Would Have Aborted Her – All Women Should Have That Right.” 
Katie Yoder
September 1st, 2015 4:28 PM

CNN Panel: 'Nothing' In Hillary's E-Mails 'Reeks of Illegality'

Tuesday's New Day on CNN completely glossed over the fact that 150 out of 7,000 pages from the latest release of Hillary Clinton's e-mail from her tenure as secretary of state contained classified information. Instead, John Berman wildly claimed that "as far as I can tell, nothing in here that reeks of illegality in what we're seeing here." Alisyn Camerota wondered, "If there's no smoking gun,…
Matthew Balan
September 1st, 2015 4:11 PM

Hollywood Targets NFL in 'Concussion'

The Hollywood left appears ready to embark on another product of their variation of the old legal adage, which says: “If the law is on your side, pound the law, if the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If neither the law not the facts are on your side, pound the table.” Except under the current liberal translation of this adage, it must read: “If neither the facts nor the science are on…
Dylan Gwinn
September 1st, 2015 2:55 PM

On CNN, Sheriff Clarke Slams ‘Black Lies Matter’ Movement

Reacting to the murder of officer Darren Goforth, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke told CNN’s Pamela Brown that the “anti-cop rhetoric” being peddled by Black Lives Matter has “fueled” these recent attacks on police across the country. 
Jeffrey Meyer
September 1st, 2015 2:25 PM