MSNBC Touts Host Sharpton Holding Campaign Event for 2020 Dems

Unburdened by basic journalistic ethics, on Wednesday, a series of MSNBC hosts eagerly promoted 2020 Democratic candidates lining up to speak at the annual National Action Network conference in New York City – put on by their fellow MSNBC host Al Sharpton. Not concerning themselves with the obvious conflict of interest presented by the event, the anchors hailed it as an “influential” forum for…

Kyle Drennen
April 3rd, 2019 6:00 PM

Report: 'Media Partners' Forced Group to Withdraw Award for Pompeo

From the "Brian Stelter Won't Report This" file, Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner reports that "complaints from media critics of the Trump administration" prompted a leading hostage rights group to withdraw its “Freedom Award” to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his (and the president's) efforts to free political prisoners around the world. The group’s “media partners” promised to boycott…
Tim Graham
April 3rd, 2019 5:05 PM

540 Million Facebook Users’ Data Found On Amazon Cloud

Facebook is struggling with yet another privacy scandal. Bloomberg reported that the data of millions of Facebook users was found on Amazon Cloud “hiding in plain sight.”
Corinne Weaver
April 3rd, 2019 4:02 PM

Hollywood Celebrates Equal Pay Day: 'Smash the Pecking Order'

Equal Pay Day, supposedly how far into the year women must work to earn the same amount men made the previous year, fell on April 2 this year (8 days earlier than last year) and of course Hollywood was all over it.
Alexa Moutevelis
April 3rd, 2019 3:15 PM

How Ironic: Pro-Abortion 'View' Hosts Celebrate Co-host's Pregnancy

Wednesday, ABC’s The View devoted an entire show to expectant host Abby Huntsman, celebrating her pregnancy with a baby shower and packed the audience with pregnant women. The irony of the predominantly liberal show celebrating babies is quite ironic considering how the hosts have celebrated a “woman’s right to choose” to kill her baby many times before on the show.
Kristine Marsh
April 3rd, 2019 2:09 PM

'View' Panel Romanticizes 'Impressive' Mayor Buttigieg, Trashes Trump

It looks like the ladies of The View have fallen in love with openly gay South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has formed an exploratory committee to run for President as a Democrat in 2020. Co-host Joy Behar opened the segment by touting a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll highlighting that “a majority of Americans have...no problem with a gay candidate.” Behar then asked a follow-up question: “…
Ryan Foley
April 3rd, 2019 2:06 PM

Hollywood Demands GOP Lawmakers Not Deport Illegal Alien Docu Star

In another Hollywood middle finger towards border protection agency ICE, several celebrities have rallied around a detained illegal immigrant, demanding that lawmakers, including Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, rethink their calls for his deportation.
Gabriel Hays
April 3rd, 2019 1:47 PM

King: ‘Whole Conversation’ About Joe Biden ‘Makes My Teeth Hurt'

The CBS This Morning crew on Tuesday and Wednesday again expressed irritation about having to cover man accused of doing questionable things to a woman. This time it wasn’t their colleague Charlie Rose, but Democrat Joe Biden. Co-host Gayle King said she had seen a lot of “eye rolls” at the claims of unwanted touching by Biden. She weirdly added that the allegations “make my teeth hurt.” 
Scott Whitlock
April 3rd, 2019 12:51 PM

Conservative Leaders Call on Tech Companies to Cut Ties With SPLC

In letters to Facebook, Google, Twitter and Amazon on Wednesday, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell, joined by numerous other conservative leaders, called on the major tech companies to stop relying on the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center as the arbiter of what constitutes hate speech and “cut ties” with the group.  
NB Staff
April 3rd, 2019 12:47 PM

Ex-Newsweek Editor Tina Brown: ‘I Suspect Time’s Up for Joe Biden’

Tina Brown, the feminist former editor of Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, appeared on MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday morning to tell Joe Biden his career is over. “Joe Biden comes from the sort of crustacean era of gender relations, let’s face it,” she said.
Randy Hall
April 3rd, 2019 11:23 AM

MSNBC's Willie Geist To Adam Schiff: 'Were You Wrong?'

MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist proved that even a broken clock is right twice a day as the morning show welcomed on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. After co-host Mika Brzezinski let Schiff get some free swings in against "handpicked" Attorney General William Barr, Geist asked the questions that Schiff should get every time appears for an interview.
Alex Christy
April 3rd, 2019 10:31 AM

Rob Reiner Still Crying Collusion: 'The Russians Robbed the Bank'

On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, leftist activist and movie director Rob Reiner desperately clung to shreds of hope that someone might still recognize that Donald Trump is a crook that needs to be impeached. "Meathead" has dramatically changed his spin to suggesting special counsel Robert Mueller had a "very, very narrow charge" to investigate. That's funny. In 2017, Reiner tweeted "Soon there will…
Tim Graham
April 3rd, 2019 10:00 AM

NBC's Przybyla Plugs Green New Deal: Dems Have 'Science on their Side'

On Morning Joe, discussing President Trump's criticism of the Green New Deal and his indication that he plans to run against it in 2020, NBC reporter Heidi Przybyla says the GND doesn't have to be a liability for the Democrats because they have "science on their side."
Mark Finkelstein
April 3rd, 2019 9:22 AM

Sen. Cotton Urges IRS Investigation of SPLC

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is going on the offensive against the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Republican is asking for an IRS investigation to re-evaluate the legal group’s tax exempt status, based on the grounds that the SPLC works less for the sake of civil rights, and more for the sake of progressive politics.
Gabriel Hays
April 3rd, 2019 9:20 AM