MSNBC's Taylor: GOP Came From 'Old Dixiecrats' Who 'Wouldn't Want Blac

On Tuesday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor described the Republican Party as "built out of the old Dixiecrats" who "wouldn't want black and brown people living in their community" as she and MSNBC host Al Sharpton responded to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus alluding to the GOP's history of supporting the Civil Rights Movement. After a clip of Priebus, Sharpton posed:
Brad Wilmouth
November 6th, 2013 6:11 PM

CNN Anchor Scolds GOP to Stop Grilling Sebelius; 'Sit Down and Fix Thi

On Tuesday, CNN's Carol Costello lectured Republicans to stop grilling HHS Secretary Sebelius over ObamaCare and "sit down with Democrats to come up with some solutions." "What in your mind is the point of this? Haven't we heard enough from Kathleen Sebelius?" Costello huffed to GOP Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn as Sebelius testified before the Senate Finance Committee. Costello told her…
Matt Hadro
November 6th, 2013 5:23 PM

Surprise: CBS Notices De Blasio's 'Very Liberal Campaign'; ABC, NBC Ou

In a move as rare as finding a four-leaf clover, Norah O'Donnell actually disclosed on Wednesday's CBS This Morning that New York City Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio ran a "very liberal campaign". Jeff Pegues also noted how the "52-year-old liberal" is a "proponent of...taxing the wealthy". The program was also the sole Big Three morning newscast to underline de Blasio's political ideology, and…
Matthew Balan
November 6th, 2013 5:07 PM

MSNBC’s Joy Reid Refuses to Admit Obama Lied About ObamaCare

MSNBC analyst Joy Reid is one of those liberal media figures who still refuses to say that President Obama lied about Americans’ ability to keep their insurance plans under ObamaCare. On Tuesday night, Reid made a guest appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show to discuss the health care law. Hewitt confronted Reid with a clip of Obama’s recent whitewashing: “If you have or had one of these plans…
Paul Bremmer
November 6th, 2013 4:42 PM

NBC: Forget How Unpopular Obama is, He's Hugging White House Guests

While NBC has failed to report the latest Gallup poll showing President Obama's approval rating falling to 39%, Wednesday's Today did find time to applaud the commander-in-chief for greeting tourists at the White House, with news reader Natalie Morales gushing: "On Tuesday, one of the first groups to visit got a big surprise – take a look – when President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle…
Kyle Drennen
November 6th, 2013 4:31 PM

MTV Star/Gay Activist Dan Savage Darkly Cracks 'Abortion Should Be Man

Conservative Telegraph (U.K.) columnist Tim Stanley reported on the latest outrage from MTV star Dan Savage in Australia. “As part of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, he went head-to-head with Britain's Peter Hitchens on marriage, Christianity and sex – and got progressively filthier and angrier as the evening wore on.” At the end, when panelists were asked to provide a truly “dangerous idea…
Tim Graham
November 6th, 2013 4:25 PM

Will They Be Voting? CNN's Amanpour Warns of International Disgust Wit

The international community won't be voting in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but on Tuesday's AC360 Later CNN's Christiane Amanpour let viewers know that they disapprove of the "extreme wing of the Republican Party." "Well, from an international perspective, I can tell you that there is a massive and mass scratching of heads as people out there look at what's going on in the United…
Matt Hadro
November 6th, 2013 4:10 PM

CNN's Candy Crowley: Virginia Results 'Not Some Huge Rejection of the

CNN’s Candy Crowley, the worst debate moderator of 2012, disappointed liberals on Tuesday night by failing to see the Virginia election returns as proof that the Tea Party is fading away. “This is clearly not some huge rejection of the Tea Party,” Crowley told Anderson Cooper shortly after 10 pm. (Transcript and video below.)
Tim Graham
November 6th, 2013 3:43 PM

Trace Gallagher at Fox: Insurance Cos. in Calif. Had to Cancel Non-Com

On Megyn Kelly's Fox News Channel show last night, reporter Trace Gallagher countered the Obama adminstration's attack on Stage Four cancer patient Edie Littlefield Sundby, whose Sunday evening Wall Street Journal op-ed on her individual plan's termination in California has garnered major attention. Ms. Sundby wrote that she has not found an available insurance plan option which will cover…
Tom Blumer
November 6th, 2013 3:41 PM

Heilemann Warns Dems Against Rejoicing Over 'Horrible Candidate' Cucci

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, New York magazine's John Heilemann described Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli as a "horrible candidate" as he cautioned Democrats that Cuccinelli still might have triumphed over Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe if the Virginia Republican had had more money and if the government shutdown had not occurred…
Brad Wilmouth
November 6th, 2013 3:26 PM

Scarborough: ObamaCare Failures Could Help Elect Tea Party Candidates

During Tuesday's edition of Morning Joe on MSNBC, co-host Joe Scarborough criticized the GOP for having “the lowest approval rating ever” but stated that the failures of ObamaCare could elect more Republicans and members of the Tea Party if they “just get out of the way” while Democrats continue making serious blunders. Ted Cruz, a GOP senator from Texas who tried to filibuster the…
Randy Hall
November 6th, 2013 3:21 PM

PolitiFact Gives Obama 'Pants on Fire' for Explanation of What 'You Ca

It appears the folks at PolitiFact are trying to make amends for calling President Obama's "You can keep your plan if you like it" pledge "Half True." On Wednesday, the fact-checking organization looked at the President's recent explanation of what he said - "Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said…
Noel Sheppard
November 6th, 2013 3:13 PM

Cue Laugh Track: MSNBC's Alex Wagner Insists ‘I Try To Be' 'Non-Part

When will the folks at MSNBC stop pretending to be journalists and just admit to being liberal hosts looking to push their political agenda? Unfortunately, the answer seems to be not soon as MSNBC host Alex Wagner laughably told her audience on November 6 that she tries to be “non-partisan on her show.” Appearing with her left-wing panel on Wednesday, the former Center for American Progress…
Jeffrey Meyer
November 6th, 2013 2:33 PM

AP Promotes New Swedish Feminist Movie Ratings Established by 'Dykes t

Even as American movie theatres rebel against abiding by the NC-17 rating to keep high-school kids away from sex-drenched French movies, AP's Malin Rising reports (positively) that the Left would love to impose its own cultural standards on the movie industry: "movie theaters in equality-minded Sweden are introducing a new rating to highlight gender bias, or rather the absence of it." To get…
Tim Graham
November 6th, 2013 2:10 PM