Chris Matthews: Most People Would Give Obama a 'B' Grade
Barack Obama's approval rating is the lowest it's ever been, but MSNBC's Chris Matthews thinks most people would give the President a "B" grade for his first year in office. Such was revealed during a "Hardball" discussion with MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan and the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson.After playing a clip of Obama telling Oprah Winfrey that he would give himself a B-plus for…
Olbermann’s Conniption: 'There is No Liberal Media'; Insists Corpora
Perhaps there is something obstructing the view overlooking Rockefeller Plaza, where MSNBC broadcasts "Countdown" nightly because the show's host, Keith Olbermann fails to see the existence of a news media with a liberal bias. On MSNBC's Dec. 14 broadcast of "Countdown," Olbermann came to the defense of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" executive producer and noted left-winger Dick…
MSNBCer: Gore Should Debate Palin and All Climate Change Deniers
Nobel Laureate Al Gore should debate former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and all those who don't believe man is responsible for global warming.So said MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe Friday in an appearance on "Countdown." This was in response to substitute anchor Lawrence O'Donnell bringing up Palin's answer to conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham's question concerning the former…
MSNBC's Matthews: 'Miserable' Culture 'Pleasures Itself' Over Argument
Leave it to MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews to go into creepy mode over the possibility one could be skeptical about the theory of anthropogenic global warming. On his Dec. 11 broadcast, the same guy who got a thrill up his leg over President Barack Obama and made an awkward pass at CNBC host Erin Burnett on live television, used a bizarre portrayal to describe those who don't ascribe to…
Olbermann Rips Palin: From Birther to Climate Change Denier
"Having given her sleight of hand stamp of approval to the birthers, Sarah Palin is now moving on to an almost equally popular far right mythology, climate change denial."So began MSNBC's Keith Olbermann in his number one story on Wednesday's "Countdown.""Getting her facts wrong and misrepresenting her record as governor of Alaska, again, not enough for Palin`s latest foray into opinion piece,…
Joan Walsh: Olbermann Needs More Diverse Guests, Michelle Malkin Need
Salon editor Joan Walsh, a frequent contributor on MSNBC, finds the network's "Countdown" host to be lacking in the diversity department when it comes to his guests. Of course, her complaint isn't with Olbermann's refusal to feature guests with whom he could have ideological clashes -- something his nemesis Bill O'Reilly has never been afraid to do -- but the fact that his guests are infrequently…
Matthews Calls Palin A 'Troglodyte' For Not Buying Global Warming
Did you know that if you don't believe man is responsible for global warming you're a prehistoric cavedweller completely unaware of what's going on in the world?So said MSNBC's Chris Matthews during a discussion on Wednesday's "Hardball" when he referred to Sarah Palin and everybody else that doesn't agree with Nobel Laureate Al Gore's view of climate change as "troglodytes.""She`s got to be…
Fallon Jokes to Maddow: ‘Awful’ That Palin Not Hit By Tomato
On Tuesday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, during an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, when Maddow recounted a recent incident in which a man unsuccessfully threw a tomato at Sarah Palin at a public event at a mall, Fallon joked that it was "awful" because the thrower "didn’t come close" to hitting Palin. Fallon: "Didn’t hit her at all? Didn’t come close? Awful."Below is a…
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Climate Skeptics: ‘How Do You Rationali
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday used the very loaded term of "denier" to deride global warming skeptics. Talking to liberal host Rachel Maddow, she referenced Sarah Palin’s opposition to the Copenhagen climate conference and chided, "Her Facebook entry says, you know, ‘Mr. President, boycott Copenhagen.’ How do you rationalize the deniers and the impact that they are having?" [Audio…
Al Gore Calls Sarah Palin A 'Global Warming Denier
Nobel Laureate Al Gore Wednesday called former Alaska governor Sarah Palin a "global warming denier."Speaking with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Gore also repeated his false claim about ClimateGate e-mail messages obtained from Britain's Climatic Research Unit: "the most recent one is like ten years ago."As Andrew Bolt reported Wednesday at Australia's Herald Sun, the most recent e-mail message…
Prominent Lefties Tina Brown, Joe Klein in Uproar Over Palin Anti-Cope
Sarah Palin isn't getting much of a break these days from anyone on the left end of the political spectrum. In the Dec. 9 Washington Post, an op-ed appeared by the former Alaska governor, in which she called on President Barack Obama to boycott the current Copenhagen climate summit in the wake of the "Climategate" e-mail leak. "Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans…
Morning Joe's Barnicle to Michael Steele: What Are 'You People' For
“Morning Joe” was a little tense this morning.Fresh off Donny Deutsch’s defense of Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) slavery analogy, Mike Barnicle asked GOP Chairman Michael Steele about what proposals the GOP favored for health-care reform. Along the way, however, he used an unfortunate choice of words:MIKE BARNICLE: [...] What are you people for?MICHAEL STEELE: You people? [starts laughing] Who are…
Deutsch-Steele Spat As Donny Defends Reid Slavery Statement
Surely no one would be foolish enough to defend Harry Reid's statement analogizing ObamaCare opponents to those who resisted the abolition of slavery, right? Um, may I introduce you to Donny Deutsch?On Morning Joe today, the ad man suggested to RNC Chairman Michael Steele that there was nothing wrong with Reid's analogy. When Steele didn't deign to dignify Deutsch's absurdity with a response, a…
