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On MSNBC's Velshi show, Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali said that although Trump isn't the same candidate he was in 2016 or 2020, "MAGA just isn't into" Ron DeSantis. "I'll believe it when I see it, right? I'll believe it when Brutus actually takes out Julius Caesar." For those not up on their Roman history, Brutus stabbed Caesar to death.

Talk about a loaded question: “Is it fair to describe the modern GOP as ‘neo-fascist’ or ‘proto-fascist’ or, to quote Joe Biden on the MAGA movement, ‘semi-fascist?’” That’s what fill-in host Mehdi Hasan asked on the December 31 edition of MSNBC’s Velshi, as he wailed that Republicans becoming the majority in the House of Representatives on Tuesday might lead the media to actually “normalize”…

With only a few hardened leftists stuck on COVID-19, 2022 represented a year in which more Americans moved on and, thankfully for the team at NewsBusters, the liberal media continued to provide us plenty of content. For our top ten most-read blogs of the year, the topics included Biden’s mental state, the free state of Florida, Hollywood elitism, and Ukraine. For this year, the News Analysis…

In 2022, some of cable TV’s most obnoxious left-wing executives, hosts, correspondents and commentators were shown the door. On this final day of 2022, a look back at those who we said goodbye to this year, and how the fairness of the media landscape is at least somewhat improved by their departure.

On Thursday's Deadline White House, Nicolle Wallace suggested she was interested in the "truth" about domestic terrorism and January 6, but MSNBC analyst Donell Harvin uncorked a wild claim that somehow, the national media were "ignoring" violent right-wing extremists like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph since the 1990s. That is completely false, but this is MSNBC, so no one questioned it.…

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants. 

On Morning Joe, Democrat Rep.-elect Jared Moskowitz, a descendant of Holocaust victims, slams George Santos for lying about being a descendant of Holocaust victims, then adds that it's "not surprising, unfortunately, because this is what folks on his side of the aisle have learned. They have learned this from, you know, the leader of their party. That you can traffic in these lies and you can…

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: Cursing the Conservative Court Award. 

Over at the reliably pro-Biden MSNBC, the tone of a recent report on the retail landscape could best be described as: “At least the economy hasn’t completely collapsed, isn’t that great?”

Morning Joe gleefully devotes its opening segment to the exposure of the multiple resumé lies of Republican Congressman-elect George Santos. The show highlights a New York Daily News editorial calling on Santos to resign. Joe Biden has told a multitude of lies about his background. But naturally, Morning Joe never suggests that he should resign, instead chalking the Santos story to the "…

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Damn Those Conservatives Award. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award. 

Today we present the WORST OF 2022: The GOP Will End Democracy Award.

On Mehdi Hasan's MSNBC show, guest host Melissa Murray leads a segment on "the glass cliff." The notion is that women, particularly women of color, tend only to be appointed to prestigious positions at institutions that are in crisis, and thereby are being "set up to fail." Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Claudine Gay, recently named as Harvard's new president, are cited as…