Notable Quotables: Oozing Over Obama's 'Keen, Analytical Intelligence'
January 25th, 2016 9:11 AM
This week, as President Obama delivers his final State of the Union address, PBS's panel oozes over his "keen, analytical intelligence," with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin saying Obama's speech "reminded me of George Washington's Farewell Address." Meanwhile, PBS's Tavis Smiley slams GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as a "racial arsonist," CNN's Erin Burnett thinks today's Republicans are so…
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Scarborough: Bill Clinton Sounds Like 'Loser' in Sanders Attack
January 25th, 2016 7:36 AM
Somebody slap an 'L' on Bill Clinton's forehead . . . Slick Willie has been called many things: a grifter, a snake-oil salesman, even an alleged rapist. But one label that hasn't been affixed to him is the L-word: loser. Until this morning.
On today's Morning Joe, after airing Bill Clinton's recent attack on Bernie Sanders, Scarborough said "I know I'm listening to a loser." Continued…
Matthews Lectures NR Writer on Trump and Iraq War, Gets It Wrong
January 23rd, 2016 2:57 PM
On Friday night’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews unleashed a harangue on National Review writer Eliana Johnson, theorizing that the “Against Trump” symposium was pretty much all about Trump’s opposition to the Iraq war.
When Johnson insisted this isn’t single-issue thing, Matthews kept berating her: “Can you answer me? Which is not a hawk in that group?” Johnson didn’t offer a name, but could…
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MSNBC’s Hayes Links Blizzard Effects to ‘Climate Change’
January 22nd, 2016 2:12 PM
MSNBC All In with Chris Hayes’s host is all in ... for climate alarmism.
As Washington D.C. and Baltimore raced to prepare for a potentially “historic” blizzard set to lash the East Coast Hayes insisted effects of the storm were connected to “climate change.”
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NY Times, 8 Months Late: Hillary's Speaking Fees 'Almost Obscene'
January 22nd, 2016 12:16 PM
It would appear that the New York Times and MSNBC, in focusing on Hillary Clinton's speaking fees, are, after many months of serving as virtual Clinton campaign mouthpieces, beginning to hedge their bets in the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. This information has been available since last spring, but only now is it being seen as geuinely troubling. Why wasn't seen as a big…
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Heilemann, Wallace Rip NR's 'Against Trump': Helps Trump, Stupid
January 22nd, 2016 8:28 AM
National Review was created by the great William F. Buckley, Jr., the brilliant pioneer of the modern conservative movement. Throughout the current presidential campaign season, NR has been a consistent critic of Donald Trump, whose conservatism it views with, to say the least, skepticism. And so it was entirely consistent for NR to publish "Against Trump," a special edition appearing today that…
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Chuck Todd Claims Petraeus Email Abuse 'Worse' Than Hillary's
January 21st, 2016 8:14 AM
Hillary Clinton's defense lawyers made a stunning appearance on today's Morning Joe, asserting that David Petraeus' mishandling of his emails was "worse" than what Hillary did, and arguing that she should not be charged. Oh, wait: those weren't Hillary's lawyers: they were NBC's Chuck Todd, and politician-turned-professor Harold Ford, Jr.
Can anyone recall this level of naked partisan advocacy…
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Omarosa Owns Chris Matthews' Pitiful Palin Attack
January 20th, 2016 8:35 PM
Hey Chris Matthews: is GloZell qualified to be President of the United States? How about John Travolta or Joy Behar?
On his MSNBC show this evening, Matthews attacked Sarah Palin's legitimacy as a Trump endorser by questioning her presidential qualifications. GloZell, Travolta and Behar are all Hillary endorsers. So how about it Chris: which of them could you imagine in the Oval Office? Trump…
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Mika: Hillary's Only Hope? Make Elizabeth Warren Her Running Mate
January 20th, 2016 8:15 AM
Hillary's in hot water. Needs Fauxcohantas. That, in a nutshell, was Mika Brzezinski's argument on today's Morning Joe. At the end of a segment highlighting the way Bernie Sanders has gone after Clinton for the massive "speaking fees" she's received from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms, Mika concluded: "the only person that can help her now is Elizabeth Warren, and she's going to have…
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Watch Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Mock Ed Schultz, DNC Chair on MSNBC
January 20th, 2016 1:51 AM
The liberal and often inappropriate Triumph the Insult Comic Dog joined MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell to close out Tuesday’s Last Word and along with going after Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and Donald Trump, Triumph took a few witty shots at former MSNBC (and soon to be Russia Today) host Ed Schultz and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
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David Corn: DNC Has 'Tremendous Amount of Regret' for Limiting Debates
January 19th, 2016 10:00 PM
In the "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" segment of Tuesday's edition of Hardball, Mother Jones magazine's David Corn informed MSNBC host Chris Matthews that the Democratic National Committee was wracked with a "tremendous amount of regret in the high ranks of the" party organization that they had limited the primary debates so much.
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Matthews: Palin Will Turn Off 'Thoughtful' Suburban Women From Trump
January 19th, 2016 8:28 PM
Donald Trump, for all his bluster and controversy, could actually win over the suburban vote in blue Northeastern states, Hardball host Chris Matthews argued on tonight's program. It's just too bad for him, he added, that throwing his arms around the Sarah Palin endorsement could kill those chances since "thoughtful" "pro-choice" women in those New England suburbs would see Palin's embrace as a…
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MSNBC Guest: Obama Showed ‘Strength’ on Iran Unlike Bush on Iraq
January 19th, 2016 5:40 PM
Appearing on Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, former Clinton and Bush administration diplomat Hillary Mann Leverett gushed that what President Obama has achieved with Iran is “[s]imilar to what President Nixon did with China” and “profoundly important, strategically grounded diplomacy” whereas George W. Bush “showed weakness on the world stage” with the Iraq War.
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Rachel Maddow: Delusional GOP Needs to Believe in ‘Fake’ Reagan
January 19th, 2016 4:27 PM
Liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne on Monday delighted in mocking the affinity conservatives have for Ronald Reagan, dismissing his record as “fake.” Promoting Dionne’s new book, Maddow introduced, “Ronald Reagan's real record has been submarined and all of his faults and compromises have been ascribed to other people and not to him.”