MSNBC's Sharpton Hypes Computer Glitch to Charge GOP 'Hypocrisy' for F
August 6th, 2013 2:35 PM
On Monday's PoliticsNation show on MSNBC, as he mocked Republicans for fearing that Democrats use dead voters to engage in voter fraud, host Al Sharpton hyped a USA Today article about people bequeathing money to political campaigns after death.
Sharpton recounted the case of a donor who died soon after mailing a contribution to a super PAC benefitting Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell…
MSNBC’s Alex Witt Frets ObamaCare Repeal Votes Are Costing Taxpayers
August 6th, 2013 12:38 PM
MSNBC anchor Alex Witt is still steaming over the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. On Saturday’s edition of her program Weekends with Alex Witt, the host spent considerable time fuming about the House GOP’s 40th attempt to thwart ObamaCare, even hilariously worrying that the repeal votes were costing taxpayers money.
Addressing Jackie Kucinich of The Washington Post, Witt…
Mika: With Biopic, NBC Trying To 'Climb Up' Team Hillary's 'Something
August 6th, 2013 8:07 AM
Wow: Joe Scarborough just outed something naughty that Mika Brzezinski had to say about the Hillary biopic that her parent network NBC is planning.
After Mika admitted on today's Morning Joe that she doesn't disagree with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus's warning that the RNC might not cooperate with NBC or CNN on Republican debates should the networks proceed with their biopic plans, Joe took…
Melissa Harris-Perry Silences Dissenting Voice During Panel Discussion
August 5th, 2013 6:31 PM
On the latest edition of her Sunday morning show, host Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel discussed Harris-Perry's grand theory that the media were engaging in a giant game of misdirection following the Zimmerman trial's outcome. The liberal Tulane professor naturally wants the liberal media to focus on topics that further a liberal/progressive agenda, like repealing Stand Your Ground laws,…
MSNBC's Schultz: Democracy is Dead in Detroit, Republican 'Parasites
August 5th, 2013 4:28 PM
Ed Schultz has spent weeks blaming Detroit’s recent bankruptcy filing on Republican policies, even though the city has been firmly in Democratic hands for decades. The bombastic MSNBC host has called the city a “conservative utopia,” arguing that Republican anti-union policies have “gutted Detroit.”
Schultz’s latest tirade came on Saturday’s The Ed Show, when the left-wing host bizarrely…
New York Times Hails the Humorist Chris Hayes: 'Very Well Done,' 'Bril
August 5th, 2013 3:57 PM
You can always make fun of white people. New York Times media writer David Carr bowed deeply to the satirical skills of MSNBC host Chris Hayes and his satire accomplice Cord Jefferson of Gawker.com for making fun of the dreadful moral state of white youth, and a "white criminal culture" which white elders and the "mainstream media" fail to condemn.
Carr said Hayes put on “a satire meant to…
MSNBC's Sharpton Slams 'Immoral, Unjust, Un-American' GOP Agenda
August 5th, 2013 1:00 PM
On Friday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton accused Republicans of having "an agenda that is immoral, unjust, and un-American," because of the House GOP's 40th vote to repeal ObamaCare.
After noting talk of more changes to the food stamp program, the MSNBC host asked if Republican leaders "have any shame at all?"
MSNBC's Self-Described 'Liberal Caricature' Hayes Sees 'Worst Republic
August 5th, 2013 11:15 AM
On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes declared his belief that Republicans currently in Congress "are the worst Republicans ever, and they're so extreme," as he asked Minnesota Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan if he believes congressional Republicans are "more extreme" than "an earlier cohort of Republicans" that the Minnesota Democrat used to serve with in the 1970s.
Later in the show,…
MSNBC's Toure Neblett Deceptively Edits Magic Johnson Comments About F
August 3rd, 2013 4:25 PM
As NewsBusters has often reported, the folks at MSNBC have a disturbing habit of deceptively editing videos to radically change their meaning.
Maybe that's where MSNBC's Toure Neblett learned this, for on Friday, he dramatically edited a Magic Johnson tweet about Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper:
MSNBC's Alter Sneers: GOP the 'Suicide Caucus
August 2nd, 2013 5:15 PM
MSNBC contributors Jonathan Alter and Joy Reid sound much like a good metronome: their commentary never changes, marching on at an endless, fixed pace. Alter and Reid have made a career at the Lean Forward network out of comparing Republicans to slave owners, terrorists, and drunks.
Their latest assault on the GOP came on Friday’s Now, with Reid serving as guest host in place of Alex Wagner…
Shocking! MSNBC Panel Agrees Congressional Exemption from High ObamaCa
August 2nd, 2013 4:14 PM
It’s rare when the Morning Joe crew unanimously agrees on an issue. It’s simply extraordinary when the issue is ObamaCare.
Host Joe Scarborough and a liberal panel mocked congressional Democrats on Friday for griping about high premiums under ObamaCare, after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced Thursday that the federal government would continue to subsidize health care…
Gay Group Starts Petition Demanding Rachel Maddow Be NBC's 'Human Righ
August 2nd, 2013 2:23 PM
Leftist bloggers like Alyssa Rosenberg at Think Progress are agitating for NBC Sports to make the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia yet another moment for gay-Left activism, in protest of Russia’s crackdown against freedom of speech for the gay agenda. At the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles, NBC executives were pushed to promise assertively hostile coverage of current Russian…
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Proclaims a Little ‘Empathy’ For Rapist-Kidn
August 2nd, 2013 1:58 PM
Sometimes it is astonishing what the hosts at MSNBC will say with such ease that to most Americans comes across as extreme. Chris Hayes once declared on Memorial Day weekend that he felt "uncomfortable" calling our fallen military “heroes.” But on the August 1 All In w/ Chris Hayes, in which Hayes commented on kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro, “there was a tiny, slight pin prick of empathy in me…
MSNBC's Krystal Ball Slams Limbaugh 'Racism,' 'Offensive in Every Way
August 2nd, 2013 1:40 PM
Appearing on Thursday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC's Krystal Ball accused conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh of "racism" and "sexism" and charged that "He is offensive in every way you can be offensive."
Host Al Sharpton had introduced the segment by marking the 25th anniversary of Limbaugh's nationally syndicated radio show, and, after offering congratulations, then launched into…