MSNBC's Michael Eric Dyson: 'Eric Holder Is the Moses of Our Time

May 30th, 2013 11:12 PM
Do you want to understand just how astonishingly biased MSNBC is? On Thursday's Martin Bashir show, MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson actually said - without any pushback from the host - that scandal-ridden attorney general Eric Holder is "the Moses of our time" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bizarre Chris Matthews: It's Like Germany Won World War II Because The

May 30th, 2013 6:05 PM
An unhinged Chris Matthews on Thursday launched into a bewildering rant, lamenting the scandals swirling around the President and suggesting that Germany may have actually won World War II because the country has high speed rail. The Hardball anchor fumed, "You look at Germany, where I just was, and see state-of-the-art bridges and super modern rail system." Mentioning Germany's subway system,…

Reid, Grim Blast Tea Party Movement and Republican Party on 'PoliticsN

May 30th, 2013 5:37 PM
MSNBC contributor Joy Reid – in her infinite liberal wisdom – has the Republican Party all figured out. In a sneering tirade against conservatives on Wednesday’s PoliticsNation, Reid broke the entire party into five separate groups: the “angry” Tea Party, the evangelicals that “want to litigate social issues only,” the “economic conservatives” who want to “get rid of Social Security and…

MSNBC's O'Donnell Links NRA Rhetoric to Ricin Attack on Bloomberg

May 30th, 2013 5:04 PM
On Wednesday's The Last Word show, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell tried to link rhetoric by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre to the ricin attack on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as he played several clips of LaPierre criticizing the liberal mayor's support for gun control before getting to the story of ricin-tainted letters. After running the clips, O'Donnell ominously related…

MSNBC Panel Members Slam Bachmann and GOP 'Haters

May 30th, 2013 3:25 PM
As MSNBC's Al Sharpton hosted a panel on Wednesday's PoliticsNation to discuss Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann's retirement, MSNBC analyst Karen Finney claimed that Bachmann never had an idea "that wasn't about hate or wasn't about being against something," while MSNBC analyst and former Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Ed Rendell similarly charged that historians will put her "in a…

Politico Panel Vilifies Bachmann on 'Morning Joe,' Calls Outgoing Cong

May 30th, 2013 12:14 PM
When Politico isn’t busy sending editors to an off-the-record chat with a potentially perjurious U.S. Attorney General, it spends its time mocking a retiring conservative legislator. A panel of reporters from the Washington tabloid ganged up on Michele Bachmann on Thursday’s Morning Joe, blasting the Minnesota congresswoman as a “celebrity politician” who will become “irrelevant to politics…

Trashing a Tea Partier: Top 10 Most Vicious Anti-Bachmann Quotes

May 30th, 2013 9:48 AM
Republican Congresswoman and Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann’s announcement on Wednesday that she is not running for re-election marks the end of a four-term congressional career full of vicious attacks from liberal journalists. Over those years Bachmann’s outspoken defense of fiscally and socially conservative issues drew the ire of the liberal media elites. From Lois Romano depicting her…

Howard Dean: National Review's Rich Lowry a 'Right-wing Nutcase

May 30th, 2013 8:49 AM
When it comes to identifying nutcases, some might say that Howard Dean gleans valuable experience daily, while shaving. The failed presidential candidate put his expertise to dubious use on Morning Joe today, calling National Review editor Rich Lowry a "right-wing nutcase."  Lowry's sin?  Having written a column mocking Eric Holder, and President Obama's decision to put Holder in charge of…

Piers Morgan Taunts Rachel Maddow Over MSNBC's Plummeting Ratings: 'Oo

May 29th, 2013 8:00 PM
As NewsBusters reported moments ago, MSNBC's ratings are in total freefall. When the news first broke at the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday, CNN's Piers Morgan taunted MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Twitter:

MSNBC's Ratings in Freefall

May 29th, 2013 7:27 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting for several months, MSNBC's ratings have been in a freefall. After attracting its lowest number of viewers in seven years a few weeks ago, the so-called "news network" is finishing out May with staggering year-over-year declines.

Sneering Alex Wagner Mocks 'Alligator Moat' Border Plans in New Lean F

May 29th, 2013 4:45 PM
  MSNBC on Wednesday debuted yet another hard-left Lean Forward ad. This time, liberal anchor Alex Wagner slammed anyone who wants border security, sneering that they want "bigger, meaner, scarier fences" and "electrified, alligator moats to prevent 'them' coming in." Each time Wagner mockingly spoke for those who opposed illegal immigration, she used air quotes to describe "them," implying a…

MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid: Benghazi Is Not a Scandal

May 29th, 2013 4:27 PM
MSNBC continues to do its best to protect the Obama administration from any accusations of wrongdoing in the Benghazi fiasco. On Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, the host went so far as to ask whether it is even legitimate to call Benghazi a scandal. Witt was setting up her pre-taped “Office Politics” interview with Joy-Ann Reid, managing editor of The Grio and frequent MSNBC contributor,…

MSNBC's O'Donnell: 'Great State of Colorado Made Marijuana History Tod

May 29th, 2013 2:44 PM
On Tuesday's The Last Word show, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell trumpeted the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Colorado. He began the segment by proclaiming that Colorado had made "marijuana history." O'Donnell:

Schultz Exploits Oklahoma Tragedy to Blast 'Racist' 'Conservative Plot

May 29th, 2013 2:07 PM
Full of hot air and partisan bluster, MSNBC's Ed Schultz cynically and ghoulishly exploited the disaster in Moore, Oklahoma last week to blast Republicans over unrelated education policies. Schultz recounted the inspiring stories of teachers who threw themselves on students while their schools were being ripped apart by the tornado. But his monologue took an ugly turn when he pivoted to the…