Chris Matthews Compares Pro-Gun Senators to 'Jim Crow' Racists

April 11th, 2013 5:26 PM
Hardball's Chris Matthews on Thursday again smeared pro-Second Amendment Senators, this time comparing them to "Jim Crow" racists. While talking about GOP politicians who threatened to filibuster the current gun control bill, Matthews spewed, "But you remember when they fought in the early '60s about, about Jim Crow and getting rid of all those racial things down south where it says white only…

Biden Tells Scarborough: You Deserve an Award if Anything Gets Done on

April 11th, 2013 10:09 AM
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough got an endorsement Thursday that he might live to regret. In an exclusive Morning Joe interview with Joe Biden, the Vice President told Scarborough, "The two guys that deserve - if anything gets done [on gun control] - an award here are you and Michael Bloomberg" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MSNBC or MSDNC? Network Taps DNC Video Director to Produce New Show

April 10th, 2013 5:11 PM
Is it MSNBC or MSDNC?  Andrew Kirell of Mediaite reported today that the left-wing commentary network has hired the Democratic National Committee’s director of video production, Anne Thompson, to produce the network’s newest weekend show Up with Steve Kornacki.  Yet, this is just another episode in the annals of MSNBC’s revolving door of hiring Obamaites.  MSNBC has already hired David Axelrod…

MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts Asks If Ashley Judd Should Reconsider Running

April 10th, 2013 4:55 PM

It appears as though MSNBC’s war on women agenda has found a new target, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).  The subject of this controversy comes from the liberal Mother Jones magazine, which obtained audio of a McConnell campaign meeting discussing a potential challenge from Ashley Judd for Senate and preparing a dossier on weaknesses she has as a candidate. The liberal media,…

MSNBC's O'Donnell Frets Americans 'Suffer Deprivations' Because of Low

April 10th, 2013 4:00 PM
On Tuesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC host O'Donnell fretted that people "suffer deprivations" in the United States because the U.S. is the "world's biggest tax haven" with a relatively low tax burden compared to other countries. After showing his viewers a chart recounting that the U.S. ranks 31st in the percentage of the economy the government collects in taxes, O'Donnell…

MSNBC’s Finney Pushes Democratic Talking Points on Budget

April 10th, 2013 1:29 PM
Karen Finney’s days as a Democratic National Committee spokeswoman are over, but you would never know that by listening to her speak in her current role as MSNBC contributor. On Saturday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, Finney essentially reprised her role as DNC press secretary during a discussion with former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) about President Obama’s proposed budget. Host Alex Witt asked…

More Socialism In Latest Harris-Perry 'Lean Forward': Most Successful

April 10th, 2013 9:08 AM
Maybe MSNBC was trying to deflect some of the controversy surrounding Melissa Harris-Perry's previous "Lean Forward" promo by pushing out a new one. MH-P had provoked outrage in that earlier promo by proclaiming that "kids belong to their communities," not to their parents. But if anything, the new promo aired during today's Morning Joe just adds fuel to MH-P's socialist fire. While claiming…

Scarborough On Harry Reid Quoting Him On Senate Floor: There Goes My R

April 10th, 2013 7:47 AM
With his penchant for ripping Republicans rather than Democrats, Joe Scarborough likely long ago ruined his chances of winning a Republican primary.  But the Morning Joe host today jokingly acknowledged how particularly tough it would now be, after Harry Reid yesterday approvingly quoted him on the Senate floor. Ever since Newtown, Scarborough has been waging a daily campaign for gun control…

Michael Steele Rips Chris Matthews: 'You're Becoming a Cartoon of the

April 9th, 2013 7:08 PM
Chris Matthews and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele got into a heated debate Tuesday over the Hardball host painting the GOP with "one brush." At the end of the segment, Steele said, "You're not having a broad-based discussion any longer. You're becoming a cartoon of the cartoon" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MSNBC's Hayes Lauds 'Beloved' UK National Health Care as 'Great Hallma

April 9th, 2013 5:52 PM
On Monday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes praised Britain's "beloved" national health care program as possibly "one of the great hallmarks of western social democracy," as he admitted to delivering criticism from a liberal point of view of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's administration.

National Journal’s Fournier Challenges MSNBC Panel Over Plan B for P

April 9th, 2013 5:30 PM
In what is a rare occurrence on MSNBC, one of the panelists actually challenged the conventional liberal view on one of its daytime shows.  The most recent example occurred on Now w/ Alex Wagner on April 9, when Ron Fournier of National Journal rejected the panel’s arguments that the Plan B pill should be available over-the-counter to all girls, regardless of age. The segment began with host…

In Blog Post, MSNBC's Harris-Perry Defends 'Collective' View of Caring

April 9th, 2013 4:35 PM
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry this afternoon took to her blog on the network's website to "double down" on her recent "Lean Forward" spot in which she lamented that we as Americans don't have a view of our "collective" responsibility to the nation's children. From start to finish, the Tulane professor played the victim of right-wing persecution, even closing with a link to Matthew 5:44, where…

Al Sharpton to Chris Matthews: 'We’re Not Engaging in Americans Hati

April 9th, 2013 10:58 AM
Al Sharpton on Monday said one of the funniest things uttered on MSNBC this year. Talking with Chris Matthews immediately after President Obama's speech in Hartford, Connecticut, Sharpton said - with a straight face no less! - "We’re not engaging in Americans hating each other" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Chris Matthews: 'I Don’t Think There’s Any Problem With Taking Sid

April 9th, 2013 10:29 AM
Chris Matthews on Monday admitted he and others at his network are not journalists but instead are advocates and activists. Speaking with Al Sharpton on Politics Nation immediately following President Obama's speech in Hartford, Connecticut, Matthews said, "I don’t think there’s any problem with taking sides" (video follows with transcript and commentary):