Media That Hate Money in Politics and Citizens United Ruling LOVE Cloo

May 10th, 2012 4:51 PM
For months, the Obama-loving media have been carping and whining about all the money going to conservative Super PACs in the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling back in 2010. Yet as you can see from the following segment on MSNBC's Martin Bashir show Thursday, the press are giddy over the prospect the president will raise up to $15 million at actor George Clooney's campaign event…

NBC Brings on MSNBC's Maddow to Attack 'Very, Very Conservative' Romne

May 10th, 2012 4:13 PM
To get reaction to President Obama's flip-flop on gay marriage, Thursday's NBC Today brought on openly gay left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who quickly attacked Republicans on the issue: "It's a very, very conservative Republican Party on this issue....Mitt Romney, who wants to roll back gay rights nationwide." Co-host Ann Curry helped Maddow along by asking series of questions from the…

NBC's Savannah Guthrie Admits 'Many People' in Media 'Uniformly Suppor

May 10th, 2012 1:20 PM
In a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about President Obama announcing his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, co-host Savannah Guthrie confessed to the group of all liberal pundits: "...so many people in the media seem to uniformly support same-sex marriage." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] That fact was made blatantly obvious by the discussion that…

Chris Matthews: Gay GOP Staffers Should Ask Bosses to Join Obama on Sa

May 9th, 2012 7:10 PM
President Obama once again flipflopped on his position regarding same-sex marriage Wednesday, and his adoring media couldn't be more pleased. On MSNBC, Hardball's Chris Matthews actually called for "gay men and women who now work for the election of Republican members of Congress, Senators, and [Mitt] Romney himself...to stand up, walk in the direction of their bosses and candidates, and ask…

Chris Matthews Links Gay Marriage Opponents to Supporters of Slavery

May 9th, 2012 5:02 PM
Minutes after Barack Obama came out for gay marriage, Wednesday, Chris Matthews appeared on MSNBC to compare opponents of such unions to "wolves" and to link them to supporters of slavery. Warning of political danger to the President, Matthews spewed, "The dens are opening. The gates are opening of wolves coming out for this, the Karl Roves." After describing liberalism as the force that…

Chris Matthews Falsely Claims Obama Bailed Out Ford

May 8th, 2012 6:54 PM
It's becoming clearer and clearer that the time has come for MSNBC's Chris Matthews to retire. On Tuesday's Hardball, despite virtually every intelligent person in this country knowing that Ford was the lone American car company to not accept a bailout in 2009, Matthews actually claimed President Obama "bet on" the auto giant (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MSNBC's Bashir Takes Bible Passage Out of Context to Bludgeon Rep. Bar

May 8th, 2012 6:30 PM
Martin Bashir -- he who slammed Ann Romney as "two-faced," gratuitously ripped fellow Christian Rick Santorum by comparing him to Stalin, and cravenly suggested Santorum's less of a genuine Christian than Barack Obama  judged by the amount of money the men gave to charity respectively -- mounted his moral high horse yet again to thunder hellfire and brimstone upon a conservative Republican.…

Ron Reagan: Obama 'Taking More Time Evolving' on Same-Sex Marriage 'Th

May 8th, 2012 5:47 PM
Ron Reagan, the son of late President Ronald Reagan, came down strongly on Tuesday against Barack Obama's unwillingness to definitively support same-sex marriage. Appearing on Hardball, the MSNBC political analyst said, "He’s taking more time evolving on this issue than humans took evolving from apes" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

'Silence is Consent,' Sharpton Pontificates - Except When It's His

May 8th, 2012 1:41 PM
On his "PoliticsNation" show last night, the Rev. Al Sharpton was indignant -- then again, when is he not? -- that Mitt Romney did not immediately reject a statement by a woman at a rally in Ohio that President Obama should be "tried for treason." Romney answered the woman's question about restoring balance between the three branches of government but ignored her remark about Obama as…

Chris Matthews Compares Mitt Romney to 'Wall Street' Villain Gordon Ge

May 7th, 2012 7:30 PM
Last August, Politico revealed that the Obama campaign intended to make Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "a sort of political Gordon Gekko" if he won the nomination. Right out of that playbook, MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday compared Romney to the financial villain of the '80s movie classic "Wall Street" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Martin Bashir: 'Romney Is the European Socialist' Not Obama

May 7th, 2012 4:33 PM
MSNBC's Martin Bashir practically had an on air meltdown Monday over comments Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made about President Obama and the European economy. "He supports Paul Ryan’s budget. He wants to go cut, cut, cut. It’s not president – it’s him. He’s the European Socialist" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bill Maher Pressures MSNBC's Ed Schultz to Donate to Obama

May 5th, 2012 10:01 AM
On Friday, Bill Maher, the largest donor to Barack Obama's Super PAC, pressured MSNBC's Ed Schultz to contribute to the President's campaign. This happened on HBO's Real Time less than 30 minutes after Maher said, "For the sake of black America, [Obama] needs the second term" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Chris Matthews Falsely Claims Unemployment Rate Now 'Lowest' Since 'Ob

May 4th, 2012 6:11 PM
Is MSNBC's Chris Matthews stupid, dishonest, or both? On Friday's Hardball, the host actually said of today's report from the Department of Labor, "The unemployment rate did drop to 8.1 percent, the lowest rate since President Obama took office" (video follows with transcribe highlights and commentary):

MSNBC's Finney: Romney-Ryan Plan Would Kill Women By Their Mid-30s

May 4th, 2012 4:05 PM
MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney kicked horrific tales of the so-called GOP war on women into high gear on Friday's Martin Bashir show. In a segment about the Obama campaign's portrait of a fictional woman's life under his leadership versus the Republican presidential candidate's, Finney said, "Here’s what life under the Romney-Ryan plan would be like for Julia...She’d be in the grave by…