MSNBC's Tamron Hall Frets Over Arizona Becoming 'the Most Conservative

April 28th, 2010 12:20 PM
[UPDATE BELOW: Tamron Hall responds on Twitter.] MSNBC's Tamron Hall on Wednesday worried that Arizona may be turning into the "most conservative state in the nation." A graphic on the liberal cable network chided, "Arizona Too Conservative?" [Audio available here.]Hall talked to Zachary Roth from the Talking Points Memo web page. His site first sounded the alarm over the threat from this right…

MSNBC News Flash: Arizona Law 'Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigran

April 26th, 2010 4:53 PM
During the Monday 12PM ET hour of live coverage on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer described the "firestorm" over a newly passed immigration law in Arizona and fretted: "does this lead to a situation where neighbors are turning in neighbors or families turning against families?" Later in the segment, a headline on screen read: "Law Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant."Brewer discussed the…

MSNBC Suspends Donny Deutsch for Daring to Critique Olbermann, Did Not

April 21st, 2010 4:08 PM
MSNBC on Wednesday suspended host Donny Deutsch in the wake of a segment on Tuesday about what role hosts such as Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz play in making this country "America the angry." During the piece, Deutsch played a clip of an Olbermann rant and didn't defend Schultz when conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt attacked the "the biggest hate mongers in television."  However, in February…

MSNBC's Deutsch Frets Over 'Anger in America,' Incorrectly Labels IRS

April 19th, 2010 5:42 PM
MSNBC's Donny Deutsch kicked off a week-long segment on Monday about "America the Angry" and hinted that the "rageaholics" in this country could create another Oklahoma City-style bombing. After one guest mentioned Joe Stack, the man who flew a plane into an IRS building in February, Deutsch wrongly derided, "I don't know whether he was Republican or Democrat. I'm assuming he was probably a…

MSNBC Talking Points: Touting Obama as a Pro-gun President, Lecturing

April 19th, 2010 12:55 PM
MSNBC on Monday repeatedly promoted Barack Obama as a pro-Second Amendment President and chastised gun-rights activists for "worrying" so much over this issue. News Live host Monica Novotny talked to Skip Coryell, the founder of the Second Amendment march on Washington and complained, "What are you guys worried about?She then touted, "Our political unit today was reminding us in the First Read…

MSNBC Anchor Touts Journalist Who Compared Palin to Larry the Cable Gu

April 16th, 2010 5:17 PM
MSNBC's Peter Alexander on Friday eagerly agreed with a journalist who attacked Sarah Palin as "Larry the Cable Guy, minus the class and intelligence." Talking to Cathy Areu, contributing editor of the Washington Post magazine, Alexander gushed, "It's a good line." [Audio available here.]As first reported on NewsBusters, Areu slammed the former Alaskan governor on CNN, Wednesday. Playing to MSNBC…

MSNBC Touts Bizarre Vanity Fair Piece on Republicans Costing Taxpayers

April 16th, 2010 12:47 PM
MSNBC's Monica Novotny on Friday highlighted a dubious Vanity Fair piece lamenting the "cost" of the Republican Party opposing Barack Obama's agenda. The News Live host talked to writers Duff McDonald and Peter Keating about their contention that the "party of no" has cost taxpayers $1.34 billion. Apparently, the GOP and various conservative organizations total this much by not supporting health…
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MSNBC: 'Offensive' Tea Party Sign Has the Word 'LOVE' & Heart Symbol

April 14th, 2010 5:55 PM
  At the top of the 3PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Peter Alexander reported on a Tea Party event being held in Boston and grilled conservative author Kevin Jackson on "the fringe elements who show up for these rallies. Some in the past have had offensive signs and rhetoric." As Alexander spoke a large sign from the Boston rally appeared on screen, displaying the word 'LOVE' and a heart symbol.

NBC's Williams: 'Liberal Lion' Justice Stevens 'One of the Great Quali

April 11th, 2010 7:15 PM
Appearing in the 11AM ET hour on MSNBC Friday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams gushed over the legacy of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "He was famously called a 'lawyer's lawyer'...He leaves the court approaching his 90th birthday here, with one of the great quality minds, 90 or not, on the Supreme Court. Always had a kind of finely tuned intellect and nuanced…

HuffPo's Ryan Grim: RNC Fundraising 'Obnoxious;' Relies on 'Extreme Pa

April 7th, 2010 1:25 PM
In the 2PM ET hour on MSNBC on Tuesday, left-wing Huffington Post writer Ryan Grim commented on the Republican National Committee spending scandal: "You know, what Republican donors do, generally, is pretty obnoxious to the American people. What did they have to cancel? They had to cancel a polo match, some yachting, you know, trips to bondage clubs." Grim went on to claim: "if you want to get…

Suspended: Is the Era of David Shuster Lashing Out at 'Nutty,' Far Rig

April 6th, 2010 12:16 PM
MSNBC on Tuesday announced that anchor David Shuster has been "suspended indefinitely" after filming a pilot at CNN. If this is the end of the liberal host's tenure on MSNBC, he'll leave behind a long legacy of viciously attacking "conservative fear mongering." During the Obama era, Shuster, supposedly a straight-news journalist, has been quick to deride the opponents of the President. On…

MSNBC's Ratigan Cites Left-Wing Blog to Bash Drudge Report

March 31st, 2010 6:00 PM
Near the end of Wednesday's Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan led his 'Busted' segment by claiming that The Drudge Report did "not let facts get in the way of a good headline" on Tuesday, by featuring one which read: "CIA: Iran Moving Closer to Nuclear Weapon." Ratigan remarked: "That'll get the ratings up."Despite the fact that most of the world has long operated under the…

After Bashing Palin for 'Dem Hit List,' MSNBC's Shuster Highlights Lib

March 30th, 2010 12:19 PM
In the 10AM ET hour on MSNBC on Tuesday, anchor David Shuster talked with Democratic strategist Craig Varoga, founder of the Patriot Majority political action committee, about efforts to "fight against tea-party-backed candidates." Moments later, a headline on screen read: "Tea Party Targets; PAC Launching Counter-Attack of Tea Party."During the same hour on Monday, Shuster described how in a…

MSNBC's David Shuster Rips Sarah Palin for 'Dem Hit List,' Brings on L

March 29th, 2010 12:34 PM
MSNBC's David Shuster on Monday continued to hit Sarah Palin for supposedly inciting hate against liberals and Democrats on her Facebook page. The cable channel's graphic hyperbolically complained, "Sarah Palin's Dem Hit-list." With no sense of irony, Shuster then brought on the vitriolic Mike Malloy to trash Palin. Malloy is the liberal radio host who said in 2009 that Dick Cheney has "been…