On Wednesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes lambasted GOP Senate candidate Liz Cheney as he hyperbolically used over the top words and phrases such as "odious," "crappy friend," "villain," and "toxic," as he devoted a segment to trashing the daughter of former Vice President Cheney for choosing to run for the U.S. Senate for Wyoming. At one point, Hayes called her a "knockoff" of her father, to whom he applied the "villain" label, seeing her as the product of "affirmative action for over privileged white people." Referring to the former Vice President, Hayes sneered: Now, whatever you think... continue reading
On Thursday, CNN's Carol Costello had this snarky tweet for Republicans: " House votes to delay Obamacare. Just as it has unsuccessfully done 35 times ." Then she linked to a CNN Money article claiming that Obamacare will cut health care costs for New Yorkers in half. President Obama used this exact same talking point on Friday to bolster his law. Costello claimed it was "buried in all the negative news" on Obamacare -- although she's only reported one negative story on the health care law in the last month -- yet the positive news she touted also came with... continue reading
During a report on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News on the widely panned cover of Rolling Stone magazine featuring Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a soundbite was included of New York Times media columnist David Carr defending the offensive display: "I think that Rolling Stone committed an act of journalism in both publishing this photo and publishing the story that they did." [ Listen to the audio ] Throughout the segment, NBC correspondent John Yang described the near-universal condemnation of the cover, but led up to Carr's commentary by declaring: " Rolling Stone has a history of serious journalism, like the story... continue reading
On Wednesday's All Things Considered , NPR's Elizabeth Shogren blasted the Republican congressional majority led by Newt Gingrich during the 1990s. Shogren spotlighted a MIT professor's assertion that former President Bill Clinton "stood up for the EPA when it faced the most frightening attack it had ever had . Congressional Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, wanted to gut regulations ...some even wanted to do away with the EPA." The correspondent made this over-the-top statement as she covered the EPA renaming its headquarters after the two-term president. Shogren also hit the Democrat from the left by claiming that " Clinton's record... continue reading
In a live interview with Trayvon Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, on Thursday's NBC Today , co-host Matt Lauer urged them to condemn the justice system for the acquittal of their son's shooter George Zimmerman: "Do you think the legal system failed Trayvon?" [ Listen to the audio ] Lauer set up the question by quoting their attorney Benjamin Crump, also a guest on the program: "Here's something Mr. Crump said after the jury was selected, 'It's important that they know,' meaning the jurors, 'Trayvon Martin's parents have put their faith in the justice system. They're praying the... continue reading
On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave the Reverend Jesse Jackson a softball interview in which the civil rights activist accused George Zimmerman of being "a known murderer" and invoked murder victims like Emmett Till and Medgar Evers from the civil rights movement. Unlike Friday's show, when he corrected a guest who claimed that Zimmerman "murdered Trayvon Martin," Hayes voiced no exception with the Reverend Jackson's assertions. After Jackson brought up other black men who were killed under controversial circumstances in recent decades, Hayes accepted the liberal activist's premise as he followed up: Reverend, if, when you've... continue reading
During an angry rant over the announcement that Liz Cheney will be running for the United States senate in 2014, Chris Matthews offered up one of his typically bizarre movie reference to explain the development: "[Liz and Dick Cheney] remind me of Superman in a movie as played by Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint. Packing their little kid into a little missile to send him off to America or somewhere." [MP3 audio here .] Matthews spewed, "They packed her into this little missile and they're sending her off to Wyoming to continue the life form." The Hardball anchor was... continue reading
On the Tuesday, July 16, PoliticsNation , MSNBC contributor Joy Reid complained that pro-gun groups like the ALEC and the NRA are "almost creating a Wild West atmosphere" to protect gun owners. After she seemed to suggest a profit motive of wanting to "sell a lot more guns," Reid lamented that these conservative groups are trying to "roll back anything that would inhibit a rational, reasonable person from getting and carrying and even discharging a firearm." After host Al Sharpton brought up singer Stevie Wonder's declaration that he would not perform in states with Stand Your Ground laws, Reid responded:... continue reading
In an essay for gay and lesbian magazine Advocate , CNN's openly-gay anchor Don Lemon insisted that the public has accepted the gay and lesbian lifestyle and anyone who opposes it is a loon. " These days, it seems absurd that anyone would want to deny civil and human rights to anyone ," Lemon wrote. He also lobbied for black Christians to accept homosexuality as normal. "We also say I'm black and gay because we want our own people to support us and know that we were born gay just as surely as we were born black. And because the... continue reading
On Wednesday's NBC Today , a report by correspondent Kerry Sanders featured a series of sound bites of public figures, all of them liberal, reacting to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman. Most of the statements focused on using Martin's death to call for the elimination of Stand Your Ground self-defense laws. [ Listen to the audio ] Sanders began the slanted segment by highlighting protests against the verdict: "Four days after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter, the number of rallies in memory of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is growing....In Florida's capitol, dozens... continue reading