MSNBC’s “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews got in a parting shot at outgoing Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Thursday. “Tonight we’re recognizing her for the many outrageous, absurd and at times downright scary things she has said. It didn’t take long
On Thursday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Josh Green discussed his piece on some of the financial dealings involving former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) that could be a sign he won’t run for the Republican presidential
One of the country’s most prominent DREAMers believes that President Barack Obama needs to enact another round of executive amnesty even after she revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said her illegal immigrant mother would be allowed to stay
NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel argued that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on interrogation techniques used by the CIA was “about changing the narrative of American history” and that the Senate was trying “to wash their hands” on
Representative John Mica (R-FL), a member of the House Oversight Committee said that in addition to the grilling Jonathan Gruber will receive, there will be questions about discrepancies in figures given to the committee on Tuesday’s “Jose Diaz-Balart” on MSNBC.
Although ballots are still being counted in a handful of 2014 midterm elections, at least one Democrat super PAC is getting a jump on the 2016 presidential contest. On Monday, the left-wing American Bridge released what it calls a “media
Chris Cillizza, Editor of the Washington Post‘s “The Fix” argued that Jeb Bush is thinking about running for president because “he could help bring the Republican Party where it needs to go” on issues like immigration, but is wary about
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough seemingly took aim at his own network for neglecting to give any attention to the New Jersey legislature clearing Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) of wrongdoing in the so-called Bridgegate scandal.
President Obama’s personal chef Sam Kass is leaving the White House for New York City, according to an announcement from the office of the First Lady. Kass is not just a personal chef, but a close personal friend of the
Internal emails between Vermont bureaucrats and controversial MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber reveal that Gruber’s public silence is a strategic decision to avoid engaging with what he calls the “haters” who have criticized him. Gruber, the “architect” of Obamacare, has
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” joked that the Eric Garner case marked the first time people have agreed with Al Sharpton. The sketch, a mock-up of Sharpton’s MSNBC show “PoliticsNation” began with Sharpton’s character saying (with numerous pronunciation errors throughout) he
On her Saturday broadcast, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry argued that although she did not condone the arson and looting following the St. Louis grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown
Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana offered a series of tweets Friday afternoon which seem to offer a more abject apology for the magazines failure to check the facts in a widely read story about an alleged gang-rape at UVA.
The family of New Yorker Akai Gurley has a warning for MSNBC host Al Sharpton: stay away. The 28-year-old African-American was shot on Nov. 20 by New York City Police Officer Peter Liang in the stairwell of a public housing
On Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, conservative columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican,” argued the root cause behind the incident that resulted in the death of Eric Garner was the government’s strong
On Thursday’s “NOW w/Alex Wagner” on MSNBC, Georgetown University professor and MSNBC regular Michael Eric Dyson sounded off on Wednesday’s grand jury decision not to charge New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner. According
Rev. Al Sharpton revealed he was “talking about” a “national rally” in DC to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner on Wednesday’s “PoliticsNation” on MSNBC. “Marc Muriel, [of] the National Urban League, a lot of civil rights
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ED Show,” immediately following the announcement that a New York City Police Officer would not be indicted by a grand jury for a chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner, Rep. Gregory
The widow of Eric Garner, killed last July by police as they were trying to subdue him with a choke hold, spoke out Wednesday evening after news broke that a grand jury had decided not to indict the officer for
On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough once again took on critics of police in the aftermath of last week’s announcement of a grand jury decision not to charge Ferguson, MO police officer for the fatal shooting of
MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough attacked his own network on Monday over their coverage of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown, saying that he was
Recently Charlie Cook of Cook’s Political Report assessed the chances that Hillary Clinton will run for the White House in 2016 a 60 – 70% probability, while saying that it’s likely she’ll run. The Five-Thirty-Eight website has come behind that
Chris Rock recently dubbed President Barack Obama’s tenure as “Hall of Fame” worthy in an interview at Vulture.com. That after the president’s disastrous rollout of ObamaCare, a series of foreign policy debacles, the ugly sight of Democrats refusing to admit
On his Tuesday broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough once again attacked those showing their disapproval of last week’s St. Louis grand jury decision involving the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson, MO Police Officer Darren Wilson,
On Monday’s “Ronan Farrow Daily” on MSNBC, Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer made an appearance first to point out that Elizabeth Lauten, a former staffer for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) that made some ill-advised comments about President Barack
Protests continue around the country but some elements in the media are starting to back away from the Brown case as a racial outrage. Case in point, the lead story at the New Republic this morning is headlined “The Ferguson
Janay Rice, the wife of NFL running back Ray Rice claimed that the Baltimore Ravens “suggested” she apologize for her role in the domestic violence incident where her husband knocked her unconscious in an elevator during an interview with Matt
Ever ready to fan the flames of racism, MSNBC was at it again on Monday with a guest who blamed the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri on “systemic” American “white supremacy.” During the Monday broadcast of “The Reid Report,” The Nation
MSNBC Military Analyst and Ret. Col. Jack Jacobs argued that the White House made Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel responsible but not giving him the power to handle his responsibilities on Saturday’s “Up” on MSNBC. “Anybody who’s going to take
Khalil Muhammed, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture argued that Officer Darren Wilson’s description of Mike Brown was “evoking” racial stereotypes on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. Muhammed said, in reaction to parts of Wilson’s
University of Pennsylvania Associate English Professor Dr. Salamishah Tillet argued that the principle that black lives don’t matter is “re-surfacing” on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. Tillet started by discussing “state-sanctioned” violence against black people, adding “or you have individuals, as
Former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) argued that Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) recent attempt to distance himself from the Affordable Care Act was “revisionism” on Schumer’s part, but that the bill and the process by which it was passed were flawed
The left is very good at starting racial firestorms but, likeirresponsible campers leaving behind an unquenched campfire, they arenot so good at putting them out. What we saw in their handling of the Brown case is a rerun of the
Friday on MSNBC, Ferguson activist John Gaskin called for blacks to only shop at black-owned business in protest of the grand jury decision to not indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown. Gaskin said, “What many people don’t
On MSNBC on Friday, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) weighed in on the aftermath of the reaction of the Ferguson grand jury, much of which he said was tied to the racial divide in not just Ferguson, MO, but throughout the
Allies of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson insist that given that the grand jury didn’t indict Wilson and believed his version of events over Michael Brown friend Dorian Johnson, the state should consider charging Johnson with perjury. It was Dorian
Friday on MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily,” host Ronan Farrow gave his “friends at Breitbart” a shout out for bring attention to the “New York Times,” publishing the home address of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Farrow said, “The New York Times,”
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Reid Report,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) said, ‘African-Americans all around this country believe that the police represents an army patrolling an occupied territory.” While discussing the Congressional Black Caucus reaction to officer Darren Wilson not being charged
Contrary to what Brian Williams said last night, the grand jury didn’t “fail” to indict Darren Wilson. They rendered a decision based on the evidence. What would Williams call indicting a law enforcement officer just to placate an angry mob
Since August, Al Sharpton and MSNBC, CNN, the big three networks, and all the righteous protesters and Anonymous hacktivists have been using the death of Michael Brown as a basis to claim that our society is prejudiced against black teens.
