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Suspected hostage taker James Lee UPDATE via MSNBC: Lee said he experienced an ”awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ”An Inconvenient Truth.” UPDATE: Here’s a link to the Breitbart.tv live video stream of the ongoing

Please Larry King, retire already and take Al Sharpton with you. Blind leading the blind (that’s a Christian reference, by the way) as King and Sharpton discussed Barack Obama’s religion last night. Of course, they mentioned that Obama “cleared things

Keith Olbermann in his drive to be the champion of the Progressive Left and defender of all things, “President Obama and Democrats,” erroneously reported there is a Mosque in the Pentagon recently as a majority of American expressed their opposition

Joe Scarborough is a scarcely visible light in the intellectually vacuous cavern of MSNBC liberal apparatchiks. I made the mistake of turning on this network in prime time last night and my head almost blew off. What stunning honesty about

The good doctor of East Hampton and Vermont, Howard Brush Dean III, analyzes Glenn Beck: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Card-carrying hack John Heilemann, totally clueless as usual, also chimes in. And isn’t

In a truly “Pot vs. Kettle” moment, former Gov. Howard Dean said he thought Glenn Beck isn’t “right in the head”.

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz said the crowd at Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally was “Old white angry McCain Palin leftovers who just can’t seem to stomach the fact that we have a black man in the White House.”

Glenn Beck plays a clip of an MSNBC reporter claiming to their audience that Rep. Michelle Bachmann and former congressman Dick Armey were scheduled to speak at the “Restoring Honor” rally this weekend.

In an era when satellite imagery allows one to count cars from space, and in a country fascinated with numbers (weekly box office take, home runs, calorie counting, etc) the MSM is having a difficult time with the math on

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In an exclusive interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, President Barack Obama clarified his position on the ground zero mosque controversy and blamed the media for mis-understanding his seemingly

Sounding a bit like Hillary Clinton circa 1998, President Barack Obama blamed a “network of mis-information” on the recent poll results showing a significant portion of Americans unable to correctly identify his religion. NBC’s Brian Williams did not raise the

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a

Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” discussed news coverage Thursday of President Obama’s “We’re buying shrimp” response to reporters who asked about the Iraq War.

—– “Narrated by Matt Damon.” Yawn. Did anyone hear the words Freddie or Fannie in that clip? How about toxic mortgages. Community Reinvestment Act. ACORN? No you did not. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m no Wall Street fan, and Obama bailing

Gov. Tim Kaine asserts that the Tea Party energy is often focused on Republicans, thereby helping Democrats in November.

The preening, sneering, cocksure face of the modern Left: Rep. Alan Grayson, whose one term in Congress is about to come to a merciful, if ignominious, end when the good folks of his traditionally Republican district regain their senses this

There are three important things going on in “The Tillman Story” (in selected theatres today), two of which almost make the conspiracy-mongering documentary worth your time. The first and best is the opportunity to get to know better the extraordinary

Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida continues to build his demo reel for his future show on MSNBC.

Recent news about Levi Johnston’s possible reality show, “Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor’s Office,” proved once more that Sarah Palin scares the Left to death. How so? For starters, Johnston is the former almost son-in-law of Palin. It

The target of Islamic hijackers aboard United flight 93 on September 11th, 2001 was depicted in a 2006 film as being the United States capitol building. Investigations after the plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field pointed to a high probability

There’s been a lot of rhetoric lately about the so-called ground zero mosque on all sides: Governor Christie saying that the mosque was merely being used as a “political football,” Mayor Bloomberg saying that opposition to the mosque is treating

On Morning Joe, Norah O’Donnell says that those who oppose the Ground Zero mosque are acting “like the people who attacked America and killed 3,000 people.”

Today Obama administration mouthpiece Mark Halperin is imploring the GOP to hold its fire on Democrats and, specifically, the president for weighing in on the side of the Ground Zero Mosque, Shariah and the disingenuous imam behind it. In his

In his latest Time.com piece, Mark Halperin, Editor At Large and Senior MSNBC Political Analyst, has decided that the GOP must not jump into the furor surrounding the latest slip of the First Tongue as it relates to the controversy

Chris Matthews this weekend winced in pain when a guest on his syndicated program said it’s actually more likely the Democrats will lose the Senate than the House in the upcoming midterm elections.

So New Hampshire State Rep. Timothy Horrigan has stepped down after posting on Facebook that a dead Sarah Palin is “more dangerous than a live one.” Because he’s stupid, he added: “if she was dead, she cldn’t [sic] commit any

It seems like Rep. Alan Grayson is continuing his audition process for his own MSNBC show.

Joe Scarborough confronts Rep. Anthony Weiner on the first-responder’s bill and the congressional dispute that caused a screaming match on the House Floor and cable news networks.

Remember the day when “Nothing Happened?” to Ralph Melish back in 1973? [youtube hps0TsJvqEA&feature nolink] Oddly enough, 1973 was also the year that gave us Rachel Maddow, star of the ratings-challenged MSNBC. Perhaps as an infant, young Ms. Maddow heard

—— 10. No one will ever say that David Letterman is “too smart to believe what he believes.” 9. Whatever was left of Dave’s edgy sense of irony died while engaging in a serious discussion about the ethics of journalism

Anyone who’s been paying attention for the last ten years is aware that the level of public acrimony has been increasing steadily. This applies to acrimony in politics and journalism, as well as to surging xenophobia in many countries around

Earlier yesterday Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) ambushed an IDF position in Israeli territory along the Lebanese border in northern Israel. Coordinated with the United Nations Peacekeeping troops (UNIFIL), the IDF forces were cutting down a tree that obstructed its view

My colleague Alex Marlow has already done an effective job of pointing out how Howard Kurtz of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” maneuvered his Sunday coverage of last week’s “Hardball” redo into yet another MSM hit that intentionally ignores the fact that

Buried at the bottom of a story published the other day, the New York Times printed a curious little correction: The Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example of a racially

Saying Democrats have effectively caved in to Republican wishes, particularly on the issue of yet another unemployment benefits extension, MSNBC libtalker Ed Schultz told radio listeners he’s kicking off a 2010 election boycott campaign.

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