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Rachel Maddow's Alternative Bridgegate Theory

Rachel Maddow's Alternative Bridgegate Theory

Rachel Maddow hasn’t let embarrassment regarding a bogus story about the Koch brothers dissuade her from taking more risks on her show. Thursday she devoted a segment to presenting an alternative theory for the closing of lanes on the George

Left-wing PolitiFact Blasts Maddow for Koch Bros. Smear

Left-wing PolitiFact Blasts Maddow for Koch Bros. Smear

Last Thursday, MSNBC’s Maddow attacked the Kochs for being behind a Florida law that would mandate drug testing for welfare recipients. However, Maddow’s logic is so twisted and contrived in making that connection that you can just as easily make

America's Foremost Public Intellectual and the Race Card

A few days ago the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a piece proclaiming MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry “America’s foremost public intellectual.” Coates didn’t really make much of a case. In fact, most of the piece was about Mitt Romney. Here’s the

Roger Ailes: 'Fox Has Won the Cable News Wars'

Roger Ailes: 'Fox Has Won the Cable News Wars'

Roger Ailes, the CEO and Chairman of Fox News, has declared victory over his left-wing competitors, CNN and MSNBC. In a lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ailes points out correctly that MSNBC and CNN have given up on and

Hollywood Reporter: Roger Ailes Runs the World

Hollywood Reporter: Roger Ailes Runs the World

Roger Ailes, like his Fox News Channel, is as divisive as he is successful. The chairman and CEO of the de facto victor in cable news’ ratings war, whose colorful professional past includes a tenure as a talk-show producer (The Mike

History of Hate: Five Years of Falsehoods at NBC News

History of Hate: Five Years of Falsehoods at NBC News

Everyone acted surprised when we learned yesterday that after a couple of disastrous months, MSNBC is defiantly refusing to change their editorial process. But why would they? For years now, MSNBC and NBC News have both become a culture of

MSNBC Supports Mandatory Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients

MSNBC Supports Mandatory Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients

According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s journalistic *ahem* standards, her own left-wing network, MSNBC, supports mandatory drug testing for Florida welfare recipients. Of course this is no truer than making the claim that the Koch brothers support this legislation. But that

More top-shelf journalism from MSNBC

Now that we’ve gotten a couple of apologies and some on-air crying from Melissa Harris-Perry, followed by a characteristically gracious statement from Mitt Romney, the saga of MSNBC’s mockery of Romney’s adopted grandson appears to be winding down.  I’ve read

Defiant MSNBC: 'No Changes to Our Editorial Process'

Defiant MSNBC: 'No Changes to Our Editorial Process'

Apparently the message a defiant MSNBC wants to put across in the wake of a disastrous couple of months is that nothing is going to change. Responding to a National Review story that  reported MSNBC had made some editorial changes