Several left-wing media outlets, various blogs, and even Steve Benen, writing for the Rachel Maddow Show, have orchestrated what appears to be a media hit on Ken Buck, the likely Republican front-runner in Colorado for the U.S. Senate. As Erick
Before the very public implosion of his relationship with the network, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was reportedly on the phone with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski as he drove his way up to Fort Lee to apologize to its mayor
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
Many–if not most–of those following the unfolding drama surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are having a hard time making heads or tails of the reason behind the act. Rachel Maddow is one of them, presenting a convoluted theory involving
On Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow suggested that Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office may have caused traffic jams in Fort Lee last year to retaliate against the leader of the Senate Democrats in the administration’s ongoing feud
Rachel Maddow has doubled down on her spurious “bombshell” report alleging that the nefarious Koch Brothers helped fund a shockingly outrageous initiative in Florida (which the vast majority of Floridians happened to support), but no one outside of the MSNBC clown
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
For years, apologists for Phil Griffin’s debacle of a news network, MSNBC, have rationalized their ratings failures by claiming that their audience may be smaller than Fox News, but it’s younger and stronger in the key “money demo” of adults
Last weekend the NY Times published a “Sunday dialogue” which included a letter to the editor by a Connecticut bookseller and some responses. The topic was media bias. Both the letter–and some of the responses to it–present a perspective on
Fishbowl DC: In something of a backwards move in this day and age, a TV personality is taking on a print gig. Rachel Maddow of MSNBC fame will be writing a monthly column for The Washington Post, according to a
It has been a week since MSNBC’s Martin Bashir took the network’s hatred of Sarah Palin one step further with a sexist rant suggesting someone defecate and urinate into the former Alaska governor’s mouth. Having apologized but received no discipline, his
I normally do not like to judge a movie based on the merits of similar movies, but it seems to be the most appropriate way to review White House Down. Released within months of Olympus Has Fallen (a movie with
MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday night and returned to a familiar refrain when trying to explain Republican opposition to President Obama’s deficit spending policies and the Affordable Care Act. “I think it’s hatred, I
Call him “Captain Obvious.” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes has a firm grasp on what everyone in the universe knows: his show is tanking in the ratings. In a fawning puff piece about MSNBC in this month’s New Yorker magazine, Hayes admits
Last night the great David Webb filled in for Sean Hannity on Fox News. Webb put on Allen West and Juan Williams to talk about urban malaise. The visuals at Fox must have been too much for Rachel Maddow, because she put
Last Friday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow referred to the Washington Redskins as the “R-word” in a segment on her show about a delegate from American Samoa who is relentlessly advocating for a name change. Breitbart Sports has reported extensively on the
During a May appearance on Rachel Maddow Lean Forward Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said gun rights are not “God-given” and any claim that the Founding Fathers wanted U.S. citizens armed so they could repel a tyranny “is insane.” Murphy said, “The
MSNBC host Thomas Roberts referred to Anthony Weiner’s sexting partner as a “chick” who is “so bats**t.” Opening a discussion for his panel to discuss Sydney Leathers’ recent interview with Howard Stern wherein she revealed that she is leaving open
Melissa Harris-Perry, who filled in last night for Rachel Maddow on some MSNBC show I don’t usually watch, asked Filner’s new chief of staff if it was discriminatory to bar women from having private meetings with Mayor Filner. Eight women
This year’s bad news for MSNBC has only gotten worse. The “Lean Forward” network has struggled in the ratings since the Boston Marathon bombings exposed the network’s glaring weakness when it comes to news gathering. MSNBC had hoped to turn
Rachel Maddow has had enough with Anthony Weiner. She opened Tuesday’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC with a rant against the oft-disgraced New York politician and rightly accused him of manipulating the press for his craven political purposes. What Maddow
Ex-MSNBC employee David Shuster described his former network as a “mouthpiece for the [Obama] administration” in a National Journal article looking at the cable network’s very real ratings crisis. The left-wing Schuster says, “When you’re too predictably a mouthpiece for
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow received a “Pants On Fire” rating from the PolitiFact Ohio Truth-O-Meter for her statement on her June 28 show in which she said that an Ohio budget item, later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich (R), requires
Keith Olbermann is being accused of hammering his former protegé Rachel Maddow on Twitter after responding to a tweet about the cable network’s ratings slump. Olbermann responded with “This is sarcasm, to the following tweet: Very, Very impressive #ratings
In the aftermath of the crime at a Colorado movie theater where 12 people were murdered, the Colorado State legislature quickly moved to adopt stricter gun laws and Senate President John Morse led that effort. But now, after his anti-gun
