Many critics wrote off Jeff Dunham after he introduced his Achmed the Terrorist puppet into his gallery of goofy co-stars. Why, the character is a stereotypical Islamic terrorist, as if such a creation were strictly a figment of the ventriloquist’s
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow offered her reaction to the cameo she made in Netflix’s series “House of Cards,” but did also revealed one detail about her motivations as a broadcaster. Follow
On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow featured an exclusive segment about the current state of pro-life laws in Texas, following the implementation of HB2, the Texas abortion safety law that added additional safety measures for women visiting clinics. The piece
Western cultural imperialism aimed at Africa–by everyone from Barack Obama to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow–has been blamed for the passage of what many see as the new draconian laws on homosexual behavior in Uganda. Writing in the prestigious Foreign Policy
MSNBC helped its readers understand the complex geography of the Ukraine by broadcasting a map Friday that included Czechoslovakia–a country that ceased to exist as a single unit more than twenty years ago. It is not the first time that
HBO’s Bill Maher and National Review’s Charles Cooke put MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on the defensive over her network’s coverage of Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)…
Congressman Alan Grayson just appeared on a Florida cooking and political show, where he said that liberal MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow “makes a lot of sense,” and that he “respects her views.” Grayson also said that Maddow seem “not talk
Fireworks erupted when Rep Tim Huelskamp went on MSNBC to discuss his State of the Union tweets with host Rachel Maddow…
As aired on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday night, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) had criticized Fort Lee, NJ for having three dedicated lanes onto the George Washington Bridge back on Dec. 2, 2013…
On her Tuesday broadcast, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow offered her viewers some of the details in the federal indictment brought against former Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and his wife, Maureen McDonnell. Later that same night, 11:29 p.m., the governor himself
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
As though MSNBC doesn’t have enough ratings problems, the recent decision to dump the working class Ed Schultz for Rachel Maddow doppelganger Chris Hayes is also blowing up in the Lean Forward network’s face. MSNBC president Phil Griffin probably thought
NBC News cable outlet MSNBC finished May in a dismal 4th place in the ratings race delivering a humiliating blow to the left-leaning news network. If MSNBC execs are rationalizing the 4th place finish by pointing out that CNN Headline
Progressive propaganda doesn’t seem to be doing well in the ratings since President Obama’s reelection. MSNBC dropped to fourth place behind the HLN network in May. The Hollywood Reporter notes it was a really bad month for the progressive network.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann still exists … After dissolving into the things like the Michele Bachmann for President campaign and other things that didn’t really turn out to much. The Tea Party movement now wants to be
Rachel Maddow attacked “fact-checker” Politifact Tuesday night over a story related to NBA player Jason Collins coming out as a gay man. The controversy revolves around a statement made by tennis legend Martina Navratilova on CBS News’ “Face the
