Bill D'Agostino
Bill D'Agostino | May 3, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Thursday, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spent less than 40 minutes of their three-hour MSNBC show talking about anything other the President’s legal troubles.
Bill D'Agostino | April 23, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Chris Hayes began then final segment of MSNBC’s All In on Monday night by lambasting Republicans for “running against Hillary Clinton” in the 2018 midterms. Ironically, Hayes spent entire remainder of his show discussing Hillary Clinton.
Bill D'Agostino | April 23, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. To the left, climate change is no longer a partisan issue; it’s merely a question of believers versus heretics. Perhaps that is why NBC felt justified in airing a Sunday Nightly News segment bursting at the seams with praise for liberal Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), whom NBC chief climate change correspondent Anne Thompson lauded as “…
Bill D'Agostino | April 16, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Monday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews repeadly misrepresented reality while hosting his nightly episode of Hardball, putting his fellow panelists in the awkward position of having to correct him. Within the span of the first fifteen-minute segment, Matthews misrepresented state audio recording laws, attorney-client privilege, and recent reporting by…
Bill D'Agostino | April 15, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Sunday morning, television news personalities begrudgingly showed a small degree of satisfaction with President Trump’s recent military action in Syria. Evidently disturbed by their support for anything Trump, cable and network media hosts collectively lifted the goalposts in unison and hurriedly ran them downfield.
Bill D'Agostino | April 13, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Predictably, Friday's cable coverage was abuzz with talk of former FBI Director Comey's new book, which has cashed in on the highly profitable craze for Trump insider dirt. But on Morning Joe, BBC reporter Katty Kay broke ranks when she pointed out that the "pettiness" and "personal edge" of Comey's narration undermined the book's credibility. 
Bill D'Agostino | April 11, 2018
Read the full story at NewsBusters. The hype for James Comey’s book tour (set to launch on ABC Sunday evening with an hour-long George Stephanopoulos special) actually began months ago. And while liberal journalists are clearly hoping for Comey to dish the dirt on President Donald Trump, there was a time when they hammered him as a partisan hack whose investigation into then-candidate Hillary…
Bill D'Agostino | April 10, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Many in the liberal media have blamed the recent alleged chemical attack in Syria on President Trump, citing his vow to pull American troops out of the region as having “emboldened” Assad. Yet the same networks wildly praised the “amazing” and “potentially groundbreaking” 2013 deal in which President Obama entrusted Russian forces with the disposal of…
Bill D'Agostino | April 9, 2018
To read the full article, visit Newsbusters. Following the revelation on Monday that the FBI had raided the office of Donald Trump’s lawyer, the recent developments in Syria took a back seat on MSNBC’s evening shows. However, Hardball host Chris Matthews found a creative way to tie the stories together: by predicting the President would bomb Syria to distract from the raid. 
Bill D'Agostino | April 9, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On a news day otherwise dominated by talk of the alleged chemical attack in Syria, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace flipped the script on Monday and spent an uninterrupted, commercial-free hour salivating over reports that FBI had raided the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.