Brad Wilmouth
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Appearing as a guest on Sunday's MSNBC Live with Alex Witt, former NBC News presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin enthused over Joe Biden as the next President, likening his defeat of Donald Trump to Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeating Herbert Hoover, and touting his ability to connect with voters as being like Roosevelt.
As the liberal Goodwin…
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On Saturday's PBS NewsHour Weekend, correspondent Yamiche Alcindor delivered commentary that sounded like partisan Democratic spin as she proclaimed that Joe Biden had defeated President Donald Trump with a "record number of voters," and then declared that it was "political poetry" that Senator Kamala Harris was part of the ticket beat Trump after his…
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NBC's Nance Likens 69 Million Republicans to Mideast Terrorists
Appearing as a panel member on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, NBC News terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance was loaded with vitriol against everyone who voted for President Donald Trump.
After fearmongering about the possibility that ISIS-like pro-Trump paramilitary groups would…
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On Friday's MSNBC coverage of the 2020 presidential election, MSNBC contributor and disaffected ex-Republican Steve Schmidt fretted that almost half the country voted for President Donald Trump, declaring that they "voted for a statist authoritarian movement with fascistic markers hostile to American democracy."
Lamenting that "Trumpism" will likely…
I think we have to remember to put the focus in the right place. This is about white folks. This is about white people who saw a President who was corrupt and sexist and violent and mismanaged an entire pandemic that's killed over 230,000 people by the election, and they said, "I want some more of that." So even if every single black person and every single Latino person had said, "Hey, we're…
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Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Deadline: White House on MSNBC to react to President Donald Trump's strong showing in the election, contributor Jason Johnson declared he was "disturbed" by the number of Americans who voted for Trump, and urged Joe Biden, if he becomes President, to treat Republicans as "the enemies of democracy."
Host Nicolle…
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On Monday's The Reid Report, MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt made an election eve appearance to take his latest incendiary shots at Donald Trump supporters in a segment that featured host Joy Reid likening pro-Trump caravans to ISIS terrorists and Schmidt invoking Adolf Hitler's SA from the 1920s. The disaffected ex-Republican also suggested that racism…
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On Monday afternoon, as MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell only had Democratic guests on her show to discuss the upcoming Election Day, she hyped concerns about "voter suppression" aimed at minorities and recalled without context the story of North Carolina police officers dispersing a group of liberal protesters and prospective voters.
In one segment, while …
Finishing off the week before Election Day, NBC on Friday evening stoked racial fears and invoked violence against African Americans from the distant past as the NBC Nightly News likened Republican leaders to plantation owners who stopped blacks from voting in the 1870s.
In a piece featuring veteran civil rights activist Reverend James Lawson, after reporter Cynthia McFadden recalled complaints…