mfinkelstein | January 26, 2011
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell criticizes Pres. Obama's State of the Union speech, saying that it lacked "energy and passion" and that its "dollars and cents don't add up."
mfinkelstein | January 21, 2011
At the event at GE in Schenectady, NY announcing GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt as a senior economic adviser, Pres. Obama mispronounces the last name of NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, after referring to her as his "great friend."
mfinkelstein | January 21, 2011
On Morning Joe, Meet The Press host David Gregory defends Pres. Obama's record of big-government interventionism in business, saying he inherited the situation from Pres. Bush.
mfinkelstein | January 20, 2011
On Morning Joe, Arianna Huffington tells Joe Lieberman, "I sincerely hope for the sake of the country that you don't become Secretary of Defense."
mfinkelstein | January 19, 2011
On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz claims that in their opposition to health care, Republicans have a "pre-civil rights attitude."
mfinkelstein | January 19, 2011
On Morning Joe, George Clooney, discussing the Sudan, says it "doesn't work" when two very different groups of people are put together in a country.
mfinkelstein | January 18, 2011
On Morning Joe today, Carl Bernstein insists Sarah Palin was "ignorant," but couldn't remember why. When pressed, he wrongly claims she didn't know where Russia was.
mfinkelstein | January 17, 2011
Ed Schultz would like to be more civil. Really he would. It's just that those reprehensible Republicans, by failing to agree with him, force poor Ed to advocate things like ripping out Dick Cheney's heart. That was the Schultz's oft-repeated theme on his MSNBC show this evening.
mfinkelstein | January 15, 2011
On ABC World News, David Muir and Christiane Amanpour gush about the "consensus" and "rational dialogue" at a Tucson town hall they hosted regarding the shootings. Only after a break do they mention that a victim was arrested for threatening other speakers, and don't mention that those speakers were an elected Republican and a Tea Party representative.
mfinkelstein | January 13, 2011
MSNBC's promo for Pres. Obama's impending State of the Union featured clips from previous SOTU speeches but excluding any footage of past Republican presidents. All presidents featured were Democrats.