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[See NewsBusters for more.] On Tuesday's edition of Hallie Jackson Reports on MSNBC, the namesake host and correspondent Erin McLaughlin lamented sellout crowds at college football games over the weekend. Additionally, McLaughlin promoted a doctor who refuses to see unvaccinated patients and gave incomplete information while fearmongering about a new variant.
Jackson began by gloomfully…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Nobody believes the media has the GOP's best interest at heart, but that didn't stop Cuomo Prime Time guest host Michael Smerconish and his Friday guests from urging the GOP, for their own good of course, to stop being pro-life and embrace abortion.
Speaking to former liberal Republican Rep. Charlie Dent, Smerconish praised the Dent family, "I didn't recognize, you…
[See NewsBusters for more.] National Review's Rich Lowry appeared on the Thursday instalment on MTP Daily on MSNBC to debate former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill on the Supreme Court's decision not to issue an emergency stay against Texas' new abortion law. Lowry relied a combination of facts and logic while McCaskill relied on untruths and hyperbole to make their respective points.
After Lowry…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former Time magazine managing editor, former Obama State Department official, and current MSNBC analyst Rick Stengel joined Deadline: White House on Tuesday to react to President Biden's latest speech on Afghanistan. Stengel predicted that when the history books are written, "people will say, yep, he got us out of there."
Stengel tried to provide historical analogies…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Friday, The 11th Hour guest host Alicia Menendez and Matthew Dowd took time to talk about the real takeaways from the Afghanistan withdrawal: that Republicans don't care about the Constitution and that President Biden is doing yeoman's work.
Early on during the show Menendez with a decade-old analogy, "Coming up... the end of the mission in Afghanistan may mark the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to issue a stay of a lower court ruling that the Biden administration's decision to repeal former President Trump's Remain in Mexico was "arbitrary and capricious" and thus illegal. On Wednesday, CNN Newsroom host Jim Sciutto declared this to be an outrageous act of hypocrisy.
Talking with Court analyst Joan Biskupic, Sciutto…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Saturday's installment of Velshi, guest host Mehdi Hasan claimed that the 9/11 terrorist attacks produced a xenophobic War on Terror that is responsible for the political raise of Donald Trump. In order to make this inflammatory point, Hasan repeated sever far-left claims that simply aren't true.
Hasan kicked off the segment claiming, "The 20th anniversary of 9/11 …
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC military analyst, Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey obliterated the admittedly fine line between being realistic and being defeatist on Friday's Stephanie Ruhle Reports where he asserted there is "nothing" we can do for those who fought beside us for 20 years.
Ruhle reported that "there are reports that the Taliban is going house for house looking for former Afghan …
[See NewsBusters for more.] Plenty have people have compared the current situation in Kabul to Saigon in 1975, but on Tuesday, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley became probably the first to suggest that may not be all bad. For Brinkley, the fact that people are scrambling to get onboard or hanging off the exteriors of C-17 cargo planes might, one day, lead to them being seen as symbols…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On his Saturday show on MSNBC, Ali Velshi welcomed Prof. Cristina Beltran and NPR's Ray Suarez to discuss the latest threat to democracy: Republican redistricting.
Discussing the census, which showed a that the country is becoming more racially diverse, Velshi led Beltran, not with a question, but a declaration, "Many people say if the census says we're more diverse…