On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz, speaking of the Charlie Hebdo attack, says "when you start talking about the militarization of police you start to view it in a different light."
On Morning Joe, Chris Dickey of the Daily Beast says that only a "minuscule" proportion of Muslims in France support the kind of violence committed at Charlie Hebdo, and expresses concern that the remaining Muslim population will nevertheless suffer a "stain."
On Morning Joe, Howard Dean says he refuses to call the shooters in the Paris rampage and similar incidents "Muslim terrorists." According to Dean, the Koran does not support their actions. He adds that ISIS is a cult but not a Muslim one. Dean also decries the fact that the shooters had Kalashnikovs despite France's "tremendous" gun control laws.
MarkF | December 18, 2014 On Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch asked Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Miami "why do you say an inane thing like that?" Deutsch's diss came in the context of an exchange in which Diaz-Balart told him Donny that his notion that the Cuba deal was "liberating" for the Cuban people was "naive."
MarkF | December 17, 2014 On the Bloomberg TV show he co-hosts with John Heilemann, Mark Halperin says the media has an "anti-Clinton bias," and both hosts agree that should Hillary run for president, the media is primed to dig into her financial dealings and that there are 20-30 stories out there for the media to uncover.
MarkF | December 17, 2014 On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough warns conservatives that attacking Jeb Bush will make him more likely to run, in order to prove them wrong.
MarkF | December 15, 2014 On MSNBC's Ed Show, Ed Schultz says to Valerie Plame's husband Joe Wilson: "Your wife was outed by the vice-president [Dick Cheney] and now he's saying he has no problem with torture. How do you feel about that? I mean isn't torture what your family went through?"
Wilson declines to define what his family went through as torture, but in other comments makes clear he would like to see Cheney…
MarkF | December 13, 2014 On CBS This Morning, top oil analyst Tom Kloza predicts gasoline prices by Christmas will be in the range of $1.99-2.29 per gallon.
In 2011, the MSM mocked Michele Bachman for saying that if she became president, gas prices would fall to under $2/gallon.
MarkF | December 11, 2014 On Morning Joe, trying to guess the tough question that reporter Kasie Hunt had posed to Rick Perry, Mike Barnicle mockingly suggests "she asked him what day it was." Barnicle later makes a glaring grammatical error of his own.
MarkF | December 10, 2014 On MSNBC's Ed Show, guests Rosa Clemente and Marcia Chatelain, both of whom teach at the university level, commenting on the post-Ferguson and Staten Island protests, point to capitalism as a key underlying problem.
