MarkF | November 14, 2012 On his MSNBC show, while mocking Republicans' alleged ignorance of science, Chris Matthews states that even young people watching learned in grammar school that "trees absorb carbon monoxide." Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas, not naturally present in air. Trees absorb carbon dioxide.
MarkF | November 13, 2012 On Morning Joe, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claims that if women ruled Washington, they would quickly fix the fiscal cliff because women "build consensus, put aside petty differences."
MarkF | November 12, 2012 On Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough rejects the assertion that the White House didn't learn of the allegations regarding General Petraeus until after the election. "That is not true," says Scarborough, mentioning that he had heard rumors himself about the matter weeks ago.
MarkF | November 10, 2012 On her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow refers repeatedly to the Republican electoral "failure" and "catastrophe."
On Morning Joe, David Frum says Republicans have been "fleeced, exploited and lied to by the conservative media complex."
On Morning Joe, analyzing the 2012 elections, Joe Scarborough says Republicans should stop blaming the media.
On the Daily Rundown, Brian Williams, traveling with President Obama on the campaign trail in Florida, tells Chuck Todd: that it is "palpably obvious to you: this is not '08. These are not the crowds, this is not the candidate." Williams estimates the crowd size as 5,000, down from 50,000 in 2008.
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says Barack Obama's lead in Ohio is beginning to look "like a mountain, not a molehill." Appearing later, Chuck Todd says that despite the public polls, Democrats have acknowledged to him that the race has gotten "a lot tighter" in the last week.
On The O'Reilly Factor, after being confronted with evidence that the overwhelming majority of network anchors are Democrats or liberals, Bob Beckel claims that it "doesn't make a difference at all."
Joe Scarborough and New Yorker editor David Remnick clash over the New Yorker's endorsement of Barack Obama, in which the magazine writes of Obama helping to relieve the "national shame inflicted by the Bush administration."
