McCain-Palin senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, played by Woody Harrelson, in HBO’s Game Change movie first aired on Saturday night, March 10. Schmidt, in a scene at a hotel bar in Phoenix on election eve:“He’s [McCain] the most depressed I’ve seen him in the entire campaign. I can’t get him to stop watching MSNBC, which only makes him more miserable.”The two other men in the scene:…
Chris Matthews, at the start of MSNBC’s Super Tuesday coverage (March 6), harkened back to an important moment in civil rights history to elevate the relevance of President Obama's phone call to Sandra Fluke:“I think the call from the President to Sandra Fluke will be remembered perhaps not as dramatically as the call from President Kennedy, then-Senator Kennedy to Mrs. King, to Coretta King…
Those who have seen HBO’s Game Change come away with a more sympathetic view of Sarah Palin, Time
magazine’s Mark Halperin, co-author of the book on which HBO based its
production set to air Saturday night, contended Wednesday night on CNN.
Erin Burnett interviewed Halperin and co-author John Heilemann and
Halperin told Burnett:
"We’ve seen a few screenings with people and uniformly –…
From HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, March 18, 2011, a crude slur by Bill Maher on Sarah Palin as "a dumb twat," which leads into a hit on Rush Limbaugh.
No love on the Sunday morning television talk shows for Rush Limbaugh, not even a mild defense as the unifying theme was disappointment in Mitt Romney for not denouncing the leading national conservative talk radio host. “The problem with Rush Limbaugh,” NBC News White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie complained in pretending to care about the fate of Republicans, “is that he re-framed the…
Serving as the arm of MSNBC which actually has a significant audience, Thursday’s NBC Nightly News dishonestly promoted a left-wing effort to impugn and silence Rush Limbaugh. “A firestorm of outrage from women after a crude tirade from Rush Limbaugh as the battle over birth control takes another turn,” anchor Brian Williams ominously teased his newscast. Picking up a crusade pushed all day by…
About three years ago, Andrew Breitbart, who sadly passed away suddenly this morning in Los Angeles, joined the Media Research Center at our 2009 Gala, featuring the annual “DisHonors Awards,” where he accepted the “Media Messiah Award” in jest for Chris Matthews.The MSNBC host “won” the award for his infamous boast about how “I felt this thrill going up my leg” during a speech by then-Democratic…
On Sunday's (February 26) Face the Nation, during a segment with Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, host Bob Schieffer marveled over President Barack Obama’s presumed success and so wondered:
“How do you go after Barack Obama, though, right now? I mean, the stock
m arket is up. It looks like the unemployment is going down. David
Axelrod in his campaign said the other day Osama bin…
Occupy Wall Street earned a shout-out Sunday night on a CBS drama, the kind of Hollywood affirmation the Tea Party could never dream of receiving. “Before we begin,” a judge announced in a Chicago courtroom on The Good Wife, “I want to take a few minutes to talk about something that is happening a mere one hundred yards from this courthouse: Occupy Wall Street!”“Judge Charles Abernathy,” played…
Friday night (February 10) on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Zanny Minton Beddoes, the economics editor for the Economist magazine, expressed dread that the possibility Rick Santorum could win the Republican presidential nomination “completely terrifies me. I mean, how many decades back, how many centuries back does he want to take us?” She proceeded to relay the derogatory charge “Santorum…
