Ken Shepherd | October 27, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | On the October 27 Hardball, anchor Chris Matthews and MSNBC contributor Michelle Bernard took turns denouncing GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee as an anti-Semite. Their sole piece of evidence for the claim: Huckabee lamenting that Hillary Clinton regularly corresponded via email to longtime confidant Sidney Blumenthal, but not once prior to the deadly 9/11…
Ken Shepherd | October 22, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | "[T]he lead from the day so far is Hillary Clinton repeatedly offers false or misleading testimony, and journalists yawn," Stephen Hayes of the conservative Weekly Standard argued on tonight's edition of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier. Hayes then cited just one of many examples of evidence coming to light showing the then-Secretary of State was…
Ken Shepherd | October 21, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | Vice President Joe Biden will wait quite some time until he formally endorses Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, possibly even waiting until the last minute at the Democratic convention itself. That was the prediction of veteran political journalist and Huffington Post Media Group editorial director Howard Fineman on the October 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball. For…
Ken Shepherd | October 21, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | Reacting to a sound bite of Joe Biden from today's Rose Garden announcement in which the Vice President obliquely criticized Hillary Clinton for a remark at the Democratic debate in which she said Republicans were her "enemy," Hardball host Chris Matthews said Clinton's comment was "stupid" and probably driven by her trying too hard to toss out red meat to the partisan…
Ken Shepherd | October 20, 2015
TOPICS: -- President Obama -- Vladimir Putin -- Carly Fiorina -- Hillary Clinton -- Martin O’Malley -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan -- NYC Hotel -- National Geographic Channel -- Bill O'Reilly and Killing Reagan
Ken Shepherd | October 19, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | MSNBC host Chris Matthews closed out his October 19 Hardball program with the strange assertion that President George W. Bush is both ultimately responsible for allowing the 9/11 attacks to happen AND the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya eleven years later under the Obama/Clinton State Department.
Ken Shepherd | October 15, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | Hillary Clinton doesn't need to rail again against the evils of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" these days since Republicans are all too eager to openly admit they're out to get her, USA Today's Susan Milligan insisted on Thursday's edition of Hardball. Indeed, she quipped the GOP was committing "suicide" politically in the process. "Isn't it great?" host Chris Matthews…
Ken Shepherd | October 15, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | Yesterday in a live report from Jerusalem, NBC reporter Ayman Mohyeldin -- winner of the Damn Those Conservatives to Hell Award at the 2015 MRC DisHonors Dinner -- strongly suggested that a Palestinian man that Israel police killed was not armed with a knife and that there was no evidence that any police officer had been stabbed by the assailant. He was quickly…
Ken Shepherd | October 15, 2015
TOPICS: -- Russia's Syrian Airstrikes -- President Obama -- German President Joachim Gauck -- Hillary Clinton -- ObamaTrade -- Dr. Ben Carson -- 911 calls -- National Enquirer -- Governor Jerry Brown -- Assisted Suicide
Ken Shepherd | October 14, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | On tonight's edition of Hardball, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews tried but failed to get NBC News correspondent Katy Tur, who's assigned to cover the Donald Trump presidential campaign, to speak negatively about the Republican candidate. She declined, saying, "you know I can't answer that!"