Ken Shepherd | July 15, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | In a surprising moment of candor during a panel discussion this afternoon about the new Planned Parenthood sting video by the Center for Medical Progress, MSNBC guest Cristina Beltran protested that what's "really horrific" is not selling the body parts of aborted babies for medical research but "women being forced to bear children against their will." Perhaps sensing…
Ken Shepherd | July 14, 2015
TOPICS: -- Democrats -- Hillary Clinton -- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Great Wall of China -- Donald Trump -- New TERMINATOR movie -- Florida Black Bears -- Selfie Sticks
Ken Shepherd | July 8, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | MSNBC host Chris Matthews used a portion of his July 7 interview with Rudy Giuliani to get the moderate Republican to express his wish that his party moderate soften both its tone and policy positions on immigration, social issues, and the environment.
Ken Shepherd | July 7, 2015
TOPICS: -- Independence Day -- President Obama -- Dukes of Hazzard -- Fidel Castro -- Bernie Sanders -- Malia Obama Birthday -- Greek Financial Crisis -- Rapper DMX
Ken Shepherd | June 29, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | Does Chris Matthews not get hyperbole? Back behind the desk at Hardball tonight after a few days off, the MSNBC host didn't seem to get that presidential candidate Bobby Jindal was being rhetorically hyperbolic when he quipped that given how political the Supreme Court has become, he kind of wouldn't mind abolishing the high court. Matthews complained about Jindal's…
Ken Shepherd | June 22, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | A jubilant Chris Matthews hailed Pope Francis's recent comments suggesting that Christians who make a living by manufacturing or selling weapons are hypocrites. Of course back in 2009, Matthews blasted a Catholic bishop for daring to insist that Catholic politicians need to put the teachings of the Church on human life above their fealty to the abortion rights lobby. 
Ken Shepherd | June 19, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | Jeb Bush, a convert to the faith, is a bad Catholic who all but denies the dogma of papal infallibility. That's an argument put forward by that eminent Catholic scholar... Jonathan Alter?! Yup, Alter made that argument on the June 19 edition of Now with Alex Wagner as he reacted to the former Florida governor's dismissal of Pope Francis's views on climate change as…
Ken Shepherd | June 18, 2015
Read more at NewsBusters | Seeking to make sense of what motivated Dylann Roof to shoot innocent worshipers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., to death, MSNBC contributor Eugene Robinson and MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews agreed that there was some mystical role that the "atmosphere" of hate in the Palmetto State played. For his part, Matthews likened it to JFK's assassination in…
Ken Shepherd | June 17, 2015
TOPICS: -- ISIS in Iraq -- DHS -- San Diego Union Tribune -- American Obesity -- Chimpanzees Can Cook -- Rescued Bull -- New Carl's Jr. Burger