Ken Shepherd | February 11, 2016
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Ken Shepherd | February 11, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Last October, after about six months of dawdling, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio finally came out with an endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. Yet on tonight's Hardball, anchor Chris Matthews made it sound like the mayor probably wishes he had his old campaign-manager job back and was Hillary's "Mickey in the corner" at every debate.
Ken Shepherd | February 10, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | With New Hampshire in the dust and the 2016 presidential campaign moving southward to the Palmetto State, MSNBC's Chris Matthews tonight sought to paint conservative Republican Senator Ted Cruz as a latter-day Richard Nixon ginning up a bag full of "dirty tricks" for the February 20 South Carolina contest. Dipping out of live coverage of a Donald Trump campaign rally…
Ken Shepherd | February 10, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Appearing on the February 10 edition of Fox Business Network's Risk & Reward, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell blasted the lefty New York Daily News tabloid for insulting Republican primary voters – particularly blasting New Hampshire Republicans in light of Donald Trump's victory there yesterday – and otherwise engaging in "character…
Ken Shepherd | February 9, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | As the voting results started streaming in tonight, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Mika Brzezinski, and Joe Scarborough all gushed over Donald Trump's evolution in tone on the campaign trail since Iowa. Brzezinski, for example, hailed the New York real-estate developer as "more learned" and exuding less "bravado." "Do you think he's one of those guys that's better when they'…
Ken Shepherd | February 9, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | In special pre-New Hampshire primary coverage on MSNBC in the 4 p.m. Eastern hour this afternoon, contributor Mike Barnicle insisted this afternoon that Marco Rubio suffered "more than a Muskie moment" on Saturday with his repetitious exchange with Gov. Chris Christie because the moment "went viral on YouTube."
Ken Shepherd | February 8, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Discussing rumors of a possible Hillary Clinton campaign shakeup in an attempt to right the ship after a close race in Iowa and what looks to be like a Sanders blowout in New Hampshire, CNN’s Anderson Cooper tonight made a humorous comparison to how struggling cable TV executives handle programs that just aren’t cutting it in the ratings. “You know, in the real TV news…
Ken Shepherd | February 8, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | MSNBC's Chris Matthews is enjoying beating the dead horse that is Marco Rubio's repetitive answers on Saturday night's debate. But in doing so, Matthews himself is continually trotting out the same talking points about "short-term memory loss" and sounding like a character from the 1982 movie Blade Runner.
Ken Shepherd | February 7, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Chris Matthews and Brit Hume are, it's safe to say, probably rarely in agreement on much. Tonight, however, both compared Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio's handling of Chris Christie in tonight's New Hampshire primary debate to Dan Quayle poor debate performance in 1988 against Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas). To be sure, Hume was more measured in tone and did not seem…
Ken Shepherd | February 7, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Catching up with Donald Trump in the "spin room" after Saturday's GOP debate, NBC's Hallie Jackson attempted to get Donald Trump to say who he thought "lost" the GOP debate, hoping, perhaps, to get the New Hampshire frontrunner to attack Sen. Marco Rubio. For his part, Trump refused to take the bait.