Leave it to Chris Matthews to shoe-horn in a crass political point against the Tea Party, even in the midst of a heartwarming story like the rescue of the Chilean miners. On Wednesday's Hardball, the MSNBC host, claimed those miners would never have survived if they had followed the "every man for himself" philosophy of the Tea Party crowd.
NBC's Meredith Vieira tried her best to get Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann off her game, on Tuesday's Today show, by repeatedly pressing her to admit that the Tea Party has "lost its focus" and was "losing its way" over social issues, adding that since some of their candidates are "so far out of the mainstream" they can't win. However Bachmann never took Vieira's bait.
NBC's Willie Geist, substitute hosting for Matt Lauer on Friday's Today, invited on CNBC's Maria Bartiromo to talk about the new jobs report and the two had a startling message for those in its audience who may be unemployed right now - just get "used to it."
With Election Day just a month away NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, attacked New York GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino repeatedly with such pejoratives as "angry" "nasty" and "dark" and accused him of practicing "gutter politics."
Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, ended his show in an unexpected way as the MSNBCer advised that the more Obama "sells" his ideas to "the political middle the better his chances" and added "Those who argue otherwise don't know this country, its history or its basically conservative gut."
Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, pleaded with the left to support Democratic candidates in the midterms because the "bad guys are gaining."
A frustrated Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, chided the left for being disappointed in Barack Obama as he essentially told them, he's the best they've got and are going to get, as he tried to calm down the lefties by telling them: "This president has done what we were all taught in graduate school to do, what progressives have believed in from years and years, decades ago." .
Lawrence O'Donnell, in this promo for his new MSNBC show, proclaims that he respects everyone in the governing process.
With just five weeks to go before the midterms NBC-Universal devoted a full half hour of commercial free air time, across its many properties including MSNBC, USA, Bravo and even Syfy, so that President Obama could offer his views on the state of public education and yes even lash out against Republicans, something Matt Lauer, on Monday's Today show, pushed him to do.
Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC's Morning Joe, on February 12, 2010, blames the Bush administration for 9/11 attack. Calls former Bush speechwriter a "torture-monger"