From Chris Hayes, to the FBI, to a representative of the Muslim community, to various experts, to President Obama himself, one thing emerges from Hayes' MSNBC show tonight: they're all so confused and cautious about what possibly could have been the "motive" of the San Bernardino shooters.Check out the video montage. It would be comic, but for the tragic circumstances, and the unwillingness of…
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough quotes from a NewsBusters item by Mark Finkelstein in which he quoted her saying that Donald Trump supporters have "sinister sentiments."Wallace sarcastically says "Finkelstein likes me a lot."
If Nicolle Wallace wants to attack Donald Trump, there's nothing wrong with that. And the way she "pre-tweeted" Trump's counter-attack on her, saying that she was too stupid to keep her job at The View, was actually pretty witty.But on today's Morning Joe, Wallace made a bad mistake. Rather than focusing her fire on Trump, she attacked the millions of decent Americans who support him. According…
Here at NewsBusters, we usually reserve popcorn-popping for times when Democrats are scrapping among themselves. But in this strange political season, looks like we could be in for some Orville Redenbacher moments among Republicans, too.On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mentioned having watched some of Megyn Kelly's FNC show last night and that Kelly was "vicious" in going after Donald…
MarkF | November 30, 2015 Ruth Marcus has come close to blaming Republicans for the Colorado Springs shootings. Appearing on Jose Diaz-Balart's MSNBC show today, Washington Post columnist Marcus said that "the Republican candidates . . . have been part of the inflamed and inflammatory rhetoric about Planned Parenthood, about the sale of baby parts, about dismembering live babies . . . I think it's a fair conclusion,…
MarkF | November 29, 2015 It was one of those live-TV moments revealing the seamier side of TV news. Pat Brown is a criminal profiler who has taken a principled stand on media appearances about mass murderers. She will not discuss individual criminals, their motives, etc., believing that to do so pnly increases the number of mass murders. But when Brown appeared on CNN's New Day this morning, host Christi Paul…
MarkF | November 28, 2015 When last month Ben Carson suggested that people confronted by a shooter should rush him en masse, ABC ran a story criticizing him, claiming that Carson "appears to be second-guessing" the victims of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.But on ABC's Morning America today, in the wake of the mass shooting in Colorado Springs, guess what an expert suggested? "If you can get other…
MarkF | November 25, 2015 You name the problem, Tom Friedman's got the answer: raise taxes on gasoline. Looks like Tom Brokaw's caught Friedman's gas-tax raising fever.On today's Morning Joe, Brokaw proposed, as part of fighting the war on terror, raising gas taxes by five cents per gallon. Brokaw argued that it is wrong that the burden of fighting falls on just 1% of Americans, and that the result of his tax increase…
MarkF | November 23, 2015 Death of a Salesman's Willy Loman was a guy "out there in the blue riding on a smile and a shoeshine." President Obama sees ISIS as Willy's bad mirror image, dismissing the Paris terrorists as guys with "conventional weapons and good social media."On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough blasted Obama's dangerous insouciance, calling it "staggering to our allies. It is staggering to people like…
