On the July 22 Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews erupted at Marco Rubio's crack that "we already have a President now that has no class."
Matthews roared: “Instead of going and grubbing the money on Wall Street, he [Barack Obama] went out to people and helped his community....He’s done everything right. He’s been immaculate in the presidency. Nobody has accused him of any corruption. His kids…
On the July 21 edition of CNN Newsroom, CNN analyst Sally Kohn used Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric to smear anybody who doesn't approve of Obama's presidency as racist:
“It would be unfair, or I think dishonest of us to not be clear that part of what he’s [Trump] speaking to is a part of the American public that for the last seven years has felt outraged. They talk about taking the White…
[Details at NewsBusters.org] Nearly 27 years before Donald Trump actually announced he was running for President, then-NBC News correspondent Chris Wallace pressed a 42-year-old Trump about his political ambitions during an interview at the 1988 Republican National Convention. Not surprisingly, Trump at that time said if he did run for President, “I’d have a very good chance....When I do…
On the July 14 edition of her Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow enthused that the Iran nuclear deal has proved Obama worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize he received in 2009:
“We don’t know if the Iran deal is going to work. If it does, it will be the major foreign policy achievement, not only of this presidency, but of this American generation. At which point, people in the not-too-distant…
After listening to a clip of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump talk about the problems caused by illegal immigration from Mexico, longtime Wall Street Journal columnist Al Hunt, now with Bloomberg, declared: "This is George Corley Wallace, 40 years later.” (MSNBC's Morning Joe, July 13)
After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage, actor George Takei (Star Trek's "Mr. Sulu") used racial language to denounce Justice Clarence Thomas for his dissent. From a June 30 interview with the local Fox affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona:
“He is a clown in blackface sitting on the Supreme Court. He gets me that angry. He doesn’t belong there....This man does not belong on the Supreme…
In a June 29 interview, Yahoo! News anchor Katie Couric, a veteran of NBC, CBS and ABC News, pressed GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz if he had any "empathy" for "undocumented immigrants."
“I know you staunchly oppose President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. You’ve worked to block every legislative effort to allow undocumented immigrants to remain legally in this country. So,…
Details at NewsBusters.org: During a discussion on the Dallas Police headquarters shooting on Saturday afternoon, CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield bizarrely referred to the shooter’s actions as “very courageous and brave,” before adding “crazy as well.”
On the May 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews suggested scandals showing Hillary Clinton as secretive and manipulative could actually be a plus:
“Franklin Roosevelt — probably the best President we ever had, certainly in the 20th century — was very secretive and manipulative, and we still thought he was a good President. So if Hillary Clinton is secretive, we know that, is that…
In an April 26 interview with Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer, ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos tried to debunk the author's claims of corruption at the Clinton Foundation:
“As you know, the Clinton campaign says you haven’t produced a shred of evidence that there was any official action as Secretary that supported the interest of donors. We’ve done investigative work here at ABC…