alautz | June 14, 2013
Alex Wagner just took the media’s infatuation with the Clinton family to a whole new level. In an interview with Chelsea Clinton on Friday’s Now, the daytime MSNBC host jokingly begged Clinton for “an extra large rolly bag that I can stuff myself into” when the former First Daughter travels.
alautz | June 13, 2013
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Wednesday it would not provide additional funds to help the town of West, Texas rebuild after a fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 and injured 160. MSNBC’s Alex Wagner seemed positively gleeful over the news. The daytime host treated the development as a political defeat for Texas Governor Rick Perry (R), implying on Thursday’s Now that…
alautz | June 12, 2013
A new Gallup poll released on Monday found more Americans approve of former President George W. Bush than disapprove, for the first time since 2005. MSNBC’s weekday lunchtime anchor Alex Wagner just couldn’t stand the news. The left-wing host expressed her dismay with the new poll on Wednesday’s Now, huffing that the “46 percent of Americans [who disapprove of Bush] apparently still have their…
alautz | June 12, 2013
Governor Dan Malloy (D-Conn.) recently signed a bill preventing photos and videos of the Sandy Hook shooting victims from being released to the public, with broad support from Newtown families. But MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and her Sunday panel’s desire for gun control apparently trumps the concerns of these Newtown parents -- Harris-Perry and all but one of her guests called on the parents…
alautz | June 11, 2013
Well, the pundits at MSNBC have the Republican Party all figured out: they don't care about the millions struggling in the Obama economy. At least that's what a liberal panel on Sunday's The Ed Show decided on Sunday, with Salon's Joan Walsh declaring that Republican's "don't care about" people who have lost their jobs.
alautz | June 10, 2013
MSNBC’s Joy Reid was so desperate to stifle the growing scandals facing the IRS, she brought a hip-hop artist on Saturday’s The Ed Show to critique the dance moves of IRS employees. Guest-hosting for the weekend show, Reid spent five minutes interviewing musician Cupid about his dance, the Cupid Shuffle.
alautz | June 5, 2013
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz will take any and every opportunity to bash Tea Party conservatives, even if it means exploiting a terrible tragedy to do so. The bombastic host did just that on Sunday, using the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh to blast Republicans for supporting the removal of burdensome regulations on American businesses.
alautz | May 31, 2013
Former President George W. Bush has kept a low profile in his years after office, preferring to focus on personal reflection and veterans’ causes since leaving the presidency in 2009. That didn’t keep a left-wing panel on MSNBC from using Bush’s bike ride with wounded veterans to blast his presidency, though.
alautz | May 31, 2013
Although he should have a little bit of latitude as a news columnist for the Washington Post over, say, an ostensibly objective staff reporter, Dana Milbank made abundantly clear on the Thursday edition if PoliticsNation that he has a complete disregard for any sense of fairness or objectivity. Milbank blasted Republican senators Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and other as “children," telling…
alautz | May 30, 2013
Well, Joy Reid – in her infinite liberal wisdom – has the Republican Party all figured out. In a sneering tirade against conservatives on Wednesday’s PoliticsNation, the frequent MSNBC contributor broke the entire party into five separate groups: the “angry” Tea Party, the evangelicals that “want to litigate social issues only,” the “economic conservatives” who want to “get rid of Social Security…