Channeling Jesse Jackson’s comments earlier this week on
Newsmax TV, MSNBC’s Al Sharpton argued that no circumstance justified Michael
Brown being shot multiple times, using the logic that he was unarmed. This
despite reports that Brown had charged and beat Officer Darren Wilson before
the fatal shooting. During a predictably soft interview with host Alex Wagner on
the August 20 edition of Now,…
Despite new details revealed by the police that provides context and adds complexity to the Michael Brown shooting, at least one MSNBC reporter seems to dismiss the new information as largely irrelevant. On the August 15 edition of NewsNation, guest host Alex Witt invited msnbc.com reporter Trymaine Lee to the program. He has been on reporting on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri this week.Witt…
Token quasi-conservative MSNBCer Joe Scarborough was in full-blown contrarian mode this morning as he offered his perspective on two reporters in Ferguson, Missouri, who were briefly arrested and then shortly thereafter released. The former Florida congressmen ripped the reporters in question for failing to listen to the cop’s repeated orders to exit a McDonald’s as they attempted to cordon it…
At MSNBC, many are rallying behind Barack Obama’s foreign policy, despite his seemingly aimless goals. On the August 12 edition of The Last Word, Hillary Clinton directed some criticism the President’s way, noting that ‘don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle. Lawrence O’Donnell couldn’t help but defend Mr. Obama, even if it meant attacking the likely 2016 presidential nominee for…
While it has been repoted that the United States will provide the Kurdish army – commonly known as the peshmerga – with small arms and ammunition, there have been repeated calls to more substantially arm the paramilitary force to the teeth. On the August 12 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Carol Costello discussed the subject with Haras Rafiq, an outreach officer for the Quilliam Foundation, a think…
In a discussion about the recent unresolved shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow Daily touted the idea that there is a war on black men in America. Host Ronan Farrow cited a piece from Jonathan Capehart in the Washington Post regarding recent deaths of African-Americans including Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, and Michael Brown. The article discussed the…
Are the folks at CNN abandoning the President’s foreign policy? Well, yes, but only to throw praise upon former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of likely 2016 presidential run. On the August 11 edition of New Day, a panel discussed President Obama’s airstrikes in northern Iraq and Mrs. Clinton’s comments about his often disjointed foreign policy. Reacting to Hillary’s statement in her…
Chris Matthews is apparently no fan of blogs or websites, even when they are run by his comrades at MSNBC. On the August 8 edition of The Reid Report, guest host Jonathan Capehart welcomed the Hardball host to the program to discuss Iraq. He got a whole lot more than he bargained for. Capehart read an excerpt from a piece appearing on Ezra Klein’s Vox.com, which purports to do in the business of…
While a nearly finished 72 hour cease-fire has at least temporarily stopped the war between Israel and Gaza, the media’s pro-Palestine slant has been unrelenting. On the August 7 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Carol Costello welcomed radical pro-Palestine rabbi Michael Lerner to the program, and he placed all of the blame on Israel for the conflict. Lerner did have the courage to label Hamas as a…
While a nearly finished 72 hour cease-fire has at least temporarily stopped the war between Israel and Gaza, the media’s pro-Palestine slant has been unrelenting. On the August 7 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Carol Costello welcomed radical pro-Palestine rabbi Michael Lerner to the program, and he placed all of the blame on Israel for the conflict. Lerner did have the courage to label Hamas as a…