While Stephen Colbert usually regulates his humor to bashing Republicans, on the July 24 edition of The Colbert Report, the Comedy Central comedian actually made a joke both his liberal and conservative audience could enjoy. See NewsBusters for full blog.
From numerous softball interviews to free publicity for her memoir Hard Choices, it is plain to see that the liberal media adores Hillary Clinton and pines for her to run as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2016. Except, of course, for the panelists on Morning Joe. On the July 25 edition of the MSNBC morning show, Mika Brzezinksi and her guests Mark Halerpin, David Gregory, and Donny…
On the July 23 edition of The Ed Show, host Ed Schultz and guest Michael Eric Dyson took a turn attacking former NFL coach Tony Dungy for stating that he “wouldn’t want to deal” with the media attention that followed the drafting of Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly-gay draftee. See NewsBusters for full blog.
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MSNBC is nothing if not consistent. On the July 23 edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports, the NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent invited David Remnick of The New Yorker on to discuss Putin and his propaganda machine. Much to Mitchell’s delight, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist did so by comparing ruthless authoritarian Vladimir Putin to none other than the popular conservative radio…
Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert did Nancy Pelosi a solid by giving her a platform to promote her effort to energize Democrats to come out in force this November to return the Speaker’s gavel to her grasp. In the process he also sparked a nationwide run on mind-bleach with a crude joke involving a nude John Boehner. See NewsBusters for full blog.
The July 22 edition of Morning Joe boasted an exclusive interview
with Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). But before
Pelosi came on set, MSNBC contributor Thomas Roberts featured his own
slobbering interview with the politician in their shared hometown of
Baltimore. Much to co-host Mika Brzezinski’s delight, Roberts delved
into “Pelosi’s political roots” which “run deep.”…
MSNBC has truly outdone itself. On the July 21 edition of Ronan Farrow Daily, the MSNBC host invited Eli Lake from Huffington Post and Italian-Palestinian journalist and MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal onto the show to discuss how Secretary of State John Kerry’s off-air comments about Israeli operations in Palestine revealed a gap between “American officials’ public versus private thoughts when it…
John Oliver used the Sunday July 20 edition of HBO’s Last Week Tonight as a platform to condemn the privatization of the American prison system. Rather than describing both sides of the issue, Oliver told horror stories from prisons that outsource healthcare and food providers without mentioning similar stories from publically run prisons. According to Oliver, the verdict is straightforward: “…