MSNBC placed a big bet on becoming comfort TV for liberals. Then it doubled down. Time slots on the cable network once devoted to news programming are now occupied by Trump-bashing opinion hosts. The channel has become a landing spot for high-profile alumni of President Biden’s administration like Jen Psaki, who went from hosting White House press briefings to hosting her own show. On Super Tuesday, when producers aired a portion of a live speech by former President Donald J. Trump, Rachel...
Joe Biden is in big trouble if you look at the polls. He's losing a lot of the coalition that he would need to win, including black and Hispanic voters. By one poll he's even losing what some think is a vital part of his constituency: women.
Watching Rep. Jerry Nadler [D-NY] on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, I was struck by how relaxed and comfortable he looked. As well he should be, knowing that his hosts would never challenge their fellow liberal. And so it was that there was not a peep out of Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez, or Michael Steele when Nadler laid out his support for cutting off crucial military supplies to Israel should it go into Rafah. The hosting trio either didn't know or didn't care that...
Watching Rep. Jerry Nadler [D-NY] on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, I was struck by how relaxed and comfortable he looked. As well he should be, knowing that his hosts would never challenge their fellow liberal. And so it was that there was not a peep out of Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez, or Michael Steele when Nadler laid out his support for cutting off crucial military supplies to Israel should it go into Rafah. The hosting trio either didn't know or didn't care that...
During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Princeton University professor and MSNBC regular Eddie Glaude said he was encouraged by Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett's refusal to ignore verbal abuse from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).During a House hearing this week discussing a bill mark-up, the abrasive Georgia Republican sneered at the Texas Democrat, "I don’t think you know what you’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”That led to a blow-up and...
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner continued the media tradition of spreading fake news about what exactly Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker told a Catholic college during a recent commencement address. Wagner falsely reported that Butker told the women graduates “their rightful place was in service to men” as her guest, law Prof. Leah Lithman, urged viewers to vote against GOP “misogyny.” What makes Wagner’s falsehoods even worse is that she previously played the clip of Butker saying that while some...
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner continued the media tradition of spreading fake news about what exactly Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker told a Catholic college during a recent commencement address. Wagner falsely reported that Butker told the women graduates “their rightful place was in service to men” as her guest, law Prof. Leah Lithman, urged viewers to vote against GOP “misogyny.” What makes Wagner’s falsehoods even worse is that she previously played the clip of Butker saying that while some...
Donald Trump’s hush money trial has put a lot of words in our mouths that we wouldn’t normally say, and stoic cable news anchors are no exception. MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” has routinely focused on the sober facts of business fraud and election interference while covering Donald Trump’s ongoing New York criminal trial. On Thursday O'Donnell recapped adult film actor Stormy Daniels' strong testimony in the case and parsed the Trump legal team’s awful strategy. O’Donnell...
Former Biden White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki took her book tour to the Wednesday taping of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she declared that her history as a Democratic official makes her more qualified to be a host. Meanwhile, she also praised her former boss for halting weapons shipments to Israel. Colbert asked, “I watch your show, I mean, I enjoy it. I just—I would just imagine that, especially as we get closer to the election, that tension's...
Former Biden White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki took her book tour to the Wednesday taping of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she declared that her history as a Democratic official makes her more qualified to be a host. Meanwhile, she also praised her former boss for halting weapons shipments to Israel. Colbert asked, “I watch your show, I mean, I enjoy it. I just—I would just imagine that, especially as we get closer to the election, that tension's...
MSNBC anchor Ari Melber clashed with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in an interview on Wednesday, with the host challenging how the candidate has downplayed the “danger” of former President Trump and Kennedy hitting back that Melber is “perpetuating vitriol. Melber compared Kennedy to the 2000 Green Party candidacy of Ralph Nader, pointing
Reacting to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) getting into a shouting match during a House hearing with Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). MSNBC host Alex Witt suggested there may be more going on below the surface with the Georgia Republican than just trading insults.Welcoming fellow MSNBC co-host Ali Velshi, who sat with Crockett for an interview earlier Saturday morning to talk about her returning fire at Taylor Greene with her now-viral "bleach blond,...