As the Internet buzzes with mocking tributes to Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who helped rescue the three kidnapped women this week, Rev. Al Sharpton forcefully came to his defense last night. Sharpton also addressed a report on the Smoking Gun website that said Ramsey had been convicted for domestic violence more than a decade ago. On his MSNBC show, Sharpton said, [...]
Melissa Harris-Perry Says Obama Pulling ‘Godfather’ Move on GOP
December 2, 2012 | Posted by
The clever MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry yesterday did an extended segment on her show demonstrating how President Obama’s fiscal cliff negotiating strategy was “channeling” the negotiating style of The Godfather, Michael Corleone. Harris-Perry showed clips from the landmark film and compared them to the president’s actions regarding the negotiations with Congress over the fiscal cliff. [...]
Karl Rove Stuns Fox Talent By Disputing Ohio Call For President Obama
November 7, 2012 | Posted by
The alternate reality that Karl Rove and other right-wing Republicans call home wasn’t buying the notion that somehow President Barack Obama had carried the key swing state of Ohio on Tuesday evening. Not even from his good friends at Fox News. The GOP political strategist and former senior aide to George W. Bush balked with [...]
Chris Matthews Accuses Mitt Romney and GOP of Playing Race Card
August 28, 2012 | Posted by
MSNBC host Chris Matthews angrily blasted the campaign tactics of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party during an exchange with Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus yesterday, claiming some of the party’s attacks on President Obama were purposely racially inflammatory. The exchange, which was captured on MSNBC during the show “Morning Joe,” got so heated that [...]
Comcast Buys Out Microsoft’s Share of MSNBC.com
July 16, 2012 | Posted by
Comcast, the parent company of NBC, has purchased MSNBC.com in its entirety. With Microsoft now out of the partnership, MSNBC.com will be renamed and users who go to the website will be redirected to a new website. We reported in May that NBC was in talks to buy out Microsoft and it appears the deal [...]
Melissa Harris-Perry: Republicans Doing Poor Job of Using Race against Obama
June 4, 2012 | Posted by
In a provocative column in The Nation, Tulane professor and rising MSNBC star Melissa Harris-Perry says she is surprised by how poorly and clumsily Republicans are attempting to play the “race card” in their desperate campaign to defeat President Obama. Harris-Perry, whose new weekend show on MSNBC is drawing legions of fans because of its [...]
New Study: Fox News Viewers Worst-informed, NPR’s Listeners Best-informed
May 23, 2012 | Posted by
People who watch no news at all can answer more questions about international current events than people who watch cable news, a survey by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind finds. “NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative news outlets, while exposure to partisan sources, such as Fox News and MSNBC, has a [...]
Tamron Hall Shuts Down Tim Carney: ‘You’re Kind of In My House’
May 12, 2012 | Posted by
What was meant to be an enlightening segment discussing Mitt Romney’s past turned into a fiery battle between Tamron Hall and Tim Carney on Friday. The host of MSNBC’s NewsNation quickly showed Tim Carney that he was in her house. After Carney began talking over Hall, accusing the network of focusing too much on Romney’s [...]
