Middle East

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson welcomed a "new era" of American foreign policy on MSNBC Live as Anthony Blinken gave his first speech as Secretary of State to the department where he promised to be a different kind of secretary than his Trump-era predecessors.

Nine times in a Morning Joe segment today [view the mash-up!], President Trump was accused, by reason of his challenges to the election results, of staging a "coup." The panel sprinkled in several mentions of "strongman," "fascist," "dictator," and "autocrat" for good measure.

Leading off his eponymous Fox News Channel show on Tuesday, host Tucker Carlson analyzed the 2020 election results with two basic questions that, thanks to the liberal media (and as borne out in our new MRC poll), went unanswered: “What does Joe Biden believe? What are his plans for our country?”

The left-wing news media didn’t just poison the information environment with their incessantly negative coverage of President Trump going into the 2020 election. They also refused to give airtime to important arguments of the Republican campaign — both pro-Trump and anti-Biden — which meant millions of voters cast their ballots knowing only what the media permitted them to know about the…

On her MSNBC show on Wednesday, anchor Andrea Mitchell repeatedly whined over the Trump administration still conducting foreign policy after the election, as if that was unusual or improper. She was particularly outraged that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was traveling to the Middle East to push an “anti-Iran” and “pro-Israel” agenda.

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski suggests that "law enforcement" should "come after" President Trump to stop him, after he leaves office, from selling national security information to foreign actors. 

Appearing as a panel member on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, NBC News terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance was loaded with vitriol against everyone who voted for President Donald Trump. After fearmongering about the possibility that ISIS-like pro-Trump paramilitary groups would form to revolt against a Joe Biden administration, the NBC analyst specifically accused all 69…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, speaking of Jared Kushner's performance as head of a White House task force on PPE procurement, says that Kushner is "of course, ill-equipped to handle this or any other task he's been given at the White House." Scarborough thus ignores Kushner's groundbreaking success in engineering the most important Middle East peace progress in more than 40 years, with…

For MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Jeremy Bash everything is about Russian election interference, even Iranian election interference.  During her Thursday show, Mitchell wasn't buying DNI John Ratcliffe's explanation that Iran was trying to hurt President Trump and cited Senator Chuck Schumer as proof, "Senator Schumer, Jeremy, went on with Rachel Maddow and said he was taking this seriously,…

In a late press conference Wednesday night, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and other members of the intelligence community revealed that Iran and Russia had obtained voter information; with the former using the information to send out malicious and threatening emails to “damage President Trump.” But MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow took umbrage with the DNI’s assessment,…

In a likely unexpected and unwanted revelation (from the network’s perspective) Wednesday, U.S. National Counterintelligence & Security Center director William Evanina warned NBC Nightly News that foreign adversaries such as “Iran, China, and Russia” were some of the forces “enhancing and exacerbating protests on the West Coast” in recent months. But that information went…

For years the media has been full of predictions that whatever that day's controversy is will be the one that dooms President Trump. For CNN's Carl Bernstein and CNN Newsroom host Brianna Keilar, the New York Times opposition-research report on Trump's taxes is the latest example with Bernstein using the report to further his conspiracy theory that Vladimir Putin and Tayyip…

MRC analysts looked at 33 days of ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News programs from August 13 (when Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they were establishing full diplomatic relations) to September 15 (the joint signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords between Israel-UAE-Bahrain at the White House) and found just brief hiccups of…

Reuters is pushing an insane idea that eco-extremist activist Greta Thunberg could get the Nobel Peace Prize. In a story headlined, “A Nobel for Thunberg? In the age of climate change and virus, it is possible,” Reuters’ Gwladys Fouche spouted off that “[t]his year’s Nobel Peace Prize could go to green campaigner Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement to highlight the link between…