Ali Velshi

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi broke with network tradition on his Saturday show and welcomed an actual historian on to discuss current events. It did not go well for Velshi as repeatedly told Roberts “I need you to stop” because Roberts debunked his reductive view of the history of the British monarchy.

On his eponymous Sunday morning show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi devoted a segment to smearing conservatives as trying to enact a draconian society based on The Handmaid's Tale as he showed portions of a previously recorded interview with the novel's author, Margaret Atwood.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi was not happy with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest decision to remove the ability to use Medicaid to pay for gender dysphoria treatment. Velshi alleged on his Saturday show that move is on the level of not providing "gender-affirming care" to minors and the “Don’t Say Gay bill.”

On Ali Velshi's MSNBC show, ex-RNC Chairman Michael Steele, turned MSNBC Republican and Lincoln Project member, supports Democrat meddling in Republican primaries by boosting MAGA candidates who they think will be easier to beat in the general election. Jennifer Rubin,  the Washington Post columnist who renounced her conservative label, opposes such meddling, saying it is "dangerous" and could…

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi took his Saturday show on the road to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to cover that state’s new pro-life law in the new post-Roe era. As part of the show, Velshi moderated an absurd panel of abortion providers and activists where the pro-lifers were summarized as a bunch miscarriage criminalizing, flat Earth, racist, transphobic, ableist birth control banners.

Even though Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooter purchased his guns in-state, MSNBC's The 11th Hour made it sound on Tuesday night like he might have gotten them from another state where it's easier to buy guns with MSNBC anchor and weekend pundit Ali Velshi complaining about guns being brought in from other states.

Pro-lifers have routinely cited abortion laws in countries like China and North Korea as proof of Democratic extremism on the subject, but MSNBC’s Ali Velshi used his Saturday show to suggest that those two countries, as well as other dictatorships, prove that the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision was the radical position and that America is no longer a free country because of it.

Because the Supreme Court has “court” in its name, most people understand that it is an institution tasked with addressing legal issues, but MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and The New Yorker’s Sheelah Kolhatkar are not most people. On Velshi’s Saturday show, they condemned the Court for “talking about the Constitution” and “the right to life” while ignoring economic statistics.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi better hope than Elon Musk is as committed to free speech as he says he is because in the first hour of his Saturday show, Velshi repeated an anti-Semitic trope about Israel before lamenting Musk’s idea of free speech in the second hour.

Against a background that read “Cruelty, no exceptions, ” MSNBC’s Ali Velshi warned on his Saturday show of the “dystopian” future America faces as red states pass pro-life laws in anticipation of the Supreme Court potentially overruling Roe v. Wade.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi used his Saturday show to ponder if Ukrainians fleeing the war zone in their country benefit from being white Christians while Syrians and Afghans do not.

During his Saturday show on MSNBC, Ali Velshi attacked members of the "ultra-conservative" Supreme Court for allegedly gutting voting rights and longed for the days when voting rights were respected.

On his Saturday show on MSNBC, Ali Velshi was utterly confused by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's claim that Stacey Abrams' stolen election conspiracy theories are no different than Donald Trump's. After all, voter suppression, unlike fraud, is a legitimate concern.

In the past two weeks, CNN and MSNBC have shown multiple double standards by peddling misinformation about Texas's congressional redistricting plan to accuse Republicans of cutting minority representation in the state while ignoring aggressive gerrymandering by Illinois Democrats. It was even wrongly suggested that Republicans would prevent any black members of Congress from being elected in…