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MSNBC Skimps on Updating NASCAR Noose False Alarm

Brad Wilmouth
June 27th, 2020 5:44 AM

Over the past few days, several MSNBC anchors have shown substantially more interest in giving attention to the claim that someone used a noose to target NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace with a hate crime, but little to no interest in updating viewers when it turned out to be a false alarm.

 
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Tur: Trump Actions on Stone Like 'Committing a Crime Out in the Open'

Alex Christy
June 25th, 2020 2:26 PM

Ex-Roger Stone prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the decision to reduce Stone's sentence was made because Stone was a friend of President Trump. For MSNBC Live's Chuck Todd and Katy Tur, this confirmed their beliefs that the DOJ under Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr is being politicized to extent where it is comparable…

 
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Katy Tur Asks If White Americans 'Might be Scared' of Black Americans

Alex Christy
June 5th, 2020 11:04 AM

MSNBC Live host Katy Tur could have used Thursday's show to try to see if there was a way that the current protests across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd could bring the country together. Instead, however, she teamed up with Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson to wonder if white Americans are unwittingly racist by being scared of black Americans, simply…

 
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Katy Tur MSNBC Crew Suffer Hilarious Karen Face Mask Backfire

P.J. Gladnick
May 27th, 2020 10:09 AM
Many of us have seen videos of people acting like tattletale "Karens" during the coronavirus pandemic. However, few instances of "Karening" are quite as hilarious as what happened to MSNBC reporter Cal Perry when he tried to pull a Karen live on MSNBC on Memorial Day at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin when he pointed at someone who was not wearing a face mask. Little did he or Kathy Tur in studio expect…
 
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MSNBC’s Tur Touts Climate as ‘Positive Consequence of the Pandemic’

Kyle Drennen
May 21st, 2020 12:01 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur touted the “drop in pollution”as a “positive consequence of the pandemic” that has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world and left tens of millions unemployed. Talking to Penn State University professor and climate activist Michael Mann, she hoped Americans would seize on this “unique” “opportunity” to “change our habits.”
 
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MSNBC Parrots Chinese Propaganda Trashing Trump ‘Lunacy’

Kyle Drennen
May 15th, 2020 5:17 PM
Appearing on MSNBC Friday afternoon, NBC News chief global affairs correspondent Bill Neely delivered two straight minutes of anti-American Chinese propaganda that accused President Trump of “lunacy,” claimed Washington was in a state of “panic,” and declared that China was “trying to argue from a position of strength that it has its pandemic under control.”
 
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Williams Wails: Trump Stoking ‘Populist Prairie Fire’ Against Dem Govs

Kyle Drennen
April 18th, 2020 11:41 AM
On MSNBC Friday afternoon, co-anchors Brian Williams and Katy Tur denounced President Trump for urging some states less impacted by the coronavirus to gradually reopen. Williams claimed Trump was trying to stoke “populist prairie fire” against Democratic governors “who so far have been adept in handling this virus.”
 
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MSNBC Finally Covered Tara Reade, and Oops! We're Out of Time!

Alex Christy
April 14th, 2020 10:51 PM

On Monday's installment of MTP Daily host Katy Tur finally discovered Tara Reade's allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault against her former boss and presumptive Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden. Unfortunately for viewers who may have been previously unaware of the allegations due to the media going radio silent on the issue, Tur waited until just moments before…

 
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Tur Dreams of ‘Single-Payer System,’ ‘Greener Economy’ After Pandemic

Kyle Drennen
March 31st, 2020 4:06 PM
On Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur hoped the United States would be reshaped into a socialist country following the coronavirus pandemic as she recited a wish list of left-wing agenda items for Democrats to pursue amid the crisis.
 
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BLACKOUT: TV News Is Silent on New Biden Sex Abuse Allegations

Rich Noyes and Bill D'Agostino
March 31st, 2020 9:17 AM
It’s been nearly a week since a former Joe Biden staffer leveled disturbing accusations of sexual misconduct against the Democratic presidential frontrunner, and yet ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN haven’t said a single word about them. In that same time period, CNN, MSNBC and NBC have hosted Biden for a total of three interviews (including an hour-long town hall on CNN), and no host asked even a…
 

Media’s Negativity Won’t Dampen the American Spirit

David Limbaugh
March 21st, 2020 5:05 PM
Silver linings accompany most catastrophic events, and one major one with the coronavirus is the remarkable way Americans (and people throughout the world) have come together to fight this outbreak. Though the stock market has reflected a nation in panic, in other respects Americans, for the most part, have reacted responsibly, unselfishly and cooperatively, and I pray we are making substantial…
 
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MSNBC Guest STORMS Off; ‘Don’t Have Time to Listen to B*******’

Curtis Houck
March 19th, 2020 6:14 PM
As our friend Emily Jashinsky with The Federalist and others have chronicled and tweeted, MSNBC Live with Katy Tur briefly flew off the rails Thursday when former Obama officials Craig Fugate and Andy Slavitt found themselves at odds over how local, state, and federal governments should respond to the coronavirus when Fugate stormed off because he didn’t “have time to listen to bullshit people.”
 
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MSNBC Invites Top Obama Official to BLAST Trump Effort on Virus

Alex Christy
March 18th, 2020 2:20 PM
MSNBC Live viewers got an unfortunate display of civic illiteracy on Tuesday as host Katy Tur invited former Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on to take a gratuitous shot at current Secretary Betsy DeVos and the federal government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.  
 
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MSNBC’s Tur Berates Trump for Handshakes, Microphone Touches

Kyle Drennen
March 16th, 2020 4:12 PM

On her 2:00 p.m. ET hour show on Monday, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur denounced President Trump for shaking hands and touching the microphone during a coronavirus press conference on Friday. The scolding came despite the fact that National Institutes of Health director Dr. Anthony Fauci rejected the notion that those minor interactions endangered anyone’s health.