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MSNBC’s 'Last Word' Mocks Fox News Viewers as Ignorant of Facts
June 11th, 2019 4:27 PM
Ever fervent in their Trump impeachment agenda, the liberal media decided to attack Fox News on MSNBC’s The Last Word, Monday night. Host, Lawrence O’Donnell, set the stage for Jill Wine-banks, a former Watergate prosecutor, asking: “Jill Wine-Banks, this must have been odd for you to watch having worked on the Watergate case where in fact, Republicans did cooperate in the House Judiciary…
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On D-Day, MSNBC’s O’Donnell Suggests Trump’s Dad Was Nazi Sympathizer
June 7th, 2019 12:50 PM
Thursday night’s episode of The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell did little to venerate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, instead focusing on the liberal media’s Public enemy number one Donald Trump. O’Donnell began his almost six-minute rant by stating: “Donald Trump’s vocabulary is and always has been the size of his mind. Which is to say very, very small.” Good one O’Donnell, no one saw that…
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MSNBC’s O’Donnell Promotes Getting Rid of Trump AND Pence
May 30th, 2019 5:18 PM
Wednesday night on MSNBC’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell was joined by former GOP Rep. Tom Coleman (MO) to discuss the media’s favorite pet project: impeachment. O’Donnell eagerly introduced Coleman’s unique approach to impeachment: “You believe that the Mueller Report shows that the Trump presidency is an illegitimate presidency, which also means that the vice presidency of Mike Pence…
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MSNBC Worried About Being ‘Pipeline of Propaganda’
May 29th, 2019 2:05 PM
In an ironic display of self-righteousness, MSNBC’s All In host Chris Hayes and Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell discussed Tuesday night just how they avoid partiality in their reporting. Opening with an insult to President Trump, Hayes stated; “The central issue is the depth-less nihilism of the President whose sheer shamelessness means he will say anything at any time, about any opponent no…
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MSNBC’s The Last Word: Trump’s Behavior ‘Strange,’ ‘Troubling’
May 24th, 2019 5:01 PM
MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell ganged up with Vox editor Ezra Klein Thursday night to discuss recent developments in the on-going showdown between President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. O’Donnell opened the topic by sardonically stating; “One of the developments today was the President taking time to publicly proclaim he’s not the crazy one.” Taking the ever favored side…
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Updated: Media Mention Impeachment 363 Times in One Day
April 19th, 2019 11:09 AM
Although the Mueller report did not recommend any charges against the President, liberal journalists on cable and broadcast networks spent Thursday suggesting to audiences that impeachment was imminent, if not inevitable. Throughout Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, liberal talking heads on cable and broadcast news networks mentioned impeachment an astonishing 309 times during their coverage…
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O’Donnell: ‘Something Wrong With President’s Mind,’ Hints Alzheimer's
April 4th, 2019 1:22 AM
As is often the case during MSNBC’s prime-time line-up, Lawrence O’Donnell of The Last Word on Tuesday attempted to take an error made by President Trump and turn it into a sign that he is unfit to lead the country. O’Donnell began the segment by airing a video of Trump stating he’s not “a normal president” or “a stiff” like most of the other men who had previously lived in the White House. The…
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Obsession: CNN, MSNBC Spend 428 Minutes on Cohen, 12 on NoKo Summit
February 28th, 2019 1:08 AM
For all the liberal media’s prior pontifications about Wednesday being a “split screen” between two major events for President Trump, the congressional testimony of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen and the denuclearization summit with North Korea, they were sure to only give the latter just a few pixels.
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FLASHBACK: Media Adored Obama’s State of the Union Speeches
February 5th, 2019 8:50 AM
If tonight’s coverage is anything like President Donald’s Trump’s first State of the Union Address look for the media to trash the speech and vilify the President. Of course there was a time the media threw verbal bouquets after the SOTU speech – when Barack Obama was delivering them. The following are the most absurd media reactions to Obama-era State of the Union speeches, as culled from the…
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Meacham Tweet Compares Trump's Rhetoric to Speech at KKK Convention
January 9th, 2019 3:12 PM
During Tuesday's edition of The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, the eponymous host asked historian Jon Meacham to address a tweet he sent out earlier in the evening, featuring a quote from Georgia Governor Clifford Walker at a 1924 Ku Klux Klan Convention, who argued that America should "build a wall of steel, a wall as high as Heaven." Meacham concluded the tweet with the hashtag #…
Where Are Media Demands for Democrats to Cooperate With Trump?
January 3rd, 2019 7:20 AM
Democrats take control of the House of Representatives today, but you don’t hear journalists instructing them to “show that they can govern” by finding ways to “compromise” with President Trump, as you do when Republicans are poised to gain power. “Opposing the President is not a policy,” NBC’s Matt Lauer lectured New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on the November 5, 2014 Today.
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NB Year in Review: Media Swooning Over Their Liberal Heroes
December 24th, 2018 8:00 AM
As 2018 comes to a close, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of the year. In today’s installment, we have the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons. Examples include MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell gushing over Barack Obama: “His mind is too supple, too complex, too rich compared to my own.”
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‘Murphy Brown’ Finale Calls Ted Cruz a 'Boil on the A** of Humanity'
December 21st, 2018 12:06 AM
The season finale of Murphy Brown aired on CBS December 20 and the script included snarky remarks about Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Ted Cruz. Corky Sherwood wants to interview Pence and she maneuvers a way to ask him some questions in an unusual way, while Cruz gets a terrible insult randomly thrown his way.
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Fox Calls Out Media for 'Fueling that Fire' for Trump Impeachment
December 19th, 2018 9:08 PM
As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham recalled Wednesday morning, December 19 marked 20 years since President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives. The date largely went unnoticed by the liberal media but it was noted by Fox News Channel’s Special Report. Immediately following that notation, anchor Bret Baier called out the media for wishing “to see President Trump go…