WashPost's Milbank Hints Palin is 'Idiot,' Obama Should Use 'Reverse P

September 9th, 2013 1:16 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank cracked that President Obama should use on the GOP the kind of "reverse psychology" that is used with children as he saw politics in GOP opposition to military action in Syria. He went on to suggest that Sarah Palin is an "idiot" after host Al Sharpton read from her tweet opposing military…

MSNBC Slams FNC on Welfare Fraud, GOP's 'Stunning New Attack' on Food

September 6th, 2013 2:43 PM
On Thursday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Washington Post political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson and MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor joined host Al Sharpton to go after Republicans for trying to cut back food stamp allowances, with Sharpton seeing "vile rhetoric" from conservatives and a "stunning new attack on millions of Americans trying to put food on the table." The MSNBC host also fretted…

MSNBC’s Sharpton Cherry-Picks From a Poll to Hide Opposition to Obam

September 5th, 2013 5:45 PM
The liberals at MSNBC continue their PR campaign on behalf of ObamaCare. On Wednesday’s PoliticsNation, the Rev. Al Sharpton cited one very convenient finding from a recent poll: only 6 percent of registered voters want Congress to delay and defund the Affordable Care Act. However, Sharpton ignored two other key findings from the same poll that were far less favorable to his pro-ObamaCare…

MSNBC Panel Goes After GOP for 'Obama Derangement Syndrome,' Forgets B

September 4th, 2013 2:26 PM
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post and MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor joined host Al Sharpton to lambast the GOP for suffering from "Obama Derangement Syndrome," picking up on criticism of President Obama putting his foot on his desk in the Oval Office, without noting any of the visceral hatred felt toward George W. Bush by the Democratic base during his…

MSNBC's Sharpton Mocks O'Reilly Retraction and Questions 'Accuracy

September 3rd, 2013 4:52 PM
On Friday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC's Al Sharpton used Bill O'Reilly's recent retraction and apology to mock the FNC host by suggesting that The O'Reilly Factor generally lacks accuracy. After a clip of O'Reilly asserting that "I know you guys watch the Factor for accuracy," Sharpton cracked:

MSNBC Panel: O'Reilly and Limbaugh 'Jim Crow's Grandson,' O'Reilly 'Ma

August 30th, 2013 5:10 PM
On Thursday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, liberal talk radio host Joe Madison referred to Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh as "Jim Crow's grandson" and "Jim Crow Esquire" during a discussion of the absence of Republican figures at the Martin Luther King, Jr., 50-year commemoration. After a couple of clips of O'Reilly critiquing the social problems of some poor Americans, MSNBC contributor Goldie…

MSNBC Guest: Limbaugh is 'Big, Fat, Happy With All the Health Insuranc

August 29th, 2013 10:54 AM
Appearing as a guest on Monday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, liberal talk radio host Joe Madison declared that Rush Limbaugh is "big, fat, happy with all the health insurance he needs" as he responded to a clip of President Obama complaining that Republicans will not work with him on ObamaCare because they are afraid of a negative reaction from the conservative talk radio host. As he presented a…

MSNBC's Sharpton Repeats Distortion That O'Reilly Tagged 'People in Ne

August 20th, 2013 4:13 PM
On Monday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton again raised a distortion against FNC host Bill O'Reilly as he accused O'Reilly of applying the word "parasites" to "people in need," even though the FNC host was referring to people abusing the welfare system. After Sharpton asserted that O'Reilly "slammed food stamp recipients as parasites," he played a clip of the FNC host. O'Reilly:

MSNBC's Sharpton Accuses FNC's O'Reilly of 'Hypocrisy

August 19th, 2013 6:32 PM
On Friday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton reacted to FNC's Bill O'Reilly criticizing him the night before, as the FNC host had called out Sharpton for taking out of context his contention that some who receive food stamps are "parasites" who take advantage of the system, and divulged that he had made a donation to one of Sharpton's charities in the past. After having tagged O'…

MSNBC's Joy Reid Links Rodeo Clown to GOP, 'Shrinking Down to Its Most

August 19th, 2013 4:03 PM
On Friday's PoliticsNation show, during a segment in which host Al Sharpton linked the Obama rodeo clown in Missouri to alleged GOP extremism, MSNBC contributor Joy Reid declared that "the people who were whooping it up at that rodeo clown show are going to be all" the GOP have "got left," and went on to predict that the party is "shrinking down to its most extreme elements." After clips of…

MSNBC Guest Links David Dinkins to Lower NYC Crime, Ignores Giuliani

August 16th, 2013 6:38 PM
On Thursday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, as host Al Sharpton devoted a segment to discrediting the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk policy, Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, appearing as a guest, misleadingly recounted that crime began to drop during the early 1990s administration of Democratic Mayor David Dinkins to argue that the more recently implemented Stop-and-Frisk has had little impact on crime. Rep…

MSNBC's Sharpton Accuses FNC's O'Reilly of 'Attacking the Poor

August 14th, 2013 5:34 PM
On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton griped about FNC host Bill O'Reilly labeling some welfare recipients as "parasites" and complaining about President Obama making it easier for people to take unfair advantage of the system. Without informing viewers that the FNC host was referring to a California beach bum who seemed disinterested in getting off welfare when he used the…

WashPost's Henderson Lauds Obama on GOP Trying to 'Deny 30 Million Peo

August 12th, 2013 5:47 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's PoliticsNation, Washington Post political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson declared that President Obama had "framed it very nicely" when he asserted that Republicans "want to shut down the government so that they can deny 30 million people health care." Henderson:

MSNBC's Sharpton Touts Deceptive Claims of Pro-Life Groups 'Lying' to

August 9th, 2013 5:02 PM
On Thursday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton touted the pro-abortion group NARAL's deceptive attacks on "crisis pregancy centers" in Virginia which try to encourage pregnant women not to have abortions, as NARAL accused these pro-life groups of "lying." Picking up on an article posted by the far left Think Progress, the MSNBC host gave NARAL President Ilyse Hogue a sympathetic forum to…