On the June 27 edition of CNN Newsroom, a panel discussed new calls from Ted Cruz that the IRS scandal needs a special prosecutor. John Avlon of The Daily Beast wasn’t buying it, trashing the Texas senator for leading a witch hunt. He also argued that the solution was more campaign finance reform. When host Carol Costello questioned Avlon about the necessity of a special prosecutor, he rushed to…
CNN’s Carol Costello seemed unable to comprehend why Hobby Lobby opposed the federal mandate in ObamaCare to cover emergency contraceptives and abortifacients. On the June 26 edition of CNN Newsroom, the host continually suggested that such exemptions only make sense for actual churches, rather than practicing Christians. Costello stated in her introduction of the story that critics – they…
On the June 25 edition of Hardball, fill-in host Steve Kornacki and his guests discussed the implications of Thad Cochran’s surprising upset of Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi GOP Senate primary. The panel mocked the Tea Party’s outrage at Thad Cochran over his courting of Democratic voters in the primary. Kornacki laughed off Chris McDaniel’s assertion that the outcome was unbecoming of the…
Reacting to Thad Cochran’s surprising victory over Chris McDaniel in the GOP Senate runoff last night, a panel on the June 25 edition of The Reid Report tried to comprehend why Southern states have passed voter ID laws. Host Joy Reid insinuated that there were racial overtones to these laws, believing that Republicans were attempting to “limit minority voter influence,” particularly following the…
In a discussion on the June 24 edition of The Cycle regarding the heated Mississippi GOP Senate runoff between U.S. Senator Thad Cochran and state senator Chris McDaniel, MSNBC’s Toure immediately expressed skepticism of the tactics being deployed by the two candidates to appeal to voters. Toure criticized Thad Cochran for reaching out to Democratic black voters at a time of political convenience…
Chris Matthews found yet another opportunity to cheerlead in the push for same-sex marriage by promoting HBO’s The Case Against 8 and recommending a book by lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson titled Redeeming the Dream. The Hardball host took every opportunity to compliment the two men and in their successful effort to overturn Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state of…
MSNBC has been covering President Obama’s White House Summit on Working Families intently thus far today, and the trend continued on the June 23 edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports. Guest host Peter Alexander brought on Charmaine Givens-Thomas to discuss her efforts in petitioning President Obama to set up a meeting with Wal-Mart workers to highlight low wages, inequality, and the lack of recovery…
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski has never been one to hide her partisan liberal leanings, and it showed in her interview with President Obama aired on Monday’s show. While Brzezinski started the interview with some tough foreign policy questions, it lost steam later on as she voiced admiration for the President on equal pay for women, and encouraged him to do more on the issue. Brzezinski…
Leave it to CBS This Morning to push the idea that angry, controversial white men are strictly the province of the conservative side of the spectrum, while downplaying the inflammatory and arguably anti-gay comments of Brian Schweitzer, a left-wing populist and former Democratic governor of Montana who is considering a 2016 presidential run.The oft-mentioned mastermind of Dave Brat’s shocking…
In a screed against an interventionist foreign policy, Hardball’s Chris Matthews insisted that there is a sinister plot among those initial supporters of the Iraq war to dictate the political life of those throughout the Middle East. For Matthews, simply being wrong on the Iraq War–to the extent that anyone can make a claim like that with any certainty at the present time–is not enough. In his…
