If you thought Comcast buying into NBC was going to change the overtly liberal bias at the network's news divisions, think again. On Monday, MSNBC announced that Christopher Hayes, the Washington editor of the far-left magazine The Nation, will be getting his own show in September: MSNBC contributor Chris Hayes has been added to the network’s weekend lineup as the host of a new weekend morning show. The program, with a focus on politics, will be live on Saturdays from 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. ET and Sundays from 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. ET starting September 17. The announcement was made today by MSNBC President Phil Griffin. Hayes, a frequent substitute host for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” will continue as an MSNBC contributor and will remain part of The Nation as Editor-at-Large. “Chris is a thoughtful analyst and one of the smartest journalists out there,” said Griffin. “As we head into election season, there is no better time to amp up our weekend political coverage.” For those unfamiliar with this disgraceful publication, in its television ad campaign, it proudly admits to possessing “that famous liberal media bias you can't find anywhere else”: So much for MSNBC possibly moving to the center. As a humorous aside, Hayes was the person on Bill Maher's “Real Time” a few weeks ago who was told by Ann Coulter that his government worker mother “is a drain on sociey”: I'm sure he'll fit in just fine. *****Update: Hayes's wife works for Obama (h/t NB reader Thomas Charles Stewart III)… Since the White House made it official today, I wanted to note as a matter of full disclosure that my wife Kate Shaw is now an attorney in the Office of the White House Counsel. Obviously, my views are entirely my own, and throughout a long campaign in which I had very dear family members involved with the Obama organization, I'd like to think I maintained a critical distance. I intend to do so in covering the administration. Isn't that special?
Continue reading …Scarborough Rails Against House Republicans That Opposed Debt Ceiling Agreement
August 3, 2011 No Comment
Joe Scarborough on Wednesday railed about House Republicans that opposed Monday's debt ceiling agreement. Although he agreed the final package “when it comes to actual debt savings [was] a real nothing-burger,” the host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” said GOPers that voted “No” are “going to have to understand if they’re going to stay in the majority they’re going to have act more responsibly than that” (video follows with transcript and commentary): JOE SCARBOROUGH: The thing that galls me at this point, I understand, Mika, that this was a, as Pat Buchanan said before when it comes to actual debt savings, a real nothing-burger. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Right. SCARBOROUGH: Nothing at all at the end of the day. BRZEZINSKI: Coburn yesterday. SCARBOROUGH: That said, if you were a Republican and you were in the House of Representatives and you were responsible for governing, I find it very hard to justify a no vote. I don’t care, nobody, you know what? They, let them stay in Congress for as long as they want. I, I challenge them to put their fiscal hawk credentials up to mine any time, but 24 hours away from a collapse, why is it that Republicans are voting no and as many Democrats vote yes as no? And the Democrats, everybody knows they got rolled. The President got rolled. This was a Republican package, they still voted no. I just got to say, as they move forward… BRZEZINSKI: I can’t disagree with you. SCARBOROUGH: …they’re going to have to understand if they’re going to stay in the majority, they’re going, they’re going to have act more responsibly than that. So, as far as debt savings is concerned, Scarborough realizes this deal was a “real nothing-burger.” Then why is it irresponsible for someone concerned about the debt explosion in the last four years to vote against something that doesn't reduce the debt very much? Isn't that actually the responsible thing to do? As for the Democrats and the President getting “rolled,” didn't the real fiscal conservatives as well? As we heard from a number of Republican Senators during the pre-vote debate Tuesday, this package really does very little as far as either short- or long-term deficit reduction. For those that left successful careers last year to come to Washington to solve the nation's fiscal crisis, this agreement did very little in that regard. As such, if they were true to their principles, why would they vote for it? Exactly how are they the irresponsible ones in this debate? If Scarborough thinks his “fiscal hawk credentials” are in the same league as the 66 House Republicans that voted against this package, he should ask himself how he could have voted for something that was a “real nothing-burger” in terms of deficit reduction.
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Continue reading …Chris Matthews doesn't seem to be running out of violent imagary to use in his smears against the Republican Party. On Tuesday, the Hardball host bombarded the GOP, comparing them to “muggers” who assaulted Barack Obama during the debt limit standoff. Explaining his current metaphor, Matthews slammed, ” What we saw, what I saw at least, was one guy with a knife and the other trying to avoid being cut. It was a thug attacking a victim. It was a mugging .” He acidly explained, “Now, the good news…is that the victim did get through it.” Ratcheting it up, Matthews concluded, ” So, the mugging continues, again and again and again. The people who perpetrated this assault on the President will come back to do it again.” Matthews has previously denounced Republicans as “terrorists” “Wahhabis” and baby kidnappers. A transcript of the closing “Let Me Finish” monologue can be found below: Hardball 08/02/11 5:59 CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this bad experience we've all just been through. What we saw, what I saw at least, was one guy with a knife and the other trying to avoid being cut. It was a thug attacking a victim. It was a mugging. Now, the good news, the relief is a better word, I suppose, is that the victim did get through it. The bad news is that the mugger got what he wanted. He got the wallet. I put you the most important question of the week, of the month, of the year, of this presidency, of our time: Is there any doubt that he, the mugger, will try it again? Not a whit. This morning the Republican leader of the Senate declared his intention to name not a single member of a new special joint committee to make the second cut in the debt, who is open to a tax or even a revenue increase. So, the mugging continues, again and again and again. The people who perpetrated this assault on the President will come back to do it again. The gang will be back and each time will
Continue reading …Hypocrite Scarborough Laments Media Comparing Tea Party to ‘Terrorists,’ But Ignored Similar Smears on ‘Morning Joe’ Set
August 2, 2011 No Comment
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday mourned the “absolutely dreadful” behavior of journalists and politicians who have compared Tea Party Republicans to “terrorists,” among other things. But as NewsBusters previously reported , the “Morning Joe” co-host repeatedly ignored such transgressions when they occurred on his own show. [Video follows page break] “Everyone's been calling Republicans terrorists and Nazis and fascists and Stalin and Hitler,” noted Scarborough, who went on to issue a blanket condemnation of the “mainstream media,” even though he has a history of sitting idly by while his guests employ vitriolic language to denigrate conservatives. The trend dates back to at least July 6 , when Newsweek editor Tina Brown smeared congressional Republicans as “suicide bombers” for not supporting tax hikes in a deficit-reduction deal. Moments earlier, co-host Willie Geist had remarked that conservatives were “holding the hostage.” While Scarborough was not on the set that morning, he has still yet to directly criticize Brown for the insult and co-host Mika Brzezinski, who was present at the time, did not object to the comparison. On July 27 , even though House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) claimed House Republicans “want to shoot every bullet they have at the president,” none of the “Morning Joe” co-hosts protested against the House Minority Whip's choice of words. Two days later , disgraced former Obama car czar Steve Rattner got away with asserting the Tea Party was engaging in “economic terrorism” over the debt ceiling: You know, the problem with this is it's like a form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, 'either you do it my way, or we're going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us.' So you tell me how those kinds of standoffs end. Aside from failing to practice the civility he preaches, Scarborough on August 2 complimented Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for displaying a “profile in courage” with his handling of the debt-limit debate. “I got to say, profiles in courage, Harry Reid, coming out very quickly, supporting a bill he did not like,” gushed Scarborough, omitting the fact that Reid, as Senate majority leader, hasn't proposed, let alone passed, a budget in over 800 days. A transcript of the segment can be found below: MSNBC “Morning Joe” August 2, 2011 JOE SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you this question because, and I hate to say this, because everyone's been calling Republicans terrorists and Nazis and fascists and Stalin and Hitler and all the things that – I mean, the mainstream media is just, no seriously. And actually, I guess Joe Biden, did Joe Biden call? WILLIE GEIST, co-host: He denies it. JOHN HEILEMANN, New Yorker: He's denying that he said it. SCARBOROUGH: Four Democrats said he did call Republicans terrorists. I certainly hope that's not the case. That would be dreadful for the Vice President of the United States to be saying that, absolutely dreadful. So with that precursor, let me just ask this question: if you're a Republican in the House, how do you vote against this bill? How can you vote against, listen, I just said it doesn't cut that much. But you're running the country. I think every one of those Republicans that voted against the bill, and let's start with Michele Bachmann, need to go out on the campaign trail and explain to us the economics of allowing the United States of America to default on its debt obligations, which were racked up, in large part, over the past decade under Republican leadership. I got to say, profiles in courage, Harry Reid, coming out very quickly, supporting a bill he did not like. As many House Democrats voting for this as voted against it. I mean, if I'm sitting there taking note as a small government conservative, that the Democrats are acting like grownups, I got to say there have got to be some independent voters out there that notice the same thing. –Alex Fitzsimmons is a News Analysis intern at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.
Continue reading …Matthews Mars Giffords’ Return By Connecting Tea Party and ‘Violent Level of the Right-Wing’
August 2, 2011 No Comment
At the conclusion of a fractious national debate about the debt ceiling, a truly marvelous moment occurred Monday when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords ( D-Ariz .) returned to the House floor after being shot in the head almost seven months ago. Apparently unable to control himself, the sadly getting more and more disgraceful Chris Matthews chose to mar the emotional homecoming by connecting her shooting to the Tea Party and “the violent level of the right-wing” (video follows with transcript and commentary): KEN VOGEL, POLITICO: And it really is sort of the one redeeming moment here at the end of this nasty, partisan and high-profile dispute that in some ways is kind of a microcosm for the way, the way Congress works. Not the Gabby Giffords coming back, which is truly exceptional, unprecedented and touching, but rather the fact that we had this debate that just happened to be, you know, draw an extreme amount of attention, but it’s the way that these issues tend to work where you have the two sides navigating their bases and having to find a compromise solution that actually in spite of all the brinksmanship and the nastiness and the partisanship speaks well to the Democratic process and the way that Congress works. These nice sentiments from Politico's Ken Vogel were followed by similarly reverential words by the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman : HOWARD FINEMAN , HUFFINGTON POST: I was just going to say the fact that she made it back here and came for this vote I think is sort of a message – not to be overly dramatic about it – but a message from outside the beltway, from the real world saying, “You know, if I’m committed to coming back here and trying to make sure that we avoid default and that we, we end this fractious debate,” I think that probably had some emotional effect on the floor of the House right now, the fact that she came back here for this to vote “Yes” to end the impasse I think really mattered. Indeed. So two media members addressed this amazing homecoming with the respect and the dignity it deserved. Sadly, the host refused to follow in their footsteps, and instead used this moment to attack those he believes to be his political enemies: CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: It’s also important to remember why she was, why she was coming back. She was shot by a violent act, of course a person using a gun, breaking up a political meeting with a gun, bringing one to a political event which we saw a lot of during the Tea Party demonstrations, people carrying firearms to political events. The violent level of the right-wing in this country, not particularly this case but generally where people feel the need to show firearms at political events, I think that’s a bad development in our history to bring guns to political events. You should come to argue not to show your firearms. And to have now this horrible case of a woman who was shot down in her political act, meeting with her constituents shot, only not dead because of modern medicine and her character and her resilience, that is all part of this story this year, Howard, and I’m not going to forget it. How pathetic. Jared Lee Loughner , the Tucson monster, had absolutely nothing to do with the Tea Party or the right-wing in this country. To make any connection between him and conservatives at the very moment Giffords made her touching return to the House was despicable. If Matthews at this point has become so disdainful of the Right in this nation that he views every incident – even the heart-wrenching ones that bring everyone together – as a means of attacking conservatives and further dividing this nation, the folks at MSNBC should be seriously rethinking what his value is. A few weeks ago, the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson said , “Very few people have done more to divide the country than Chris Matthews.” Sadly, the MSNBCer's comments Monday were a perfect example. Shame on you, Chris. This was totally uncalled for. (H/T NB reader Kevin L. Bass)
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Continue reading …Media Reality Check: During Debt Talks, Liberal Media Savaged Tea Party as Ignorant, Irrational Terrorists
August 1, 2011 No Comment
For the past month, as the debt talks slogged on in Washington, the so-called mainstream media unleashed increasingly hysterical attacks on the Tea Party and anti-tax hike conservatives — epitomizing the liberal elite’s supreme annoyance at the push to curb federal spending and contain the size of government. The media’s disdainful language has ranged from the merely condescending (wondering whether the Tea Partiers in Congress actually knew how things worked, or referring to them as children), to outright hostile (likening the Tea Party to al Qaeda or other terrorist groups). Here are some of the choicer examples MRC has collected over the past 30 days: Just a Bunch of Ignorant Boobs
Continue reading …Sharpton Pushed for Comcast/NBC Merger – And Now Is In Line for Show on MSNBC
August 1, 2011 No Comment
Remember how Al Sharpton was among the first black leaders to speak out in favor of Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal? My recollection of this was vague at best, tending as I do to dismiss nearly everything coming from Sharpton as insignificant, predictable or clownish. Then after FCC approval of the merger back in January, Sharpton began appearing more often as a guest on MSNBC, a cable network subsidiary of NBC that performs yeoman's work in public relations for the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. A July 27 article at The Daily Beast by Wayne Barrett, “Sharpton's Affirmative-Action Win,” asks whether Sharpton's expected new show on MSNBC is “payback” for supporting Comcast's merger with NBC Universal. Barrett's article leaves little doubt as to the answer. Barrett points out that Michael Copps, a Democrat serving on the FCC since 2001, voted against the merger, saying it “erodes diversity, localism and competition” and was a “stake in the heart of independent content production.” Barrett writes — But Mignon Clyburn, the daughter of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn and the only minority member of the FCC, threw her decisive support behind the deal, citing a comprehensive diversity memorandum of agreement (MOU)
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