The entertainment for the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in the spring has been announced. Cecily Strong, Saturday Night Live cast member and co-anchor of the show’s “Weekend Update” will headline the event, reports The Hill. Strong got her start as
On Monday, the White House announced the recipients of the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, the country’s highest civilian commendation. A few of this year’s 19 winners include Meryl Streep, Stevie Wonder, Stephen Sondheim, and Tom Brokaw. Brokaw, who
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow predicted Republicans will try to impeach President Barack Obama if he tries to implement immigration reform through an executive order early on Wednesday during her network’s post-election coverage. After host Chris Hayes said “there’s a strong
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow announced the launch of a website where students can view a page removed from a biology textbook in Arizona on Friday. The Gilbert, AZ School Board voted to “edit” a high school honors biology textbook because
The school board of Gilbert Public Schools in Arizona has voted to remove two pages of a biology textbook that focus on abortion, after members agreed the section does not meet state law that gives preference to childbirth and adoption
On her Tuesday show, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow questioned the wisdom of Sen. Kay Hagan’s (D-NC) decision to take a pass on a debate against her Republican challenger Thom Tillis earlier in the evening. “See the empty chair there?” Maddow said.
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom continues to refuse any debates with Republican challenger Ron Nehring. Though the state’s rising Democratic star proclaims that he is “Dedicated to equal rights” on his Twitter page, evidently that enthusiasm for equality does not extend
On Tuesday morning’s early morning coverage of U.S. air strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow expressed her skepticism on a number of different levels as to whether or not this action was proper given strategic and
AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic nominee for Governor Wendy Davis has come a long way since the heights of her pink-sneakered glory days back in June 2013, when she captured the national attention of abortion advocates for her eleven hour filibuster
AUSTIN, Texas — Thursday, Wayne Hamilton, the campaign manager for Republican gubernatorial nominee, Greg Abbott, filed a complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) accusing State Senator Wendy Davis, Abbott’s Democratic opponent, of violating Texas election law for activities related
HOUSTON, Texas — The continued failure of the campaign of State Senator Wendy Davis to be governor of Texas has driven her to launch a book tour to attempt to capitalize on her fame before the opportunity fizzles after the
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported that President Obama will not ask for a war or military effort against ISIS during the network’s special coverage of the president’s remarks on Wednesday night. “We’re told the president will announce not a war effort
The odds of The View finding a better ideological balance shrank when we heard far-left comic Rosie O’Donnell will be returning to the show. Now, we’re learning who will be pulling the strings on the revamped chat show. O’Donnell should
Tuesday night on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow used a barnyard analogy while descibing her one apperance on ABC’s “The View.” Host Andy Cohen and co-guest Nicole Richie were shocked Maddow compared the ladies of “The View”
Cable news anchors were shocked after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was defeated by Tea Party challenger Dave Brat. Watch the breaking reactions from Megyn Kelly, Rachel Maddow, Bret Baier, Brit Hume, Carl Cameron, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett, and others.
On MSNBC Monday night, Rachel Maddow highlighted the phony resignation of Undersecretary of Health Robert Petzel in response to the Veterans Affairs scandal. Petzel was already scheduled to retire in 2014, and President Obama had already nominated a replacement. Maddow
In an interview posted Monday on the YouTube page owned by the filmmakers of last September’s documentary “The Muslims Are Coming,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow targeted conservative Ann Coulter and radio host and so-called evangelist Bryan Fischer. Maddow was critical of
An internal investigation into “Bridgegate” and other allegations of abuse of power has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Gov. Chris Christie. The 344 page report, assembled by law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher at the request of Gov. Christie,
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow criticized California’s scandal-plagued Democratic Party on her Wednesday night show. Maddow cited a series of raids that were conducted across the state on Wednesday including one that resulted in the arrest of Sen. Leland Yee (D-San
On Saturday evening, Breitbart London began to pick up information about a Belgian daily newspaper – described to us as “the Belgian version of The Guardian” – published a grossly offensive image of U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife
Many critics wrote off Jeff Dunham after he introduced his Achmed the Terrorist puppet into his gallery of goofy co-stars. Why, the character is a stereotypical Islamic terrorist, as if such a creation were strictly a figment of the ventriloquist’s
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” MSNBC host Rachel Maddow offered her reaction to the cameo she made in Netflix’s series “House of Cards,” but did also revealed one detail about her motivations as a broadcaster. Follow
On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow featured an exclusive segment about the current state of pro-life laws in Texas, following the implementation of HB2, the Texas abortion safety law that added additional safety measures for women visiting clinics. The piece
Western cultural imperialism aimed at Africa–by everyone from Barack Obama to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow–has been blamed for the passage of what many see as the new draconian laws on homosexual behavior in Uganda. Writing in the prestigious Foreign Policy
MSNBC helped its readers understand the complex geography of the Ukraine by broadcasting a map Friday that included Czechoslovakia–a country that ceased to exist as a single unit more than twenty years ago. It is not the first time that
HBO’s Bill Maher and National Review’s Charles Cooke put MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on the defensive over her network’s coverage of Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)…
Congressman Alan Grayson just appeared on a Florida cooking and political show, where he said that liberal MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow “makes a lot of sense,” and that he “respects her views.” Grayson also said that Maddow seem “not talk
Fireworks erupted when Rep Tim Huelskamp went on MSNBC to discuss his State of the Union tweets with host Rachel Maddow…
As aired on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Monday night, Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) had criticized Fort Lee, NJ for having three dedicated lanes onto the George Washington Bridge back on Dec. 2, 2013…
On her Tuesday broadcast, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow offered her viewers some of the details in the federal indictment brought against former Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA) and his wife, Maureen McDonnell. Later that same night, 11:29 p.m., the governor himself
Several left-wing media outlets, various blogs, and even Steve Benen, writing for the Rachel Maddow Show, have orchestrated what appears to be a media hit on Ken Buck, the likely Republican front-runner in Colorado for the U.S. Senate. As Erick
Before the very public implosion of his relationship with the network, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was reportedly on the phone with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski as he drove his way up to Fort Lee to apologize to its mayor
Rachel Maddow hasn’t let embarrassment regarding a bogus story about the Koch brothers dissuade her from taking more risks on her show. Thursday she devoted a segment to presenting an alternative theory for the closing of lanes on the George
Many–if not most–of those following the unfolding drama surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie are having a hard time making heads or tails of the reason behind the act. Rachel Maddow is one of them, presenting a convoluted theory involving
On Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow suggested that Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office may have caused traffic jams in Fort Lee last year to retaliate against the leader of the Senate Democrats in the administration’s ongoing feud
Rachel Maddow has doubled down on her spurious “bombshell” report alleging that the nefarious Koch Brothers helped fund a shockingly outrageous initiative in Florida (which the vast majority of Floridians happened to support), but no one outside of the MSNBC clown
According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s journalistic *ahem* standards, her own left-wing network, MSNBC, supports mandatory drug testing for Florida welfare recipients. Of course this is no truer than making the claim that the Koch brothers support this legislation. But that
For years, apologists for Phil Griffin’s debacle of a news network, MSNBC, have rationalized their ratings failures by claiming that their audience may be smaller than Fox News, but it’s younger and stronger in the key “money demo” of adults
Last weekend the NY Times published a “Sunday dialogue” which included a letter to the editor by a Connecticut bookseller and some responses. The topic was media bias. Both the letter–and some of the responses to it–present a perspective on
Fishbowl DC: In something of a backwards move in this day and age, a TV personality is taking on a print gig. Rachel Maddow of MSNBC fame will be writing a monthly column for The Washington Post, according to a