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
It has been a week since MSNBC’s Martin Bashir took the network’s hatred of Sarah Palin one step further with a sexist rant suggesting someone defecate and urinate into the former Alaska governor’s mouth. Having apologized but received no discipline, his
I normally do not like to judge a movie based on the merits of similar movies, but it seems to be the most appropriate way to review White House Down. Released within months of Olympus Has Fallen (a movie with
MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday night and returned to a familiar refrain when trying to explain Republican opposition to President Obama’s deficit spending policies and the Affordable Care Act. “I think it’s hatred, I
Call him “Captain Obvious.” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes has a firm grasp on what everyone in the universe knows: his show is tanking in the ratings. In a fawning puff piece about MSNBC in this month’s New Yorker magazine, Hayes admits
Last night the great David Webb filled in for Sean Hannity on Fox News. Webb put on Allen West and Juan Williams to talk about urban malaise. The visuals at Fox must have been too much for Rachel Maddow, because she put
Last Friday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow referred to the Washington Redskins as the “R-word” in a segment on her show about a delegate from American Samoa who is relentlessly advocating for a name change. Breitbart Sports has reported extensively on the
During a May appearance on Rachel Maddow Lean Forward Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said gun rights are not “God-given” and any claim that the Founding Fathers wanted U.S. citizens armed so they could repel a tyranny “is insane.” Murphy said, “The
MSNBC host Thomas Roberts referred to Anthony Weiner’s sexting partner as a “chick” who is “so bats**t.” Opening a discussion for his panel to discuss Sydney Leathers’ recent interview with Howard Stern wherein she revealed that she is leaving open
Melissa Harris-Perry, who filled in last night for Rachel Maddow on some MSNBC show I don’t usually watch, asked Filner’s new chief of staff if it was discriminatory to bar women from having private meetings with Mayor Filner. Eight women
This year’s bad news for MSNBC has only gotten worse. The “Lean Forward” network has struggled in the ratings since the Boston Marathon bombings exposed the network’s glaring weakness when it comes to news gathering. MSNBC had hoped to turn
Rachel Maddow has had enough with Anthony Weiner. She opened Tuesday’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC with a rant against the oft-disgraced New York politician and rightly accused him of manipulating the press for his craven political purposes. What Maddow
Ex-MSNBC employee David Shuster described his former network as a “mouthpiece for the [Obama] administration” in a National Journal article looking at the cable network’s very real ratings crisis. The left-wing Schuster says, “When you’re too predictably a mouthpiece for
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow received a “Pants On Fire” rating from the PolitiFact Ohio Truth-O-Meter for her statement on her June 28 show in which she said that an Ohio budget item, later signed into law by Gov. John Kasich (R), requires
Keith Olbermann is being accused of hammering his former protegé Rachel Maddow on Twitter after responding to a tweet about the cable network’s ratings slump. Olbermann responded with “This is sarcasm, to the following tweet: Very, Very impressive #ratings
In the aftermath of the crime at a Colorado movie theater where 12 people were murdered, the Colorado State legislature quickly moved to adopt stricter gun laws and Senate President John Morse led that effort. But now, after his anti-gun
As though MSNBC doesn’t have enough ratings problems, the recent decision to dump the working class Ed Schultz for Rachel Maddow doppelganger Chris Hayes is also blowing up in the Lean Forward network’s face. MSNBC president Phil Griffin probably thought
NBC News cable outlet MSNBC finished May in a dismal 4th place in the ratings race delivering a humiliating blow to the left-leaning news network. If MSNBC execs are rationalizing the 4th place finish by pointing out that CNN Headline
Progressive propaganda doesn’t seem to be doing well in the ratings since President Obama’s reelection. MSNBC dropped to fourth place behind the HLN network in May. The Hollywood Reporter notes it was a really bad month for the progressive network.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann still exists … After dissolving into the things like the Michele Bachmann for President campaign and other things that didn’t really turn out to much. The Tea Party movement now wants to be
Rachel Maddow attacked “fact-checker” Politifact Tuesday night over a story related to NBA player Jason Collins coming out as a gay man. The controversy revolves around a statement made by tennis legend Martina Navratilova on CBS News’ “Face the
A wave of anti-abortion legislation that has made North Dakota the most Pro-life state in the nation has led Tammi Kromenaker, director of the Red River Valley Women’s Clinic in Fargo, to dig in her heels. The sole abortion provider
Durning the Sandra Day O’Connor Interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Rachel in epic fail style tred to use a picture of bored justices waiting to go to the inauguration as proof they were deeply saddened about their decision in Gore
Robert Gibbs tried to answer all of Rachel Maddow’s concerns about the Obama administration’s drone program Monday night on MSNBC. Maddow said that she understood the need for secrecy in drone missions but not in the law the governs those
Someone needs to Gif the stages BuzzFeed Politics went through as they published the first thing they’ve ever published harmful to Obama’s agenda: 1. Those “wingers” are gonna lose the Hagel vote today. Let’s high-five Obama’s infallible awesomeness. 2. Oh,
Friday night, on The Rachel Maddow Show, guest host Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez from the fourth congressional district told guest host Melissa Harris-Perry that he believed handguns should be banned. Harris-Perry asked, “What needs to be done if you’ve already
Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez interviewed by Rachel Maddow Show guest host Melissa Harris-Perry…
Host Rachel Maddow Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,”
Yes. Yes, she is. She just said that. Other Secretaries of State in American history: Thomas Jefferson John Jay James Monroe John Quincy Adams Daniel Webster William Jennings Bryan George Marshall John Foster Dulles Henry Kissinger Yeah, Rachel…
Thank you, Mr. President! With one heroic decision, you have saved us eight trillion times more than you ever cost us! By resisting public pressure to build the Death Star you have saved us $850 quadrillion, according to your science adviser.
This February’s Grammy Awards presentation will have a decidedly left-leaning component. First lady Michelle Obama and former President Clinton will be competing for music’s top prize next year — both have been nominated for a Grammy in the spoken-word-album category.
David Letterman is one of television’s most outspoken Obama apologists. The late night talker avoids jokes targeting the president while nursing a running gag about Mitt Romney’s failure to appear on his show. Even Letterman couldn’t stomach the lies Obama
Ever since Romney’s surge, Politico’s been about as useful as a screen door on a submarine because momentum against Obama is simply something that awful rag doesn’t want to talk about. But out of duty to my country and fidelity to the
Why go see a movie with a title like “Hating Breitbart?” In this shill-a-minute, 24-7 multimedia news cycle, what’s the point of looking back, to analyze in depth the ephemeral headlines of 2010, the squabbles between the NAACP and the
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and her counterpart Chris Hayes work very, very hard to put words in Rudy Giuliani’s mouth in their post-debate interview Wednesday night. They work extra hard to re-frame extending the current tax rates as a tax cut
In an appearance on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) claimed that Democrats were conducting a “positive” campaign but Republicans were trying to “poison the debate.” Pelosi also told Maddow that Republicans
Yesterday, Gallup reported the first real discernible signs of a convention “bounce” in Obama polling. Over the course of the week, Obama’s job approval rating moved up 7 points. In Gallup’s daily tracking Friday, 52% of adults approved of the
Poor Jennifer Granholm. The one-time rising Democrat star and failed Michigan governor who now haunts channel 455 of your cable box playing Rachel Maddow-lite (complete with smart-girl glasses), is now relegated to Roseanne Barr-style shock-tweets laced with mean stupidity in
In a shocking turn of events, Politico, which usually spends most of its time BenSmithing for the President, somehow allowed National Review editor Rich Lowry to take to its opinion pages today, where Lowry laid out a particularly strong case
Sherrod Brown likes to paint himself as an honest man, true and steadfast in his principles. In 2011, appearing on the Rachel Maddow Show, he uttered this deathless statement of his unwavering principles: “Those of us in politics like you and me that
