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VIDEO: MSNBC rejects ad targeting Family Research Council

By | 03.09.12 | 5:05 am

MSNBC this week rejected an ad critical of Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council and a frequent guest on the network, according to the group that produced the ad.

Udall sees greenlight at crucial moment for DADT repeal

By | 12.02.10 | 8:00 am

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, a leader in the effort to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell gays in the military policy, told MSNBC he “sees a greenlight” to pass the repeal this week after the Armed Services Committees hold…

Maes on MSNBC says bike sharing just ‘one piece of a larger UN program’

By | 08.10.10 | 2:24 pm

Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes went on MSNBC Monday to explain his view that Denver’s bike-sharing program, B-Cycle, was part of a larger strategy of UN control.

Maes said he was just trying to differentiate himself from Democratic…

MSNBC Backstage: Scahill tweets Koch name-calling

By | 06.03.10 | 4:40 pm

U.S. cable news talking heads have been facing off on the Israel-flotilla mayhem since the over-the-top helicopter commando boarding took place this week. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald against Eliot Spitzer and Co (including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former Chief…

Markey target of threatening calls in wake of health care vote

By | 03.24.10 | 5:51 pm

MSNBC is reporting that Fourth District U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey is among at least ten U.S. lawmakers who have been the victims of vandalism and the target of threatening phone calls in the wake of their votes in support of…

Norton ‘ponzi scheme’ comment pulls down an MSNBC ‘psycho talk’ award

By | 03.11.10 | 5:26 pm

All it takes is a little Talking Points Memo magic. The Colorado Independent reported yesterday that Jane Norton told the crowd gathered at the Tea Party candidate forum in Colorado Springs Tuesday night that the nation’s social security system

Digby on the Gregg / MSNBC flare up and the pedigree of the Jane Norton education plan

By | 02.01.10 | 12:18 pm

Last week MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer and Melissa Francis interviewed New Hampshire U.S. Senator Judd Gregg, top member on the budget committee and member of the banking committee. The interview got exciting when the hosts asked Gregg where precisely he…

State of the Union preshow: Fiscal conservativism and big government

By | 01.27.10 | 7:11 pm

An MSNBC pre-speech warm up features Republican Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, billed as a moderate. The message in the clip below, predictably, is much about how the President should put an end to government spending. Has there appeared new evidence…

‘Drop Dobbs’ ad will not air on CNN or in Colorado

By | 10.29.09 | 11:45 am

America’s Voice and Media Matters weeks ago announced a “Drop Dobbs” ad campaign that seeks to force CNN to take Dobbs’s political commentary show off the air. The ad will begin airing today but the groups behind it planned…

MSNBC’s Schultz hits Bachmann for ‘slit our wrists’ psycho talk

By | 09.02.09 | 10:41 am

MSNBC “Ed Show” host Ed Schultz took Minnesota U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann to task last night on a regular segment called “Psycho Talk,” in which he attempts to deconstruct egregious examples of right-wing hyperbole. Bachmann’s comments in Denver Monday