Alex Fitzsimmons

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Obama and Palin Call for Civility, but MSNBC Duo Marvel Over Former and Rebuke Latter

On MSNBC's Jansing & Co., anchor Chris Jansing and liberal columnist Karen Hunter took turns ripping apart Sarah Palin's call for civility in an Internet video posted yesterday morning in the ...

MSNBC's Mitchell Blames Palin, Again, for Tucson Shooting

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell continued her crusade against Sarah Palin on Tuesday, reiterating the fallacious contention that the former Alaska governor is at least partly responsible for the shooting ...

Polls Show Public Has Other Priorities, But Contessa Brewer Urges Senate to Repeal DADT

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer thinks the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell is a national "priority" that needs to be passed during the lame duck session.

Reuters Editor Shrieks: Tax 'Lucky Sperm Club' to Break 'Landed Gentry'

For Chrystia Freeland, the thought of only taxing wealthy estates 35 percent is "destructive to the fabric of America." The Reuters global editor-at-large went on a ear-piercing tear on the ...

Nightly News Correspondent Laments Tough Fight Over DREAM Act

Previewing a vote on the DREAM Act, which passed the House 216 to 198, NBC News correspondent George Lewis empathized with supporters of the measure on the December 8 Nightly News. Lewis ...

MSNBC's Chuck Todd Continues to Distort Tax Deal's 'Astronomical' Cost

MSNBC's Chuck Todd on the December 7 "Daily Rundown" was uncharacteristically heated in his opposition to the compromise between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans on extending ...

CBS Early Show Frets Over 'Passenger Gridlock,' Glosses Over TSA Civil Liberties

Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez on Tuesday glossed over the TSA's use of intrusive pat-downs while drilling down on the potential for "gridlock" if distressed passengers cause "chaos" this ...

Cenk Uygur Bizarrely Bellows: Ghailani Trial Shows 'Our Justice System Worked'

While most of the country took a collective gasp over the verdict in the trial of al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani, Cenk Uygur spun the disconcerting outcome as a success story for the Obama ...

Liberal Activists Overwhelm Opposing Voices at MSNBC's Immigration Town Hall

MSNBC's prime-time "town hall" on immigration reform yesterday exemplified one of the more unseemly elements of media bias: brazen political advocacy disguised as an "honest conversation."

Bill Press on Midterms: 'The Voters Have Spoken. What a Bunch of Idiots.'

Bill Press says what most liberals in the media will only shroud in cryptic code: the voters who swept Democrats out of power in the House are stupid: "Just once ' probably never get reelected if ...

MSNBC's Cenk Uygur Claims George W. Bush Confessed to 'War Crimes' in New Memoir

MSNBC's Cenk Uygur mischaracterized the 43rd President's position on the waterboarding, before demanding that Bush be prosecuted. "Now it seems to me we have a confession here of a war crime and a ...

After MSNBC President Claims Channel Doesn't Support Libs, Network Gives Free Time to MoveOn.org Ad

Just days after MSNBC President Phil Griffin claimed his cable network does not use air-time to support Democratic candidates and liberal causes, evening host Lawrence O'Donnell yielded over two ...

Trifecta of Distortion: Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, Lance Bass Blame Conservatives for Gay Teen Suicides

Are religious leaders, conservative activists, and Jim DeMint responsible for the deaths of gay teenagers? That's the impression left by Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, and Lance Bass, in an extensive ...

Lawrence O'Donnell Draws Parallel Between Extreme Militia Groups and Tea Party

Interviewing a Time magazine writer who conducted an in-depth investigation into right-wing militias, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on the September 30 "Last Word" tried to draw a parallel between ...

Truth-Seeking with Lawrence O'Donnell and Matt Taibbi: Tea Party is 'Narcissistic,' 'Incredibly Stupid'

"What's the answer to the Tea Party racist question?" Galloping into the 10 p.m. Eastern time slot as the white knight of truth, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, host of The Last Word" challenged ...

Arianna Huffington Likens Mosque Opponents to Koran-Burning Pastor

Snatching the proverbial low-hanging fruit off the branch, Arianna Huffington compared the vast majority of Americans who oppose the construction of a mosque close to Ground Zero to the thirty ...

CNN's Sanchez: Reid's Racist Gaffe Emblematic of Angle's Incompetence

Discussing Harry Reid's racially-charged comment about Hispanic Republicans, Rick Sanchez miraculously managed to turn the embattled senator's gaffe into an example of his opponent Sharron Angle's ...

CNN's Fareed Zakaria Returns ADL Award in Protest to Position on Ground Zero Mosque

At the top of his eponymous program on Sunday, CNN's Fareed Zakaria took drastic action to protest the Anti-Defamation League's opposition to the proposed Ground Zero mosque. Zakaria, who was ...

MSNBC Promotes Findings of Roosevelt Institute Liberals Pushing 'New Family Strategy'

During MSNBC's live news coverage on Tuesday afternoon, anchor Chris Jansing demonstrated her apparent ignorance of the statistical maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Interviewing the ...

As AZ Immigration Law Looms, ABC Touts Harm to Small Businesses

ABC's World News on Sunday caught up to CBS and NBC in fretting about the potential problems caused by illegal immigrants leaving Arizona. ABC's Barbara Pinto lamented the possible damage to small ...