Ken Shepherd | February 24, 2016
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Ken Shepherd | February 24, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | "These networks that have been covering Black Lives Matter with dozens, hundreds of mentions, making it a national news story, suddenly they're nowhere to be found!" observed NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell on today's edition of Fox Business Network's Varney & Co. Bozell was referring to the February 12 beating at…
Ken Shepherd | February 23, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Chris Matthews dusted off a telling admission from last May on tonight's Hardball when he reiterated his view that Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) would be a good crossing-the-aisle pick to be Hillary's vice presidential running mate. "Hey, I've talked about him being on the ticket with Hillary. So I do like Kasich," Matthews insisted, telling guest Kasich campaign surrogate…
Ken Shepherd | February 22, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | "[I]t’s just another day in America with guns," complained Chris Hayes as he concluded a nearly two-minute mini-segment on his February 22 edition of All In lamenting a lack of political will to move forward on more federal gun restriction legislation. Hayes began the segment with a clip of President Obama lecturing about the "hard truth" that "we probably lost even…
Ken Shepherd | February 22, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Donald Trump may strike general election voters as "moderate" and hence be "electable," more so than anyone else remaining in the GOP primary field, because of his stand in favor of taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood. That's the take of MSNBC's Steve Kornacki, at least. 
Ken Shepherd | February 18, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | Chris Matthews gave guest Harry Reid (D-Nevada) a softball interview tonight wherein the Senate Minority Leader blamed Republicans on a lack of comity in the world's greatest deliberative body and insisted Democrats had always opposed extreme delay-and-deny tactics for presidential judicial nominations. Although this is patently false, Matthews didn't challege his…
Ken Shepherd | February 17, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | What kind of interviewer asks his subject, essentially, if his dead parents are in Heaven? While Hardball host Chris Matthews didn't exactly use those words, he did ask Gov. John Kasich, a conservative Anglican, "Where do you think your parents are?" after the Ohio Republican talked about how he eventually came through the shattering grief of losing both his parents at…
Ken Shepherd | February 17, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | The correct notion that President Bush's presidency post-9/11 saw no successful terror attacks on American soil is simply Republican "religion" among the party faithful, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews scoffed on his February 17 program. Matthews made his comments as he reacted to polling data which suggests that Trump's decidedly Democratic-sounding talking points…
Ken Shepherd | February 17, 2016
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Ken Shepherd | February 16, 2016
Read more at NewsBusters | The late Antonin Scalia was a "good soul" personally but had a backwards, outdated "ideology," Chris Matthews asserted on his February 16 Hardball program. Of course, in the process, Matthews both confused Scalia's philosophy of legal interpretation with "ideology" and misnamed it as "originalist" when in fact Scalia repeatedly took pains to describe his philosophy as "…