On his June 15 program, MSNBC's Martin Bashir misled viewers with claims that GOP presidential candidates, including and especially Newt Gingrich, were dead set on "grounding NASA." Yet not once did Bashir remind viewers it was President Obama who has been criticized by Apollo program veterans for ditching the agency's project to send missions back to the moon.See related NewsBusters blog post…
MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir twice asked on his June 14 program whether Michele Bachmann is the "thinking person's Sarah Palin."
During the 11 a.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live, anchor Thomas Roberts gave his viewers a botched history of presidential elections.
"Shouldn't presidential candidates and prospective candidates have a firm grasp of American history?" Chris Matthews rhetorically asked on the June 9 "Hardball" before lamenting that Sarah Palin had a penchant for being "painfully wrong" on the subject, citing her recent inartful explanation of the famed midnight ride of Paul Revere.For the full NewsBusters blog post, click here.
SNBC's Andrea Mitchell scolded Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty today over the former Minnesota governor's proposed plan to reduce taxes and cut spending, decrying the conservative measures as "counterintuitive."
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Appearing on MSNBC today, Newsweek senior writer Andrew Romano attributed the findings of his magazine's study showing Americans don't understand basic facts about U.S. history to the country's lack of "a kind of centralized curriculum in our schools."
Reuters editor-at-large Chrystia Freeland on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan.
Time's Mark Halperin discusses a range of issues with NBC's Lester Holt.
On the eve of a disappointing jobs report in which the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, CNN's Richard Quest and Eliot Spitzer pushed for more government spending to turn around the foundering economy.