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Chris Matthews to Andrea Mitchell: ‘Wife beating’ is a thing women worry about?
In the midst of a discussion of the appeal to voters of potential future Democratic presidential candidates Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews asked on Wednesday whether women still worry about “wife beating” and domestic violence. Matthews posed the question to…
New GOP darling: Sorry if ‘anyone was offended’ by comparing ‘gays’ and NAMBLA
Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, who has become increasingly popular in conservative circles, offered an explanation, if not a real apology, for remarks earlier this week equating the LGBT community with pedophiles. “If anybody was offended, I apologize to you,” Carson told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Friday.…
Clyburn: Party leaders should ‘join hands’ in a ‘joint whipping operation’
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) on Monday called for Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress to come together in a “joint whipping operation” for the good of the country. During an interview on MSNBC, the number three Democrat in the House told host Andrea Mitchell that now that many Republican had…
MSNBC host shuts down Romney surrogate: ‘I fact checked the apology tour… it didn’t happen’
Former Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO), an adviser to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, was forced to modify his talking points on Tuesday after MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell said she had fact checked the claim that President Barack Obama went on an “apology tour” and determined “it just didn’t happen.” Mitchell…
Tony Perkins downplays ‘legitimate rape’ as a ‘Biden-ism’
Family Research Council President Tony Perkin on Thursday defended Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), saying that his assertion that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape” was the type of innocent gaffe that Vice President Joe Biden might make. Perkins told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he met with Akin in…
Charlie Crist blasts Rick Scott’s ‘unconscionable’ voter suppression tactics
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) on Wednesday criticized his successor, Gov. Rick Scott (R), and other Republicans for using “shameless” tactics that suppress voting rights, including requiring photo IDs, preventing felons from voting and purging voter rolls. “The concern really is on sort of a closing the door on…
Miami reporter: Hispanics and independents targeted by Florida’s voter purge
In an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell today, Miami Herald reporter Marc Caputo offered more details as to who is being targeted in Florida Governor Rick Scott’s attempt to purge “non-citizens” from the state’s voter rolls. Out of about 2,600 people identified by the Scott administration as non-citizens, Caputo said,…
Komen founder: ‘The responses we are getting are very, very favorable’
The founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure on Thursday insisted that the public response to her organization’s decision to discontinue its partnership with Planned Parenthood had been “very, very favorable.” CEO Nancy G. Brinker told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell called reports that the Komen Foundation cut funds for breast…
Oh, Sweet Mesus
The panel on Hardball (Andrea Mitchell and Roger Simon) is now discussing that John McCain is merely being misled by his staff, and that’s why he’s saying all sorts of stupid, dishonest things about Obama. Also, McCain has a Sense of Honor, and we all know it. So, either a…
McCain will still not stop lying
Originally I thought the McCain ad was dishonest simply because it ignored the Pentagon’s request that Obama not visit the troops; I assumed that cameras would have gone along but I didn’t find that to be any kind of crux of the matter. MSNBC, of all places, sets me right:…
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