MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews forcefully ripped into Sarah Palin’s advice that President Obama could “declare war on Iran” to improve his re-election chances, repeatedly calling her “frightening” and claiming she’s “an empty vessel” with “nothing going on mentally.” Palin told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that if Obama “played…
The Republican primary battle between would-be California senatorial candidates Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell has so far gained only minor attention outside the state. But a bizarre new web ad from Fiorina’s campaign is drawing astonished laughter nationwide and giving new hope to a conservative candidate who has been a…
Update at bottom: MSNBC turns off Obama after he says turn TV off; FOX cuts off for 3rd time For the second time in less than a week, Fox News on Tuesday cut away from a live broadcast of a presidential address to air comments from a critic of President…
An ugly on-air spat between conservative Web journalist Andrew Breitbart and MSNBC host David Shuster capped a bizarre episode which saw a seemingly embarrassed Breitbart covering his tail on his blog and Shuster face a reprimand from MSNBC. During the seven-minute interview, broadcast Thursday, Breitbart repeatedly dodged Shuster’s questions about…
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Addressing a crowd of progressive talk radio fans in Minnesota, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz revealed some of the harsh words he exchanged with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs off the air earlier in the week. “I told him he was full of sh*t is what I told him,” Schultz said. “And…
The head of the Congressional Oversight Panel created in 2008 to oversee the TARP bank bailout says that President Obama’s proposal on Thursday to limit both the size of the major banks and the risks in which they can engage is “very important.” Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren told MSNBC’s…
Update: Olbermann gives Stewart B- for smackdown The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart took on MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Thursday night for what he dubbed as a devolution into petty name-calling — and offered his viewers a special comment of his own — replete with a dozen or so comical spectacles. “For…
Private security firms are already eying earthquake-stricken Haiti as a potential source of lucrative contracts. Author Jeremy Scahill believes, however, that “the last thing Haitians need [is] yet more unaccountable people with guns in their country.” Scahill, the author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,…