Tag Archives: MSNBC

Why Why Why Why Why?

Carlos Maza reports at Equality Matters: He has ties to a white supremacist organization, a history of anti-gay extremism, and zero credibility as a political commentator, but Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins managed to use the GOP presidential primary to become a star on cable news networks. Perkins is no stranger to the mainstream media. Though his organization …

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Frank Bruni On His Clinton Apology Piece

On Sunday I excerpted a few paragraphs from Frank Bruni’s New York Times column in which he demanded that Bill Clinton apologize from his role in the passage of DOMA.  (That JMG post generated quite the heated conversation.) Today Bruni joined an MSNBC panel to discuss his essay and where both Clintons stand regarding same-sex marriage.

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How Cable News Covered Marriage Wins

Equality Matters adds that Fox only mentioned Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s win once and did not include the fact that she is lesbian.

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Hate Group Leader Bradlee Dean To Appeal Defamation Loss To Rachel Maddow

As we expected, rather than obey the judge’s order to pay Rachel Maddow’s legal fees after the dismissal of his $50M defamation suit against her, hate group leader Bradlee Dean is filing an appeal of the case. Via a World Net Daily: An appeal is being prepared in a case that alleges MSNBC personality Rachel Maddow defamed a Christian minister …

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Chris Matthews Rips Obama On Debate

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Thomas Roberts Gets Married Today

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MSNBC Takes Lead In Prime Demo

Fox News remains the overall ratings leader thanks to senior citizens, but MSNBC has taken the lead in the prime demographic of viewers aged 25-54.  Rachel Maddow’s show is outperforming MSNBC’s other hours.

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MSNBC Host Thomas Roberts To Marry

MSNBC host Thomas Roberts is set to become the first openly gay news anchor to get married. The New York Observer reports: Mr. Roberts says his late-September wedding to Patrick Abner, of Merck Pharmaceuticals’ HIV/AIDS division, and his public persona as a gay man, are unlikely to hurt his career at MSNBC—not least because, unlike certain newly out cable newsmen, …

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Bradlee Dean Demands “Biased” Judge Recuse Herself From Maddow Case

Earlier this week we learned that hate group leader Bradlee Dean has been ordered to pay the legal fees of Rachel Maddow and the other defendants he’s suing for reporting that he called for the execution of homosexuals. Apparently the case is not yet fully resolved because yesterday Dean’s lawyer demanded that the judge recuse herself. “Recusal is required when …

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Hate Group Leader Bradlee Dean Ordered To Pay Rachel Maddow’s Defense Fees

Minnesota-based radio host and hate group leader Bradlee Dean sued Rachel Maddow for reporting that he’d called for the execution of homosexuals. It appears that the suit has been at least partially resolved as Dean has been ordered to pay Maddow’s defense fees. From the court order: Memorandum and Order Granting in Part Defendants’ Motion for Attorneys’ Fees and Denying …

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MSNBC Panel On Romney’s Bullying

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Chris Matthews & Barney Frank Tag-Team The Fuck Out Of FRC’s Tony Perkins

Enjoy!

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MSNBC Host Lawrence O’Donnell Slams North Carolina Pastor Sean Harris

O’Donnell flat out calls Harris a “liar.”

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Gay Christian Activists Try Again With MSNBC Host Chris Matthews

The last time activists confronted MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews about hosting hate group leader Tony Perkins, he dismissed their concerns as “censorship.” That spawned triumphant blog posts and tweets from anti-gay leaders, who crowed that Matthews “gets it.” They won’t do the same after viewing this encounter.

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Maggie Dismisses Race-Baiting Charge

In an interview just concluded on MSNBC, former NOM head Maggie Gallagher shrugged off charges of race-baiting. Kudos to Thomas Roberts for his opening question: “Maggie, do you continue to defend your own race-baiting to further bigotry and homophobia on a national level?” Video to follow… UPDATE: Equality Matters has the clip first.

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Fred Karger On MSNBC Today

It was openly gay GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger whose legal tangles with NOM led to the unsealing of those devastating documents. Karger writes us this morning: I am scheduled to be on Thomas Roberts’ show today, Friday during the 11:30 am to 12:00 noon segment on MSNBC. I’m being interviewed regarding the recently released explosive NOM documents that came …

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Gay Christians Confront MSNBC Host Chris Matthews For Hosting Tony Perkins

NOTE: The clip below has been replaced with a longer version that merits watching again if you’ve already seen the shorter one. Clip description: At a book signing in Framingham, Massachusetts, Faithful America members confront Chris Matthews about his consistently inviting Tony Perkins, President of the hate-group Family Research Council, on his show. Matthews responds by falsely claiming that Perkins …

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UPDATE: MSNBC Says “It Was Our Fault”
Maggie FLAKES On MSNBC Interview

We can stop our chortling, Maggie Gallagher did NOT flake on her interview. MSNBC host Thomas Roberts just tweeted: MYSTERY solved… @maggiemarriage was in a studio ready for our #nom interview it was just the wrong studio booked improperly on @msnbc_booking IT WAS OUR MISTAKE and she has an open invite for the show. Our sincerest apologies. Well, that was …

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MSNBC Covers NOM Scandal

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Quote Of The Day – Tony Perkins

“I talked to Kirk [Cameron], I talked to him yesterday actually I was actually interestingly enough I was coming out of MSNBC where I was on yesterday with Martin Bashir, and I would actually encourage folks to go watch that interview that I did with him—they have it on their homepage; at least they did this morning on MSNBC—and thank …

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