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Unmitigated Hackwork On Display In MSNBC Segment’s Effort To Link InfoWars Conspiracy Nuts To Gop
30 April 2013 5:06 PM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Once in a while, partisan political writers stumble onto a premise that is just too good to thoroughly vet. Even if the attack in question may be a stretch or even outright misleading, it skewers their opponents in a way they find too satisfying to abandon. No better example of this exercise in folly can be found on today’s episode of Martin Bashir in which the liberal partisan guests made their best effort to link the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his paranoid website, InfoWars, to the Republican Party. »
- Noah Rothman
Martin Bashir Slams ‘Nonentity’ Sarah Palin’s ‘Assclown’ Remarks, Recommends Her For NRA Post
30 April 2013 8:42 AM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Former Alaska Governor and Nuclear Football Near-Miss Sarah Palin joined the predictable chorus of bitter White House Correspondents' Dinner non-invitees Saturday night by tweeting her ass-heavy misgivings about the event, inviting an even more predictable revelation of her own hypocrisy. On Monday's Martin Bashir show, host Martin Bashir pointed out that Palin had smeared her own kin with assclownery, but also added a bit of canny career advice for the fading pit bull. »
- Tommy Christopher
Former Gop Rep Joe Walsh: ‘We Need To Begin Profiling Who Our Enemy Is In This War: Young Muslim Men’
22 April 2013 1:59 PM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Speaking out in opposition to immigration reform in the wake of the attacks on the Boston Marathon last week, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-il) told MSNBC host Martin Bashir that the Senate’s plan must be reconsidered in light of the fact that the perpetrators of those attacks were immigrants. He said that the attacks were a stark reminder that America is at war. Walsh added that “we need to begin profiling who our enemy is in this war: young Muslim men.” »
- Noah Rothman
Ann Coulter column removed by Fox News site over Meghan McCain death threat
12 April 2013 10:33 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Fox News website Fox Nation removed a column written by ultra-conservative commentator Ann Coulter, following backlash from the family of Sen. John McCain.
According to a report by the Associated Press, Coulter wrote in response to MSNBC's Martin Bashir's comments suggesting Republican senators will not support stronger gun control laws until one of their own family members is killed. While Bashir did not name any names, Coulter wrote in her column, "Let's start with Meghan McCain!"
McCain, a blogger who famously disagrees with her conservative father on several political points, went on a Twitter rant following Fox's publications of the column. "Apparently Ann Coulter made a joke about me being killed in a recent column. I should expect nothing less but disgusted regardless," McCain tweeted. "My father is a very famous politician. My family gets a lot of threats. Joking about me being killed really isn't funny or appropriate. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Meghan McCain Blasts Ann Coulter for Joking She Should Be Murdered
11 April 2013 1:38 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Having differences of opinion is one thing. But if you ask Meghan McCain, Ann Coulter's brand of over-the-top rhetoric went too far. The Daily Beast columnist took to Twitter to slam the conservative firebrand for jokingly suggesting she should be murdered in Coulter's latest online screed. "Apparently, Ann Coulter made a joke about me being killed in a recent column," she tweeted yesterday. "I should expect nothing less but disgusted regardless." The blog post in question titled, "Liberals Go Crazy for the Mentally Ill," focused on gun control and was originally published on Fox News' website. In it Coulter wrote, "MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that »
Fox News Site Pulls Ann Coulter Post Calling for Meghan McCain's Murder
11 April 2013 8:55 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Fox News' Fox Nation site has pulled a post in which Ann Coulter jokingly called for Meghan McCain to be murdered. Coulter facetiously recommended the murder of her fellow political pundit in the post published Wednesday. Fox News did not immediately respond to an inquiry from TheWrap about the post's removal or whether it was initially vetted. "MSNBC's Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats' gun proposals. (Let's start with Meghan McCain!)" Coulter wrote. As New York's Daily Intelligencer »
- Tim Molloy
Bashir And Guests Call O’Reilly An ‘Accidental Racist’ Over His Glowing 1950s Nostalgia
10 April 2013 4:04 PM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
The panel guests who joined MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Wednesday tore into Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly over a segment he did on Tuesday night eulogizing the late actress Annette Funicello. The panelists chided O’Reilly for asking if the country was a better place to live in the 1950s, and said his misplaced nostalgia for a period marked by segregation and racial tensions made him, in the words of LL Cool J and Brad Paisley, an “Accidental Racist.” »
- Noah Rothman
Martin Bashir Asks If It Takes A Family Member Being Killed For Gop Senators To Care About Gun Violence
9 April 2013 11:53 AM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
The power of personal experience to change Republican minds about political issues was highlighted, recently, when Sen. Rob Portman announced his two-year conversion to acceptance of marriage equality following his son's coming out. On Monday's Martin Bashir program, host Martin Bashir wondered if such a personal experience were the only way to get Republicans to drop their threat to block a vote on the gun regulations that Newtown families are begging them to vote on. Sadly, fairly recent history has already provided us with an answer to that question. »
- Tommy Christopher
Martin Bashir And Gop Rep. Stacey Campfield In Brutal Clash Over ‘Bigotry’
5 April 2013 2:24 PM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) and MSNBC host Martin Bashir engaged in a bitter back and forth over the Gop politician’s proposed reform which would create an incentive for parents to engage in their kids' education by tying benefits to school performance. The pair exchanged insults in a fiery battle over the impact of the proposal on vulnerable and impoverished families. »
- Noah Rothman
Joe Walsh Tells Martin Bashir Furor Over ‘Wetback’ Remark Makes Politicians ‘Afraid To Speak’
4 April 2013 2:56 PM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
If you've missed former Congressman Joe "I Will Say Your Name Until It Ceases To Have Meaning" Walsh (R-il) like I have, you're in luck. On Thursday afternoon's Martin Bashir program, the defeated Tea Partier offered up some half-hearted excuses for Rep. Don Young's (R-ak) use of the word "wetbacks" in a recent interview, but said the real problem is with the big freakin' deal everybody made out of it. Walsh has shown a little bit of growth, as Rep. Louie Gohmert's (R-tx) remarks about high-capacity magazines and bestiality were too crazy even for Walsh. »
- Tommy Christopher
CNN’s ‘The Lead With Jake Tapper’ Hits Demo Low
28 March 2013 3:55 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
A week and a half after its debut, the show from the host Jeff Zucker called “the new face of CNN” hit a new low yesterday. Airing at 4 Pm Et, The Lead With Jake Tapper pulled in 61,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 demo on Wednesday, with 318,000 total viewers. That’s the worst the one-hour CNN show has done since its soft March 18 debut. It was also the worst of the day in the demo for any show on the ratings-challenged CNN. Wednesday’s number marks a demo-low for the show, but it’s not the worst The Lead has done in terms of viewership — it pulled in a mere 258,000 viewers March 22 with a demo of 68,000. The best the Tapper-fronted show has done came on March 26, when it pulled in 433,000 viewers and 113,000 among 25-54. The show debuted with 400,000 viewers and 87,000 in the demo. But that’s cold comfort when Wednesday’s »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
TV Ratings: 'The Lead with Jake Tapper' Gives Jeff Zucker a Modest CNN Launch
19 March 2013 4:35 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper did not get off to the most auspicious start on Monday evening. The revamped 4 p.m. hour, the first launch since Jeff Zucker took over as president of CNN Worldwide, largely underperformed from the numbers Wolf Blitzer brought during the same time slot last week. In total viewers, The Lead placed fourth among the cable news networks with 400,000 viewers. Down 27,000 from last Monday, it brought half the audience of Fox News Channel’s Your World With Neil Cavuto (1.1 million). Hln (779,000) pulled second, with MSNBC's Martin Bashir
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- Michael O'Connell
CNN’s ‘The Lead With Jake Tapper’ Premieres Soft As Jeff Zucker Era Begins
19 March 2013 1:59 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wished Jake Tapper “good luck with your show” yesterday while appearing on the debut episode of The Lead With Jake Tapper. The new one-hour CNN show looks like it needs it: The premiere of the first new show under new boss Jeff Zucker drew 400,000 total viewers, finishing in third place among cable news shows in its 4 Pm Et time slot. That’s less than half of the 1.102 million who watched Fox News Channel’s Your World With Neil Cavuto, and also down from the 479,000 who watched Martin Bashir’s daily show on MSNBC. In the key adults 25-54 demo, the show starring the former ABC News White House correspondent — who new boss Zucker has called the “face of the new CNN,” — drew 87,000 viewers compared to Cavuto’s 172,000 and Bashir’s 100,000. It also was beaten it in the slot by CNN sister station Headline News, which »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
Our Queen: the latest royal TV to tell us almost nothing
15 March 2013 6:40 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Our Queen, a two-hour documentary on ITV this Sunday, is watchable but frustrating. It's hardly surprising: television about the royals has always been fawning, boring or both
Prince Edward was the first and last British royal to set up an independent TV production company: Ardent Productions, which specialised in documentaries about his relatives and folded in 2009 with reported assets of £40.27. However, without ever professionally entering the industry, other members of his family have run up a much more impressive set of screen credits than "Edward Windsor", as he styled himself on Ardent business cards.
This Sunday's Our Queen is the fourth major behind-the-scenes piece in which "Elizabeth Windsor" has appeared during her reign, apart from her regular 25 December piece-to-camera slot with her Christmas message. Our Queen, a two-hour documentary directed by Michael Waldman, follows Richard Cawston's The Royal Family (1969), Edward Mirzeoff's Elizabeth R (1992) and Matt Reid's Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (2007), which, »
- Mark Lawson
‘You’re Absolutely Right, Martin!’: Gaze Into The ‘Liberal Bubble’ That Is Martin Bashir’s MSNBC Show
14 March 2013 10:42 AM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Now that MSNBC's fiery host Ed Schultz has been replaced in primetime by the more thoughtful Chris Hayes, the media conversation is largely centered around the network's shift towards wonky, cerebral analysis as opposed to vitriolic bombast. But among the rest of MSNBC's weekday lineup, there remains another icon of over-the-top vitriol and "extravagant partisanship": Martin Bashir's 4 p.m. show. »
- Andrew Kirell
Catholic Clergyman: Church In Latin America ‘Is In Trouble,’ Rapidly Losing Followers To The Evangelicals
13 March 2013 1:34 PM, PDT | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Appearing on MSNBC with Martin Bashir, Georgetown University professor of theology, Rev. Thomas Reese, said that the selection of a new pope from Argentina is less an acknowledgement of where the Catholic Church is growing and more a signal that they are aware of where the church is losing ground. Reese said that Catholicism is losing followers in South America to evangelicalism and the selection of a Latin American pope may help reverse that trend. »
- Noah Rothman
Bashir Explodes At Gop Guest Who Voted Against Sandy Aid: ‘How Many Deaths Do You Need?’
27 February 2013 2:00 PM, PST | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-ks) got an earful from MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Wednesday when he appeared on his program for a wide-ranging interview. Bashir hammered the Republican congressman over his opposition to voting for aid to regions hit by Hurricane Sandy, asking the congressman precisely “how many deaths do you need” before you will vote for federal disaster aid. »
- Noah Rothman
Gun Violence Victims Don’t Need ‘Straight Talk’ From Congress, They Need Straight Spines
21 February 2013 3:45 PM, PST | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
On Thursday afternoon's Martin Bashir Live, host Martin Bashir took umbrage at Senator John McCain's (R-az) response to a woman who lost her son in the Aurora theater mass shooting, a response that Bashir felt was disrespectful. Asked about the proposed ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, McCain said to Caren Teves "I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States." You could argue that the crowd, which lustily cheered McCain's response, was less-than-sensitive, at best, but Senator McCain was just copping out. »
- Tommy Christopher
Martin Bashir Asks Texas Democrat If He Will Use Ar-15 To Protect Repeatedly Vandalized Mural Of Obama
21 February 2013 2:18 PM, PST | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
On Wednesday, MSNBC host Martin Bashir interviewed a Texas businessman who has had to continually repaint a mural of the president which he often finds has been defaced by local residents. During the interview, Bashir pointed out that the businessman is the owner of an assault rifle and asked jovially if he was prepared to use it to defend his property – namely, the mural. »
- Noah Rothman
Prince Harry Let Family Down With Nude Pic? Clearly He’s Forgotten About These 10 Royal Scandals
22 January 2013 1:45 PM, PST | TheFabLife - Movies | See recent TheFabLife - Movies news »
“At the end of the day I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down,” Prince Harry sighed during a recent interview about his nude Las Vegas photos taken last August. To which we say…do you even know your family, Harry? Maybe things were different when Queen Elizabeth II was a girl, but if the last couple decades have taught us anything, it’s that you could barely be considered a British royal without at least one scandal in your back pocket. So don’t worry, Harry! You’re just joining other infamous royal scandals such as…
1) Kate Middleton’s bottomless nudes
Can Harry really feel too bad about everyone seen his nakedness when his new sister-in-law inadvertently showed the world hers while honeymooning in France last September? Kate Middleton obviously had no intention of anyone seeing her sans pants or sans bra, »
- Halle Kiefer
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