Accuracy in Media

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell railed against outgoing GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan last week. In his “Last Word” segment, where he closes his program with a rant or statement, O’Donnell minced no words of his contempt for the retiring congressman from Wisconsin. O’Donnell said that Ryan had no soul, could not oppose Trumpism at its worst, […]

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnel’s contract is about to expire, and according to The Huffington Post, the network isn’t looking to keep the longtime host: “Four well-placed sources tell HuffPost that MSNBC has not been in contact with O’Donnell’s team of representatives to negotiate a new deal. The absence of active negotiations weeks before a contract […]

Lawrence O’Donnell, a host on MSNBC, tweeted out a seemingly tin-foil-hat-type conspiracy about Syria, President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Somehow, O’Donnell felt that Trump may have ordered airstrikes at Putin’s behest. Wouldn’t it be nice if it was impossible to suspect Putin ok’d Assad’s gas attack so Trump could fire missiles & change […]

The third quarter fundraising totals are in for the presidential candidates. On the Democratic side, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came so surprisingly close to frontrunner Hillary Clinton that MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said he was stunned, and that it called into question Hillary’s supposed ability to raise vast sums of money. “I find it stunning […]

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s struggles to replicate the enthusiasm the liberal media showed President Obama during his two campaigns was evident last night as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell  questioned whether or not Hillary’s campaign speeches will be “just too boring” for voters to stomach. O’Donnell: Charlie Cook, does she run the risk of having those […]

Appearing on Morning Joe to discuss the ongoing Hillary Clinton email scandal, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said that her use of a private email server was “very clearly in violation” of State Department rules. He added: It goes back to the original issue, which is the proper custodial preservation of State Department emails and all of […]

MSNBC’s ratings took another nosedive in the first quarter of 2015, with total daytime viewership down 39 percent and primetime down 45 percent in the key demo compared to the same period a year ago. This represented MSNBC’s lowest quarterly demo viewership in both categories since the second quarter of 2005, and the lowest quarterly […]

Hillary Clinton, who desperately wants to be the next president, hit a serious speed bump yesterday with the revelation that she never had an official State Department email account while she was Secretary of State. Instead, she used an unsecured private email account to conduct official business, in violation of government record-keeping laws. While the […]

  Hilary Clinton hasn’t officially begun her highly anticipated 2016 presidential campaign, but it is already stumbling out of the gate, with the latest revelation that the Clinton Foundation has been accepting money from foreign governments. This has elicited criticism from fellow Democrats, fearful that the party’s presumptive nominee is damaging herself beyond repair. What’s […]

Appearing on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson praised Hillary Clinton’s current strategy of avoiding making decisions or answering questions, because it has helped her remain the defacto Democratic presidential nominee in 2016. O’Donnell asked Robinson if he thought that Clinton is feeling lucky that she isn’t a senator and therefore […]