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If NewsBusters were to introduce a Scaremonger of the Month award, Symone Sanders would be the runaway winner for April. On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, which she co-hosts, ther former Kamala Harris press aide was commenting on the Abrego Garcia case: "Kilmar Abrego Garcia's specific case, the case of the gentleman who's a makeup artist out of California who was also sent to that prison . . . is so important. Because if they could do it to them, if they could snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any...

Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend featured a clip from a town hall in Indiana's 5th Congressional District. In November, Trump and Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz carried the district handily: by 16 and 18 points, respectively. Yet the crowd overwhelmingly and raucously cheered the suggestion that the congresswoman should demand Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's resignation, given the Signal chat that mistakenly included a journalist. Co-host Symone Sanders claimed the cheering people were district "constituents," and co-host Michael Steele took it a step further, saying they were Republicans. The show provided no evidence to support either statement. Did MSNBC make any...

Life under the segregationist Trump regime is horrible enough. But it threatens to get even worse! Soon, large swaths of the population will be incapable of reading about just how horrible things are . . . because they will be incapable of reading at all! That is, if you buy into MSNBC's doomsaying. NAACP president Derrick Johnson was a guest on Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, and much of the hand-wringing focused on the Trump administration's efforts to say sayonara to the Department of Education. Attempting to broaden his scaremongering beyond African-Americans and Latinos, and induce whites to also...

On Sunday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Alicia Menendez said that NBC News had obtained a copy of the email sent out to federal employees at Elon Musk's behest requiring them to list five things that they had accomplished in the last week. If the show's panelists had to list five things they had recently accomplished, one thing they couldn't mention was actually having read that email. Because if they had, they wouldn't have fretted, as two of them did, that in responding to the email, "classified information" or secrets would be divulged. That's because, as you' see, the...

MSNBC is pulling the plug on Joy Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” as part of a major shakeup, Fox News Digital has learned—and I can’t stop laughing. Honestly, there’s no one more deserving of cancellation. Well, maybe Rachel Maddow… and pretty much everyone else at MSNBC. According to the report, “The ReidOut” has been struggling to hold viewers, averaging just 973,000 in February 2025—a sharp 28% drop from the 1.3 million it pulled in during the same month last year. Reid has become notorious for her relentless anti-Trump rhetoric and a string of controversial moments. After the November election, Reid claimed...

MSNBC‘s evening line-up may soon look quite different from what die-hard viewers have come to expect. The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele to its 7 p.m. weekday slot Tuesday through Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter, and the group on Mondays will lead two hours, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The move will have direct implications for Joy Reid, the anchor who currently fills 7 p.m. She is expected to host her last show on MSNBC this week. What’s more, Alex Wagner, who has hosted...

MSNBC host Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report. The 7 p.m. program hosted by Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported Sunday. A final episode of Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” will air sometime this week, bringing to an end a mainstay of MSNBC’s lineup for the past five years, as per the NYT’s report.

MSNBC‘s evening line-up may soon look quite different from what die-hard viewers have come to expect. The NBCUniversal-backed cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele to its 7 p.m. weekday slot Tuesday through Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter, and the group on Mondays will lead two hours, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The move will have direct implications for Joy Reid, the anchor who currently fills 7 p.m. She is expected to host her last show on MSNBC this week. Click to expand the Mega Menu Variety...

MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s lefty show as network makes major shakeup MSNBC host Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report. The 7 p.m. program hosted by Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported Sunday.

On Sunday's edition of The Weekend on MSNBC, weeknight host Chris Hayes questioned Trump's machismo for imposing higher tariffs on Canada and Mexico than on China. He's tougher on allies than on adversaries, because that's easier, less risky. He even claimed Trump has been "extremely generous to adversaries" like Russia and China. HAYES: He likes the conflict, he likes to project strength, but he's sort of a coward fundamentally. And the stakes of actual conflict and fights with adversaries is much higher. And so this is a way of kind of, a little bit of bullying, and cake and eat...

On MSNBC, Michael Cohen said that he had applied for one because he believes himself to be on a Trump "enemies list." He continued: "Yeah, I put in the application for a presidential pardon because I believe that Joe Biden has the same responsibility to me that he had to his own son. And I would expect that the same exact pardon that he gave his son has to go to me."That prompted this pointed [see screencap] response from co-host Symone Sanders, a former Kamala Harris spokesperson: "I am struck by your, your, your, your comparing yourself and Hunter Biden....

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday that they didn't mislead Americans about President Biden's decline or ability to serve despite the president dropping out of the race after being faced with a February 2024 clip of him declaring the debate over Biden's health was "right-wing propaganda." NBC News' Kristen Welker confronted the senator with a clip of Schumer talking about Biden on February 13, 2024. Schumer said, "His mental acuity is great. It’s fine. It’s as good as it’s been over the years. All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong." After playing the clip, Welker...

The Democrat post-defeat circular firing squad was guns ablazin' on Saturday's edition of The Weekend on MSNBC. Co-host Symone Sanders dared to take shots at an erstwhile Dem sacred cow: Nancy Pelosi. Referring to Pelosi's vaunted reputation as a vote counter, Sanders mockingly asked, "where's her calculator now?" An agitated Sanders tore into Pelosi for promoting an open "pri-ma-ry. For what," screamed Sanders, flinging her arms out wide [see screencap]. Sanders also trained her fire on the campaign strategists, accusing them of having "fleeced" Kamala. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

MSNBC political commentator Symone Sanders-Townsend took issue, as others on the network have this week, with describing Donald Trump voters as “Working class”, and suggested, as colleague Joy Reid did on Tuesday, that White women are uniquely at fault in the resounding defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris. During a Saturday segment on MSNBC’s The Weekend, Townsend and the rest of the panel were discussing how the Democratic party should evaluate the historic loss on Tuesday and whether there are lessons to learn from it. SNIP "I’ve been very dismayed, actually, by this whole working class voter conversation because are...

It began relatively calmly, with Eugene Daniels sounding more like a Kamala campaign adviser than a Politico "journalist"--and new president of the White House Correspondents Association. But things quickly dialed up to 11 when Tara Setmayer took over. Setmayer is an MSNBC commentator, a member of the disgraced Lincoln Project, and co-founder of The Seneca Project, whose mission is to turn out women voters for Kamala in the swing states. Reacting to Trump having called Kamala a "bum" [not my kind of wording, admittedly], Setmayer spun a litany of charges against Trump, arguing that he is the real bum in...

MSNBC host Symone Sanders scolded her guests for using the ‘illegal’ immigrants on her show this week. While discussing the recent murder of Americans at the hands of those who have come into the U.S. illegally, Sanders seemed to be more concerned for the perpetrators, not the victims.

Today, in a segment devoted to trashing third-party candidates because of the likelihood that they would take votes from Biden, Sanders revealed her unfamiliarity with the way that Electoral College votes are awarded. Sanders: "I think now more than any of our past recent elections, that third-party candidates are a true, true threat to Joe Biden, but also to 270, period. Our Constitution says, to be the President of the United States, you have to win 270 Electoral College votes. Not 269, not that majority rules all . . . Now, what if Joe Biden is denied 270? Or Donald...

Was Symone Sanders Townsend woefully misinformed—or was she intentionally trampling the truth? On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend which she co-anchors, Sanders Townsend said: "In his remarks during his inauguration, [Trump] promised American carnage. He is now making -- he tried to make good on that promise throughout his presidency, on January 6th after he lost. And now, if he is afforded another term by the American people, he is going to triple down on that. " Sanders Townsend then asked: "Am I making it up?" Answer: Yes, Symone: you were making it up. Because what Trump actually said...

Say what you might about Donald Trump, but one thing he is not is a Puritan. This is the man whose romantic escapades filled the pages of New York tabloids for decades. For gosh sakes, Trump's the former owner of the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, where contestants paraded in swimsuits! So Symone Sanders-Townsend's attempt to scare voters by claiming that if Trump is elected, America will be turned into a dystopian world in which women are forced to wear long, loose dresses, and cover their hair with hoods, was ludicrous: "If people are not paying attention, and we...

Understatement o' the Week: "I don't think you like Donald Trump too much." That was Symone Sanders-Townsend, co-host of MSNBC's The Weekend, speaking today to George Conway, co-founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project. It came in response to the condemnation cascade that Conway had just unleashed on Trump. Even by Trump-hating liberal-media standards, this was an unusually vituperative performance. The heart of Conway's argument was that Trump has no strategy. That as a "narcissistic sociopath," Trump acts purely out of impulse. But er, somehow he's dominating the GOP primaries and leading Biden in many polls. Other candidates who presumably aren't...