Rick Stengel

Rick Stengel https://www.newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/2536/0/feed en Classless: MSNBC’s Wallace Suggests Trump Touches Macron More Than Melania https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/04/24/classless-msnbcs-wallace-suggests-trump-touches-macron-more <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item" property="content:encoded"><p>With French President Emmanuel Macron in Washington, D.C. for an official state visit, the liberal media were eager to pounce on any seemingly awkward “bromance” moments he and President Trump shared. And since Macron’s arrival, the two world leaders have exchanged seemingly countless handshakes and shoulder grabs (including Trump joking about brushing dandruff off his guest’s shoulder). Of course, former Republican Nicolle Wallace used her MSNBC show <em>Deadline: White House</em> to take a classless shot at the President’s marriage.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-fedd78a0b042dfe734d2db337be8930e"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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Nancy Gibbs, the new <em>Time </em>editor, has really let the cat out of the bag.  Appearing on<em> Morning Joe</em> today, she described the <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/09/12/revolving-door-top-time-editor-taking-state-department-job-john-kerry">move </a>of her predecessor, Rick Stengel,<strong> from <em>Time </em>to a State Department job in the Obama administration, as a "natural extension</strong>" for him.<br /> <br /> Now it's true that Gibbs couched her remarks in terms of Stengel's role in both jobs being that of telling "America's story around the world." More accurately, Gibbs might have said that Stengel has always seen his job as telling Barack Obama's story in the most favorable light.  View the video after the jump.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-f750dbce22141ebf6c3061f41f7dd6e9"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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At the tail end of the segment, teasing other articles in the issue, Stengel plugged Bobby Ghosh's interview with Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the son of Omar Abdel Rahman, the "blind sheikh" serving time in a federal prison for his role in aborted 1993 bombing plot targeting the World Trade Center.</p> <p> "We have a great piece by Bobby Ghosh, who's been on here before about the rise of the Salafis, in the Middle East, they're the Tea Party of Muslim democracy, and that's a fantastic, insightful story as well," Stengel noted. Neither Joe Scarborough not co-host Willie Geist threw a penalty flag at Stengel's unnecessary roughness, comparing the Tea Party to radical advocates of stringent Sharia law. [<a href="/sites/default/files/2012/2012-09-27-MSNBC-MorningJoe-Stengel.mp3">MP3 audio here</a>; video at bottom of post]</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-c5d565253ad32510bbf74e94271ecccf"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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This year, there were six categories where our readers and the judges disagreed -- although sometimes the margins were extremely close.<br /> <br /> Let's start with the biggest disagreement, in the "<a href="http://mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2011/category.aspx?page=6"><strong>Media Millionaires for Higher Taxes Award</strong></a>." By a healthy margin (68 to 53), our judges chose an April 17 quote from CBS's Bob Schieffer, as he was questioning Rep. Paul Ryan on <em>Face the Nation</em>: "<strong>Why do these rich people need another tax cut? I mean, they’re already rich....Why cut their taxes some more?</strong>"</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-a41421cdb7ca0e7b8a5f0fff9bf19dbf"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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Stengel enthusiastically agreed with Curry's comparison: "Absolutely. There's this contagion of protests....<strong>what happened in the Arab world did influence Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland</strong> and the protests in Greece and Madrid." [<em><strong>View video after the jump</strong></em>]</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-c3ef075867dadb798df631494b9dc113"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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Stengel apparently considers Isreali deaths worthwhile if they lead to more productive peace talks.<p>In a "Morning Joe" segment yesterday titled "Why Israel doesn't care about peace" - after the upcoming Time cover story - Stengel posited that the lack of violence in Isreal is responsible for that country's supposed reluctance to reach a peace deal. Stengel stated (video below the fold - h/t <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/09/time-mag-editor-its-too-bad-that-israeli-wall-worked/">Jim Hoft</a>):</p><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; padding: 0px"><p> They haven't had a car bombing in two and a half years. And <b>the sad truth really is that the wall with the West Bank has actually worked</b>. I mean, most Israelis in the course of their lives don't come into contact with any Palestinians at all. The wall is functioning. And the Gaza strip is so small and so isolated they feel that those folks, the Hamas folks are not that big of a threat...</p><p> I mean, the Israelis feel like, you know what? The status quo isn't so bad and we don't mind is there is no peace at all.</p></blockquote></div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-f54edca98e74c31e8e83ca0e19bbd130"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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So I suppose it's fitting that his logo appear on the World Cup soccer ball, the event that will be watched by more people than any other event in human history.<br /><br />Could that be what Time magazine was thinking?</p><p>Check out the image of the ball on the cover of this week's Time, and compare it to the Obama logo, seen after the jump. Compare the Time ball, too, with an image of the actual ball, to which it bears absolutely no relation.<br /><br />Time editor Rick Stengel revealed the cover during his regular Morning Joe appearance today.<br /><br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-1658f6e479a2cb618586866f5637ebf1"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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Yesterday we <a href="/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/05/27/times-stengel-sestak-who-he">reported </a>Time editor Rick Stengel's risibly feigned ignorance of the matter.<br /><br />On Morning Joe today, Joe Scarborough broke off a colorful metaphor to describe the liberal media's see-no-evil approach to the subject, saying <b>the MSM wouldn't cover the story "if Rahm Emanuel announced it in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue wearing nothing but a Speedo."</b><br /><br />Mika Brzezinski broached the subject by mentioning that she had gotten "hammered" by her husband and friends for her <a href="/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/05/27/mika-im-democrat">criticism</a> of the MSM's failure to ask the tough questions on the matter.<br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-54fa5a22de0b1af179ea73594e9ca74d"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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The entire edition will be posted, with five video clips, at <a href="http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/nq/2010/20100516043449.aspx" target="_blank">www.MRC.org</a> on Monday morning.</p><p><br /><b>Shortsighted Voters Fail to Grasp Obama’s Historic Greatness</b><br /><br />“Big problems. Big achievements. Big costs. Historians say President Obama’s legislative record during a crisis-ridden presidency already puts him in a league with such consequential presidents as Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt. But polls show voters aren’t totally on board with his achievements, at least not yet, and the White House acknowledges that his victories have carried huge financial and political costs. ‘There are always costs in doing big things,’ Obama told <i>USA Today</i>.”<br /><b>— Opening of May 12 <i>USA Today</i> cover story by Susan Page and Mimi Hall, “Will doing ‘big things’ wind up costing Obama?” The accompanying picture showed a portrait of Abraham Lincoln peering down at President Obama.</b><br /><br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-5960c135630fb998c7c64332bf7e409f"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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But hang in there: things'll get better under Obama. </p><p>Class dismissed: that's really all you need to know about the latest Time cover story<i>—The Decade From Hell And Why The Next One Will Be Better</i>. But just to drive home the Manichean message, Time editor Rick Stengel and Andy Serwer [of Time stable-mate Fortune], who wrote the cover story, appeared on Morning Joe today.<br /><br />Of course there's the inconvenient detail about Barack Obama having been elected in <i>this </i>decade. But not to worry. Serwer suggests we "see Barack Obama being elected as the beginning of the <i>next</i> decade."<br /><br />Excerpts from the pro-Obama babble . . . <br /></div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-672ae3ed857c25f309728dd437af08ee"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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That National Journal study that ranked him the most liberal senator? Nonsense! Very misleading. After all, this is the man who doesn't believe in a red America and a blue America, but in the United States of America. Someone with a history of reaching across partisan lines [even if no good examples were handy at the moment].<br /><br />So . . . remember all that? Well, forget it. Now that Obama is safely<br />ensconced in his Office of the President-Elect, the MSM can let the<br />[ill-concealed to many of us] cat out of the bag: yes, he's a liberal. Big time! In fact, Obama is nothing less than the second coming of the biggest American liberal icon of all time: FDR! Rick Stengel announced the news on today's Morning Joe.</div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-82b4ab327aa1f3dee03dce7c93254d7a"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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Time has now twisted, and enlisted, that image for its "war on global warming."<br /><br />Time editor Rick Stengel, making his regular Thursday appearance on Morning Joe to tout the week's cover story, naturally thought it was a wonderful idea. He also explained why Time decided to editorialize in favor of a "massive" effort to combat global warming.</p><p>View video <a href="/static/2008/04/2008-04-17MSNBCMJTime.wmv">here</a>. </div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-cb6f4e049bb3962e2dfe0a70bbd1b543"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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Wright's past remarks on "the incredible ignorance of white Americans" about what goes on in black churches.<br /><br />But the Time editor wasn't quite so forgiving when it came to the past of the current pontiff. Appearing on today's Morning Joe to discuss Time's cover story on Pope Benedict XVI's impending visit to America, <b>Stengel blithely referred to the Pope as having been the Vatican's "hatchet man" </b>during his years as a cardinal.</div> </div> </div> <div class="view view-nb-node view-id-nb_node view-display-id-entity_view_donate_block_nb view-dom-id-d38bd8189b2a2ef0062ca147233bd958"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><br /><p class="text-center"><strong><em>Please support NewsBusters today! 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