Debate

Sam breaks down last night’s debate and the election homestretch with Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) of the Intercept and host of the Deconstructed podcast, and Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker) joins Sam to discuss his new YouTube comedy special. Sam also interviews filmmakers Lucas Sabean and Peter Hutch on...
Join Sam as he recaps last night’s debate, the DOJ’s changes in policy on voting-related crimes, and Trump’s first on air interview since contracting coronavirus. Matt Binder and the MR crew host the fun half.
Huffington Post Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim explains why Mike Pence pivoted away from Donald Trump during the debate. Why Trump will be mad. Is the Clinton campaign strategy shifting more towards base turn-out? Did Bill Clinton subtly push for Single Payer healthcare? And Bill Clinton wants...
Why Donald Trump faltered at last night’s debate. How Donald Trump’s complete lack of knowledge and ability is catching up with him. Why the polls and pundits called the debate for Hillary. Results from the Frank Luntz focus group. Trump’s delusions of grandeur. Why Lester Holt did a good job. Tr...
Today Sam, Kelly, and Matt break down NBC’s Commander-in-Chief debate hosted by Matt Lauer. The waste of time by Lauer on email questions. Lauer’s total lack of follow-up questions. Gary Johnson asks “What is Aleppo?”
On today’s M&M Monday (on tuesday) Matt and Michael go on a trip down memory lane and talk about Matt’s four and half years on the Majority Report, compare impressions and everyone wishes Matt a fond farewell.
Blogger Digby explains how far right the political norm on the Right is now. Why Republican candidates think we are living in a dystopia. Why anti immigrant Republicanism will continue to undermine the Republican Party. Republicans don’t understand foreign policy but they are afraid. When Carly F...
The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons explained what was missing in yesterday’s foreign policy debate, how President Obama offers tactical mastery but little strategic vision while Romney has neither tactical mastery or strategy,where President Obama has been a foreign policy success and where he has fall...
Ari Berman talked the GOP’s ongoing vote suppression. How GOP is helping people register, then after seeing who they register for, destroy the registration. How Republicans made a huge deal over ACORN and how different their complains about ACORN were compared to the much more sinister methods of...
Obama comes out of debate 2 with a win. Digby was not surprised that he performed so much better this time, thought Romney did fine but fact checks will hurt him, people respond better to Obama’s articulation of a optimistic vision, as long as Obama talks grand bargain Romney can lie his way to t...
It’s Casual Friday! Cliff Schecter and Sam take a look at last night VP debate and discuss how the right wing loves Republican bullies but then blast Joe Biden for being “a meanie” to Paul Ryan, how Conservatives pundits are fixated on Joe Biden’s “smile” (because they know they lost), some of th...
Cliff chronicled his many many moments of frustration with Obama’s debate performance, why the Social Security response was Obama’s weakest moment and the debate reminded Cliff of the mistakes President Obama made when he first came into office, the expected failure of Jim Lehrer, the many, many,...
Author Ari Berman and Sam agree-Romney won last nights debate, Obama looked and sounded tired and unfocused and didn’t take advantage of numerous opportunities to push back against Mitt, Ari wanted to know where the aggressive Obama was last night?
A great on-air tax policy debate between professional leftist Sam Seder of The Majority Report and BigHollywood.com Editor John Nolte.
Guest: Conservative blogger John Nolte