
MSNBC
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MSNBC (stylized as msnbc) is an American basic cable and satellite channel that provides news coverage and political opinion on current events. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group.
MSNBC's Self-Proclaimed Progressive Bias
Beginning in the mid-2000s, MSNBC's opinion programming increasingly reflected its concept of political progressivism. In October 2010, it publicly acknowledged this with a marketing campaign it called "Lean Forward." Further, in September 2013, MSNBC launched its revamped official website under the tagline, "What Progressives Have Been Waiting For." Their current tagline is: "This is who we are.
In late July, Politico reported that Donald Trump and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke regularly, and there was one subject the former president brought up “in every call.” The focus of Trump’s preoccupation was a series of votes he wanted to see on the House floor: He wanted McCarthy to bring up resolutions that would “expunge” the former president’s impeachments. We now know, of course, that there were no such votes — though McCarthy offered some public support for the idea, and floor action was a distinct possibility. Did this...