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CNN's Cuomo Again Wrongly Claims Comey 'Says No Crime' by Clinton
By Brad Wilmouth | | November 7, 2016 | 2:04 PM EST

On Monday's New Day, during a segment with Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo made his latest claim that FBI Director James Comey found that Hillary Clinton did not commit a crime in her handling of her State Department work email, even though the FBI director merely declined to recommend trying to prosecute her without directly stating his view on whether she committed a crime. Cuomo: "There's no question that the email thing was wrong. It was unusual for Comey to say 'extremely careless.' The FBI doesn't usually talk that way, but certainly he echoed the way a lot of people feel. I'm not asking about that. I'm saying, Comey says there's no crime."

As much of the segment was devoted to Cuomo charging that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is overstating the criminal case against Clinton, Rep. Duffy at one point jabbed the CNN host as being biased in favor of Clinton. Duffy: "Hey, Chris, if I'm going to be a little surly with you this morning, I would say, 'Hey, Chris, you're supporting someone.' But I won't go that far. Or the Democrats are supporting someone."

The Obama Economy: Worse Than the Great Depression on One Key Metric
By Tom Blumer | | November 7, 2016 | 1:37 PM EST

If you believe the Obama administration, the Hillary Clinton campaign and their apparatchiks in the press — and as we've learned during the past several weeks, all three work assiduously to sing from the same hymnal — the economy we've seen during the presidency of Barack Obama has been one of slow but still acceptable recovery and (yes, this word has been frequently used) "durable" expansion.

Now that the final key pre-election economic reports have been released and predictably spun, it's time for a final word, and it is this: Incredible as it may seem, on one key economic growth metric, the economy during the Obama administration will, by the time it leaves office, end up turning in a worse performance than was seen during the Great Depression. That's not acceptable in any sense.

Andrea Mitchell Loses It Over ‘Extraordinary,’ ‘Magical’ Hillary Rally in New Hampshire
By Curtis Houck | | November 7, 2016 | 1:12 PM EST

With credit to my colleague Brent Baker for spotting this classic case of Andrea Mitchell flashing her liberal bias, the MSNBC host and NBC News correspondent could barely contain her excitement for a Sunday night Hillary Clinton rally that she described as being both “extraordinary” and “magical.” 

CBS Preemptively Demands: Will Trump Be ‘Graceful,’ ‘Gracious’ Loser?
By Scott Whitlock | | November 7, 2016 | 1:00 PM EST

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday preemptively demanded to know if Donald Trump will be a “graceful” and “gracious” loser after Tuesday’s voting. Charlie Rose, Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King grilled the businessman’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway. In contrast, Hillary Clinton’s top operative received more questions on the state of the race. Talking to Conway, Rose scolded, “If, in fact, you don't win and Hillary Clinton wins, can we expect Donald Trump to be a graceful loser who will say, ‘This is America and I want to wish Hillary Clinton the best and offer my support to her as president'?" 

Nets Cheer Clinton ‘Cleared’ by FBI; Fear ‘Political Damage’ Already Done
By Kyle Drennen | | November 7, 2016 | 12:55 PM EST

On Monday, the network morning shows were simultaneously giddy with excitement over FBI director James Comey “clearing” Hillary Clinton by closing the bureau’s investigation into her email scandal while also being fearful over the “political damage” that had been done to the Democratic nominee in the final days of the campaign.

Like Mother, Like Daughter? Nets Censor Chelsea’s Corruption
By Geoffrey Dickens | | November 7, 2016 | 12:02 PM EST

Like the old saying goes: The apple doesn’t far fall from the tree. According to new e-mails released by WikiLeaks, both Chelsea Clinton and her husband Mark Mezvinsky leveraged the Clinton Foundation for personal gain. Number of seconds devoted to these scandals by the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks? 0

 

On 'Lou Dobbs Tonight,' MRC's Gainor Scolds Media Relationship with Clinton Campaign
By Callista Ring | | November 7, 2016 | 11:50 AM EST

The liberal news media are “trying to carry [Clinton] across the finish line,” according to MRC Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor. He slammed the media for its pro-Clinton bias on Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs Tonight  Nov. 5. Discussing the media’s involvement in this election cycle, Dobbs noted not only the “bias” in Clinton’s favor, but the “complicity of the national liberal media,” especially regarding the lack of coverage of the FBI investigations and the WikiLeaks revelations.

LA Artist Spoofs Celeb Exodus Threats: ‘Moving to Jupiter Election Day Sale’
By Sarah Stites | | November 7, 2016 | 11:33 AM EST

At a Clinton fundraiser she hosted last Thursday, singer Cher announced her intention to “leave the planet” if Trump emerged the victor on November 8. Sabo, a conservative street artist based in LA, decided to have some fun with her sensationalist comment.

The Latest from Wikileaks: CNN, WashPost Leaned on DNC for Questions, Oppo Research
By Tim Graham | | November 7, 2016 | 11:31 AM EST

Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller offered some eye-opening details on media-Democrat collusion from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. CNN asked the Democratic National Committee for questions that Wolf Blitzer could ask Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. The London Daily Mail added e-mails to and from a Jake Tapper staffer to the Wiki-mix. Both publications noted Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank leaned on the DNC to list the "Ten Plagues of Trump."

BBC’s Ghattas Frets to Hillary: You’re So ‘Ahead of Your Time’ You’ve Faced ‘A Lot of Prejudice’
By Curtis Houck | | November 7, 2016 | 11:00 AM EST

After posing for photos with her most ardent supporters (aka the news media) on Monday morning, Hillary Clinton held a brief press gaggle before they boarded her plane for Election Eve rallies and amidst that, the BBC’s Kim Ghattas lobbed one of the most adoring questions one will ever see about the “prejudice” Clinton has faced by being “ahead of your time.”

NY Times: Krugman Leans on Rigged Election Conspiracies; Hillary ‘Finds Joy in the Rain’
By Clay Waters | | November 7, 2016 | 10:58 AM EST

Columnist Paul Krugman, respected economist turned Hillary acolyte, leaned into his conspiratorial tendencies in his Monday column, “How to Rig an Election.” Plus the Times lashed out at Trump-Pence’s “brand of right-wing nationalism” on the front page, portrayed Trump as Neidermeyer in “Animal House,” and celebrated Hillary dancing joyfully in the rain.

MRC’s Notable Quotables: Justifying Media Hostility to Trump
By Geoffrey Dickens | | November 7, 2016 | 9:30 AM EST

In the November 7 edition of Notable Quotables: The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank blasts that Donald Trump has “threatened democracy” and therefore any sort of press “neutrality” on the GOP nominee would be legitimizing “the illegitimate.” NBC’s Chuck Todd and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos get put on the defensive by Trump and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Also in this issue: a freelance reporter for the Los Angeles Times actually wishes death on Trump while The View’s Joy Behar gushes everyone is going to like “Mommy” Hillary once she’s elected.  

CBS’s ‘Blue Bloods’ Calls Out PC Police Brutality Investigation
By Justin Ashford | | November 7, 2016 | 2:36 AM EST

CBS’s Blue Bloods addresses the growing police brutality hysteria plaguing the U.S. by showing an investigation into the NYPD is nothing more than a PC anti-police witch hunt.

Green Day Replaces 'F***' with 'Trump' in MTV EMAs Performance
By Alexa Moutevelis Coombs | | November 7, 2016 | 1:16 AM EST

American rock band Green Day won the MTV Global Icon Award at Sunday night's MTV European Music Awards (EMAs) and used their platform to complain about the U.S. election and take a major swipe at Donald Trump.

Washington Monthly Blogger: Until the Mid-1990s, Conservatives Didn’t Care About Liberal Media Bias
By Tom Johnson | | November 6, 2016 | 8:36 PM EST

Liberal bias in news coverage has bothered conservatives ever since there were only three TV networks, which broadcast mostly in black and white. But in Nancy LeTourneau’s odd telling, conservative media bias came first, about twenty years ago, and liberals then had to catch up. “In order for Fox News to be successful, they had to convince potential viewers that the mainstream press was liberal,” wrote LeTourneau in a Friday post. “That led to a whole cottage industry of right wing media that thrives today because conservatives bought the premise. Eventually liberals needed to create their own counterweight to combat the lies and spin emanating from these sources.”