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Daily Beast Pundit: House Benghazi Committee a ‘Taxpayer-Funded Get Clinton Operation…a Fraud’
By Tom Johnson | September 2, 2015 | 9:21 PM EDT

In his standup-comedy days, Steve Martin did a joke about imposing the death penalty for parking violations. Michael Tomasky suggests that the House Benghazi committee has a similarly disproportionate penalty in mind for Hillary Clinton over Emailgate: wrecking her presidential campaign.

Tomasky acknowledged in a Wednesday column that Hillary “screwed up this email business,” but asserted that the committee “isn’t even pretending to be about the Benghazi attacks anymore. It’s a taxpayer-funded get Clinton operation, and it’s now all about finding a smoking gun in these emails.”

CNN's Avlon: Obama's 'Nuanced Negotiating Style' Is 'Inspirational'
By Brad Wilmouth | August 17, 2015 | 5:19 PM EDT

On Monday's New Day, during a discussion of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's recent criticism of President Barack Obama's deal with Iran on the Islamic state's nuclear program, Daily Beast editor and liberal CNN political commentator Jon Avlon oddly claimed that Obama has a "nuanced negotiating style" that is "inspirational" as he responded to the GOP presidential candidate's comments.

Jonathan Alter: Trump ‘Far Sleazier Than Hillary,’ Whose Pattern Is ‘A Cover-Up…Without a Crime’
By Tom Johnson | August 17, 2015 | 2:00 PM EDT

In the late 1980s, the Bears (a briefly great band, not the football team) pointed out, “This world hangs by a slender thread/Trust.” Daily Beast columnist and MSNBC pundit Alter argued Monday that Hillary Clinton’s current political malaise is rooted in her failure to trust the American people rather than in any real wrongdoing on her part.

“Hillary’s problem is not the emails story itself, but her response to it, which has been halting and defensive,” declared Alter. “The reason so many voters don’t trust Hillary is she doesn’t trust them. Trust is reciprocal. If she trusted the public more, she would be mixing it up in the media more, like [Donald] Trump, and betting that the public will eventually sort out the truth.”

Daily Beast's Daly Notes Marine Officer's Military Career Likely Ruined for Same Email Mishandling Hillary Committed
By Ken Shepherd | August 14, 2015 | 12:54 PM EDT

Maj. Jason Brezler of the United States Marine Corps Reserves, is not a household name. But perhaps he should be. Brezler's military career is ruined thanks to one fleeting email transgression, and that committed as a split-second decision to save the lives of American servicemen in imminent danger. While Hillary Clinton will likely not suffer serious criminal or political repercussions for her sending classified material from a private email, Brezler's career ir probably ruined.

'The Wire' Creator Simon Blames Bill Clinton for Mass Incarceration of Black Men, Praises Ga. Republicans for Reforms
By Ken Shepherd | August 13, 2015 | 5:48 PM EDT

The creator of HBO's The Wire, a liberal former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, has come out and blamed former President Bill Clinton for the large number of young black men in America's prisons.  He also praised a quite conservative Southern state for leading the way on criminal-justice reform.

MSNBC's Alter: GOP Getting 'Their Just Deserts' for Creating Trump 'Frankenstein Monster'
By Brad Wilmouth | August 13, 2015 | 4:47 PM EDT

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter -- formerly of Newsweek -- rejoiced over Republicans being uneasy over Donald Trump's presidential campaign as he asserted that GOPers "have created Trumpenstein," "their own Frankenstein monster," adding that they are getting "their just deserts as a political party."

After host Al Sharpton noted that they were awaiting a press conference by Trump, he turned to Alter who declared:

Daily Beast Takes Issue with Religious Alternative to ObamaCare-Regulated Health Insurance
By Ken Shepherd | August 4, 2015 | 6:32 PM EDT

Leave it to the Daily Beast to find objectionable a completely voluntary religious, not-for-profit alternative to for-profit ObamaCare-regulated health insurance. 

Notable Quotables: Bashing Conservatives Over Trump's Rise
By Rich Noyes | August 3, 2015 | 9:07 AM EDT

This week, liberal journalists use Donald Trump's rise as another reason to bash conservatives, with NBC's Chuck Todd suggesting this is a "reap-what-you-sow" moment for the GOP, even as CNN's Nia-Malika Henderson blasts that "the politics of... race baiting have defined the Republican Party for quite some time." And The Daily Beast's Jonathan Alter says it's "not a partisan comment," but "there's a vileness gap between our political parties" — with Republicans, of course, being the only ones guilty of nasty rhetoric.

Daily Beast Hails Doc on How Fox News, Limbaugh Made Woman's Loving Father a Racist Republican Pig
By Clay Waters | August 1, 2015 | 8:14 PM EDT

"How Fox News Made My Dad Crazy" is how The Daily Beast introduced Jen Yamato's profile of Jen Senko's left-wing documentary The Brainwashing Of My Dad, and that's not just headline hyperbole but an accurate summary of a truly wacky documentary. Used her dad as a political prop, Senko's Brainwashing doc purports to show how her loving, "goofy," popular dad became a racist homophobic Republican pig thanks to radio hosts Bob Grant and Rush Limbaugh.

CNN Slams Huckabee for 'Despicable,' 'Ugly,' 'Dangerous' Attack on Obama Iran Deal
By Brad Wilmouth | July 27, 2015 | 2:02 PM EDT

On Monday's New Day, several CNN regulars hurled attacks at GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee for his characterization of President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran as "marching" the Israelis "to the door of the oven." Words like "ugly," "dangerous," and "despicable and terrible," were thrown at Huckabee's comments across two segments.

Word Tricks on MSNBC: Dean Obeidallah Claims 'No Such Thing As Radical Islam'
By Brad Wilmouth | July 20, 2015 | 9:23 PM EDT

On Friday's The Ed Show on MSNBC, during a discussion of conservative criticism of President Barack Obama for not using the words "radical Islam" in the aftermath of the shooting rampage in Chattanooga, Tennessee, liberal comedian and Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah tried to misdirect the conversation with a debate over definitions of words as he asserted that "there is no such thing as radical Islam."

Ironically, unlike the similar semantic game played by some on the left who argue that Muslim terrorists should not be considered "Muslims" because their violent actions are supposedly not consistent with the Koran, Obeidallah surprisingly did admit that "radical Muslims" and "Muslim terrorists" do exist:

MTV Bullies Kids, Makes Them Cry to Raise Awareness for ‘White Privilege’
By Kristine Marsh | July 20, 2015 | 4:16 PM EDT

MTV wants white kids to feel bad about being white – and the media love it.