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MSNBC Host: Daniel Penny Guilty of 'Murder' In Death of Jordan Neely

May 13th, 2023 7:32 PM

On her Saturday MSNBC show, Katie Phang said that Daniel Penny was guilty of "murder" in the subway death of Daniel Neely. MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne pushes back, saying the facts don't support a murder charge, and that second-degree manslaughter is the proper charge.  She says it's likely there will be a hung jury.

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Flashback: NewsBusters Exposed NBC’s Deceptive Zimmerman Edits

April 1st, 2023 9:00 AM

Eleven years ago this week, NewsBusters helped expose how deceptive editing by NBC News made the already-tense situation surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin even worse; the resulting scandal led NBC to fire three people involved in the story, yet the network refused to issue an on-air correction or apology.

Racist Trump, Wise Sharpton: PBS’s Hard-Left Hip-Hop Doc Spews Bad Rap

February 25th, 2023 6:10 AM

PBS’s four-part docuseries Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World, marking the 50th anniversary of the musical genre, was unapologetically leftist and political. Produced and hosted by rapper Chuck D., the series has featured musicians from Snoop Dogg to Jay Z to Eminem, with appearances by black professors, activists, and journalists, and….racial arsonist Al…

Race-Baiting NYTimes LIES About Zimmerman's 911 Call: ‘He Looks Black'

March 4th, 2022 7:22 PM

The shooting death of black teen Trayvon Martin during a sidewalk confrontation with George Zimmerman in Orlando 10 years ago stoked the new civil rights movement – or so claims a column and video for the opinion section of the Times marking the anniversary: “Trayvon Martin Is Still Making America Confront Its Original Sin.” The presence of Al Sharpton is not the most offensive part…

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ABC, CBS Distort History to Mark Trayvon Martin's Death in 2012

February 28th, 2022 6:26 AM

As ABC and CBS ran reports commemorating the 10th anniversary of black Florida teen Trayvon Martin being shot to death by George Zimmerman, both networks misinformed their viewers, and ABC even imitated the same smear that NBC News was forced to apologize for 10 years ago.

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Scarborough: Hawley 'Most Responsible' for Capitol Cop Who Died

February 11th, 2021 9:26 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, regarding the Capitol breach: "Josh Hawley . . .  you’re the person most responsible for a police officer being beaten to death. You’re the person most responsible for the cop killing."

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Netflix Chooses Biden Backer Ben Crump for Focus of New Documentary

August 22nd, 2020 3:30 PM

One of the most popular streaming services available these days is Netflix, which has produced a slate of original programs and provocative films, including Becoming, a documentary examining the life of former First Lady Michelle Obama. Nadia Hallgren, the director of that movie, has been tapped to helm another liberal project to describe the life of Ben Crump, an attorney who has…

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Scarborough Tiptoes Past Harris & Warren Ferguson 'Murder' Allegations

August 20th, 2019 1:11 PM
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough covers for the false and defamatory tweets made by Democrat presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, who accused a policeman in Ferguson, MO of having "murdered" Michael Brown. Scarborough cryptically says: "there, there, uh, were a few, uh, members, uh, a few members of the US Senate that, uh, tweeted some things, uh, about Ferguson that were…
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BET Awards Celebrate 'Our Forever First Lady' Michelle Obama

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June 26th, 2017 2:29 AM
Airing on June 25, the 2017 BET Awards were hosted by comedienne Leslie Jones and mostly featured live musical performances. Otherwise, the focus of the awards was a message of encouraging Black Lives Matter social justice warriors, although, without the long preachy political sermons delivered in many other awards shows. References to people killed in police-involved shootings - including the…

Cox Scribe: Vigilante, Police Brutality Killed Trayvon, Michael Brown

July 27th, 2016 11:45 AM
Gateway Pundit dubbed the Democratic National Convention's program Tuesday evening as "Criminal Appreciation Night." Site proprietor Jim Hoft certainly has a point. The party officially nominated a candidate for the highest office in the land who committed acknowledged and admitted criminal acts, but whom the FBI and the intensely politicized Justice Department chose not to prosecute. A former…
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Only Grieving Mothers That Support Hillary Matter, According to ABC

July 26th, 2016 10:52 AM
On this morning’s Good Morning America in an ABC exclusive, Robin Roberts spoke to seven mothers of black men who were killed by police including the mothers of Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, and Trayvon Martin and why they were supporting Hillary Clinton. ABC gave two separate segments on their morning show totaling 11 minutes and 31 seconds and that was just devoted to the preview of a full…

Bozell & Graham Column: Ken Burns, Pompous Poster Boy for Liberalism

May 14th, 2016 7:51 AM
“Like the amputated limb felt long after it has been cut off, I miss Trayvon Martin,” the famous orator said. Who would utter such an elaborate expression of white guilt? Try star PBS filmmaker Ken Burns, gushing his way through a government-funded honor: the “Jefferson Lecture,” the “nation’s highest honor for intellectual achievement” awarded by Obama’s National Endowment for the Humanities.…
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Harris-Perry: I Hope Trayvon ‘Whooped the Sh**’ Out of Zimmerman

February 26th, 2015 2:18 PM
While it's performing a long overdue housecleaning, MSNBC should point its broom in Melissa Harris-Perry's direction and sweep her off the network for her anti-democratic, violence-advocating rant earlier this week at Cornell University. Among other things, Harris-Perry told her audience that George Zimmerman deserved whatever injuries he received at the hands of Trayvon Martin in the violent…

AP Distorts Coverage of DOJ's Decision Not to Charge Zimmerman

February 25th, 2015 9:09 AM
In an almost completely expected decision, the Department of Justice yesterday announced that it "found insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012." In reporting on the announcement, Jennifer Kay and Eric Tucker at the Associated Press were predictably selective in recounting the details…