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Stephanopoulos Urges Facebook Crackdown on Protest Organizers
April 20th, 2020 10:57 AM
During an exclusive interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday’s Good Morning America, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos actually urged the tech executive to crack down on people using the social media platform to organize protests against coronavirus lockdowns. Amazingly, Zuckerberg appeared to agree with the disturbing idea.
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Trump Trashes CBS’s Jiang, ‘Pathetic’ Jeremy Diamond of ‘Terrible’ CNN
April 20th, 2020 1:59 AM
During Sunday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Trump clashed with two usual suspects in CBS’s Weijia Jiang and CNN’s Jeremy Diamond after loaded, snarky questions on behalf of their fellow liberal media firefighters, acting with supposed bravery and perseverance. Things ended poorly for both with the former being told to be “relax” and stop shouting and the latter being…
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Meacham: Trump 'Coddles' His Fact-Challenged 'Base at Dangerous Level'
April 19th, 2020 9:46 PM
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham took many swipes at President Donald Trump and conservatives as he invoked Charles Lindbergh's Nazi sympathizer movement of the World War II era, and declared that conservative activists are in an "alternate reality" while liberals are "taking the science seriously." He also complained that China is being "scapegoated" and…
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Dan Crenshaw Schools Maher on Dems Opposing China Travel Ban
April 19th, 2020 7:23 PM
On Friday's Real Time show on HBO, as liberal host Bill Maher debated Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw over the Donald Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Republican Congressman argued against the myth that everyone but President Trump took the virus seriously early on as he recalled that Democrats actually opposed some of the President's early actions to keep the virus…
NYT: 'Far-Right' Conservatives Protest Corona as Blacks Suffer
April 19th, 2020 7:00 PM
New states’ rights fans at The New York Times? Reporters Trip Gabriel and Jonathan Martin praised Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer after her gross bureaucratic overreach in fighting the spread of the coronavirus led to protests. The online headline to the story that led Sunday’s National section: “Gretchen Whitmer Isn’t Backing Down -- Right-wing protesters, Republican lawmakers and President…
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Political Pandemic: Todd Whines Trump Not Taking Hit in the Polls
April 19th, 2020 4:54 PM
After completely ignoring previous polls that showed President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis getting majority support, NBC political director Chuck Todd used a portion of Sunday’s Meet the Press to whine that a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll had found the President’s approval rating was unmoved from a year ago, despite his impeachment and the pandemic.
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ABC Invites Pelosi to Spread Her Doomsday Fears of Trump’s Leadership
April 19th, 2020 1:38 PM
The final question ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos directed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in his softball This Week interview was intended to tee her up to fear-monger about President Trump’s leadership during the coronavirus crisis, and repeat the debunked claim the President called the virus a “hoax.” In stark contrast, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had grilled her on how she had…
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ABC, NBC Chide Unemployed Protesters as ‘AstroTurf,’ Not The Majority
April 19th, 2020 11:02 AM
As media elitists, their jobs were safe and they could easily work from home. But during their Sunday morning newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today, chided and cast aside the unemployed Americans taking to the streets as state stay-at-home orders left them in financial ruin. ABC even suggested their angry protests could be “AstroTurf” movements designed to embarrass…
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PBS's Woodruff: 'How Many Lives Were Lost' Because of Trump's 'Delay'?
April 18th, 2020 10:58 PM
There's a reason why Donald Trump hasn't granted an interview to PBS since he announced his run for president in 2015. That reason came out in a contentious PBS NewsHour interview on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence. It's nothing like the softness Woodruff has offered Hilllary Clinton. She asked Pence "How many lives do you believe were lost as a result of the delay by this administration…
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Zakaria Complains There Was Military Response After 9/11 Attacks
April 18th, 2020 3:01 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, CNN host Fareed Zakaria complained that the U.S. invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, and engaged in some bizarre history revisionism as he suggested that the only response that was needed was to start locking cockpit doors. Additionally, Zakaria went over the top in lauding President Barack Obama as being similar to Star…
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CNN's Bernstein: Trump Tweets Incited Insurrection
April 18th, 2020 2:56 PM
It is one thing to claim that President Trump's Friday tweets calling to "liberate" various states were unwise and counterproductive, but according to Carl Bernstein, who joined CNN's Chris Cuomo that night, they were tantamount to inciting insurrection.
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FLASHBACK: Remember THIS Biden Blunder? The Press Hope You Don't
April 18th, 2020 12:15 PM
Journalists in the news media are used to covering for Joe Biden’s gaffes. In the spring of 2020, the networks have been maintaining silence over accusations of sexual abuse against the ex-vice president by a former staffer. But considering that both Biden and China are very much in the news these days, we thought it might be instructive to look back at another Biden Blunder. On August 21, 2011,…
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Williams Wails: Trump Stoking ‘Populist Prairie Fire’ Against Dem Govs
April 18th, 2020 11:41 AM
On MSNBC Friday afternoon, co-anchors Brian Williams and Katy Tur denounced President Trump for urging some states less impacted by the coronavirus to gradually reopen. Williams claimed Trump was trying to stoke “populist prairie fire” against Democratic governors “who so far have been adept in handling this virus.”
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MSNBC's Jeremy Bash Urges Trump To Stop 'Scapegoating' China
April 18th, 2020 6:10 AM
Amidst the backdrop of the U.S. government looking into whether the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab and China revising its official death count, MSNBC's Jeremy Bash joined Andrea Mitchell on her Friday show to urge the administration to stop scapegoating and denigrating China with "xenophobic rhetoric."
