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FISA Judge's FBI Rebuke Gets 10 SECONDS on CBS, While ABC, NBC Skip
December 18th, 2019 5:15 PM
Nick Fondacaro reported that the networks skipped over the bombshell -- yes, bombshell -- that the judge overseeing the FISA court unleashed a harsh critique of the FBI late on Tuesday. So we wondered if they all kept skipping it on the morning shows. The answer is Yes, with an asterisk. CBS This Morning gave it ten seconds in their top-of-show clip melange called "Eye Opener." Don't blink, you'…
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CNN's Tapper: At Least Clinton Was 'Contrite,' 'Apologetic'
December 18th, 2019 4:56 PM
The impeachment of President Trump has been a textbook case in media hypocrisy and on Wednesday's CNN impeachment pre-game show, Jake Tapper illustrated why where he defended the way Democrats behaved during the Bill Clinton's impeachment twenty years ago.
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Jorge Ramos Whines Over CBP Doing Its Job
December 18th, 2019 4:50 PM
Univision’s senior anchor Jorge Ramos is known for opposing most, if not all, enforcement of the U.S. southern border as part of part of the nation’s immigration policy. His most recent episode on Facebook Watch makes clear that enforcement of the northern border is off limits, too.
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CBS Frets Over Biased McConnell, Delighted in Senate Dem’s Partiality
December 18th, 2019 1:07 PM
CBS journalists want the Senators in the coming impeachment trial to be impartial and unbiased. Except when they don’t care about that. On Wednesday, This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil hammered Mitch McConnell for having already made a decision against impeachment. Talking to CBS News legal analyst Kim Wehle, he demanded, “The Senate rules for impeachment say, ‘I do solemnly swear,’ this is the…
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‘View’ Panics Over Trump Letter: ‘Scary'‘Rantings of Unstable’ Man!
December 18th, 2019 12:50 PM
The View hosts followed the media’s lead in attacking President Trump on Wednesday’s show, over his lengthy letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defending his actions before the House votes on impeachment, later today. Even though The View hosts have a reputation for their own angry meltdowns and fact-free rants, they fretted the letter revealed the hysterical rantings of an unstable president,…
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NBC: Impeachment Caps Off ‘Worst Decade in American Politics’
December 18th, 2019 12:49 PM
Amid special coverage of Wednesday’s House vote to impeach President Trump, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd waxed historical about the meaning of it all. Todd lamented that the country seemed “numb” to the process following “the worst decade in American politics.”
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Univision Pins ‘Anti-Immigrant' Label on Latinos for Trump Report
December 18th, 2019 12:02 PM
Univision recently paid a lot of attention to the efforts of Latinos for Trump, a nationwide group that aims to recruit 2 million volunteers to help register conservative Hispanics before the 2020 presidential election. The network dedicated over nine minutes of sound bites between three of their news programs – Despierta America, Noticiero Univision and Fusion´s UNews – and their web page, to…
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NBC’s Mitchell: ‘Dignified,’ ‘Remarkable’ Pelosi vs. ‘Profane’ Trump
December 18th, 2019 11:01 AM
Andrea Mitchell isn’t even trying anymore. The veteran liberal journalist on Wednesday co-anchored live impeachment coverage and gushed over the “remarkable,” “dignified” Nancy Pelosi, lamenting that she must face off against the “profane” Donald Trump. Regarding the six page letter the President sent Pelosi, Mitchell derided it as “partly profane, angry, vituperative letter filled with…
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Chuck Todd Claims Trump Doesn’t 'Appreciate' or ‘Revere’ Constitution
December 18th, 2019 10:49 AM
During NBC’s live special coverage of Wednesday’s impeachment vote, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd went all-in for House Democrats, claiming that the partisan process somehow proved that President Trump doesn’t “appreciate” or “revere” the Constitution. He even laughably asserted that “Democrats didn’t engage on this issue politically.”
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MSNBC's Jackson Battles Pence Chief of Staff, Parrots Dem Demands
December 18th, 2019 9:32 AM
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has a series of demands in the form of four witnesses he would like to see testify at the Senate's impeachment and the media are doing everything in their power to pressure Republicans into accepting them. MSNBC Live host Hallie Jackson confronted Vice President Pence's chief of staff Marc Short on Tuesday about Schumer's list in a contentious interview.
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What’s Another Trillion in Debt? Nets Skip Massive Budget Deal
December 17th, 2019 11:09 PM
In the midst of chasing down impeachment Tuesday, House Democrats and Republicans agreed to a truly massive $1.4 trillion spending deal that would shove the country’s yearly deficit to over $1 trillion. With the new out of control spending expected to be signed by President Trump and the national debt already over $23 trillion, news of the deal went unreported during the evening newscasts of ABC…
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Network BLACKOUT: Top FISA Judge Accuses FBI Lawyer of Criminal Act
December 17th, 2019 8:49 PM
A complete and total blackout. That was how ABC, CBS, and NBC reacted on their Tuesday evening newscasts when the top Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge, Rosemary M. Collyer blasted the FBI for misleading the court when seeking surveillance warrants for a former Trump campaign staffer. The order was damning, accusing an FBI lawyer of a criminal act in intentionally lying to the…
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Smug Avlon: Letter Will Cause Concerns About Trump's ‘Mental State’
December 17th, 2019 5:53 PM
Who died and made CNN senior political analyst John Avlon the bearer of what’s right, wrong, partisan, and non-partisan? Well, apparently his smug attitude and lectures Americans out in Trump country is on-brand for CNN and boss Jeffrey Zucker. On Tuesday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, Avlon proclaimed that the President’s “embarrassing” letter responding to his impending impeachment would cause…
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Sunny Hostin Touts 'Republicans' for Impeaching Trump, McCain Objects
December 17th, 2019 5:23 PM
On ABC's The View on Tuesday, Sunny Hostin touted a New York Times op-ed inaccurately titled "We Are Republicans, And We Want Trump Defeated." The authors were George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, and Rick Wilson. Jordan Schachtel tweeted links to show the first three all ceremoniously left the Republican fold over Trump.