CRAY CRAY: AP Gets Weak Knees for Ayatollah’s ‘Tears’ at Funeral
Continuing the liberal media’s disturbing infatuation with the murderous Iranian regime, the Associated Press published an embarrassing 831-word puff piece Monday morning about “the typically reserved and measured” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “rare display of emotion” in which his “voice cracked under the weight of the moment” at Qasem Soleimani’s funeral.
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MSNBC's Newest Mom Kasie Hunt Thumps the Tub for Paid Parental Leave
On Sunday's Kasie D.C. show, MSNBC host Kasie Hunt followed in the footsteps of her new-mom colleague Katy Tur in returning from pregnancy leave and lobbying on air for a federal law in the U.S. to require employees receive paid parental leave.
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Nets Allow Scant Seconds of Gervais’s BLISTERING Attack on Hollywood
Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais delivered a blistering, brutal attack on liberal Hollywood, Sunday night, bringing up awkward topics like covering for Harvey Weinstein. All three morning shows covered the Globes on Monday, but they allowed just seconds to the biting commentary that Gervais served up to the not-so-pleased crowd. CBS This Morning included just 7 seconds to playing the words the…
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NBC Hypes ‘Pressure’ on Iran to ‘Retaliate In A Big Way’ Against U.S.
On Monday, while marveling over the “massive crowds” that “filled the streets of Tehran” following the U.S. killing of Iran’s leading terrorist Qasem Soleimani, NBC’s Today show hyped the notion that the authoritarian regime was under “pressure” to “retaliate in a big way” by killing Americans.
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CNN Reporter Claims Soleimani Killing Has 'Unified' Iran
Based on crowd size and man-in-the-street interviews, CNN reporter Fred Pleitgen, reporting from Tehran, claims that the killing of Qasem Soleimani has "unified" Iran.
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ABC Moved by 'Profound' 'Powerful' 'Mourners' Bashing America, Trump
ABC News spent another morning sympathizing with our enemies on Monday’s Good Morning America. This time, it was correspondent Martha Raddatz’s turn to be awestruck by the anti-American protests in Iran over the U.S. drone strike-kill of General Qasem Soleimani, last week. Instead of praising the death of a man who ordered the murder and torture of countless American soldiers, Raddatz sided with…
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Study: Trump Was TV News’s Biggest 'Outrage' in 2019
Even a casual watcher of broadcast news these days knows that journalists are using increasingly emotional language in their reports. Case in point: the word "outrage," which MRC analysts found was used 229 times in ABC, CBS and NBC's evening news reports in 2019.
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Stelter Insists Patriotism Is 'Alive and Well In America's Newsrooms'
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter began the show with a passionate commentary about how "patriotism" demands skeptical questions about the government. But which government? Erin Burnett's softballs to Iran didn't exactly evoke a feeling of patriotism. Shouldn't all governments get skeptical questions, not just ours?
NYTimes A1: Soleimani ‘Universally Admired...Near Cult Figure Status'
On the front of Sunday’s New York Times, reporters Farnaz Fassihi and Richard Perez-Pena warned Iran was united “in anger at the United States” over the targeted takedown of Iranian military leader and terrorist Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad airport. The online headline deck tilted toward dire warnings from a united, America-hating Iran: “Iranians Close Ranks Behind Leaders After U.S. Kills Popular…
Univision Asleep: No Post-Soleimani 'Al Punto'
The first Sunday of 2020 offered no shortage of things to be discussed on the nation’s Sunday public affairs shows. However, Univision took the opportunity to show how committed it is to immigration advocacy, and how disconnected from the public it claims to serve.
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ABC Stands in Awe of Iranian Politicians Chanting ‘Death to America’
ABC News kicked off Sunday’s Good Morning America by marveling at the sea of mourners in the streets of Iran and hyping the Iranian politicians who gathered on the floor of their legislature to chant “death to America;” in the wake of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani on Thursday.
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CNN Grills Pompeo on Airstrike, But Treated Iran With Kid Gloves
As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham recently reported, CNN’s Erin Burnett conducted a sit-down interview with Iranian ambassador to the U.N., Majid Takht Ravanchi on Friday where she treated him to some slow-pitch softball questions. The network took a complete 180 on Sunday when State of the Union host Jake Tapper unloaded on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by grilling him on the airstrike…
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NBC: Trump Starting ‘Religious War’ To Distract from Impeachment
Three days after President Trump ordered the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the liberal media were still tripping over themselves as they continued to clamor about the President supposedly starting a war (while downplaying the Iranian-backed attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq). But during NBC’s Sunday Today they took it another step, declaring Trump had started a “religious war” and…
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State-Run TV? Erin Burnett Throws Softballs at Iranian PR Thug
One of the worst tendencies of American media is boasting about how independent they are, and then granting the most obsequious access to our worst tyrannical enemies. CNN boss Jeff Zucker calls Fox News "state-run TV," then acts like state-run TV for our enemies in Iran. On Friday night, Erin Burnett threw softballs at Iran's representative to the UN that she would never toss at Trump…
