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ABC: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Taliban Set to Backdrop of ‘Trump’s America’
ABC’s Nightline on Friday donated over seven minutes of air time to hype the new season of The Handmaid’s Tale as a Taliban-esque dystopian fantasy set “against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s America.” Reporter David Wright breathlessly explained how the show as “The new American regime is a theocracy that oppresses women in particular. They're not allowed to read or write or think for themselves…
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'I'm a Fan!' CNN's Carpenter Hails Porn Star and Her Lawyer
ABC's The View replaced Meghan McCain on Monday with CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter, who worked on Ted Cruz's presidential campaign in the last cycle. But Carpenter lined right up with Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Whoopi Goldberg in defending Stormy Daniels for doing a comedy skit with Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live. She even proclaimed Daniels is taking on Trump better than…
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Nets Fret: Trump’s CIA Pick ‘Referendum on Country’s Use of Torture'
Eager to tear down another one of President Trump’s nominees, on Monday, all three network morning show’s seized on a Washington Post article claiming that the President’s nominee to be CIA Director, Gina Haspel, considered withdrawing over the weekend, before her upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. Hosts and correspondents breathlessly hyped the story and worried about Haspel’s role in the…
Rosie O'Donnell Sloppily Over-Donates to Five Democrats
Anna Sanders at the New York Post reported that left-wing actress/comedian Rosie O’Donnell “made illegally over-sized campaign donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings." That includes Trump-trashing Rep. Adam Schiff. Federal Election Commission rules limit the total any one person can give to an individual candidate at $2,700 per…
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FNC's Huntsman Hits Pro-Life Guest from the Left on Abortion
For a news network that is often caricatured as right wing, Fox News Channel peppered a pro-life guest with an awful lot of questions that were skeptical of Iowa's new law that bans abortion at about six weeks pregnancy. In fact, Fox and Friends Sunday co-host Abby Huntsman even cited one poll alleging a majority of Americans want most abortions to be legal, and did not mention that other…
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Media Ignore Anti-NRA Dallas Organizer's Violent Criminal Past
Once again, protests against the NRA at its annual convention, this time in Dallas, have been pathetic. Turnout has been "shockingly small." One event had "maybe 100 (people), half of whom were journalists." An actress involved in the protest movement attended — accompanied by allegedly armed security guards, who illegally "chase(d) Texans out of a public park simply because they asked if she…
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At Convention, NRATV Mocks CNN Apple Ads: 'This Is a Bitter Lemon'
Andrew Kugle at the Washington Free Beacon reported the NRATV channel had great fun with CNN's pompous apple-and-banana commercials at the NRA convention in Dallas. On Friday, Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim tweeted a video clip of the CNN mockery.
NYT Makes Page 1 Tribute to 'Maverick' McCain vs. Trump, 'Hard-Right'
The front of Sunday’s New York Times featured political reporter Jonathan Martin’s tribute to the ailing Sen. John McCain: “At Home, McCain Shares Memories and Regrets.” It has some charming moments, but comes off hypocritical, given the paper’s back and forth feelings for McCain, praising him when he was a threat to more conservative Republicans during the 2008 party primaries, condemning him…
Slate, With Unemployment Rate at 3.9 Percent: It's 'Meaningless'
You had to figure that a left-leaning journalist somewhere would denigrate Friday's news that the nation's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell below 4 percent for the first time since 2000. Jordan Weissmann, in a Slate.com column beginning with a headlined contention that "The Unemployment Rate Is Meaningless," came through.
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Pro-Gun CNN Guest Complains Host Failed to Challenge Anti-Gun Kasky
On New Day Sunday, CNN did something it does not typically do in that it actually allowed a pro-gun guest to be on and argue against the type of gun control pushed by liberal activists. Although Georgia gun dealer Hal Shouse was allowed to complain to CNN host Christi Paul about her failure to challenge anti-gun activist Cameron Kasky the day before, the segment also suffered from audio…
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CNN Declares 'Day 470' of White House ‘Credibility Crisis’, Not Media
It’s well known that CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter is no fan of President Trump. He even goes as far as to question’s the President’s mental stability and was overjoyed when the rest of the media were pushing their hot takes too. During Sunday’s Reliable Sources, he opined about how the White House was in day 470 of what he called a “credibility crisis.” And despite how the show is…
AP's Scott Bauer Fails to ID Party of Dem Charged in Racial Incident
Despite relatively recent Associated Press Stylebook changes mandating that elected officials' political party "should be routinely included" in stories about them, the wire service appears to be backsliding. On Saturday, I noted the wire service's failure – before being shamed into a partial remedy — to tag DC politicians engaged in public anti-Semitic outbursts and conspiracy theories as…
Captain Truth? Brian Stelter Toasted by Columbia Journalism Review
Every one would love a puff piece written about them, and Pete Vernon wrote a very puffy piece on CNN's Brian Stelter for the Columbia Journalism Review. The article's theme was Stelter was a strictly fact-based objective journalist forced into editorializing by Donald Trump's war on the facts and truth. It's like one of those Apple vs. Banana ads, a perfect CNN infomercial. Vernon virtually…
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CNN Gives Hogg & Kasky Forum to Bash NRA, Pro-Gun Candidates
After President Donald Trump spoke to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday, CNN has not surprisingly reacted by bringing on liberal gun control activists and given them a mostly unchallenged forum to promote their agenda and bash gun rights supporters. On Friday night, Anderson Cooper spoke with Parkland student activists David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, and, the next morning, host…
