The Week in Media Bias History: Using a Bombing to Smear Conservatives
What is it about mass death that causes liberal journalists to smear conservatives? On April 25, 1995, then-Today co-host Bryant Gumbel blamed the Oklahoma City Bombing on talk radio hosts. On April 21, 2013, The New York Times decided that the solution to the Boston Marathon bombing was... a carbon tax?
Maddow, Mitchell, Mika Rally Around Tom Brokaw's 'Tremendous Decency'
The Hollywood Reporter relayed a surge of female support among NBC News colleagues for Tom Brokaw in the wake of Linda Vester's allegations of sexual harassment in the mid-1990s. "A cadre of female journalists including Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Maria Shriver have signed a letter characterizing the veteran journalist as "a man of tremendous decency and integrity."
Bozell & Graham Column: The Can't Do Republicans
The Republicans in Congress are facing a dire future in November. They asked for control of the House and Senate, but have given their voters nothing they promised to do. They didn't repeal Obamacare, and this wretched omnibus bill was an abject surrender. They need an aggressive strategy to fix themselves before the midterms.
Wall St. Journal Columnist: Fight Mueller by Declassifying Team Obama
On Friday, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel argued that President Trump’s lawyers aren’t handling the Robert Mueller investigation the right way. The lawyers are all focused on his personal liability, and not on how the Mueller probe threatens the separation of powers. She recommended a dramatic course of declassifying all the documents underlying the Mueller probe -- "The Foreign…
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The Intercept Combines Secret Audio of Steny Hoyer with Cartoons
A far-left congressional candidate in Colorado secretly recorded a meeting he had last year with House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D.-Maryland) who attempted to pressure him into dropping out of the race against the establishment candidate preferred by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. As you can see in the video, Hoyer definitely gave off 2016 vibes of the establishment Democrats…
Press Ignores Democrats' 'Revealed' Support For Slavery Reparations
Perhaps understandably, the establishment press ignored a Saturday Washington rally advocating slavery reparations. But as Brent Scher and Joe Schoffstall at the Washington Free Beacon reported last week, reparations is a key agenda item of a "wealthy Democratic donor club plotting the future of the liberal movement," meaning that Democrats appear to be largely in sync with the mindset of those…
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Melber: Trump 'Literally Endorsed White Supremacy' After a Murder
On Friday's The Beat with Ari Melber on MSNBC, during the "Fall Back Friday" segment, host Melber at one point claimed that President Donald Trump "literally endorsed white supremacy" after the murder that took place at the Charlottesville white supremacist rally, as the group discussed Kanye West praising Trump. He and talk radio host Peter Rosenberg also complained about the "pain" that the…
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FLASHBACK: Brokaw’s Now-Awkward Takes on Sexual Harassment
Ex-NBC reporter Linda Vester’s allegations that she was sexually harassed by Tom Brokaw makes the former NBC Nightly News anchors past reporting on sexual assault cases (on Bill Clinton, Al Franken and Arnold Schwarzenegger) rather awkward to say the least. The following now-awkward Brokaw moments were culled from MRC’s archives:
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Paranoid Kathy Griffin: Of Course President Trump Had Me Investigated
Less than a year after Kathy Griffin was pictured holding a fake bloodied, severed head of Donald Trump last May, the far-left comedian claims that the president has a “vendetta” against her and personally ordered Secret Service agents to investigate her. Griffin made the accusations while a guest on ABC’s Start Here podcast after host Brad Mielke asked her if the President took those actions…
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NBC: 'Be Skeptical' of Korean Peace, 'This Isn't a Miss World Pageant'
Reporting live from Seoul, South Korea during Friday’s Today show, NBC Chief Global Correspondent Bill Neely warned against anyone being too optimistic about the major diplomatic breakthrough in the Korean peace process, telling co-host Savannah Guthrie that she was “right to be skeptical” of the development. He later took to MSNBC to repeat the same message.
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ABC's Sunny Hostin: Korean Dialogue 'Has Nothing to Do with Trump'
On ABC’s The View on Friday, the co-hosts discussed the prospects of peace between North Korea and South Korea, but Sunny Hostin refused to accept that President Trump deserved one ounce of credit. "This has nothing to do with Trump...I think the kudos goes to China, not Trump." Several others disagreed.
Networks Punt on Bret Baier’s Fox News Interview of James Comey
In what should sadly be to the shock of no one, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC all refused on Friday morning to cover the hard-hitting but fair Fox News Channel interview of new author and former FBI Director James Comey by Special Report host Bret Baier.
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Nets Devote 26 Minutes to ‘Peace!’ 76 Seconds on Crediting Trump
All three networks on Friday trumpeted the “historic” breakthrough in North Korea, touting “peace at last!” In total, ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 26 minutes and 10 seconds of coverage to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visiting South Korea. Yet, of that time, a scant 76 seconds (all on CBS) was allowed for pondering what credit Donald Trump deserves.
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Setmayer Slams Diamond & Silk As 'Minstrels' and 'Shuck & Jive Show'
On Thursday's CNN Tonight, during a discussion of rapper Kanye West being criticized for praising President Donald Trump, right-leaning CNN political commentator and anti-Trump Republican Tara Setymayer again took shots at black Trump supporters as she brought up the Diamond and Silk conservative duo and derided them as "political minstrels" and a "shuck and jive show."
