NYT Will Not Fire Glenn Thrush Despite Sexual Misconduct Claims
Late Wednesday afternoon, The New York Times decided that it would not fire Glenn Thrush following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, citing “dozens of interviews with people both inside and outside the newsroom” and that Thrush will seek workplace “training” to supplement his “counseling and substance abuse rehabilitation.”
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Bernie Bro Joe Bemoans Tax Bill: ‘The Rich Are Getting Richer’
With the passage of the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax cut bill looming, most of Wednesday’s Morning Joe was devoted to portraying the legislation as not just bad policy (which would be par for the course on MSNBC), but a threat to America’s survival, prosperity, and democracy. “Conservative” co-host Joe Scarborough put on his Marxist cap to make the case that “the greatest threat to American-…
Liberal Pundits: By Passing Tax Bill, GOP Is 'Looting' America
On Tuesday, Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall called the bill "a heist," while Vox's Matthew Yglesias charged that "moral and political responsibility for the looting ultimately rests on the shoulders of the GOP members of Congress who decided that the appropriate reaction to Trump’s inauguration was to start smashing and grabbing as much as possible for themselves and their donors rather than…
Time Celebrates Dem Win in Alabama...Unlike the 2010 GOP Win in Mass.
Time reporter Molly Ball offered a post-election valentine to Doug Jones and his Democratic backers in an article titled “Change in the Heart of Dixie” in their Dec. 25/Jan. 1 issue. One interesting and constant omission in Ball’s piece was the role of The Washington Post in its very-helpful-to-Democrats investigative reporting on November 9 on Roy Moore’s odd dating habits (and on one occasion,…
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Paul Ryan Tears Down Media Bias Against Tax Bill
After being asked on Wednesday’s NBC Today if he was “living in a fantasy world” regarding new tax reform legislation, on ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan called out the liberal media for spreading disinformation about the legislation and fact-checked their Democratic Party talking points.
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Acosta Blasts Tax Reform: GOP Could Suffer ‘Unintended Consequences’
Moments after the final passage of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta dumped cold water on the new law, declaring that Republicans could suffer “unintended consequences because there were hardly any hearings on this, because there wasn’t much discussion in the public” concerning the “deeply unpopular” bill.
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NYT's Goldberg Likens GOP Tax Cut to 'Post-Soviet Kleptocracy'
On Tuesday's All In show on MSNBC, during a discussion of Congress passing the Republican tax cuts, New York Times columnist and frequent MSNBC guest Michelle Goldberg likened the plan to "post-Soviet kleptocracy" and asserted that it amounts to "stealing from the the rest of us, stealing from the majority." She went on to call it an "insult" to both the poor and elderly, and predicted that "this…
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Nets Bury Obama’s Derailment of Efforts to Fight Cocaine Trafficking
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning, all three networks buried a blockbuster report by Politico that exposed just how far the Obama administration went in order to secure a deal with Iran over nuclear weapons. ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to cover what Politico blasted in a headline: “The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook.”
Mitchell Lauds 'Prescient' McCarthy Movie Showing TV News 'Courage'
In Sunday’s Washington Post, the bragging newspaper couldn’t just run an article on the new “fact-based” movie about its Seventies heyday. The Post gang of movie critics made a list of the ten best Journalism Movies and recruited journalists to tout them. The purplest prose about heroic journalistic activists came from NBC’s Andrea Mitchell touting the myth-making movie about CBS News called Good…
Time for a Trump Makeover of Liberal NPR and PBS
At the close of 2017, no less than seven prominent male hosts and editors of influential government-sponsored radio and television shows are out of work amid claims of sexual harassment. According to their accusers, the alleged Malevolent Seven are powerful pervs and creeps who've been running wild at NPR and PBS for decades, sponsored and subsidized by taxpayers and corporate donors.
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NBC's Guthrie Hammers Ryan: ‘Are You Living in a Fantasy World?’
In a particularly hostile interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie interrogated the Republican leader over newly-passed tax reform legislation and suggested that he was “living in a fantasy world” for predicting the bill would spur economic growth.
NY Times Venezuela Starvation Story Barely Notes Its Socialist Govt.
Any list of the year's most ignored news stories has to include Venezuela's frightening deterioration. This once reasonably prosperous South American nation is now in the grips of a brutal socialist de facto dictatorship which is moving inexorably to consolidate its control, accompanied by an utterly wrecked economy. Families cannot feed their children, and many are dying. The New York Times…
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S.E. Cupp Battles Dem Congressman for ‘Scaring’ Voters on Tax Reform
With Congressional Republicans and President Trump set to score a massive win before Christmas with their tax reform bill, Democrats and their liberal media lapdogs were letting loose with their smear and fear campaign. But During HLN’s Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp called out California Democrat Ted Lieu for trying to recklessly scare voters into thinking the bill was going to hurt them when, in…
Bozell & Graham Column: Drawing a Line on Sexual Harassment
After a wave of stunning announcements and admissions about serious sexual misbehavior from Harvey Weinstein forward, observers might wonder if any of the accusations pouring forward are exaggerated, or even false. Most denials have been strangely and unpersuasively worded, as in “I don’t remember it that way.” On the other hand, some accusations are raising eyebrows...like the one against Chris…
