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MSNBC: Don’t Worry, Obama Doesn’t Pick ‘Bomb Throwers' for Court
Sunday’s coverage of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia included attacks on the judge as a “homophobe” who “coarsened” the dialogue. The network also offered the analysis that Republican’s shouldn’t be worried because Barack Obama doesn’t choose “bomb throwers” for the Supreme Court. Regarding the last two picks, Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate, parroted, “The qualities [Obama] was…
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Morning Joe: S.C. Debate Crowd was 'Offensive' and 'Deplorable
Joe Scarborough and the panelists on Monday’s Morning Joe sat down to discuss Saturday’s GOP debate. During the segment, some of Scarborough’s most stinging comments were not about any of the candidates on the stage, but about the crowd that attended the event. “I tell you what, that was a horrible debate. I know it was like the most watched but not only what was going on on stage. I'm sorry, the…
Twelve Tweets of Liberal Journalists Celebrating Scalia's Death
The news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death this past Saturday shocked the country. A Reagan appointee, Scalia was also Catholic, socially conservative, and brilliant; a combination that made him the left’s most-hated member of the Supreme Court. While his passing was respectfully treated by many in the media, there were still many far-left journalists who refused to show the late…
Anti-War Group Loves Donald Trump! Networks Ignore
Donald Trump received praise from a group that you wouldn’t normally expect would champion a GOP presidential frontrunner. On Sunday, the co-founder of anti-war group Code Pink Medea Benjamin celebrated Trump’s bashing of former president George W. Bush’s decision to attack Iraq. So far, none of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have yet to report on this unusual development in the 2016…
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George Stephanopoulos Badgers Lindsey Graham on Scalia Replacement
Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos, Monday, badgered Senator Lindsey Graham on the need to get a quick replacement for Antonin Scalia. An incredulous Stephanopoulos wondered, “Your leader, Mitch McConnell, said flatly, President Obama should not have a chance to fill this vacancy. Does that mean the President's choice won't even get a hearing?”
NY Times Editorialist: Give Obama His Court Nominee Because of Slavery
Yesterday, New York Times editorial board member Brent Staples tweeted what was and apparently still is his best argument for why the Republican-controlled Senate should roll over and approve whoever President Obama wishes to nominate to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Antonin Scalia's death on Saturday: "In a nation built on slavery, white men propose denying the first black…
The Onion Runs Obnoxious Anti-Scalia Headline on Day of His Passing
The satirical website The Onion wasted little time in delivering an obnoxious take on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing. Over a photo of Scalia The Onion ran the following headline: “Justice Scalia Dead Following 30-Year Battle With Social Progress.”
Will Kanye West's Free Ride From the Media Ever End?
The best-known of the three declared presidential candidates for 2020 (not kidding) appears to be off to a good start as a leftist politician in love with deficit spending.
According to a celebrity income estimate maintained by Forbes Magazine, rapper Kanye West has earned well over $200 million during the past 12 years. Saturday evening, he tweeted that he is carrying "$53 million in personal…
CNN's Brinkley Dubiously Claims Reagan 'Fabricated' Holocaust Story
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley claimed that President Ronald Reagan "used to fabricate stories," and alluded to a story about the Holocaust as an example. After fellow guest James Fallows of The Atlantic recalled possible holes in stories told by GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, lamenting that voters do not seem to care,…
AP Seems to Celebrate Wall St. Doing Poorly, Pretends Main St. Is Okay
The Associated Press's choice of a headline to accompany business writer Stan Choe's Saturday morning report on the state of the economy — "MAIN STREET HOLDS UP AS WALL STREET STRUGGLES, FOR A CHANGE" — has a couple of interesting implications.
Is AP celebrating the fact that Wall Street is struggling? Or does the idea that "Main Street" is holding up "for a change" mean that it hasn't been…
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Stephanopoulos, Todd Gang Up on Cruz, Rubio over SCOTUS Nomination
In separate Sunday morning interviews of Republican presidential candidates and Senators Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Marco Rubio (Fl.), ABC’s This Week host George Stephanopoulos and NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd urged them to consider whomever President Obama nominates to replace the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia since “the people elected President Obama” and he…
Lefty Blogger: ‘I Can’t Watch’ Fox News ‘Without Feeling Ill’
Democrats have long envied Republicans’ message discipline, which presumably means Dems are relishing what Martin Longman calls the “disarray” in the GOP and in its main “official organ,” Fox News. “I don’t think right-wing media is set up to deal with an unorthodox candidate [Donald Trump] who doesn’t consistently hew to the conservative line,” remarked Longman. “I also don’t know how they’d…
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MSNBC Whines: GOP Will Keep Court from ‘Governing the Country’
Anchoring live coverage of the death of Antonin Scalia on Saturday night, MSNBC’s Ari Melber whined that the GOP not approving a successor to the conservative would impede the “governing of the country.” Reporter Perry Bacon agreed, echoing Democratic talking points: “I think you're right. I think you're already hearing that.”
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Bill Kristol Schools ABC’s Dowd on Dems Delaying GOP Judicial Picks
During the panel segment Sunday morning on ABC’s This Week, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol schooled ABC News political analyst and former Bush administration official Matthew Dowd on how Democrats have long politicized judicial nominees after Dowd lamented that “Republicans have made a mistake” in reacting to the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and urged them to consider…
