Mike Barnicle: ‘Nut-Boy’ Ben Carson ‘Gives New Meaning to Crazy’
For nearly three decades, Ben Carson was the head of pediatric neurosurgery at one of the world’s best hospitals. To MSNBC panelist Barnicle, however, Carson is a “political nut-boy” who reminds him of a patient at a certain type of hospital.
In a Monday Daily Beast column, Barnicle opined that Carson is “out there on the fringe talking nonsense in a soft, nonthreatening manner that is quite…
NYT Devotes Front Page to Attacks on Paul Ryan by Furious 'Far-Right'
During the 2012 election the New York Times treated Rep. Paul Ryan, currently a reluctant Speaker-elect, as fearsomely conservative. But now the paper is defending him from the "far-right" on the front page. Reporter Jennifer Steinhauer got to the labeling bias right off the bat: "Far-right media figures, relatively small in number but potent in their influence, have embarked on a furious…
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MRC’s Bozell: CNN Should Treat Dems Just Like GOP During Debate
On Tuesday night’s Kelly File, MRC President Brent Bozell helped preview CNN’s Democratic presidential debate and demanded that the cable network treat the Democratic candidates the same as the Republicans were treated when Jake Tapper moderated CNN's Republican debate. In response to CNN’s Anderson Cooper who claimed it will be hard to get the Democrats to actually challenge each other, Bozell…
Bozell & Graham Column: Bullying Ben Carson, Coddling Democrats
We've been waiting for the media attacks on Ben Carson to begin. To this point he'd been (relatively) untouched: he wasn't viewed as a credible threat. But his numbers aren't receding. They're growing. So he's now in the crosshairs.
The "news" networks have spent several days manufacturing outrage over Carson, saying that if he were in a mass-shooting situation, he would want to fight back. “I…
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Geist: 'My Conservative Friends' Thought Cooper Would Go Easy on Dems
Wow: an MSMer who not only has "many" conservative friends, but is willing to admit it on live national TV?
On today's Morning Joe, in the course of praising Anderson Cooper's performance as debate moderator, Geist let drop that prior to the debate "many of my conservative friends" thought CNN would go easy on the Dems, but that five minutes in, they told him "oh, I guess he's not going to go…
Politico Proclaims: ‘Hillary Crushes It’ in Democratic Debate
In its lead article early Wednesday morning on the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the night before, Politico proclaimed that “Hillary Clinton crushe[d] it” as she “delivered some of the evening’s most stinging retorts” and “moved with relative ease from swipes against her Democratic rivals to more direct attacks on Republicans.”
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Van Jones Compares Hillary to Beyoncé, Proclaims BLM 'Won This Debate'
Opining on how he thought the first 2016 Democratic debate unfolded on Tuesday night, CNN political commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones compared the “flawless” Hillary Clinton to Beyoncé and touted his belief that activists in the Black Lives Matter movement were the true winners of the debate. Jones declared: “Basically tonight, Hillary Clinton was Beyoncé. She was…
Vote Now: Pick the Most Liberal Question In CNN’s Democratic Debate
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Conservative, Libertarian Leaders React to CNN Democrat Debate
They watched so you don't have to. Here are the reaction of various conservative leaders to the Democratic debate on CNN, both as regards the candidates themselves, and how the network managed the debate.
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Borger Hypes Hillary Did 'Extraordinarily Well' in Debate; 'So Adept'
In the first minutes after the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night, CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger sang the praises of Hillary Clinton for having performed “extraordinarily well” who proved herself “so adept at making herself the candidate of both experience and change.”
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CNN to Dems: Unreasonable GOP Won’t Compromise With Obama
During Tuesday’s debate on CNN, Don Lemon offered a question from a liberal audience member about how unreasonable Republicans can be. Panelist Lemon read a query from a woman in Manassas, quoting, “President Obama has had a difficult time getting Republicans to compromise on just about every agenda.” Lemon continued, “How will you approach this going forward and will it be any different?…
Bozell Live Facebook Chat About Dem Debate: Noon Eastern Oct. 14
MRC President Brent Bozell will be taking your questions during a LIVE Facebook chat at 12 PM ET Wednesday, October 14, 2015. He will be discussing tonight's presidential debate, the ongoing role of the media during the election, current events, and anything else you'd like to talk about.
Please stop by his Facebook page at 12 p.m. Eastern Wednesday to join the discussion!
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Video: Anderson Cooper Jokes Dem Debate Attendees Have All Done Pot
Heading out to commercial break shortly before 10:30 p.m. Eastern, CNN Democratic debate moderator Anderson Cooper cracked a joke that implied the debate audience was full of potheads, or at least former ones.
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CNN Goes Liberal on Immigration: Sanders ‘Left’ Latinos ‘at the Altar’
On the subject of illegal immigration, CNN's debate went left with debate panelist Juan Carlos Lopez hitting Bernie Sanders for not being liberal enough. Lopez demanded, “Senator Sanders, in 2013 you voted for immigration reform. But in 2007 when the Democrats controlled Congress and the Bush White House was on board, you voted against it.” He then attacked the senator: “Why should Latino voters…
