Critic Continues NYT's Obsession With Islamophobia in '24' Review
On the front of the paper's Friday Arts section, New York Times TV critic Neil Genzlinger checked out the reboot of the popular serial thriller “24,” making its debut after the Super Bowl Sunday night on Fox. But Genzlinger was less concerned about the action and more about the show's supposedly anti-Muslim messaging in this sinister Trump era: "...certain people, including some now working in…
Lib Pundit: Trump ‘Represents the Death Rattle of a Declining Vision’
Even though Donald Trump won the presidential election, thereby causing “pessimism about the liberal project,” Barack Obama is winning the post-election, and Obama’s “vision of the country…will ultimately win out,” asserted New York’s Jonathan Chait last Sunday. According to Chait, the Women’s March the day after Trump’s inauguration and last weekend’s protests over his executive order on…
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NBC Welcomes Hillary Clinton’s ‘Return to the Spotlight’
On Thursday, NBC’s Today devoted nearly three minutes of air time to a report touting Hillary Clinton’s “return to the spotlight” and “re-emergence” on the public stage “With some big plans, including a new book and a series of speeches...”
NYT Officially Anti-Trump Land: Every Section Fronts Anti-Trump Story
It’s official: There’s no escape from anti-Trump politics – it featured on the front page of every inside section of Thursday’s New York Times. The NYT thought it vitally important to tell its readership how fashion designers and actors feel about Trump, and how a new TV cop show featuring a “results-oriented boor” is a painful reminder of the new president.
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Networks Largely Yawn At Report Clinton Campaign Blames Obama For Loss
The broadcast networks morning and evening newscasts, along with the cable news networks, have largely ignored the Tuesday report from Axios's Mike Allen that Hillary Clinton's campaign team blames President Obama for her loss in the 2016 election. Charlie Rose mentioned the revelation in passing on Thursday's CBS This Morning: "You have reports, for example, that the Hillary campaign thought it…
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Heilemann: Media Lesson for Hillary Loss Is Don’t 'Ignore the Country'
Why were journalists so surprised by Donald Trump’s election victory in November? They forgot about the country. That was the conclusion from author and Bloomberg politics editor John Heilemann on Thursday’s CBS This Morning. Co-host Gayle King quizzed, “When you look at it now, what do you think you missed?”
Sarah Silverman Calls For Military Overthrow of ‘Mad King’ Trump
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Sarah Silverman wasn’t joking when she called for an overthrow of the government.
Russell Wilson: Trump Might Not Last 4 Years: ‘Barack, Come Back!’
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Who was it that demanded to know Russell Wilson’s take on current events? C’mon, fess up! Somebody asked – probably a 49ers fan wanting somebody else’s QB to look like an idiot for a change.
Hollywood Whines Over Supreme #StolenSeat
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Hollywood entertainers really brought out the snark in anticipation of the president’s Supreme Court announcement.
NYT’s Hulse: GOP Facing Nightmare, This Time Over ‘The Dreamers’
New York Times Washington correspondent Carl Hulse has been writing versions of the same story for years -- Republicans on the defensive. On Tuesday, he paired his standard trope with the issue the NYT is most liberal on -- amnesty for illegal immigrants -- to starkly slanted effect for his “On Washington” column, “Are ‘Dreamers’ Next? G.O.P. Fears Backlash.”
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ABC: Trump Picks 'White Men,' Like Most 'Conservative' Justices
During Tuesday’s Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos spoke with ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl and Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran about Trump’s potential Supreme Court Justice pick. Karl’s report described both front-runners, Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, as conservative picks that would get pushback from Democrats. Stephanopoulos agreed by oddly…
CW’s ‘Jane the Virgin:’ Donald Trump 'Ruined a Lot of Things'
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We already know that The CW's Jane the Virgin was "with her," but they came back with another swipe at President Trump again this week. Rogelio blamed Donald Trump for “ruining romance” and the Spanish-accented narrator piped up that Trump has ruined “a lot of other things, too.”
#DeleteUber: When Celebs Act Without the Facts
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In addition to slamming Donald Trump at 2017’s hyper-political SAG awards, many celebrities took to social media this weekend to criticize the president’s new immigration policies. So when Uber appeared to capitalize on the controversial travel ban, the stars quickly dropped the ride-hailing phone app.
Media Ignore Crimes of Lefty Protesters, While Smearing Conservatives
Media coverage of protests is so ideologically biased as to deceive the public. Tea Party protests were law-abiding, and so orderly that they usually left no trash behind (unlike the recent Women’s March in Washington, or attendees of the 2009 Obama inauguration, who left behind lots of trash).
