Eric Alterman: ‘Trump TV’ Might Want Scarborough, Halperin
If there’s ever a Donald Trump-centric TV channel, it’s likely that not all of its big names would be from the populist right, hinted What Liberal Media? author Alterman in his column for The Nation's November 14 issue. Alterman claimed that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough “has made some of the most egregious pro-Trump arguments heard anywhere during this election cycle” and, regarding Bloomberg’s Mark…
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Press Lets Hillary Take Two Bogus Partisan Shots at Comey, Congress
They can't help themselves. For Democrats, the Clinton campaign, and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, everything reflecting negatively on them must be cast in a partisan light — even something as petty as the party affiliation of the congressional addressees of a letter from the FBI. At yesterday's press conference, reacting to James Comey's letter to Congress indicating that the bureau has…
'Not Political' Ellen DeGeneres Gave Almost $40,000 to Democrats
Ellen DeGeneres loves to say she’s not very political. On April 6 of this year, she started out her show fulminating against an “anti-gay” law in Mississippi.“I’m not a political person, I’m really not,” DeGeneres told her audience. “But this is not politics, this is human rights.”
But on April 11, 2016, donating records show DeGeneres of Crazy Monkey Inc. in Encino, California, donated $33,…
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With All Due Respect' Hosts Irked at Comey's New E-Mail Probe
The set of With All Due Respect was a sad place today due to the shocking revelation that the computer seized in the Anthony Weiner probe has caused FBI Director James Comey to announce that he is reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. In addition to being irked at Comey, Halperin and Heilemann seemed to be searching for lifeline assurances that this probe might soon go away…
Not News: Hillary Clinton Quips Death Row Records 'Influenced My Look'
Forget running a campaign for presidency. Hillary Clinton seems to be running a campaign for panderer in chief.
Clinton was interviewed on the urban radio program Breakfast Club earlier this week, when she was asked to respond to a popular and funny meme that’s been shared across social media. The meme shows Clinton on one side and a member of the Death Row Records label on another (various…
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'Unprecedented' Oct. Surprise? Nothing Tops Lawrence Walsh's '92 Stunt
FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress indicating that the bureau has "learned of the existence of (Hillary Clinton) emails" which he concluded must be reviewed "to determine whether they contain classified information" has led to all kinds of people declaring the move an "unprecedented" October surprise. Even some people who should know better have called it the "Mother of All October…
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MSNBC Demands Trump Camp Retract ‘Rigged’ Comments Post-FBI News
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway naturally took to the cable news airwaves on Friday afternoon to comment on the bombshell news concerning new details the FBI will investigate regarding Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server and on MSNBC, she was pressured to withdraw her candidate’s insistence that the “system” is rigged to benefit Clinton.
Taranto Demonstrates PolitiFact Helped Spread ObamaCare 'Fraud'
Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto has been a persistent critic of "nonpartisan" fact-checking websites run by liberal-media veterans. In Wednesday's column, Taranto collected a devastating set of PolitiFact rulings that show how unabashedly mercurcial and political their "Truth-o-Meter" is.
"Everyone’s entitled to his own opinion, but 'fact checkers' think they’re entitled to call…
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Gregory: ‘Unprecedented’ That FBI 'Interjected’ Into E-Mails Again
Former Meet the Press anchor David Gregory appeared on CNN, Friday, to deride the FBI Director for his “unprecedented” move to reexamine Hillary Clinton’s e-mail controversy. According to Gregory, James Comey is “allowing himself to be interjected” into the presidential campaign. During the segment, host Wolf Blitzer also did not reveal to viewers that David Gregory’s wife, Beth Wilkinson,…
AP Concocts 'GOPers Going to Hillary' Meme in Ohio — Based on One Guy
Thursday, Dan Sewell at the Associated Press worked hard to create something out of almost nothing in Southwestern Ohio, where I happen to live.
Sewell's work oddly appeared only as a very short squib with no follow-up at the wire service's main national site, while the AP published his full story at its "Big Story" site. The theme: "Hillary Clinton campaign's hopes are rising" in the Buckeye…
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CNN, AP Hype Trump's Hours Off the Trail, Omit Light Hillary Schedule
On Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was in Washington to formally open the new Trump Hotel in Washington. This set off a media chorus of, "Oh my gosh, he's taking time off from campaigning! How can he do that when he's behind in the polls?" Meanwhile, Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton's public appearance schedule during this 2016 campaign has been among the lightest…
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Brinkley: Voters Are ‘Tired’ of Talk About Hillary’s E-Mails, WikLeaks
CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley was at it again on Thursday’s CNN Tonight spinning for liberals as he aired his discomfort with discussing the WikiLeaks e-mail dumps from John Podesta’s account since it was “an illegal one” but brushed them aside as not “really that damning” because “a lot of voters have been hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails and servers and WikiLeaks for a year…
Salon Writer: ‘Bad-Faith Criticisms of Liberalism’ Led to Trump
Some left-wing pundits, anticipating that Donald Trump will lose on November 8, are pre-emptively trying to make sure that conservatives take the blame for Trump’s nomination. Gary Legum of Salon argued that right-wing news outlets “have both spent the better part of the Obama administration pushing the exact silly demagoguery and conspiracy theories that riled up the conservative base and…
CNN Media Reporter's Twitter Rant: Anti-Trump Tweets Aren't Media Bias
CNN media reporter Dylan Byers was seriously unhappy that Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a story about how "objective" reporters are unleashing harsh opinions all over Twitter. Byers went on a five-part Twitter rant about how "poorly executed" this story was -- mostly because these liberal opinions were only demonstrated "clever assessments" or a "well-informed understanding"…
