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MSNBC's Walsh: 'Heartless, Soulless' Paul Ryan 'Hurting People'

Brad Wilmouth
June 26th, 2017 11:15 AM
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, just days after dehumanizing House Speaker Paul Ryan as a "monster," MSNBC political analyst and The Nation correspondent Joan Walsh was spewing more venom at the Wisconsin Republican as she described him as a "heartless, soulless Washington creature." She then went on to claim that he was someone who had "devoted their life to hurting people."
 
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MSNBC Panel Decries 'Monster' Paul Ryan, 'Criminal' Health Plan

Brad Wilmouth
June 25th, 2017 7:27 PM
On Friday's The Last Word on MSNBC, it was the place for demonizing Republicans as regular MSNBC guests Joan Walsh and Nancy Giles called Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan a "monster" and declared that the way Senate Republicans had handled health care reform has been "criminal."  
 
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Maher Sees 'Zodiac Killer' GOP Plan; Too Many 'Waste-Making' Kids

Brad Wilmouth
June 25th, 2017 5:20 PM
On Friday's Real Time show on HBO, liberal comedian Bill Maher derided the Senate Republican health care plan as being like "a manifesto from the Zodiac killer," and trashed Republican Senator Ted Cruz as someone who does not believe the bill is "mean" enough, and who has experience at "making people sick." He ended the show with a commentary in which he encouraged his audience members to…
 
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MSNBC-Style 'Conservative' Charlie Sykes Bashes GOP 'Cult,' Fox News

Brad Wilmouth
June 24th, 2017 3:08 PM

Appearing as a panel member on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, MSNBC contributor and former talk radio host Charlie Sykes displayed the latest example of why he is the type of right-leaning figure that liberal outfits like MSNBC include who will join liberal analysts in bashing Republicans. Sykes took aim at Fox News supposedly not informing its Republican-leaning viewers on the nefarious…

 
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On CNN, Montel Williams: GOP Plan Would Send 140 Million to 'Death'

Brad Wilmouth
June 24th, 2017 11:15 AM
As Montel Williams appeared on Friday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin to discuss his recent USA Today article attacking Republican plans to repeal ObamaCare, the former talk show host accused congressional Republicans of not caring about their own family members and of supporting a plan that would send their relatives and 140 million other Americans to "death." Williams: "They are going to be…
 
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Toobin Whines That Media Isn’t Talking About GOP Harming the Poor

Alex Xenos
June 23rd, 2017 3:43 PM
CNN hosts once again trotted out Jeffrey Toobin, their left-wing political commentator dressed up as a legal analyst, to trash Republicans. Toobin on Thursday expressed his frustration that the media is being distracted by Trump’s tweets when they could be talking about the horrors of the GOP health bill.
 

Salon: 'Sociopathic' GOP Should Learn From 'Bigot' Scalise's 'Baptism'

Brad Wilmouth
June 23rd, 2017 10:15 AM
In an article posted yesterday, Salon politics writer Chauncey DeVega trashed Republican Rep. Steve Scalise as a "bigot" and accused the Republican party of being a "sociopathic" entity that has "weaponized" the Scalise shooting and is "drunk on conspiracy theories and other hallucinogenic beliefs." He also repeated the discredited claim that Scalise spoke to a "white supremacist" group in 2002,…
 

Press Ignoring Anti-Violence Backlash as Factor in GA-06 Outcome

Tom Blumer
June 22nd, 2017 11:55 PM

With so much attention focused on the meaning of the results of Sixth District Congressional special election in Georgia, the establishment press has not looked into what happened to pre-election polls which showed Democrat Jon Ossoff ahead of Republican Karen Handel by as many as seven points less than two weeks before Tuesday's election. Though it may partially have been yet another in a…

 
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Mitchell: Removal of Disabled Protesters a ‘Brutal Image' for GOP

Kyle Drennen
June 22nd, 2017 4:18 PM
Throughout her 12 p.m. ET hour show on Thursday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell hyped an orchestrated left-wing protest outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Capitol Hill as spelling certain doom for any Republican attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
 
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CNN Hypes Jimmy Kimmel Skit Mocking Republicans on Health Care

Alex Xenos
June 22nd, 2017 2:42 PM
In what has become routine business at CNN, New Day played and then praised a Jimmy Kimmel Live skit mocking Republicans. The skit was a trailer spin-off of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets only instead of Harry Potter, it was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The idea being that the GOP’s Senate bill is a secret that will wreak havoc on America.
 
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Dowd: Senate GOP Like Children Who ‘Did Something Wrong’

Kyle Drennen
June 22nd, 2017 12:07 PM
On ABC’s Good Morning America on Thursday, while discussing the upcoming release of the Senate’s health care reform bill political analyst Matthew Dowd compared Republicans to naughty children trying to conceal misbehavior: “It’s as if you walk in your living room and your kids are trying to hide something under the cushion. You know they did something wrong.”  
 
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CBS Ignores Dems Blaming Pelosi for Georgia Defeat, ABC Brushes Over

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 21st, 2017 10:39 PM

In the wake of the Democrats' humiliating defeat in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District Tuesday night, members of the party were in a rush to cast blame on someone. And for many Democrats that blame fell on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Even with the loud calls for new leadership, CBS News decided to omit them from their reporting Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, ABC’s coverage simply…

 
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MSNBC's Kornacki Finally Notices GA-06 Maybe Not Solidly Republican

Brad Wilmouth
June 21st, 2017 4:31 PM

You read it here first. Two months ago -- and again last night -- NewsBusters pointed out that there was a major hole in the dominant media theory that GA-06 was a "solidly Republican" district that Republicans should be embarrassed about having to defend in yesterday's special election. In spite of Donald Trump just barely winning the district last November, many journalists and commentators…

 
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NY Times Reporter Calls Out CNN's Biased Coverage of Georgia Race

Michael Johns Jr.
June 21st, 2017 3:28 PM

In a rare display of media self-awareness, New York Times investigative reporter Eric Lipton called out CNN coverage of the nationally-covered special election in Georgia’s sixth congressional district. Criticizing their journalistic standards, Lipton tweeted a June 10 article from CNN citing a poll estimating a seven point lead for the Democratic candidate, Jon Ossoff, over his Republican…