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You Think?! MSNBC Wonders If Media Too ‘Fixated’ on ‘Sharpiegate’
September 6th, 2019 1:12 PM
During a brief moment of self-awareness on Friday, MSNBC actually entertained the possibility that the media played a role in exaggerating the minor controversy over a White House weather map being altered with a Sharpie. The discussion in the 9:00 a.m. ET hour worried that the press was too “fixated” on the topic and just creating a “feedback loop” of excessive coverage.
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Mitchell Fears Mattis ‘Normalizing’ President By Not Trashing Trump
September 5th, 2019 5:18 PM
Throughout her interview with former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell repeatedly urged him to criticize Trump. After Mattis refused to do so, Mitchell lectured: “Do you fear that you might be normalizing the decisions of this president because you are so critical of his predecessors?”
CNN to Ax Relationship With Analyst Now Leading a Conservative Outlet
September 4th, 2019 9:49 PM
Not long after it was reported that Politico White House reporter Eliana Johnson was named the new editor-in-chief of conservative news site The Washington Free Beacon, Buzzfeed News reported that CNN was no longer interested in renewing her political analyst contract. “Eliana Johnson, a leading White House reporter for Politico, will not have her contract renewed for her CNN political analyst…
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Morning Joe Urges Mattis to Bash Trump or ‘Become Part of the Problem’
September 4th, 2019 5:14 PM
During an interview with former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe repeatedly demanded the retired Marine Corps general bash President Trump or risk becoming “part of the problem.” Mattis pushed back, saying that such criticism would be neither “helpful” nor “necessary.”
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CNN ‘Analyst’ Implies Abbott’s Gun Views Will Cause More TX Shootings
September 3rd, 2019 10:09 PM
Likely seen by only a tiny audience, Sunday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom featured law enforcement analyst and former Jim Comey flack Josh Campbell decrying the lack of gun control in the state of Texas, suggesting that more mass shootings like the one in the Midland and Odessa area will continue to happen due to Governor Greg Abbott ( R)’s views about the Second Amendment.
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Morning Joe Seeks Cure for Trump ‘Virus’ of Calling Out Media Bias
September 3rd, 2019 2:05 PM
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei warned that allies of President Trump were raising money to fund a campaign calling out media bias. The reporter decried the move as “an escalation of what he’s been doing in going after the media” while others on the liberal morning show warned of Trump injecting a “poison” and “virus” into politics by criticizing the…
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CNN Pines for Gun Control, 'Sick' of 'Thoughts and Prayers'
September 2nd, 2019 8:31 PM
On Monday morning, in the aftermath of a mass shooting spree in Texas from the weekend, CNN personalities were again pushing for more gun laws, including "universal background checks." CNN's three-hour New Day morning show discussed the issue in four segments, and only had guests with left-leaning views on the issue of gun control. Not only did liberal Republican contributor Ana Navarro slam the…
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CNN on Biden Gaffes—Democrats Hold Themselves to Higher Truth Standard
August 30th, 2019 11:40 AM
Joe Biden might have set a personal record for the most gaffetastic gaffe of his storied fact-mangling career. In a discussion of Joe Biden's latest gaffe, regarding the award of a medal to a military member, a CNN panel wonders whether Biden could be hurt by his multiple misstatements because when it comes to the truth, Democrats hold themselves to a "higher standard" than Republicans.
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‘Speeding to Put Out a Fire’; MSNBCers Defend Comey Breaking Policy
August 29th, 2019 8:38 PM
The stench of the Swamp was on full blast in the A-block of Thursday’s Hardball, thanks to MSNBC host Chris Matthews and assorted guests defending former FBI Director James Comey in the light of a scathing report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General that said he violated DOJ policy. But for these MSNBCers, it was justified because of their hatred for President Donald Trump and that…
Washington Post: If You’re Pro Life, You Might Be a Nazi
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August 28th, 2019 1:46 PM
Next time some talking head complains that the right trades in hate speech, open the latest Washington Post to any page at random for a bit of perspective. Where else could you learn, for example, of the sinister link between the pro-life movement and white nationalists?
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Morning Joe Rips Alabama GOP on Omar, Ignores Her New Controversies
August 28th, 2019 8:28 AM
Morning Joe ripped a resolution adopted by the Alabama Republican Party calling for the expulsion from Congress of Ilhan Omar, but fails to mention the latest controversies concerning her, in which she has been accused of conducting an affair with a married man, and paying him and his consulting firm hundreds of thousands of dollars in possible violation of campaign finance law.
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Matthews, Pals Decry ‘Dirt Ball’ Media Criticism as ‘Authoritarian’
August 27th, 2019 5:28 PM
MSNBC’s Hardball pontificated ad nauseam Monday night about the snowflake piece in The New York Times expressing hurt feelings about liberal journalists being held accountable for past statements they’ve made over the years. Host Chris Matthews tag-teamed with Jeremy Peters (co-author of the article) and Mother Jones hack David Corn to go after media criticism as “authoritarian,” “dirt ball…
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MSNBC Lets Gun Control Supporter Bash 'Weak' McConnell
August 27th, 2019 10:15 AM
On Monday afternoon, Andrea Mitchell used her MSNBC show to give gun control activist Fred Guttenberg an unchallenged forum to bash Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and advocate for universal background checks. Mitchell went along with him by citing misleading polls alleging near unanimous support for such reforms by the public.
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Joy Reid Suggests Media Soft on 'White Conservatives' 'Trump & Hitler
August 27th, 2019 12:40 AM
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, host Joy Reid bizarrely suggested that the media have been too soft on President Donald Trump and even likened coverage of him to treatment of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s as she lumped both together as "white conservatives." She also pushed a theory that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to tear down the country so that it will be in "pieces" when a "nonwhite…
