Stay Classy, NYT: With Trump, U.S.Only Leading World in Corona Deaths?
April 24th, 2020 4:02 PM
The New York Times has long accused America accused of throwing its weight around and meddling in other countries’ affairs. Suddenly, “American Leadership” is missed, at least when the complaint can be used as a wedge against Donald Trump, as shown in Berlin-based reporter Katrin Bennhold’s editorializing news story, “‘How Can This Happen?’: A World Missing American Leadership.” She wrote: "Today…
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'View' Admits Worse Economy Gets, More Biden Has to 'Benefit'
April 24th, 2020 3:07 PM
The hosts of The View are doing their best to prop up Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, even offering him free advice and future media appearances on their show. After Joy Behar confidently claimed Biden could disappear and still win the election, she had a change of heart on Friday’s show, saying that he needed more media air time to counteract Trump’s “bloviating.” Each host fawned over the “…
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Mitchell & Pelosi Push Conspiracy Theory of Trump Delaying Election
April 24th, 2020 1:58 PM
During a softball interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell asked about a conspiracy theory being pushed by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden that President Trump would try to use the coronavirus pandemic to “kick back the election” in November. Rather dismiss the unfounded claim, the supposed journalist wondered how Pelosi could prevent the imagined…
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Angustia por inmigración ilegal, según Telemundo
Latino
April 24th, 2020 1:37 PM
Los medios en español de la nación regresaron a su tropo habitual, en esta ocasión al tildar de "antiinmigrante" la orden ejecutiva del presidente Donald Trump que limita la inmigración por 60 días. El propósito de la orden temporal es salvaguardar a la población del COVID-19, y proteger la fuerza laboral estadounidense, pero según Telemundo, la orden solo sirve para angustiar aún más a los…
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NBC Blames Trump for ‘Growing Discrimination’ Against Asian Americans
April 24th, 2020 12:42 PM
During a nearly six-minute long report on Friday, NBC’s Today show tried to directly lay blame for “growing discrimination” against Asian American at the feet of President Trump. The coverage suggested that Trump’s use of the phrase “Chinese virus” in the early days of the pandemic inspired hate crimes across the country.
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Emotional Brzezinski Pleads for Fox ‘Puppets’ to Rediscover ‘Goodness'
April 24th, 2020 12:00 PM
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski went on an unhinged, emotional rant about Fox News on Friday, decrying the network as full of “puppets” who need to rediscover the “goodness” and “objectivity” inside them. Yes, someone on MSNBC said this. Apparently angry because Sean Hannity mocked Joe Scarborough on Thursday night, Brzezinski fumed:
AP 'News' Story: Virus 'Shakes the Conceit of American Exceptionalism'
April 24th, 2020 11:50 AM
The branding of the Associated Press used to be just-the-facts news. But today, they uncork snotty commentaries without even slapping the word “News Analysis” on it. Get a load of this headline today: "Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’." Reporter Calvin Woodward uncorked nothing but editorializing about "cascading failures and incompetencies" under Trump.
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Immigrants Anguished by Suspension of Legal Migration, Says Telemundo
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April 24th, 2020 10:34 AM
The nation’s Spanish-language media has fallen back on a familiar trope, smearing President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting immigration for 60 days as “anti-immigrant”. The temporary measure is meant to safeguard the population from COVID-19, and to protect the U.S. labor force, but Telemundo depicts the order as only serving to further anguish the nation's immigrants.
Deadspin Attacks 'White-Winged' Lockdown Protest, Praises Kaepernick
Culture
April 24th, 2020 10:00 AM
In case it's escaped your radar, football has-been Colin Kaepernick is trying to stop the spread of the coronavirus while President Donald Trump and liberate-the-state "white-wing" protesters are encouraging its spread. That's the not-so-brilliant deduction of Deadspin sports lite writer Chuck Modiano Thursday.
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Stelter: Trump and Fox Coronavirus 'Drug Pushing' Endangered Lives
April 24th, 2020 9:44 AM
The recent VA study that showed that hydroxychloroquine failed to show any benefit in treating and may even harm COVID-19 patients has led many in the media to say "told you so." Some, such as CNN's Brian Stelter, have gone even further, who claimed on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom that President Trump and various Fox News personalities' advocacy of it has been dangerous.
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Jorge Ramos tergiversa expresiones del Dr. Fauci en editorial viciado
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April 24th, 2020 6:36 AM
El presentador de Noticias Univision, Jorge Ramos, convirtió el noticiero del coronavirus en su plataforma personal desde donde tergiversó dos segundos sacados de contexto de la entrevista reciente del Dr. Anthony Fauci en CNN para arremeter contra la respuesta del gobierno del presidente Donald Trump ante la pandemia del coronavirus.
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Trump LEVELS Phil Rucker; ‘I’m the President and You’re Fake News’
April 23rd, 2020 9:37 PM
Ahead of Thursday’s NFL Draft, there was a rhetorical pummeling at the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing as the horribly biased Washington Post White House bureau chief Philip Rucker found himself flattened by President Trump as “total faker” after he insisted that it was “dangerous for you to” encourage people to go outside as the temperatures warm up despite the presence coronavirus.…
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CBS’s Paula Reid Ghoulishly Touts Body Bags Left Outside Trump Hotel
April 23rd, 2020 8:47 PM
Possibly still raging from when her heated outburst during a coronavirus press briefing was shot down by President Trump last week, CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid flashed her hatred for the President during Thursday’s CBS Evening News. She kicked off the video portion of her report by boasting about how radical leftist protesters had left a pile of “empty body bags” outside the Trump…
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MSNBC Wrongly Claims US Corona Testing 'Far Behind Other Countries'
April 23rd, 2020 6:54 PM
On Wednesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist spent more than five minutes ranting about President Donald Trump correctly stating that the U.S. has tested more people for COVID-19 than any other country in the world. Scarborough and Geist went so far as to wrongly insist that the per capita testing rate in the U.S. is "far, far behind other countries,"…