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Looniness: Schmidt Denounces FBI Concerns as ‘Snake Oil’ ‘McCarthyism’
January 23rd, 2018 8:55 PM
Just think, this is who MSNBC considers to be one of its best and brightest Republicans. On Tuesday’s Hardball, political analyst and 2008 McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt tore into Republican questions about the FISA memo and Strzok-Page texts as “snake oil” “McCarthyism” being “abetted” by the Fox News Channel serving as “state-run TV in an autocratic society.”
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Clueless: Karem Claims Trump Doesn’t Deserve ‘Credit’ for Tax Bonuses
January 23rd, 2018 5:57 PM
CNN political analyst, Playboy correspondent, and Sentinel Newspapers editor Brian Karem made a fool of himself during Tuesday’s White House briefing, suggesting to Gary Cohn that it’s “unfair” to give President Trump “credit” for the bounty of businesses announcing employee bonuses and new investments post-tax reform.
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Mitchell Scolds Pence: ‘Too Political’ to Blame Dems for Shutdown
January 23rd, 2018 2:43 PM
In an exclusive interview aired on Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports with Vice President Mike Pence during his overseas trip to Israel, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell was aghast at him accurately holding Democrats accountable for shutting down the government. She proceeded to lecture Pence on his decision to publicly criticize liberal lawmakers while on foreign soil.
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Oh Dear: Nets Fret as ‘Buckling’ Dems ‘Blasted By Left-Wing' Liberals
January 23rd, 2018 12:00 PM
ABC, CBS and NBC on Tuesday spun the end of the government shutdown from the perspective of angry liberals, hyping that Democrats are being “blasted by left-wing,” “progressives” who are unhappy about how the party bungled the impasse.
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Cuomo Complains Trump ‘Insulted’ Women’s March With Economy Tweet
January 23rd, 2018 10:22 AM
While the media loves when Democrats “burn” the president with a clever comment, they can’t handle it when he does the same back at them.
‘Thank God for Roe’; Guest Columnist Uncorks Warped Abortion Views
January 22nd, 2018 9:55 PM
In an opinion piece published by the Louisville Courier-Journal, self-described “faith leader” Rev. Lauren Jones Mayfield expressed her support for legalized abortion and argued that she is aligning herself with “the oppressed.” Mayfield, who “is on the board of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky,” said supporting legalized abortion coincides with her beliefs.
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CBS/NBC Downplay GOP Victory in Shutdown, ABC Guilts Democrats
January 22nd, 2018 9:21 PM
Congressional Republicans and President Trump declared victory on Monday over the Democrats in the government shutdown, as the Resistance could hold out no longer and voted on the continuing resolution to fund the government. In exchange, they received a promise to negotiate and vote on DACA in the next few weeks. The three major network news outlets were notably disappointed and frustrated that…
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Awww: CNN's Jim Acosta Suffers Serial Self-Humiliation During Shutdown
January 22nd, 2018 6:11 PM
CNN's Jim Acosta has had a rough four days. It's hard not to take some pleasure in that situation, given the Chief White House Correspondent's habitual rudeness and petulance with President Trump, and with his representatives during White House press briefings.
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Update: Nets Cover Women’s March Nearly 7X More Than March for Life
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January 22nd, 2018 6:08 PM
Time is everything, especially when it comes to understanding the media’s priorities. At the end of January, there were two marches the same weekend both claiming to stand for women. But the network coverage was anything but similar.
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Nets Ignore Schumer Shutdown Hypocrisy, Trash Trump Instead
January 22nd, 2018 4:21 PM
After Democrats shut down the government on Friday over their demand to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, all three broadcast networks spent the weekend reaching back to 2013 to accuse Donald Trump of changing his mind on the legislative tactic. At the same time, NBC, ABC and CBS completely ignored the stunning hypocrisy of Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.
What?! Reid: ‘Nothing’ Is More ‘Predictable’ than Media Backing GOP
January 22nd, 2018 3:30 PM
Is Joy Reid drunk or on drugs? Has she been hacked? Is her behavior just an act? It’s tough to say on any particular day, but Monday brought forth one of the craziest things to come across the internet and particularly Twitter on the issue of media bias. Less than two hours after an agreement emerged to end the government shutdown, MSNBC’s AM Joy host tweeted: "There is nothing so predictable as…
Disgraced Dan Rather Joins Young Turks Network With Monday Show
January 22nd, 2018 3:14 PM
There is probably no better indicator that facts and the truth really don't matter to today's journalists than the fawning coverage disgraced former news anchor Dan Rather receives whenever he makes a post-CBS career move. CNN's story on Rather's latest foray into online broadcasting typifies the kid-glove treatment he has received since he was relieved of his anchor duties at CBS almost 13…
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Cuomo Lobbies for Illegals in WH Interview; GOP Doesn’t Have 'Heart'
January 22nd, 2018 1:12 PM
On Monday morning before the government shutdown ended, CNN’s New Day co-host Chris Cuomo sided with illegal immigrants and specifically DREAMers, arguing to White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short that addressing both border security and DACA shows that Republicans don’t truly care about these supposedly maligned group.
AP Runs Interference for Inslee's Punitive, Ever-Increasing Carbon Tax
January 21st, 2018 10:32 PM
Dedicated tax-and-spend liberals often get help from the press in describing their plans to raid constituents' pocketbooks in vague terms, while nobly describing the alleged benefits of their plans to use the money. Washington's Democratic Governor Jay Inslee has the Associated Press running that kind of interference for his carbon tax.
