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CNN Averaged 4 Minutes Per Day on Biden's Gaffe, Then Stopped Covering
May 25th, 2020 1:37 PM
As Fox News noted on Friday, it took CNN 12 hours to cover Biden’s latest gaffe: asserting on a radio show Friday morning that if you aren’t a Biden supporter, “You ain’t black.” That disinterest continued into the weeked; after spending average of less than four minutes per day on the controversy, CNN stopped covering it entirely as of noon EST on Monday, May 25.
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Charlamagne on MSNBC: Biden Apology 'Cool'—But What About Reparations?
May 24th, 2020 3:28 PM
On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid interviews Charlamagne Tha God, whose podcast interview with Joe Biden elicited the now notorious "you ain't black." Charlamagne says that Biden's apology was "cool," but what he really wants to know about is what Biden will do about reparations for black people.
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Chuck Todd Laments Biden Has to Answer for Racist Comment
May 24th, 2020 10:15 AM
In a tacit admission of how the Democratic Party thinks of the black community on Friday, presumptive nominee Joe Biden exclaimed that if a black person had to think about voting for him or President Trump, then their blackness was in question. By Sunday, NBC was tired of hearing the outrage at Biden’s blatantly racist remark with Sunday Today host Willie Geist huffing that Biden had to apologize…
Dear Media: 10 Black Conservatives Slam Biden ‘You Ain’t Black’ Gaffe
Culture
May 23rd, 2020 6:35 PM
Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden made one of the biggest gaffes of his 2020 campaign by letting it slip just how much he takes the African-American community for granted. Prominent African-American conservatives swiftly condemned his disgusting comments.
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PBS Cues Guest to Slam 'Infantile' Conservative View of Freedom
May 23rd, 2020 2:21 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the show gave an unchallenged forum to liberal MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas -- who also hosts a show on Vice TV -- to promote a universal health care system and more regulations on businesses as he also derided the conservative "obsession" with "freedom" as being "paranoid," "infantile" and "childlike."
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ABC, CBS, NBC Average a Minute on Joe Biden's 'You Ain't Black' Gaffe
May 22nd, 2020 10:17 PM
ABC, CBS, and NBC all covered Joe Biden’s gaffe on Friday night, suggesting on the radio show of rapper “Charlamagne Tha God” that if you aren’t supporting him for president, “You ain’t black.” Between the three evening newscasts, there was 187 seconds of coverage, or about a minute each. ABC and CBS turned to political reporters, but NBC anchor Lester Holt dismissed the whole thing in 21…
Pandemic America ‘Impervious to Black Pain’: Race-Baiting at Wash Post
May 22nd, 2020 12:15 PM
Michele Norris has “a sense of vertigo and justifiable anger.” Perhaps because the latest product line she and others in the race industry are hawking isn’t quite catching on. It’s the idea that those who want to go back to work, or go shopping, or have a beer on a sunny day, are, in Norris’s formulation, “impervious to black pain.”
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Amanpour Admits UK's National Health Does Not Prevent Racial Disparity
May 21st, 2020 9:38 PM
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. show on PBS and CNN International, as host Christiane Amanpour spoke with Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project about racial disparities in Covid-19 deaths in the U.S., Amanpour surprisingly admitted that the UK's National Health Service has not prevented a similar disparity there after Hannah-Jones claimed that racism has prevented universal health care…
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'View' Oozes Over 'Brilliant' Obama Ripping Trump: 'True Leader'
May 18th, 2020 2:21 PM
The hosts of The View couldn’t get enough of former President Obama getting political and taking cheap shots at President Trump again, this time in his virtual commencement speeches to graduating seniors this past weekend. While the liberal co-hosts fawned over how much they missed the “brilliant” and “honest” Obama, Meghan McCain put a cork in their enthusiasm by pointing out how divisive he was…
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MSNBC's Maxwell: Trump Raising 'Obamagate' Is 'The New Birtherism'
May 17th, 2020 8:14 AM
On Saturday's PoliticsNation show with Rev. Al Sharpton, MSNBC contributor Zerlina Maxwell made her latest foray into throwing around accusations of racism as she claimed that President Donald Trump's use of the word "Obamagate" is "the new birtherism " and suggested that the word is code for "He is a black president."
'Mrs. America' Doubles Down on Ku Klux Klan Collusion Claims
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May 13th, 2020 11:55 PM
Throughout the 1970s, people from the women’s liberation movement hurled many accusations of racism and even collusion with the Ku Klux Klan at conservative opponent Phyllis Schlafly.
The latest episode of Mrs. America from FX on Hulu, made those claims again in “Bella,” with one characters saying Schlafly was “in bed” with the Klan. However, the show fails to substantiate those claims. And…
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Behar Flips Lid Over 'Disgusting Racist' Trump Arguing With Reporter
May 12th, 2020 1:42 PM
After CBS’s White House correspondent Weijia Jiang tried to suggest President Trump was racist towards her during Monday’s briefing on the coronavirus, the hosts of The View pounced on the opportunity to accuse the president of both racism and sexism on Tuesday’s show. A clearly triggered Joy Behar declared that not just Trump, but his supporters were also racist.
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NPR's Michel Martin Cues Journalist to Hint Trump Voters Are Racist
May 8th, 2020 10:27 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin prodded The New Yorker's Evan Osnos to suggest that Donald Trump supporters are racists even if they don't like to admit it. He also hinted that they vote racist because they support a President whose actions "explicitly, demonstrably, measurably harm people of color."
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MSNBC's Zerlina Maxwell: Whites Pushing to Reopen Economy Are Racist
May 5th, 2020 3:45 PM
On Sunday's PoliticsNation, as MSNBC's Al Sharpton hosted a discussion of the push to reopen the economy and how doing so might effect minorities, MSNBC contributor Zerlina Maxwell theorized that those pushing to reopen want to do so because they learned that minorities are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus.
