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Hasan Compares Israel to Putin and Assad, Demands U.S. Let Hamas Live

March 1st, 2024 2:14 PM

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who is launching his own media company, traveled to CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Thursday to discuss the conflicting narratives behind the deaths of several Gazans who were gathered around an aid truck. While Hasan had no problems relying on Hamas-supplied statistics, he condemned the media for trusting the Israeli military while comparing it to…

Putin Is Pushing Where There’s Mush

February 26th, 2024 9:29 AM

This week, Vladimir Putin finally — allegedly — murdered his chief political rival and critic Alexei Navalny. Navalny’s death followed an attempt by Putin’s operatives in 2020 to kill him by poisoning; Navalny survived the attempt, worked with online specialists to unmask the actual agents responsible for the poisoning and then returned to Russia, where he was promptly arrested on trumped-up…

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Pretend Tough Guy: Macho Joe Scarborough Mocks 'Little' Mike Johnson

February 20th, 2024 8:52 PM

Macho MSNBC host Joe Scarborough continued to expose his troubling obsession with outward manifestations of masculinity. Macho Joe was back at it Tuesday during Tuesday's Morning Joe, twice referring to the Republican Speaker of the House as "little" Mike Johnson.

Elon Musk Mocks Censorship Hours Before X Suspends Navalny’s Widow

February 20th, 2024 4:35 PM

X owner Elon Musk ridiculed “digital tyrants” even as his platform made headlines for wrongly suspending a high-profile account.

Musk’s X Platform Makes Surprise Suspension of High-Profile Account

February 20th, 2024 3:39 PM

The social media platform, X, briefly suspended the account of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after she accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of her husband's death. The suspension, which lasted 45 minutes, was soon lifted with X citing an error by their defense mechanism against manipulation and spam. The platform has not clarified what triggered…

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CNN’s Lee Asks Biden If GOP Has ‘Navalny’s Blood...on’ Their ‘Hands’

February 19th, 2024 1:02 PM

Speaking to President Biden on Monday morning over the loud hums of Marine One on the South Lawn, CNN White House correspondent M.J. Lee went full administration tool and lobbed a softball about whether House Republicans have deceased Russian dissident “Alexei Navalny’s blood...on” their “hands...right now” because they haven’t passed new aid for Ukraine.

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Capehart Tries To Blame Trump For Putin Murdering Alexei Navalny

February 17th, 2024 9:50 AM

After outspoken Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny was murdered on Friday, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour to claim that former President Donald Trump “emboldened” Putin and clearly looks forward to a Trump win in November.

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Whoopi Goldberg: ‘Tucker Putin’ Would Make for a ‘Great Stripper Name’

February 15th, 2024 1:31 PM

With X personality Tucker Carlson trapesing around Moscow, Russia pretending like the glorified third-world country still unable to dig itself out of the hole communism put it in was some kind of bastion of Western Civilization, ABC’s The View decided to break the broadcast network blackout to take some swipes at him. Of course, their jokes were fairly unoriginal and, in the case of…

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Scarborough Goes Goober To Mock MAGA Who Might Believe Trump On NATO

February 12th, 2024 10:17 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough puts on a goober accent to mock MAGA supporters who believe Donald Trump's claim that he told the leader of a large NATO country that if attacked by Russia, he would not defend it if they were delinquent in their payments, and to the contrary would tell "them," i.e. Putin, to do "whatever the hell they want."

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FLASHBACK: How the Media Covered the Demise of the U.S.S.R.

December 23rd, 2023 8:45 AM

It was 32 years ago — on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991 — that the world rejoiced at the final dissolution of the Soviet Union. But some in the media refused to blame the communist system for its failures, even as they treated Gorbachev, the last communist, better than his Western counterparts and his anti-communist successors.

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What Was It? NBC Downplays Wannabe Pogrom as ‘Pro-Palestinian Mob’

October 30th, 2023 1:58 PM

Surprisingly, all three major broadcast networks mentioned on Monday morning’s news shows that video emerged in Dagestan, Russia of a 21st century wannabe porgrom looking for Jews after a flight landed at the regional airport from Tel Aviv. Not surprising, however, was how it was minimized on at least one network with NBC’s Today brushing it off as a “pro-Palestinian” mob and even…

Israel’s Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup

October 26th, 2023 6:02 PM

Conventional wisdom says voters don’t care about foreign policy. Nearly two years into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II, the conventional wisdom seemed to be right. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had little effect on the race for the GOP presidential nomination and opened no room for a challenger to Joe Biden among the Democrats. But the butchery Hamas perpetrated against Israeli…

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CNN And MSNBC Absurdly Compare Israel to Russia

October 20th, 2023 10:58 AM

According to CNN, Rula Jebreal is a “journalist and foreign policy analyst,” but as a Friday appearance on CNN This Morning proved, such analysis should not be taken too seriously as she compared Israel to Russia.

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This Again? Doocy Calls Out KJP for Blaming Rising Crime on GOP

October 4th, 2023 10:49 AM

On Tuesday afternoon, the Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy wasn’t having it as the ever-inept White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reverted back to a years-long, cartoonish, pants-on-fire fable that Republicans are the true anti-cops, defund-the-police party in light of Monday night’s carjacking of Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) in the Navy Yard section of Washington D.C.