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MSNBC FAIL: Watch Claims of Racist Trump Policy Immediately Collapse
August 3rd, 2020 6:18 PM
MSNBC’s rushed to label a new Trump administration housing policy racist, but then actually admitted that it was not based on race. On Saturday morning’s AM Joy, guest host Jonathan Capehart said “Trump is taking a page straight out of George Wallace’s playbook,” and brought on two fellow race-baiters, Heather McGee and Nikole Hannah-Jones, in an attempt to accuse the President of…
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Leftist Shill Capehart Cheers Obama's Partisan Screed at Lewis Funeral
August 1st, 2020 11:14 AM
After former President Obama gave a partisan eulogy at John Lewis' funeral on Thursday where he compared President Trump and federal law enforcement to George Wallace and called for the end of the filibuster, among other things, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart praised him for telling Americans what they can do to honor Lewis and the country.
Only ONE of 122 WashPost Stories Admit Bezos Urged Bloomberg Bid
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December 20th, 2019 7:45 AM
The Washington Post’s owner reportedly urged fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg to run for president. Just don’t expect to see that admitted often by The Post. A LexisNexis search revealed that The Post ran at least 122 stories (a mix of news and opinion) that mentioned Bloomberg’s potential candidacy or actual bid for the White House between Nov. 9, 2019, and Dec. 9,…
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Former GOP Chair on MSNBC: Trump Supporters are 'Pathetic Sycophants'
November 3rd, 2019 6:28 AM
Michael Steele's got a good gig going as an MSNBC political analyst. And if that means that the former RNC Chairman must throw fellow Republicans under the bus, well, a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do. And thus there was Steele on Joy Reid's MSNBC show on Saturday morning. Steele said American Conservative Union leader Matt Schlapp and other supporters of President Trump are…
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Free Beacon Highlights Double Standard Between Brewer, Pelosi Photos
October 18th, 2019 3:13 PM
The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kugle released Friday morning the site’s latest indispensable SUPERcut. This time, the topic centered around the not surprising but nonetheless horribly biased double standard between when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wagged a finger toward President Donald Trump versus when then-Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) did so to Barack Obama in January 2012.
Too Pro-Trump: MSNBC Mourns Lindsey Graham’s Loss of ‘Reputation’
October 10th, 2019 2:45 PM
One of the fiercest critics of the House Democrats' impeachment efforts to this point has been South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and as such he made himself a target for a self-righteous panel on Wednesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports. The panel anti-Graham segment that eventually morphed into an anti-Senate Republican segment was an exercise in hypocrisy, contradiction…
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WaPo's Dionne: MSM Too Fair to Trump, Must Reject Air for Trump's Side
October 6th, 2019 1:31 PM
This might sound like a sick joke—if not a Kafkaesque nightmare—but E.J. Dionne is actually complaining the MSM's impeachment coverage has been . . . too fair to President Trump. Appearing on Joy Reid's MSNBC show today [guest-hosted by Jonathan Capehart], Dionne began by approvingly citing WashPost media critic Margaret Sullivan's column, in which she claims that the…
Soros Gave Millions to ‘Tax the Rich’ Conference Participants
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April 10th, 2019 4:17 PM
Liberals demanding higher taxes on the rich is just another day in Washington, D.C., but those progressive voices have more in common than their politics of envy. Some of them also have the financial backing of liberal billionaire George Soros.
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Mitchell Touts False AOC Tweet Defending Omar to Argue GOP Is Racist
March 5th, 2019 5:27 PM
Tuesday MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell promoted a false tweet from Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez which smeared Republicans as racists while defending fellow Democrat Ilhan Omar. Even though the claim Ocasio-Cortez made in the tweet was debunked immediately, Mitchell and her liberal guests touted it as if it were fact.
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Capehart: Trump to Blame for Liberals Believing Smollett Hoax
February 23rd, 2019 2:40 PM
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart blamed President Donald Trump for liberals believing Jussie Smollett's hoax claims of being attacked by Trump supporters as the liberal Washington Post columnist charged that the President "stokes" feelings of "menace" in minorities. He also complained that conservative reaction to the hoax…
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Capehart: Despite Crumbling Story, Still an ‘Atmosphere of Fear’
February 21st, 2019 3:54 PM
Even if the crumbling and increasingly dubious Jusse Smollett hate crime story is false, it still indicates the level of racial “menace” and “fear” in the United States. That was the claim of the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart on Thursday, doubling down on comments from last week. He even cited a survey as the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center as proof.…
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The Media’s Smollett Coverage Has Made MAGA Synonymous with Hate
February 19th, 2019 5:34 PM
Amid the collapse of actor Jussie Smollett’s hate crime claims, Washington Post author Nana Efua Mumford worried in a February 17 piece that “the incident would be touted as proof that there is a leftist conspiracy to cast Trump supporters as violent, murderous racists.” But regardless of what reporters’ intentions were, their coverage of Smollett over the last two weeks…
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WashPost’s Capehart: Smollett Story Fit ‘Narrative’ of Trump ‘Menace’
February 18th, 2019 3:43 PM
Appearing on MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson Monday morning, Washington Post opinion writer Jonathan Capehart lamented that actor Jussie Smollett’s claim of being assaulted by Trump supporters was falling apart. The liberal journalist then attempted to blame the “atmosphere of menace” supposedly created by the President to explain why so many in the media, including himself,…
WashPost's Capehart Won't Put 'Alleged' In His Jussie Smollett Lecture
February 2nd, 2019 10:52 PM
Black journalists are putting their racial resentments ahead of the facts on the Jussie Smollett case. On Friday's NPR talk show 1A, guest host Todd Zwillich asked Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart (black and gay) to discuss the "reported" attack on Smollett, a star of the Fox drama Empire (black and gay). There was no "alleged" anything in Capehart's…
