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NPR Helps Schiff Sell New Book on His Tear-Filled Trump Impeachment
October 12th, 2021 5:27 PM
On Monday's Morning Edition, National Public Radio spent seven minutes promoting Rep. Adam Schiff and his new book on the first Trump impeachment, the one on Hunter Biden and Ukraine. The segment was so soft that it began with 87 seconds of a Schiff answer with no audible question from interviewer Michel Martin. But, inevitably, Schiff became choked up. (As Tucker Carlson has noticed…
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ABC Slams Biden on Afghanistan—'Adrift From The Facts'
August 22nd, 2021 4:51 PM
The roundtable on ABC's "This Week" was rather rough on President Biden regarding his Afghanistan fiasco. It was encapsulated by senior national correspondent Terry Moran describing Biden as "adrift from the facts." Even NPR's Michel Martin called the withdrawal a "botched operation."
NPR Host Asks RIDICULOUS Question on Awful Jobs Report
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May 18th, 2021 9:52 AM
A National Public Radio host tried to spin the atrocious April jobs report numbers by accusing GOP governors of pushing people to go back to work when jobs aren’t available. Fact-check: Millions of jobs were available.
NPR Promotes New York Times Food Writer's 'War on Meat'
May 8th, 2021 10:52 PM
Liberals are having it both ways right now. It's nuts to suggest Joe Biden has a plan to take away your meat. But the eco-lefties really want to limit everyone's meat intake, especially beef. On Saturday night's All Things Considered, NPR host Michel Martin brought on New York Times columnist and food writer Mark Bittman for an interview headlined "Food World Ramps Up The War On Meat…
NPR Gives 8 Minutes to WashPost to Defend Lame Tim Scott 'Fact Check'
May 2nd, 2021 11:10 PM
Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler drew a lot of fire for digging deeply into the family history of Sen. Tim Scott to suggest his life story was exaggerated. On Sunday night's All Things Considered, NPR weekend host Michel Martin devoted more than eight minutes of air time to letting Kessler defend himself, as liberal journalists stick up for liberal journalists and…
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On PBS, Hack Schmidt Brags: I Restrained McCain in Campaign With Obama
December 11th, 2020 12:05 PM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, MSNBC contributor and disaffected ex-Republican Steve Schmidt bragged about restraining 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain's losing campaign from exposing Democrat Barack Obama's ties to the radical pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, after NPR's Michel Martin cued him up to fault Republicans over race issues.
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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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PBS Highlights Missteps by NY Democrats in Pandemic Response
May 1st, 2020 6:19 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the show devoted a segment to the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, and gave a surprising amount of criticism toward Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Bill Frist Calls Out NPR's Michel Martin for Loaded Abortion Questions
April 29th, 2020 4:12 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the program showed a pre-recorded interview between NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin and former Republican Senator Bill Frist in which Martin tried to suggest hypocrisy on the part of pro-life Republicans who have pushed to reopen some states during the pandemic. Frist bristled at her attempt to link the pandemic to abortion and scolded…
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NPR Host Dwells on Race as the 'Original Sin' of the Modern GOP
April 2nd, 2020 8:51 AM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS, NPR hoste Michel Martin did an interview with Stuart Stevens, one of those GOP strategists who became red-hot Never Trumpers. Stevens insisted "the original sin of the modern Republican party is race," and Martin used that to rip into Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush....inaccurately.
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PBS Insists Sanders Is 'Mainstream,' Accepts Trump as 'Authoritarian'
February 25th, 2020 5:22 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. show, the program demonstrated a double standard in challenging the Republican characterization of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's socialist views when, by contrast, in the same show, former Barack Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer was not challenged on his assertion that Republicans have become "white nationalist authoritarian" with the election of President…
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PBS Guest Argues Media Should Ignore Climate Skeptic 'Lies'
January 16th, 2020 5:08 PM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co., PBS's Michel Martin interviewed Lee McIntyre -- author of the book Post-Truth -- with the two discussing perceptions that lying is more accepted from political figures than in the past because of the election of Donald Trump as President. Without any pushback from Martin, McIntyre argued in favor of journalists censoring the views of those they disagree with, …
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NPR Lets Teacher Tell Beto Seizing AR-15s Won't Pass Muster, Helps GOP
October 13th, 2019 9:51 AM
NPR has a series called "Off Script," where regular voters question the presidential candidates. On Wednesday's Morning Edition, they aired audio of an El Paso school teacher suggesting to Beto O' Rourke that his proposal to take away "assault weapons" from Americans through a "mandatory buyback" program won't pass constitutional muster, and will help the Republicans underline how Democrats…
NPR Finds Leftist to Blame Catholic Church for 'Torture' and 'Murder'
August 26th, 2018 8:21 PM
NPR was eager to spotlight enemies of the Catholic Church saying "Nope to the Pope" during his visit to Ireland. After a somewhat balanced news report, All Things Considered weekend anchor Michel Martin supportively interviewed a left-wing secularizer named Lisa Breslin, and didn't question her smear that the Catholic Church gave Ireland "years and generations of torture, neglect, and murder by…
