Democratic Underground Suffers Election Grief Shutdown
The Democratic Underground went into the election last week absolutely confident in Hillary Clinton's victory. As we shall see they were even openly gloating about her winning the presidency before the election even happened. And then the Trumpocalypse shockwave hit them hard. Very hard. In fact, they went into such a deep state of grief that their website shut down. Here is their laughable…
November 18th, 2016 8:05 PM
Matt Taibbi: America Will Recognize Obama’s ‘Humanity and Greatness’
Rolling Stone’s Taibbi has started what amounts to a premature “Miss Me Yet?” meme for President Obama, and he recommends that question be answered “yes.” In a Friday piece, Taibbi opined, “Donald Trump may have won the White House, but he will never be a man like his predecessor, whose personal example will now only shine more brightly with the passage of time. At a time when a lot of Americans…
November 18th, 2016 5:52 PM
New Yorker Editor: Obama Worried About Trump’s ‘Misogyny and Racism’
New Yorker editor David Remnick appeared on CBS This Morning to brag about his scoop on Barack Obama’s reaction to the election of Donald Trump. Asked by Charlie Rose what “worries” Obama about the President-elect, Remnick marveled, “Where to on begin? Certainly appointments like Sessions or Flynn, whom he fired, or Steve Bannon. That is for starters worries him. He worries that someone who had a…
November 18th, 2016 5:22 PM
CNN Chyron Slams Sessions as Being ‘Dogged’ with ‘Racism' Claims
Hours after Carol Costello kicked off the media hysteria on Friday over President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of “controversial” Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (Ala.) to become Attorney General, CNN Newsroom afternoon anchor Brooke Baldwin hyped that Sessions will be bombarded with racism allegations from his past to the point that the chyron ruled he’s been “dogged” by such claims.
November 18th, 2016 5:12 PM
Keith Olbermann: President-Elect Donald Trump's Behavior 'Not Normal'
Just when we thought we'd heard the last from Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC bomb-thrower has created an online video series for GQ magazine entitled The Resistance, in which the former sportscaster and political commentator is lashing out at President-Elect Donald Trump as “the man who was elected by a minority” whose actions are “not normal.”
The fire-breathing pundit also targeted former…
November 18th, 2016 5:01 PM
MSNBC Warns Jeff Sessions Will Dismantle Civil Rights
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell fretted over Donald Trump nominating Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general: “...this is a difficult time with the civil rights issues front and center at the Justice Department after Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, the Voting Rights Act being somewhat gutted by the Supreme Court, and all of those issues that have been…
November 18th, 2016 4:42 PM
Bozell on MSM Cabinet Attacks: This Is Why Public ‘Rejected the Media’
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell condemned the relentless attacks on Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and journalists who, at the same time, ignore the radical statements and connections of potential Democratic National Committee Chairman Keith Ellison. Appearing on the Fox Business Channel, Friday, Bozell quipped, “There's a reason why, by ten to one, the American people believe the news…
November 18th, 2016 3:47 PM
WashPost Skips College Exec's 'Piece of Trash' Attack on Trump Voters
A week ago, our MRCTV colleague Ashley Goldenberg reported that an admission official at publicly funded George Mason University in Virginia wrote on his personal Facebook page that anyone who opposed gay marriage and voted for Donald Trump is a “worthless piece of trash.” That news of liberal “inclusion” has yet to be noticed by the dominant local newspaper, The Washington Post. That…
November 18th, 2016 3:41 PM
CNN's Gregory, Guest Blast 'Dangerous,' 'Ignorant' General Flynn
On Friday's New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota and David Gregory hammered General Michael Flynn after Donald Trump selected him to be his national security advisor. Gregory asserted that Flynn demonstrated "short-sighted, ignorant thinking" and apparently, "jump[ed] the shark into...Islamophobia" over his controversial remarks about Islam. Camerota played up a "fake news" post from Flynn on Twitter,…
November 18th, 2016 2:38 PM
The View Crew Deny Lefty Violence Exists Before Justifying It
Friday morning’s The View started off with the mostly liberal panel having a meltdown over the announcement of Trump choosing retired General Michael Flynn and Alabama’s Senator Jeff Sessions for White House positions. Whoopi Goldberg complained that Sessions and the right wanted to bring back slavery and to deport Muslim Americans. Sunny Hostin then claimed that violence was only coming from the…
November 18th, 2016 2:30 PM
MRC's Dan Gainor Condemns Media 'Take Down' of Trump Nominees
Since the 2016 presidential election, the media have doubled down in their efforts to undermine president-elect Donald Trump. On Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs Tonight on November 17, MRC Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor slammed the media for trying to “take down” Trump’s nominees in order to “defeat his administration.”
November 18th, 2016 1:55 PM
Costello Rules Sessions Should 'Concern' Us; Links Him to Hate Crimes
The latest liberal media freak-out about the Trump transition commenced on Friday morning upon the announcement of Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (Ala.) as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Attorney General and were led by CNN’s Carol Costello lashing out at the “controversial” Sessions who should “concern” Americans and linked him to hate crimes since the election.
November 18th, 2016 12:56 PM
Nets Slam ‘Divisive,’ ‘Controversial’ Flynn's 'Infamous’ Statements
The network morning shows on Friday pounced on the announcement that Michael Flynn is Donald Trump’s choice for National Security Adviser, immediately branding the Army Lieutenant General “divisive,” “controversial,” fiery” and known for his “infamous” appearance at the 2016 Republican National Convention. In contrast, ABC and NBC saw Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice as “hard-…
November 18th, 2016 12:40 PM
Obama Joins Media in Blaming ‘Fake News’ for Trump Win
On the heels of network coverage hyping liberal fears that fake news stories shared on Facebook and across social media fueled Donald Trump’s election victory, on Friday, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning touted President Obama pushing the issue during a Thursday press conference overseas.
November 18th, 2016 11:58 AM