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CNN's Bernstein Sees GOP 'Voter Suppression,' 'Intimidation'
Appearing as a panel member on a special noon edition of Tuesday's At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan, CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein accused Republicans of engaging in "voter suppression" and "voter intimidation" in this year's elections, and claimed that "they don't want a bigger tent and won't say it out loud."
November 8th, 2016 9:10 PM
Liberal WashPost Endorsements: 6 to 1 in Favor of Democrats
Considering the liberal bias of the Washington Post, it's probably not shocking that the papers’s official endorsements for various offices include six Democrats and just one Republican. Naturally, the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. In Maryland, the Post gave the nod to four Democrats. For Congress, Anthony Brown, John Delaney and Jamie B. Raskin. In the Senate race, the editorial…
November 8th, 2016 8:11 PM
ABC’s Gibson: Trump Is ‘Toxic,’ Should Learn to Apologize from Hillary
Minutes after the first polls closed on election night Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos kicked it over to ABC’s “former leader” Charlie Gibson for his take on the election. After poking fun at the former ABC anchor for how long he had been cover politics, Gibson let it all out. “You know, what's dismaying, George, … I haven't seen much majesty in this campaign,” he whined to Stephanopoulos.
November 8th, 2016 8:06 PM
Evening News Nets Marvel at Tears for Hillary, Glass Ceiling Breaking
The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were all live at 6:30 p.m. Eastern leading into their Election Night coverage and predictably, they were already giddy at scenes of Hillary supporters crying and the Clinton campaign’s election night event featuring a glass ceiling.
November 8th, 2016 7:37 PM
Matthews: That Time JFK and WashPost Editor Went to a Porn Theater
Before polls closed on Election Day, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews had already vomited a bewildering story. Talking about how candidates spend the early part of elections nights, Matthews related, “Jack Kennedy did this. Ben Bradlee, his buddy, they went up to see a porn movie.”
November 8th, 2016 7:16 PM
CNN Presses Kaine on Hillary's Divisive Rhetoric; ABC, CBS Go Soft
CNN's Alisyn Camerota one-upped her Big Three network peers on Tuesday's New Day by pressing Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine over running mate Hillary Clinton's not having a "message of unity" during their campaign. Camerota played a clip of Mrs. Clinton claiming she will "be a president for all Americans" and wondered, "Why hasn't Hillary Clinton been hitting that message harder…
November 8th, 2016 5:19 PM
Vanity Fair Editor Posts ‘129’ Anti-Trump Tweets Ahead of Election
The liberal news media have been rabidly anti-Trump throughout the campaign. But that bias intensified as polling time neared.
The day before the U.S. election, Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald launched a Twitterstorm of “top 129 findings from my investigation of Trump.” All but one of those tweets were negative toward the Republican presidential nominee and cited all manner of…
November 8th, 2016 5:01 PM
Marvel Comics Superhero Uses Her Powers to Help Elect Hillary Clinton
Superheroes in comic books usually use their time, powers and weapons righting wrongs, helping people in trouble and defeating supervillains who often want to conquer the planet. However, that's not the case with Ms. Marvel -- whose secret identity is Kamala Khan, a Muslim-American teenager -- in the next issue of her title from Marvel Comics, when the polymorph who can change her shape and…
November 8th, 2016 4:50 PM
NYT Links Bias Critics to Death Wishes, Sees 'Sunny' HRC, Harsh Trump
The lead story in the New York Times Election Day, “At Election’s End, A Sunny Tone Meets Dark” was penned by reporter Michael Barbaro, last seen composing a loving vignette of a joyous Hillary Clinton dancing in the rain. Meanwhile, Matt Flegenheimer suggested Sarah Palin and the Tea Party were to blame for the campaign’s dark tone, and even blamed conservative critics of the news media…
November 8th, 2016 4:36 PM
Eleanor Clift Gushes Hillary Survived 'With Stamina and Grace' to Win
Eleanor Clift at the Daily Beast posted an early draft of the liberal/feminist euphoria over the first female president before the results came in, noting that "unfortunate baggage" is a small part of "the arc of history that brought us to this point, the hazing that Hillary Rodham Clinton survived with such stamina and grace to stand on the precipice of victory."
November 8th, 2016 4:16 PM
Election Open Thread
Hello to all. I appreciate being given the awesome task of handling tonight's NewsBusters 2016 general election thread. We'll go live somewhere around 5:30-6 p.m. ET and hang in there as long as we need to (hopefully not as long as 2000, for those of you who remember staying up til 6 a.m. the next morning and STILL not knowing who won -- and we wouldn't know for another 5 weeks or so.)
November 8th, 2016 4:14 PM
Jorge’s Horror Show: Hate Rising
To cap off his coverage of the 2016 presidential election cycle, Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos hosted a documentary, titled “Hate Rising”, designed to hammer home the central narrative of his election coverage: that Donald Trump represents a racist, hate-driven threat of virtually Hitlerian proportions to the Latino and immigrant population of the United States.
November 8th, 2016 3:51 PM
HuffPo Blog: ‘Vote For Hillary’ If You’re Against Abortion
Hillary Clinton is the pro-life candidate this election, according to one Huffington Post blogger.
November 8th, 2016 3:45 PM
Washington Post Editor: Being Biased on Climate is ‘For the Better’
Although many on the left wanted climate change to have a higher profile in the 2016 presidential race, one Washington Post editor claimed the heated campaign “could change the climate debate for the better.”
Washington Post Digital Opinions Editor James Downie repeated a series of climate alarmist claims and complained Hillary Clinton’s stated climate policy isn’t sufficient. But he found a…
November 8th, 2016 3:26 PM