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WSJ Doesn't Disclose Structuring of $1.3B Paid to Iran in Cash
In early August, the Wall Street Journal reported that "The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran." Two weeks later, the administration acknowledged that the cash "was used as 'leverage' to gain the release of American prisoners" — that is, in layman's terms, the cash…
September 7th, 2016 11:53 AM
This Is NBC’s Best Person to Ask ‘Commander-in-Chief’ Questions?
Today co-host Matt Lauer is set moderate NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum Wednesday night, where he will quiz Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the most pressing national security issues facing the United States. However, given Lauer’s bizarre antics on the network’s morning show, one wonders if NBC couldn’t find someone with a little more gravitas to host the presidential campaign event. Viewer…
September 7th, 2016 11:22 AM
Shock: CBS Gives Libertarians Platform to Talk ‘Problem’ of Government
After aggressively ignoring alternatives to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for months, CBS on Wednesday not only featured Libertarian nominees Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, the show’s hosts quizzed them about the problem of big government. In a segment that last almost six minutes, CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose offered a question not seen much on network television: “Ronald Reagan said…
September 7th, 2016 11:07 AM
Van Jones: Clinton Is 'One of the Most Honest Politicians in America'
The name "Hillary Clinton" and the words "one of the most honest politicians in America" are definitely not words one would expect to see someone use in the same sentence together, but liberal CNN political commentator Van Jones managed to do just that as he appeared as a panel member on Tuesday's CNN Tonight. Responding to a question about a recent CNN/ORG poll finding abysmally low numbers of…
September 7th, 2016 10:47 AM
ABC: Is It 'Appropriate' for Scandal- Ridden Ailes to Advise Trump?
On Good Morning America Wednesday, ABC anchor, longtime Clinton Foundation donor and former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos grilled Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on a laundry list of topics before asking this embarrassingly obtuse question: Is it ‘appropriate’ for Fox News’ Roger Ailes to advise Trump, after he’s been accused of sexual harassment?
September 7th, 2016 10:15 AM
Williams's First Show Plays It Safe, Ends with Riff on Hillary's Plane
Following a spectacular downfall from NBC Nightly News anchor to disgraced and suspended serial liar to MSNBC breaking news anchor, Brian Williams was handed the keys on Tuesday night to a show all his own on MSNBC for the first time since that fateful February 2015 evening when he admitted to being less than accurate about a story from the Iraq War.
September 7th, 2016 1:35 AM
'Sexuality Is a Spectrum,' Declares FX Character in 'Atlanta' Premiere
In Tuesday night’s premiere double episode of FX channel’s Atlanta, “The Big Bang; Streets on Lock,” lead character Ernest (Donald Glover) is arrested for participating in a shooting with his wanna-be rapper cousin, Alfred.
September 7th, 2016 1:26 AM
NBC Leaves Out Crucial Details of Trump’s Donation to Florida AG
Donald Trump’s past political contributions came back to haunt him Tuesday, as it came to light that back in 2013 he illegally donated to Pam Bondi who was running for Florida Attorney General. “In 2013, the Donald J. Trump Association donated $25,000 to a super PAC tied to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as her office was considering a fraud investigation into Trump University,” reported…
September 7th, 2016 12:51 AM
Kaine Falsely Claims Clinton Foundation Now Not Accepting Foreign $$
Since most of the truth about the Clinton Foundation hurts the candidacy of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, her campaign appears to have adopted the strategy of having Tim Kaine, her hapless running mate, lie about its activities and decisions to local reporters, while hoping that nobody outside the local viewing area gets wise to the tactic. With New Media and partisan monitors…
September 6th, 2016 11:27 PM
Dyson to ESPN: Colin Kaepernick Is 'Best Kind of American There Is’
ESPN’s The Undefeated invited Georgetown Sociology Professor and frequent MSNBC guest Michael Eric Dyson to write an article on Colin Kaepernick. Because, after all, what the heck is the difference between ESPN, Georgetown Professors, and MSNBC anyway?
September 6th, 2016 11:16 PM
Bozell & Graham Column: Hillary's Untrustworthy Temperament
NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd began his pundit-panel segment on September 4 by remarking: “‘Nobody cares about the damn emails.’ That's what Bernie Sanders famously said. I couldn't believe when I looked at the time stamp, October of 2015...We are now at September of 2016. Somebody cares about them.”
Apparently the political director at NBC News isn’t in that “somebody” camp. When it comes…
September 6th, 2016 11:10 PM
Nets Ignore Sunday’s Harassment of US Vessels by Iranian ‘Fast Boats’
Recent news out of the Persian Gulf paints a picture of continually raising tensions between US and Iranian naval vessels as once again US Naval vessels were subject to harassment. “We’ve learned at Fox that Iranian ships have harassed another American vessel in the Persia gulf,” reported the new host of On the Record Brit Hume, as he discussed the scenario with former US Ambassador John Bolton.…
September 6th, 2016 11:06 PM
New Hume Show Blasts Hillary's Plane Gaggles Instead of Large Pressers
As many news consumers and political junkies know by now, longtime Fox News Channel (FNC) Greta Van Susteren departed the network on Monday (while CNN’s Brian Stelter suggested she was forced out after a dispute over her desire to leave) and so the classy, steady journalist and former Special Report host Brit Hume was appointed to oversee her On the Record program from Tuesday through Election…
September 6th, 2016 9:49 PM
Mitchell Frets 'Pejorative' of Moms Calling Illegals 'Illegal Aliens'
On Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, as Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson appeared as a guest, host Mitchell demonstrated that one of her liberal buttons is pushed when she hears politically incorrect terms like "illegal immigrants" or "illegal aliens" as she seemed to fret over these terms, which she tagged as "pejorative language," being used by "Angel Moms" -- the mothers of…
September 6th, 2016 9:41 PM