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Heilemann: Hillary a 'Commander-in-Chief,' Trump and Cruz 'Clowns'
John Heilemann has saluted his next President and Commander-in-Chief: Hillary Clinton.
On today's With All Due Respect, commenting on Hillary's remarks on the Iran deal at the Brookings Institution and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz's comments at a rally, Heilemann declared "there is exactly one potential president in that group, and that president is Hillary Rodham Clinton . . . Everything she said…
September 9th, 2015 7:01 PM
Pierce Whines: Hillary 'Didn't Owe Me an Apology' for E-Mail Scandal
Taking issue with Hillary Clinton’s overdue apology on Tuesday night, Esquire’s Charles Pierce, formerly with the Boston Globe, appeared on the airwaves hours later on MSNBC’s All In to lament that Clinton “didn’t owe me an apology” because “[s]he didn’t do anything to me” with the entire apology being a wash due his belief that “[t]he American people don’t care about” her e-mail scandal at all.
September 9th, 2015 6:58 PM
Mitchell Essentially Admits She Pulled Punches On Hillary Interview
After interviewing Democratic presidential front-runner Hilary Clinton on Monday, veteran NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell admitted the following day that she couldn’t ask everything she wanted to because she was afraid Clinton would abruptly halt the interview and leave.
September 9th, 2015 4:44 PM
Mislabeling: ABC, NBC Haven't Called Sanders 'Socialist' Since July 3
Bernie Sanders is polling better than Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, while the liberal broadcast networks continue to downplay his extreme views.
A New Hampshire poll released Sept. 8, 2015, indicated Sanders had pulled ahead of fellow presidential candidate Clinton. The networks jumped to report the poll’s findings, but haven’t properly labeled Sanders’ political views in more than two…
September 9th, 2015 4:00 PM
Kim Davis Chose the Wrong Issue for Her 'Martyrdom'
Attempts by conservative Christians to impose through politics and government the principles inherent in their kingdom have mostly failed. Witness Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis.
September 9th, 2015 3:34 PM
NBC Teams Up With Dem Firm for 2016 Campaign Coverage
As reported by the Washington Examiner’s Eddie Scarry on Wednesday, NBC News has apparently abandoned any pretense of objectivity by partnering with Democratic political research firm TargetSmart for its 2016 campaign coverage. According to Scarry, “The partnership between NBC News and TargetSmart is intended to ‘enhance election coverage and study the voting process in America in depth,’…
September 9th, 2015 3:26 PM
Buzzfeed Slams Police Officers in Awkward Video
There’s nothing worse than when a fun site takes itself too seriously.
That’s what happens when Buzzfeed, the site aimed at millennials for it’s nostalgia-inducing gifs and listicles, ‘weighs in’ on divisive social issues.The results are as groan-worthy as you’d expect by a site ran by 20-something hipsters.
September 9th, 2015 1:56 PM
Mockable New York Times Headlines Promote Hillary's 'Joy' and 'Humor'
“There will be new efforts to bring spontaneity to a candidacy that sometimes seems wooden and overly cautious,” New York Times Hillary-beat veteran Amy Chozick reports. James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal quipped: “So Mrs. Clinton’s team is embarking on a campaign of effortful spontaneity and carefully choreographed unscriptedness.”
The press-release headline was "Hillary Clinton to Show…
September 9th, 2015 1:51 PM
Email Scandal: Ron Fournier Has 19 Questions for Hillary
Ron Fournier of the National Journal doesn't seem particularly impressed by Hillary Clinton's transparency tour in a bid for authenticity in the wake of her email scandal. In fact, he has 19 questions for Hillary. Mark them down journalists. Let them serve as your master checklist when questioning her about the email scandal. Hopefully all the questions will be asked by the time Hillary appears…
September 9th, 2015 1:13 PM
USA Today's Scott Walker Reporter Signed Petition to Recall Him
A USA Today reporter assigned to cover Scott Walker signed a recall petition against the Republican in 2011. The American Mirror first reported the story and Gannett's defense of Madeleine Behr. The site quoted Joel Christopher, vice president of news for Gannett Wisconsin Media: "We indeed are aware that Madeleine signed the Gov. Scott Walker recall election petition in 2011 because Madeleine…
September 9th, 2015 1:00 PM
Wilmore Slimes Kim Davis, Likens Her to George Wallace, Jeffrey Dahmer
Comedy Central's Larry Wilmore vomited up the oft-used leftist insults of social conservatives on Tuesday's Nightly Show in a rant about Kentucky clerk Kim Davis. Wilmore hinted that her supporters were akin to the Ku Klux Klan, and mocked her Christian prayer gesture as a Nazi salute. The "comedian" later likened Davis to notorious segregationist George Wallace, and hyped that "going to jail for…
September 9th, 2015 12:35 PM
David Gregory: ‘I Don’t Miss NBC’; Net Afraid of ‘Ann Curry Moment'
Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, former Meet the Press moderator David Gregory shared the inside story of his 2014 ouster from NBC: “Things happen in television news, we know that. It's a tough business....it’s just that it was handled in way that was unnecessary. NBC made a business decision which you can agree with or disagree with and it just didn't need to be handled that way....I…
September 9th, 2015 12:17 PM
MSNBC: If Ben Carson Was a Dem, 'Weepy' Reports Would Be Made on Him
You know it's bad when MSNBC admits liberal media bias. On Wednesday's Morning Joe, Willie Geist explained how different Ben Carson would be treated, were he a Democrat: "He's got an incredible personal story, too, that not enough people know about. I suspect if he were a Democrat, there long ago would have been long, weepy pieces written about him."
September 9th, 2015 12:05 PM