Nets Spend 77 Percent of Evening News on Wild Trump Presser
August 15th, 2017 11:11 PM
In a jaw-dropping spectacle in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday, the President went off on the media while ranting about his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Trump stepped in it when he appeared to defend the alt-right and doubled down on his original comments from Saturday. The network evening newscasts spent 45 minutes and 31 seconds on Trump’s wild…
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No, CBS, Down Syndrome Isn’t ‘Disappearing.’ Babies With It Are
August 15th, 2017 4:05 PM
Unborn babies with Down syndrome in Iceland are being aborted in astonishing numbers – but that’s not how CBS reported on the news. On Monday night, CBS News On Assignment investigated Down syndrome “disappearing” in Iceland with correspondent Elaine Quijano.
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Nets All Blame Trump for ‘Rise of Hate Groups’
August 15th, 2017 1:05 PM
Despite President Trump condemning white supremacist hate groups by name on Monday for the violence in Charlottesville, on Tuesday, the network morning shows lined up to blame the President for the rise of such groups and having “emboldened” them with his 2016 campaign.
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Nets Still Not Happy, Condemn Trump for New Condemnation
August 14th, 2017 9:32 PM
On Monday, President Trump called out the racist hate groups involved in Saturday’s chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to calling them “evil” and “repugnant,” Trump said: “Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups.” This full throated denouncement was exactly what the Big Three Networks (ABC,…
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CBS Skips 9/11 to Claim Three Times as Many ‘Right Wing’ Terror Hits
August 14th, 2017 2:05 PM
Other than 9/11, not much happened in 2001. CBS This Morning co-host Norah O’Donnell on Monday excluded the September 11th terror attacks in order to conclude that there have been “three times” as many “right wing” violence.
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Slate’s Bouie: The ‘Roots’ of Charlottesville Found at the White House
August 13th, 2017 2:46 PM
In the aftermath of the Charlottesville attack, two of the Big Three Networks (ABC and NBC) were quick to cast blame on President Trump for the violence and the lives lost on Sunday. To round out the Big Three, CBS brought up the rear during Face the Nation where guest Jamelle Bouie argued that if one was looking for the “roots” of the attack, “you don’t have to look very far from the White House…
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Nets Scorn Trump’s Double Down on Threats to North Korea
August 10th, 2017 9:57 PM
In two separate addresses to the press on Thursday, President Trump doubled and tripled down on his powerful threats to North Korea. After denouncing the President’s original tough warning of “fire and fury” on Tuesday, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were equally bitter with him after he told them that “if anything maybe that statement wasn't tough enough.”
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Whose Side Are They On? Nets Tout North Korea’s Anti-U.S. ‘Defiance’
August 10th, 2017 5:12 PM
In a remarkable display of group think on Thursday, all three network morning shows touted North Korea hurling personal insults against President Trump as an act of “defiance” and promoted forced demonstrations in Pyongyang as a “display of unity” from the oppressed people in the authoritarian regime.
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Nasty Colbert Pleads: Don’t Nuke Guam; They Didn’t Vote for Trump!
August 10th, 2017 11:11 AM
The far-left Stephen Colbert on Wednesday offered this nasty reasoning as to why North Korea shouldn’t launch nuclear weapons against Guam: The people there didn’t vote for Donald Trump. The panicky Late Show host blamed the President for the situation: “Donald Trump saw their threat of apocalypse and raised them one armageddon.”
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Nets Ignore Cuba Harassing, Trying to ‘Deafen’ U.S. Diplomats
August 9th, 2017 11:35 PM
There was bizarre news out of the U.S. State Department on Wednesday as the Associated Press reported that U.S. diplomats had to return home from Cuba after experiencing “physical symptoms,” which included “potentially permanent hearing loss.” The mysterious incidents led to the United States expelling two Cuba officials from their Washington, D.C. embassy. Despite the stunning revelations, the…
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Nets More Terrified by Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ ‘Rhetoric’ Than North Korea
August 9th, 2017 3:34 PM
On Wednesday, the network morning shows portrayed President Trump’s stern warning to North Korea as being more “dangerous” than the rogue authoritarian regime threatening the world with nuclear weapons. Going into full panic mode, hosts and correspondents warned viewers that Trump was “going to make a bad situation worse” with his “blistering rhetoric.”
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CBS Goes to Ex-Clinton Aide to Claim Trump as ‘Crazy’ as Kim Jong-un
August 9th, 2017 1:52 PM
Who better than an ex-Hillary Clinton adviser who worked on the Iran deal to weigh in on the escalating conflict with North Korea? That’s who Charlie Rose turned to on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning. The co-hosts did not press Jake Sullivan on problems or scandals involving the Obama administration’s Iran negotiations.
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Nets Dismayed By President Trump’s Threat to North Korea
August 8th, 2017 11:23 PM
In an extraordinary moment on Tuesday, President Trump issued a daring warning to the radical North Korean regime. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” Trump told the cameras with his arms crossed. And as would be expected, Trump’s statement dominated the day. And during the evening broadcasts of the…
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ABC, CBS Ignore Trump ‘Vowing to Win’ Against Opioid Addiction
August 8th, 2017 9:04 PM
In a statement to the press on Tuesday, President Trump declared that the United states would fight and win the battle against opioid addiction. Despite the fact that opioid overdoses killed tens of thousands last year, with 2017 on track to set a grim record, ABC and CBS skipped over Trump’s latest statement and new recommendations from his opioid commission. NBC was the only network in the Big…