No Mirror! PBS Blames Reagan, Cable News for Declining Trust in Media

August 3rd, 2024 10:28 PM

Wednesday’s PBS News Hour segment posed as an even-handed examination of declining trust in the news media, setting up Fox News on the right matching MSMNC on the left as both being to blame. But veteran reporter Judy Woodruff’s framing of bias as a…

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MSNBC Votes Against Shapiro, Works 'Couch' Into J.D. Vance Mockery

August 3rd, 2024 4:46 PM

On MSNBC's The Weekend, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson singles out Josh Shapiro for the most pointed criticism among all of Kamala Harris' leading VP possibilities. Johnson and Michael Steele, egged on by Symone Sanders-Townsend, work multiple mentions of "couch" into their discussion of JD Vance, a reference to a false and debunked claim about his personal life. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Dragging Kamala to Victory with Comedy, Pop Stars

August 2nd, 2024 10:28 PM

It's now time for the promotional progressive press to lean into how cool Kamala is, so they tout endorsements by pop stars and gush over Maya Rudolph playing (not mocking) Harris on Saturday Night Live. CNN's Dana Bash said she was 'very, very, excited.' 

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Morning Joe Doubles Down On 'Deeply Damaged' Trump -- Also 'Dangerous'

August 2nd, 2024 8:07 PM

Eugene Robinson agrees with Mike Barnicle that Trump is "deeply damaged," adding that he is "dangerous," "not a well man," and has "some deep insecurity and feeling of inadequacy."

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MSNBC Fearmongers That Election Is 'Life Or Death Choice' For Women

August 2nd, 2024 2:12 PM

MSNBC’s tradition of rolling out self-identified Republicans to repeat the kookiest Democratic talking points continued on Friday as former GOP communications director Tara Setmayer joined Ana Cabrera Reports to claim “women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice.”

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MSNBC Dissects Trump 'Dumpster Fire' NABJ Appearance, Defends Harris

August 1st, 2024 10:19 PM

On Wednesday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid wasted no time in dissecting former President Donald Trump’s interview at the National Association of Black Journalists. She and MSNBC contributor April Ryan pounced on Trump for “the visual depiction of a dumpster fire,” while aggressively defending Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Morning Joe's New Attack Line On Trump: 'A Deeply Damaged Man'

August 1st, 2024 3:52 PM

Calling Donald Trump racist and sexist is getting rather shopworn. Needing some fresh material, Morning Joe broke out a new attack line on Trump today, calling him "a badly-damaged, deeply-damaged man." Mike Barnicle was the first to float the new line, saying: "What we saw yesterday is just another exhibit of a badly damaged man on stage." Charlie Sykes echoed "deeply damaged,"…

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MSNBC Uses Prisoner Swap To Hype Biden Economy, Harris 2024

August 1st, 2024 11:48 AM

Former CNN analyst turned Washington Bureau Chief for The Grio, April Ryan, joined former CNN host turned MSNBC anchor Ana Cabrera on Thursday to discuss the news that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan are being released from Russian prison as part of a multi-nation prisoner swap. For Ryan, the news provided an opportunity to hail President…

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MSNBC News? 'Morning Joe' Clings to Cat Ladies and Kamala Pom Poms

July 31st, 2024 5:28 PM

It was a tale of two networks on CNN and MSNBC in their 6 am hours today. CNN This Morning devoted a long opening segment to the strike that reportedly killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. Meanwhile, over on Morning Joe, Joe and Mika might be on vacation, but under the baton of Jonathan Lemire, that same crucial opening segment was all about "cat ladies," "weird,"…

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REGIME MEDIA: Reid, Alcindor Fawn Over Kamala Harris At Georgia Rally

July 31st, 2024 12:00 AM

Advancing Kamalamania is, predictably, the order of the day at MSNBC. But, even by those standards, the fawning by Joy Reid and Yamiche Alcindor ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech at her Atlanta Rally was quite ridiculous.

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MSNBC: Vance Wants People to Only Have ‘More White Children’

July 30th, 2024 5:32 PM

On Tuesday, MSNBC Morning Joe hosted liberal commentators Molly Jong-Fast and Donny Deutsch and gave the former the floor to suggest that Senator and Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance was “racist” and wanted “more white Children.” But in reality, Vance was in an interracial marriage and had three biracial children.

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WashPost's Gene Robinson Jumps On The Kamala Harris 'Weird' Train

July 30th, 2024 11:36 AM

Somebody might want to run an AI analysis of Eugene Robinson's current Washington Post column: "No, really, Republicans are getting weirder." It'd be interesting to see if it were written in the style of Kamala Harris speechwriters, or some other member of her campaign. He threw the W-word eight times in his column and six times on MSNBC today.

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Sharpton: Eliminating Ballot Drop Boxes Means 'Voting Will Not Matter'

July 29th, 2024 12:30 PM

On Morning Joe, they freaked out over Donald Trump joking to Christians they won't need to vote in four years because "we'll have it fixed." Al Sharpton suggested that Trump is planning to eliminate early voting and drop boxes, which would mean that "voting will not matter."

Before the Implosion: Top 20 Media Salutes to ‘Successful’ Joe Biden

July 28th, 2024 10:02 AM

Before Joe Biden’s incoherent debate performance, the media airwaves were full of praise for Biden’s “enormously consequential” and “extraordinarily successful” presidency.