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NBC Credits Trump Funding Effort to Mass-Produce Syringes for Vaccines
May 12th, 2020 8:55 PM
What is going on over that NBC News? On Monday, they threw Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo under the bus and reported on how he was forcing elderly coronavirus patients into nursing homes. Then, on Tuesday, they credited President Trump for funding a groundbreaking manufacturing technique that would allow syringes for vaccines to be produced faster, in greater number, and domestically.
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Chuck Todd Offers Mealy-Mouthed Apology for Deceptive Edit, Blames CBS
May 12th, 2020 6:58 PM
Behold, the epitome of laziness. On Tuesday’s MTP Daily, NBC News political director Chuck Todd offered a muddled and pathetic apology/non-apology for the deceptive edit Sunday’s Meet the Press carried out against Attorney General Bill Barr, saying that he was “very sorry for that mistake” but blamed CBS News clips for this kerfuffle. Only in the final seconds of the 65-second bit did Todd…
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NBC Relieved By Senate Hearing Free of Trump ‘Politicking’ & ‘Chaos’
May 12th, 2020 3:59 PM
As NBC wrapped up its special coverage of the Senate coronavirus hearing late Tuesday morning, journalists repeatedly expressed their relief that the proceeding on Capitol Hill was supposedly free of the “politicking” and “chaos” they claimed plagued White House briefings on the pandemic.
Ex-NBC Journalist Recounts Her Own Sexual Harassment at Network
May 12th, 2020 9:53 AM
NBC does not have the best history when it comes to the #MeToo movement or dealing with sexual harassment in general. The network of Matt Lauer, the network that buried the Harvey Weinstein story has another potential problem. The latest salvo in that conflict arrived on Sunday, when former NBC News reporter Emily Miller stated that the network “just fires the bad guys” when caught treating a…
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NBC Calls Out Gov. Cuomo for Forcing COVID Patients into Nursing Homes
May 11th, 2020 9:15 PM
Denouncing it as “a path to disaster,” investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden’s Monday report for NBC Nightly News called out Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for forcing nursing homes in his state to take in coronavirus-positive patients just out of the hospital. On top of that, she pointed out how he had refused to give those facilities personal protective equipment (PPE). All of…
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Nets Seize on Obama Trashing Trump’s COVID Response
May 11th, 2020 3:17 PM
On Friday, audio of former President Barack Obama blasting the Trump administration’s coronavirus response during a phone call trying to drum up support for the Biden campaign was leaked to Yahoo News. Over the weekend and through Monday morning, the three broadcast networks repeatedly hyped the nasty, partisan attack without one word of criticism for Obama’s unseemly rhetoric.
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NBC Tweets Apology After Chuck Todd Lies About AG's Comments on Flynn
May 11th, 2020 9:31 AM
Is it really too much to ask that the media report a quote, accurately? Apparently it is for NBC. On Meet the Press Sunday, NBC political director and MTP host Chuck Todd cut short a clip of Attorney General William Barr defending the DOJ’s decision to dismiss the Michael Flynn case in a CBS interview. After Todd edited the clip to take out crucial context, he absurdly proceeded to bash Barr’s…
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NBC Cheers Task Force Quarantines as a Rebuke of Trump and Reopening
May 10th, 2020 10:35 AM
Over the weekend, three of the nation’s top health officials and members of the Coronavirus Task Force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, began their two weeks of at-home quarantine after they came in contact with someone with the virus. NBC’s Sunday Today, used the opportunity to take a morbid victory lap and cheer it as a rebuke of President Trump and calls to reopen. Political director Chuck Todd…
NBC Prez Declared We Are Winning War With Trump (Fired Days Later)
May 9th, 2020 12:15 PM
Usually, our NewsBusters FLASHBACK items showcase liberal news media examples a little older than a week. But this one is too good to forget. On April 27, NBC News President Andy Lack published a haughty op-ed for the network’s website Think. It was titled, “Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we're winning.” One week after this op-ed was published, Lack was fired…
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ABC Ignores Tara Reade Interview, NBC & CBS Push Biden Denials
May 8th, 2020 11:59 AM
As former Senate staffer Tara Reade gave her first on-camera interview detailing her sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden on Thursday, neither ABC’s World News Tonight that evening nor Friday’s Good Morning America mentioned the important development. While NBC and CBS did cover the story, both networks framed Reade’s public comments as a “response to Joe Biden’s strong denial.”
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Nets Ignored Trump Proclaiming Flynn’s Innocence Before Case Dropped
May 7th, 2020 11:51 PM
A week ahead of Attorney General William Barr’s decision on Thursday to have the Department of Justice drop their case against former General Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce the innocence of his former National Security Adviser. “What happened to General Michael Flynn, a war hero, should never be allowed to happen to a citizen of the United States again,” Trump…
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Nets Celebrated Flynn’s Plea Deal But Decry Case Getting Dropped
May 7th, 2020 9:51 PM
Nearly two and a half years after accepting a plea deal because he was entrapped by anti-Trump FBI investigators, former General Michael Flynn saw light at the end of the tunnel Thursday. After the case was reviewed by the Department of Justice, Attorney General William Barr order the case be dropped citing the fact Flynn had not lied about anything material or central to the Russia investigation…
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Bonkers Late Night Conspiracy: Will ‘Autocratic’ Trump Rig Election?
May 7th, 2020 4:17 PM
Late Night host Seth Meyers long ago shed the role of comedian who will mock both sides. He then shifted to political activist. If Wednesday’s show is any hint, the constant isolation and staying at home may be turning him into a far-left conspiracy theorist. Talking to liberal author Sarah Kendzior, Meyers hinted at a dark future for America:
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Sick Seth Meyers Compares George W. Bush to Serial Killers
May 7th, 2020 10:02 AM
On the late Tuesday/early Wednesday Late Night show on NBC, host Seth Meyers demonstrated that he is so anti-Republican, he devoted an entire commentary to complaining about Democrats who laud former President George W. Bush as they fret over Donald Trump being President in the present. He even made a crude analogy likening praising Bush to praising serial killer Ted Bundy after Jeffrey Dahmer…
