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Betsy DeVos Is a Disobedient Dog in Tonight Show Skit
February 10th, 2017 10:46 AM
Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. In an unbelieveable Tonight Show skit Thursday, NBC literally treated Education Secretary Betsy DeVos like she was a disobedient pet or a mentally challenged child. An actress playing DeVos repeatedly mispronounces her own name, eats paper, and says she’s getting rid of textbooks because “they’re too heavy,” all the while speaking in a baby-like voice. This…
2005: Press, SNL Ripped GOP Rep Who Criticized Fellow Member
February 10th, 2017 7:15 AM
What a difference a decade and a different political party make. In November 2005, Ohio GOP Congresswoman Jean Schmidt used the same "I'm just quoting someone else" technique to criticize a fellow Member which Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren employed earlier this week to criticize since-confirmed Donald Trump Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. Schmidt was vilified to the…
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Networks Go Nuts Over Trump’s ‘First Victim’ of Deportation
February 10th, 2017 1:48 AM
The Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) had a field day Thursday in the wake of the deportation of a Mexican woman, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, from Phoenix, Arizona. “An undocumented woman at the center of an immigration uproar has now been deported after 21 years living in the U.S., she was arrested yesterday and shipped back to Mexico today,” announced anchor Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News…
Corporate Harassment Policy Does Harm on NBC’s ‘Superstore'
February 9th, 2017 11:59 PM
Well, nowadays it's just a matter of time before you're in hot water for something you say to someone. NBC’s Superstore exemplifies how relationships in the workplace can be almost impossible thanks to vague sexual harassment policies.
Homegrown Domestic Terrorism Strikes Again on NBC’s 'Blindspot'
February 9th, 2017 4:35 PM
While the rest of the world is concerned with ISIS, Hollywood enjoys portraying domestic terrorism as a major threat to our security. This trend continues with NBC’s Blindspot in making U.S. citizens, including a veteran, the bad guys.
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NBC, ABC Seize on Left-Wing ‘Rallying Cry’ Against GOP
February 9th, 2017 2:55 PM
On Thursday, both NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America gleefully touted a new “rallying cry” among Democrats and liberal activists in the wake of Republicans admonishing Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren for attacking Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the Senate floor ahead of his confirmation vote.
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NBC Late Night Hosts Pathetically Trash DeVos as an Airhead
February 9th, 2017 12:17 PM
NBC's comedic hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers went on a late-night witch hunt Wednesday in a desperate attempt to portray Education Secretary pick Betsy DeVos as a flaming idiot. Despite DeVos literally getting confirmed the same day, the networks’ “comedian” hosts seemed to know what DeVos would do in office before she had even done it. In what would’ve been decried as “sexist” if it had been…
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NBC: Was McConnell Being ‘Sexist?’ Tout New ‘Feminists Battle Cry’
February 8th, 2017 9:26 PM
The Big Three networks were eager Wednesday evening to drag out the Senate drama involving Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren being “silenced” by the mean old Republicans. But reporter Kasie Hunt took the story lower and wondered if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was being sexist to his colleague. She even pressed Warren herself for an answer, “Do you think what senator McConnell…
WashPost Suggests 'SNL' Can 'Destroy' Spicer, Get Trump to Resign
February 8th, 2017 9:14 PM
The Washington Post is joining the liberal chorus of wishful thinkers that Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer impression might damage Spicer and Donald Trump. Post reporter Elahe Izadi – who pitches herself as a stand-up comedian on the side – set out to promote anonymously-sourced stories of Trump unrest over the skit, and find leftist comedians who wished and hoped the NBC comedy show could…
Syrian Dictator Assad Killed 13,000, Networks Ignore
February 8th, 2017 4:16 PM
The Syrian Assad regime has “killed at least 13,000 people since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as ‘the slaughterhouse’,” according to an Amnesty International report covered by The Associated Press. This is the same regime that has used chemical weapons to control its own people. Despite all three networks posting the AP story on…
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Lauer Warns: ‘Danger’ in Trump ‘Still Speaking to His Base’
February 8th, 2017 12:24 PM
On Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer feared that President Trump was only focused on pleasing his supporters rather than reaching out to “the entire country.” Political analyst Nicolle Wallace voiced similar concerns and urged the Republican to move left.
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Nets Cheered On Democrats’ Failed Effort to Dump DeVos
February 7th, 2017 2:55 PM
Before Vice President Mike Pence delivered the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to confirm President Trump’s Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos during the noon ET hour on Tuesday, all three network morning shows heralded Democratic senators pulling an “all-nighter” in an attempt to obstruct her confirmation.
Nets Ignore NOAA Whistleblower's Claims Against Pausebuster Study
February 7th, 2017 1:25 PM
A federal agency discredited a common argument of climate skeptics in 2015, but now a whistleblower has accused the agency of misleading the public and playing politics. Not that anyone watching the network news would know it.
For several years, climate skeptics argued there had been a “pause” or hiatus in global warming beginning in 1998. Then, in June 2015, a paper from the National Oceanic…
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Nets Can't Get Enough of 'Athletic' 'Smiling' Obama Kitesurfing
February 7th, 2017 11:37 AM
Just like they did when he was President, the morning news networks Tuesday gushed over pictures of Obama vacationing, as if he was some kind of Hollywood celebrity. ABC, CBS and NBC couldn’t get enough of the former president kitesurfing in the Virgin Islands with Virgin mobile billionaire Richard Branson, oohing and ahhing at his athleticism and relaxed demeanor.