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CNN Gleefully Rules Spicer Has ‘A Problem...Going Forward' Post-SNL

February 6th, 2017 5:07 PM
Saturday Night Live couldn’t have drawn it up any better, folks. On Monday’s New Day, Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter and CNN media analyst Bill Carter sang the comedy show’s praises following Melissa McCarthy’s parody of Sean Spicer, spinning that the skit represents “a problem for the White House [and Spicer] going forward.”
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Lauer Lobs Softballs to Dem AG Fighting Trump Immigration Order

February 6th, 2017 4:38 PM
On Monday, NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer provided Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson a nationally televised platform to tout his fight against President Trump’s immigration order temporarily restricting immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries. Without challenge, Lauer allowed the Democratic politician to accuse Trump of having “violated the Constitution in very fundamental ways…
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Today Show Panel Applauds Super Bowl Ads Pushing Liberal Agenda

February 6th, 2017 12:12 PM
On Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer and substitute co-host Maria Shriver led a panel discussion reviewing some of Sunday night’s Super Bowl commercials and gushed over the “social awareness” of ads that pushed liberal agenda items like environmental activism, equal pay, and illegal immigration.
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Pants on Fire: Mitchell Says GOPers ‘Never’ Gave Garland 'A Meeting'

February 6th, 2017 11:47 AM
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell perpetuated a glaring lie that not a single Republican Senator met with Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland (when at least 16 met with him) in order to predict that the GOP should not underestimate the opposition aimed at Trump pick Neil Gorsuch.

Documenting TV's Double Standard on Supreme Court Nominees

February 6th, 2017 9:25 AM

An MRC analysis of labels used on ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows during the 24 hours after each of the past six Supreme Court nominations demonstrates the pattern. GOP nominees John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch were labeled by reporters as “conservative” a total of 36 times, while Democratic nominees Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Merrick Garland were called “…

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Unhappy: Smiley Whines that Media Rushed to ‘Normalize’ ‘Racist’ Trump

February 5th, 2017 4:04 PM
The media’s relentless beating of the two-week-old Donald Trump administration could hardly be seen as beneficial to him, but PBS’s Tavis Smiley tried to argue that on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “What troubles me, Chuck, is that we -- too many of us that is -- rushed to normalize a racist, sexist, classist campaign that he ran to win this office,” Smiley whined as he smeared the president…
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NBC's Jimmy Fallon Thanks Disgraced Dan Rather as 'Voice of Reason'

February 4th, 2017 7:45 PM
NBC Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon was roundly condemned by the Left for mussing Donald Trump’s hair for five seconds, and “normalizing” him for the American public. But they were quiet on Thursday night when Fallon spent a much longer time “normalizing” disgraced CBS anchorman Dan Rather, who defined “fake news” for a generation with his false Texas Air National Guard documents about George W.…
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Lauer Invites Caroline Kennedy to Bash Trump’s Foreign Policy

February 3rd, 2017 11:37 AM
At the top of Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted an exclusive: “Caroline Kennedy speaks out in her first interview since stepping down as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. This morning, her take on the Trump administration's very different approach to foreign policy and her own future. Is she planning a run for office?”
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NBC Censors Haley Getting Tough with Russia, Misquotes Trump

February 2nd, 2017 10:25 PM
NBC went all-out against President Donald Trump’s foreign policy during Thursday’s edition of Nightly News. They knocked Trump for getting tough with Iran, pretended he didn’t get tough with Russia, left out key parts of favorable quotes, and repeated dubiously sourced ones. “In these early days of his administration, President Trump is signaling a willingness to take the tough approach over…

Black Journalists Group Demands Meeting with NBC Over Hall’s Departure

February 2nd, 2017 5:44 PM
In a statement released on Wednesday, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) demanded a meeting with NBC News to explain why its “whitewashing” their network (and cable partner MSNBC) by replacing Tamron Hall in the third hour of Today to make space for Megyn Kelly starting in the fall.  
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NBC Welcomes Hillary Clinton’s ‘Return to the Spotlight’

February 2nd, 2017 4:33 PM
On Thursday, NBC’s Today devoted nearly three minutes of air time to a report touting Hillary Clinton’s “return to the spotlight” and “re-emergence” on the public stage “With some big plans, including a new book and a series of speeches...”
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Halperin Frets Trump ‘Governing as a Republican’; ‘In the Barricades’

February 2nd, 2017 12:53 PM
Appearing on Thursday’s NBC Today, political analyst Mark Halperin worried that Republican President Donald Trump was behaving like...well, a Republican. Talking about the coming fight in the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Halperin lamented: “...right now Donald Trump is governing as a Republican president, not as an independent. And if he does a scorecard of his first few…
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Networks Refuse to Call Out Berkeley Violent Mob as 'Liberal'

February 2nd, 2017 12:03 PM
Last night the ultra liberal campus of U.C. Berkeley erupted in violence after an estimated 1,000 students came out to protest Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was invited to speak by the school’s College Republicans. The crowd quickly turned into a mob when they began setting fires, throwing smoke bombs, breaking windows and punching Trump supporters. But instead of accurately identifying…

Media Slow to Admit CA's 'Probably Forever' Drought Almost Over

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February 2nd, 2017 8:43 AM
California’s “exceptional drought” isn’t exceptionally bad any more. Winter storms have been good for the state, pulling it out of the worst rating from the U.S. Drought Monitor. However, this “huge improvement” barely registered with the broadcast networks that had blamed “climate change” for the crisis. CNN.com reported on Jan. 26, that “California’s drought is almost over.” For the first…