Tennessee

MSNBC: Tennessee is Fascist Because They Won’t Elect Liberals
Tuesday’s Morning Joe featured a segment lambasting the Tennessee legislature for – not being Democrats. The bizarre hit job covered The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum’s piece asserting that the State of Tennessee could not be classified as a democracy, but instead was a fascist dictatorship. The reason for this? Well, because voters elected a Republican supermajority.
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CNN Teams Up With Expelled TN Dems to Accuse GOP of 'White Supremacy'
On Thursday morning CNN gave two Democrat state legislators from Tennessee a forum to accuse their state's Republican party of "white supremacy" as the show previewed upcoming special elections for the two members who are trying to reclaim their seats for the rest of the current term.

AP Warns of 'Far Right,' But Touts 'Drag Laureates' in San Francisco
Washington Free Beacon media reporter Drew Holden flagged a story on "far-right" Republicans in Tennessee from the Associated Press. This has become a real trend of late, from Tennessee to Montana to Texas. But when San Francisco spends taxpayer money on a "Drag Laureate," no one at AP finds that needs an ideological label.

Taxpayer-Funded Lies: Amanpour Buoys TN Dems Crying Racism
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. show, PBS host Christiane Amanpour used her taxpayer-funded program to promote phony claims that Tennessee Republicans were racially motivated because they expelled two black Democrats from the state legislature while failing to expel a white Democrat.

CNN's Morning Spew Blames Gerrymandering for 'Extreme' TN GOP
On Tuesday's CNN This Morning, the show used the recent expulsion of two Democrat state legislators in Tennessee as an opportunity to promote the discredited liberal trope that Republicans are only able to solidly control some states because of gerrymandering, which then allegedly leads them to enact extreme agendas against the will of voters who are unable to vote them out.

PBS Political Team: GOP Doomed on Abortion, Racial Mistreatment in TN
PBS NewsHour host Geoff Bennett welcomed back the show’s political team, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of National Public Radio, for a spicy Monday evening rehash of the previous week’s fiery political happenings, through a tax-funded, Democratic prism. After a clip from Sen. Lindsey Graham warning Republicans to adopt “reasonable positions” on abortion to…

MSNBC Hails Expelled Legislators as 'Resurrected,' an 'Easter Miracle'
In Tennessee, the Bullhorn Justins -- ousted state legislators Justin Jones and Justin Pearson -- routinely employ the metaphor of crucifixion in reference to their expulsion, and now resurrection. Lindsey Kornick at Fox News reports these same metaphors comparing the Democrats to Jesus are broke out Monday night on MSNBC.

Colbert Suggests Thomas Friend is a Nazi, Calls Tennessee GOP Racist
For CBS host of the The Late Show Stephen Colbert, Monday’s opening monologue was a good opportunity to play the race card on everything from Clarence Thomas and his friendship with Harlan Crow to Tennessee Republicans for expelling two lawmakers for their role in shutting down legislative proceedings.

NewsBusters Podcast: Al Roker Gets Easter Egg-Rolled by the Bidens
President Biden routinely avoids interviews with real journalists and press conferences. But at the Easter Egg Roll, Joe and Jill were lightly massaged on the Today show by NBC morning weather man Al Roker. It felt like Valentine's Day. Plus: the major difference between covering young black leftist Democrats in Tennessee and the seasoned black conservative on the Supreme Court.

ABC Pushes Misinformation in Interview With Ousted Tennessee Dems
Continuing to make hay Monday out of the just ousting of disruptive and disrespectful Democrats that led a violent insurrection at the Tennessee State Capitol two weeks ago, ABC’s GMA3 invited on State Representative Gloria Johnson and ousted representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. Throughout the segment, co-anchors Eva Pilgrim and Phil Lipof carried water and aided the…

Nets Celebrate Dem Insurrection Leaders Returning to TN Legislature
Judging from the liberal media’s behavior, insurrections are good when leftists carry them out. That’s the gist of the tone shared by the broadcast networks on Monday as ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and NBC’s Today celebrated the likely return of former Democratic state Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led a violent and…

ABC's GMA Hypes Leftist Outrage Over Ousted Insurrectionist Dems
ABC's Good Morning America kicked off their Easter Sunday broadcast by hyping so-called "growing community outrage" over the two insurrectionist Democrat Tennessee state representatives who were expelled for whipping up a mob on the House floor. Not only did Good Morning America parrot the Democrat Party line on this controversy, but they barely aired any opposition from…

Univision Accidentally Told The Truth About TN Lawmaker Expulsions
Univision’s Friday morning report on the expulsion of two Tennessee state representatives went mostly as expected, with emphasis on racism and gun control. But morning show news anchor Satcha Pretto closed the report by blowing both of those up.

NBC Tees Up Expelled-Rep. To Label GOP Racists
NBC Today hosts Peter Alexander and Kristen Welker welcomed recently expelled Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones on to the Saturday show by putting the ball on the tee for him to routinely denounce Republicans as racist for his role in shutting down legislative proceedings with a bullhorn.