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ABC Ignores GOP Criticism of Judge Jackson's Nomination
March 21st, 2022 8:34 PM
After the kickoff of the first official day of confirmation hearings for President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the network evening newscasts were eager to promote her nomination. While all three networks hyped her qualifications and background, not all gave equal time for Republican criticism. To their credit, both CBS Evening News and NBC…
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CNN Still Fretting GOP Will Stop Biden from Appointing Liberal Justice
December 2nd, 2021 3:00 PM
Over the past couple of days, CNN anchors have again been showing worry that Senate Republicans will thwart President Joe Biden from appointing a liberal Supreme Court justice to replace Stephen Breyer as the network hyped discussions with Republicans who predicted that a hypothetical Republican-controlled Senate would block a Biden court nominee.
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PolitiFact Face-Plants As Grassley Notes Voters Favor Voter ID Laws
October 7th, 2021 9:59 PM
At the blog Legal Insurrection, Stacey Matthews picked on PolitiFact for its incredibly lame Twitter criticism of Sen. Charles Grassley at a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 4, which Democrats call the "John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act." The senator accurately noted polls show a strong majority of Americans favor voter ID laws.
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CNN's Keilar Fumes at Republicans: Past the ‘Point of No Return’
December 15th, 2020 9:20 PM
It may be called CNN Newsroom, but if CNN hosts spend nearly every show launching nasty tirades against Republicans, is it really still, “news?” Afternoon host Brianna Keilar opened her 1:00 p.m. Eastern hour show on Thursday by singling out Republican senators who have not called Joe Biden, “President-Elect” in the past 24 hours, after the Electoral College made Biden’s win…
Michael Flynn’s Exoneration
May 13th, 2020 10:38 PM
For three years former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was put through a legal and financial wringer by top officials within the FBI, including its then-director James Comey. The FBI investigation threatened to destroy Flynn's career, finances and life, as, according to the New York Post, agents tried to get Flynn to lie "so they could 'prosecute him or get him fired,' when questioning…
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Unleashed! Grassley EXPLODES at Press: ‘You Have Bias’ on Kavanaugh!
October 4th, 2018 3:59 PM
The usually mild-mannered Chuck Grassley on Thursday exploded at the assembled reporters, ripping them for “bias” in covering Brett Kavanaugh. The Republican Senator screamed as GOP members discussed the impending vote on the Judge. Grassley insisted that the country has “hit rock bottom” with the divisive hearings. He then looked directly at reporters and yelled,…
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Steve Schmidt: Grassley, Hatch Look Like 'Handmaid's Tale' Commanders
September 26th, 2018 9:34 PM
Appearing this afternoon on MSNBC's Deadline: White House program hosted by Nicolle Wallace -- his sidekick on the McCain presidential campaign -- Steve Schmidt broke out the tired liberal claim that Republicans somehow resemble the villains of 'The Handmaid's Tale.' The show has been described as portraying "a dystopian future . . . wherein a totalitarian society…
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Compares Confirming Brett Kavanaugh to Rape
September 24th, 2018 3:58 PM
Just when it seemed that the ongoing controversy surrounding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court couldn’t get more disgusting, the host of All In with Chris Hayes joined the fray by tweeting that confirming the candidate would be “like rape.” The host of his own prime-time weeknight MSNBC program, Hayes drove the intense debate to a higher…
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Megyn Kelly Thinks Ford ‘Is Running Out of Options’; ‘It’s Do or Die’
September 19th, 2018 9:54 PM
In a sight that seemed unpredictable a few years ago, NBC host Megyn Kelly appeared on the Wednesday’s Hardball to inform MSNBC host Chris Matthews that, concerning the sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh, accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford “is running out of options” and “needs to show up” for Monday’s scheduled hearing.
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Sen. Grassley Calls Out Media ‘Double Standard’ in Kavanaugh Coverage
September 4th, 2018 2:38 PM
Resuming the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Tuesday afternoon, Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley blasted his Democratic colleagues and their liberal media allies for blatant hypocrisy when it came to criticism of the judicial branch of government, pointing to routine attacks on conservative Supreme Court justices.
Media Ignore Real Democratic Scandals
October 21st, 2017 2:15 PM
Why the collective liberal media yawn on the multi-headed Democratic scandals surfacing everywhere except on their pages and airwaves? It's not that the stories are too far-fetched and thin to interest self-respecting journalists, because they are real, damning and supported by sufficiently credible evidence to warrant serious attention and scrutiny.
How Did the Dems' IT Scandal Suspects Get Here?
August 10th, 2017 10:19 AM
Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries. In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro…
Ethically Challenged Harvard Law Prof Calls for Trump's Impeachment
May 14th, 2017 7:17 PM
In a Saturday op-ed in the Washington Post, Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe wrote that "The time has come for Congress to launch an impeachment investigation of President Trump for obstruction of justice." Tribe says it should happen now, because "To wait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk tying our nation’s…
AP's Pace Hysterically Claims Comey Firing Is 'Unprecedented'
May 13th, 2017 6:22 PM
The Associated Press and reporter Julie Pace are among the last institutions and people on earth, respectively, with any credibility to harangue the public about the dangers of "a man willing to challenge - in dramatic fashion - the institutions created to hold the president accountable." But there they were on Wednesday morning, in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to…
