Slate Writer: Curiel, Garland Targets of GOP’s ‘War On the Judiciary’
June 8th, 2016 6:28 PM
Conservative Paul Ryan and liberal Lithwick agree that Donald Trump’s recent digs at Gonzalo Curiel were racist, but disagree about their significance. Ryan considers the attacks peculiar to Trump, while Lithwick sees them as of a piece with the Republican party’s “wider assault on the judiciary in the Obama era.”
Lithwick even wondered rhetorically, “Do Trump’s smears of Judge Curiel differ all…
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Hillary le dice a Univisión que en vez de un muro, construirá puentes
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June 8th, 2016 2:29 PM
Parece que la candidata presidencial demócrata Hillary Clinton está apostando todo a que los votantes de Estados Unidos la acompañan en su posición contra la construcción de un muro de seguridad a lo largo de la frontera con México.
Cher: 'When I Watch Trump, I Just Want to Blow My Brains Out'
June 8th, 2016 7:16 AM
Singer and hardcore liberal Cher made some rather outrageous comments at a posh Hollywood fundraiser for Hillary Clinton on Monday. "When I watch Trump I just want to blow my brains out.Or maybe not my brains. but I'm just like `What are you talking about? Jesus." I know that Hillary fights for equality for all people and we are no good unless all of us are equal."
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Matthews Shrieks Hillary’s Anti-Trump Lines ‘Jumped Out Like a Cougar'
June 8th, 2016 12:24 AM
Whether it’s a 2008 speech by Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton’s June 2 foreign policy speech, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews can be counted on to have a hot take that’ll evoke some head scratching and Tuesday can be added to the list as he shrieked that Clinton’s primary victory speech lines attacking Donald Trump “jumped out” at him “like a cougar” and made him think “wow.”
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Univisión llama “subversivos” a manifestantes violentos contra Trump
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June 7th, 2016 5:33 PM
En un desvío impresionante de la narrativa habitual de promover manifestantes anti-Trump, Despierta América, el programa matutino de Univisión, emitió un informe contundente denunciando los "subversivos" que participaron en las protestas y la violencia cometidas en las afueras de un mitin de campaña de Trump en San José, California.
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Pro-Trump Republicans MIA on Univision, Telemundo Sunday Shows
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June 7th, 2016 4:59 PM
In what could be a preview of things to come, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee failed to have any voices in his corner on the latest round of Sunday talk shows broadcast by leading U.S. Spanish-language television networks Univision and Telemundo.
Daily Kos Writer: Today’s GOP ‘Disturbingly Similar’ to KKK
June 6th, 2016 9:35 PM
The right’s widely varied response to Donald Trump’s presidential bid may be the political story of the year so far, but many liberals have ignored it in favor of arguing that Trump’s worldview is a pure product of conservatism. For example, in a Sunday article, Chauncey DeVega claimed that Trump is “the logical result of at least five decades of Republican political strategy” and defined…
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Univision Skewers Trump on PGA Tournament Move to Mexico
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June 6th, 2016 4:08 PM
Predictably, Univision ratcheted up its anti-Trump rhetoric in reporting on the news that the PGA is moving its annual World Golf Championship tournament from Trump’s Doral Golf resort in South Florida to Mexico.
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David Gregory Makes Excuses For Hillary Not Holding Press Conferences
June 6th, 2016 3:20 PM
On Monday's New Day, CNN's David Gregory barely acknowledged the criticism of Hillary Clinton for not holding press conferences before trying to offer excuses for the former first lady: "I think she would much rather give the spotlight of negative publicity to Donald Trump, who's doing an excellent job occupying that spotlight....I don't think she wants to face a series of questions and follow-up…
BuzzFeed Cancels RNC Ad Buy Due to Trump; Compares Him to Cigarettes
June 6th, 2016 12:03 PM
For a liberal media that bemoans the idea of businesses and corporations being considered “people” post-Citizens United, BuzzFeed decided that they would cancel the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) advertising for their site due to Donald Trump’s candidacy threatening “the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world.”
Surprise: Univision Identifies ‘Subversives’ In Anti-Trump Protests
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June 5th, 2016 4:56 PM
In a stunning departure from the network’s usual fare promoting anti-Trump protesters, Despierta América, Univision’s morning show, has broadcast a hard-hitting report denouncing the "subversives" involved in the protests and the violence they perpetrated outside a Trump campaign rally in San José, California.
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Reliable Sources: Obama 'Much More Dangerous' to the Press than Trump
June 5th, 2016 3:40 PM
In a moment of absolute candor on CNN’s Reliable Sources, David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun laid into President Barack Obama and set the record straight about who’s a bigger threat to the press. As many members of the media whine about Donald Trump giving them a piece of his mind, Zurawik guided people down memory lane and declared, “What happened to the press under Obama was really deadly.”
Steelers OT Ryan Harris Claims Trump Is 'Un-American' on Islam
June 5th, 2016 3:15 PM
The liberal New York Daily News wallowed in anti-Trump comments made by Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Ryan Harris, who won a Super Bowl ring in February with the Denver Broncos. Harris, a convert to Islam, put on his freedom swagger and said Trump’s comments on Islam have been “un-American.” No one asks about the serious tensions between Islam and freedom of religion.
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Meet the Press: Republicans Risk Losing the Senate with Trump
June 5th, 2016 11:34 AM
In an earlier than usual broadcast of NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, the panel was gleefully predicting the demise of Republicans and their future loss of the Senate. “The fact that John McCain, because of the Hispanic vote, is at risk of losing the election after five terms in the Senate and being the party standard bearer … because of the top of the ticket, and this would of course also…