Networks Censor Soros Ties to Trump's Finance Chair Pick

Business
May 10th, 2016 12:11 PM
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may argue that he’s a conservative, but his latest appointee comes from the ranks of former Soros employees. While that move might be a sticking point on the right, ABC, CBS and NBC have censored all information about Trump’s appointee.

You’re Hired! How NBC Spent 11 Years Making Trump a Household Name

Business
May 10th, 2016 9:44 AM
Donald Trump’s rise as a presidential candidate has prompted many political observers to blame TV outlets for giving him historic amounts of free air time. While it’s true the media have overwhelmingly focused on Trump in their coverage during the current election cycle, there is another media phenomenon at play. NBC has spent more than a decade building his brand as a successful businessman of…
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Trashing Trump: Jorge Ramos Bordering On Obsessive

Latino
May 10th, 2016 7:30 AM
Jorge Ramos’ weekly Al Punto program on Univision gives the nation’s leading Latino journalist-turned-activist a weekly platform for turning practically every topic to Trump. In fact, in four out of the five segments of the latest edition of the hour-long Sunday public affairs show, Ramos led guest after guest into a volley of broadsides against the GOP’s presumptive 2016 presidential nominee.

Trump Gave $150,000 to School That CNN Boss's Wife Helped Lead

May 10th, 2016 7:15 AM
One question that many Americans wonder is whether people helping Donald Trump dominate the presidential campaign have been given favors by the billionaire. On Monday night, Buzzfeed posted a story headlined “Trump Gave $150,000 To Charity That CNN Head's Wife Helped Lead.” Of course, the subhead below it underlines that the charity is an elite private school attended by Trump’s son Baron.
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Jeff Daniels: Trump’s Hat Should Say ‘Make America White Again’

May 10th, 2016 2:05 AM
“Look at anything Trump’s done. It plays into hatred,” actor Jeff Daniels charged on Monday’s With All Due Respect, before sneering: “The hat should say, ‘Make America White Again.’” As for the far-left socialist Sanders, Daniels trumpeted how “I love Bernie. I love the ideas he’s got,” citing his “ideals, let’s just make the world a great place” with “free health care and free college.” Alas,…
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Halperin: Unless 'Forced,' Media Won't Ask About Bill's Sex Scandals

May 9th, 2016 6:58 PM
Donald Trump has wasted no time in "going there": accusing Hillary Clinton of being an enabler of Bill's sexual misconduct with women. So will the MSM ask Hillary about her role in hushing up the scandals, intimidating the women, etc? No, according to Mark Halperin, not unless the MSM is "forced" to do so. Said Halperin on today's With All Due Respect, "I don't think a reporter will ask unless…
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Halperin: 'Only Way A Republican' Wins Is If 'The Press Favors Them'

May 9th, 2016 1:35 PM
MSNBC's Mark Halperin trumpeted the apparent power of the media on Monday's Morning Joe during a discussion about Donald Trump attacking the morning show: "The only way a Republican can win for president, I believe, is if the press favors them in coverage." Halperin then oddly claimed that Trump "had a chance to have better press coverage than Hillary Clinton. He's missing that chance. He's…
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NBC Touts Trump’s ‘Flexibility’ as He ‘Moved to the Left’

May 9th, 2016 12:49 PM
On Monday’s NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander framed Donald Trump’s adoption of various liberal policy positions as evidence of his “flexibility” as a candidate: “Trump showing plenty of flexibility on the issues, now open to a minimum wage increase after opposing it during the primaries. Shifting positions on taxes, too. His plan calls for cuts for everybody, which he contradicted last…
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CBS Touts London's First Muslim Mayor: Won After 'Facts Trumped Fear'

May 9th, 2016 7:29 AM

On Saturday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti ran a report celebrating the election of London's first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, as he portrayed conservative critics as exploiting "fear." Without trying to explain what critics were supposedly wrong about, Vigliotti suggested that his opponents were spreading misinformation as he declared that, "in the end, facts trumped fear…

New York Magazine Pundit: ‘Crude Tribalism’ Animates Typical GOP Voter

May 9th, 2016 7:25 AM
In a Tuesday post, New York magazine’s Chait suggested that conservatism is driven not by an elite but by its riff-raff. Chait asserted, “Whatever [the] abstract arguments for conservative policy…on the ground, Republican politics boils down to ethno-nationalistic passions ungoverned by reason,” and remarked that Donald Trump’s supporters “have revealed things about the nature of the party that…
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Not News: Kerry Tells Grads We're in a 'Borderless' World

May 9th, 2016 6:08 AM
Based on the content of John Kerry's Friday commencement speech at Northeastern University, one might have expected that those in attendance threw away their passports after the event ended. That's because the Obama administration's Secretary of State told those in attendance: "You’re about to graduate into a complex and borderless world." Kerry's extraordinarily dense, naive and dangerous…
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CBS's Stahl Hedges While Denying Liberal Pro-Clinton Media Bias

May 8th, 2016 1:49 PM
As CBS News veteran Lesley Stahl appeared as a guest on FNC's Media Buzz on Sunday, host Howard Kurtz might have almost gotten her to admit to liberal personal biases among her colleagues as she seemed to hedge on the issue of whether there is a liberal pro-Hillary Clinton bias. After initially denying Kurtz's suggestion that "the liberal press wants Hillary Clinton to win," claiming that…
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ABC Protects Clintons from Trump's 'Low Blow' Attacks

May 8th, 2016 10:16 AM
Since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has turned up the attacks against Hillary Clinton and her husband. “She's married to man who was the worst abuser of women in the history of politics,” he exclaimed at a recent campaign rally. On Sunday morning, ABC took it upon themselves to play a little defense for Secretary Clinton, while touting her counter punches and omitting…

Campbell Brown: Curb Trump Campaign Coverage, Never for Obama

May 7th, 2016 5:58 PM
In two different articles over the last six months, former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown offered a fair representation of some of the media handwringing about their responsibility for Donald Trump. They charged Trump is over-covered. But wait: did anyone see Campbell Brown complaining that the media gave too much attention to Barack Obama in 2008? I haven't been able to find any complaints.