Is Merrick Garland Actually, Genuinely Serious?

August 18th, 2022 4:21 PM

Commenting about the FBI executing a search warrant on former president Donald Trump’s Florida home, which he approved, Attorney General Merrick Garland said: “Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy. … All Americans are entitled to the even-handed application of the law, to due process, and to the presumption of innocence…

WIRED Whines Google’s Search Results Should Have MORE Censorship

August 18th, 2022 2:19 PM

Tech outlet WIRED complained that Google’s search results need improvement—through more censorship! WIRED whined in an Aug. 16 piece that content on Google, just like on social media platforms, can create an “information trap.” Francesca Tripodi asserted in the WIRED article that “[c]onspiracy theorists and propagandists” are engineering online content to spread “lies.”

New York Post RIPS Norah O'Donnell for Incorrect Tweet on Trump Raid

August 17th, 2022 2:51 PM

Anonymous sources can cut both ways. After CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell sloppily tweeted an inaccurate claim that Trump was lying about the FBI taking his passports in the Mar-a-Lago raid, unnamed critics inside CBS pounced in a Tuesday New York Post story. The Post Editorial Board really let O'Donnell have it.

Nia-Malika Henderson Scott Jennings CNN New Day 8-17-22
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CNN Admits: Liz Cheney's Base Is 'Democrats and the Beltway Media!'

August 17th, 2022 10:49 AM

Given Liz Cheney's overwhelming defeat in yesterday's Wyoming Republican congressional primary, it would clearly be a very uphill slog to win a national GOP presidential primary, should that be her goal for 2024. On today's New Day, CNN cast Cheney as having two legs to her base of support: Democrats, and the Beltway media!
 

Surprise! Twitter, Facebook to Censor Speech in Leadup to Midterms

August 17th, 2022 9:06 AM

They’re at it again! Two of the leading platforms responsible for censoring the bombshell New York Post Hunter Biden scandal stories before the 2020 presidential election are gearing up to censor free speech to combat so-called “misinformation” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Ken Frydman John Berman Brianna Keilar John Avlon CNN New Day 8-16-22
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Overwrought on CNN: Giuliani's Goal Is 'To Die A Free Man'

August 17th, 2022 5:42 AM

Two of Rudy Giuliani's former aides turned on him with a vengeance on CNN's New Day on Tuesdayt morning. First up, former Rudy spox Ken Frydman. Commenting on Rudy being made a prosecution target in Fulton County, Georgia, Frydman said that Rudy's strategy is to "delay, delay, delay," and that: "At this point in his life, Rudy's goal is to die a free man."

Don’t Question! Twitter Censors PJ Media Article About FBI Trump Raid

August 16th, 2022 12:57 PM

Shielding the FBI? Twitter restricted the link to a PJ Media article questioning the FBI’s motives for raiding former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

On Jim Acosta's Show, Sam Donaldson Compares Trump to Al Capone

August 16th, 2022 11:29 AM

In an interview with another former White House screamer (Jim Acosta), Sam Donaldson smeared Donald Trump by comparing him to Al Capone.

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MSNBC Melodrama: 'Vote As If Your Life Depends On It—Will We Survive?'

August 14th, 2022 4:04 PM

It was anti-Trump melodrama to the max on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show on Sunday. Michael Beschloss, one of the historians who recently met with Biden, at one point looked directly into the camera and beseeched the viewers: "vote as if your life depends on it. Because it might." Then, a panicky Capehart asked Beschloss: "are we going to survive this?" Answered Beschloss: "I don't know."

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MSNBC's Cross: 'Traitor' Trump 'Trafficking' Nuke Secrets To Putin?

August 14th, 2022 6:26 AM

On her MSNBC show, Tiffany Cross suggests that Donald Trump might have been "trafficking" nuclear s3ecrets to our enemies, with a guest suggesting that Putin would be the most obvious recipient. Cross exclaimed that such would make Trump a "traitor." The punishment for treason under federal law includes "death."

Scarborough Now Decries ‘Fascism,’ Didn’t Mind Liberal Abuse of Power

August 13th, 2022 3:30 PM

Following the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, with agents swarming, guns drawn, Morning Joe took to the air the next day to, incredibly, say the critics of the raid are “fascists.” Scarborough added of the raid’s critics: “And so they’re making fascist threats. And we need to do what the United States has always done. We need to confront fascism and…

John Berman Phil Mudd CNN New Day 8-12-22
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Does CNN Analyst Know More than WashPost on Nuke Docs at Mar-a-Lago?

August 13th, 2022 1:43 PM

On New Day, CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd claimed even the Top Secret clearances he had as a senior official at the FBI and CIA would not have permitted him to view the documents regarding nuclear weapons that allegedly were at Mar-a-Lago.  Mudd also twice referred to Mar-a-Lago, for purposes of deriding the security measures in place there, as a "beach house."

NewsBusters Podcast: A 'Brutal Payback' for the Trump Raid?

August 12th, 2022 10:40 PM

As the networks try to present Merrick Garland as reasonable and nonpartisan, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel predicts that if Republicans take Congress, "The Payback Will Be Brutal."

NewsGuard Advisor Agrees Executing Trump for Allegedly Having Nuke Doc

August 12th, 2022 4:51 PM

A former CIA director and NewsGuard advisor today seemingly promoted the execution of former President Donald Trump on Twitter.