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NBC Flaunts Tweets About Trump’s Privates, Rapper’s Stripping Melania
October 16th, 2018 9:46 PM
In a disturbing example of just how far down the gutter they had sunk, Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News featured back-to-back reports hyping opponents of President Trump deriding him and First Lady Melania Trump in a sexual manner. In sharp contrast, their broadcast network competitors CBS Evening News and ABC’s World News Tonight were classy enough to leave the low brow attacks out of their programs.
HLN Abruptly Cuts Live Programs for ‘News by Day, Mysteries by Night'
October 16th, 2018 7:45 PM
Ever since HLN debuted as CNN2 on January 1, 1982, the cable television channel has been on a roller coaster ride that led to the announcement on Tuesday that the network is immediately cutting back on its live programming in favor of virtually all taped shows. The transition was already apparent on the same day, when Morning Express with Robin Meade was followed by a rerun of How It Really…
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Cuomo Rants About Trump Policy on Illegal Immigrant Families
October 16th, 2018 7:03 PM
On Monday night, CNN host Chris Cuomo spent the last four minutes of his show and even extending into the first few minutes of Don Lemon's show ranting against President Donald Trump's new policy dealing with illegal immigrant families detained on the border as he accused the administration of "lying" about family separation.
NYT Spins Warren's 'Native' Claim, Rips Trump's 'Racial Taunt
October 16th, 2018 2:27 PM
After a bizarre, early-presidential ploy by presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren involving a DNA test, the online headline over the New York Times story spun mightily on her behalf: “Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Results Put Trump on Defensive, but Also Raise Questions,” by Jonathan Martin. Martin tried to link Trump’s anti-Warren “Pocahontas” jibe to the tawdry “birther” issue, though in this case…
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Nets Downplay Avenatti, Daniels Having Defamation Suit Tossed Out
October 16th, 2018 12:22 PM
In a big legal victory for President Trump, a federal judge late Monday tossed out a defamation lawsuit filed against him by porn star Stormy Daniels and her lawyer/possible 2020 presidential candidate Michael Avenatti, demanding they pay Trump’s attorneys fees. When it came to Tuesday mornings’s broadcast network newscasts, the news all but fell on deaf ears with only 63 seconds of coverage and…
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ABC Praises ‘Superstar’ Obama Photographer ‘Throwing Shade’ at Trump
October 16th, 2018 10:28 AM
Tuesday on Good Morning America, Nightline anchor JuJu Chang profiled former Obama White House photographer Pete Souza for his newest book, entitled Shade, and about his snarky photo captions bashing President Trump on Instagram. Chang opened her report by calling the 63-year-old photographer a “very unlikely Instagram superstar” whose made a name for himself on social media by replying to…
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Couric Accuses Palin of Inciting Against Obama, 'Lamestream Media'
October 16th, 2018 10:12 AM
Appearing as a guest on Monday's CNN Tonight, former CBS anchor Katie Couric blamed former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin for stoking animosity against the "lamestream media" and President Barack Obama as she also repeated a disputed claim that an audience member at a 2008 Republican rally shouted a death threat against then-candidate Obama.
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NBC’s Mitchell: Trump 'Embraces a Rogues Gallery of Dictators'
October 16th, 2018 1:00 AM
To kick off NBC Nightly News on Monday, the network huffed about how Trump was walking the fine line with America’s partner. After noting reports suggesting the Saudis were preparing to admit to killing Jamal Khashoggi, anchor Lester Holt chided the President. “Word of the acknowledgment comes just hours after Trump seemed to accept Saudi denials of any involvement while speculating Khashoggi may…
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Boom! Jennings Schools Lefty Walsh Over Warren’s ‘Pathetic Self-Own’
October 16th, 2018 12:27 AM
Things grew tense Monday night on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront (with fill-in host Jake Tapper) as one of the rare CNN conservatives in political commentator Scott Jennings threw down with The Nation’s Joan Walsh over Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s attention-grabbing attempt to reinforce her minuscule Native American heritage.
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Networks Circle the Wagons for Warren’s Laughable Heritage Claims
October 15th, 2018 10:05 PM
What was supposed to be a rebuke of President Trump’s ridicule ended up drawing more laughs from most and scorn from others. In an overly dramatized campaign video out Monday, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) released the results of a DNA test that suggested she did have a Native American ancestor. The catch? It’s possible she was only 1/1,024th Native American. Despite that fact, the…
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Alec Baldwin Tells Voters to 'Overthrow' Trump Government in Midterms
October 15th, 2018 9:41 PM
While Alec Baldwin is best known these days for his impersonation of President Trump on NBC’s Saturday Night Live program, the liberal actor/activist used a speech on Sunday night to attack the Republican occupant of the White House and the rest of the GOP as well. During a keynote address at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s annual fall fund-raising dinner in Manchester, Baldwin told voters…
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Matthews, Friends Dismiss Warren Fiasco Because of...Trump's Taxes?
October 15th, 2018 9:40 PM
Talk about a red herring and case of whataboutism. On Monday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews tag-teamed with Democratic strategist Steve McMahon and The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker to downplay the fiasco concerning Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s razor-thin Native American heritage by invoking President Trump’s tax returns.
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NYT's Mara Gay: Trump Mocked Warren Over 'Anxieties About Who's White'
October 15th, 2018 9:12 PM
On Ari Melber's MSNBC show Monday night, Mara Gay of the NYT editorial board misrepresents President Trump's mocking of Elizabeth Warren's phony claim to be a Native American. Gay says it was "was actually about white anxieties among Donald Trump's base about who's white in America." In fact, Trump was calling out Warren's cheating: using the phony claim of being a Native American to get ahead…
NYT Sees GOP Using ‘Fear-Based Appeal’ Against Sanctuary Cities
October 15th, 2018 7:01 PM
As congressional elections loom, New York Times reporter Julie Hirschfeld Davis revealed Monday that “Republicans Find an Unexpectedly Potent Line of Attack: Immigration.” (Unexpected to the Times, at least.) The text box: “Heart-rending images are countered with fear-laden appeals.” Davis’s Monday story tilted the playing field with tone and labeling choices: "But Republican candidates across…
