Writer: Media Normalize ‘Vicious’ Trump; Have ‘Grudge’ Against Hillary
August 27th, 2016 3:08 PM
Plenty of journalists saw Hillary Clinton’s Thursday speech on Donald Trump and white nationalists as an attempt to further separate the GOP nominee from Republicans who aren’t #NeverTrump but are leery of voting for him. Kevin Drum of Mother Jones “propose[d] a different explanation”: that Hillary “was giving the press permission to talk about Donald Trump's racism." But Esquire’s Charles Pierce…
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MSNBC Invites Handler to Boost Rock the Vote, Pro-Choice Women
August 27th, 2016 2:15 PM
The liberal (disguised as non-partisan) voter registration group Rock the Vote received some free airtime on Friday afternoon’s MSNBC Live as host Thomas Roberts welcomed on celebrity backer and vulgar Netflix host Chelsea Handler to promote the group plus her plea for young women to vote so that more abortion-loving judges could end up on the Supreme Court.
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PBS NewsHour Cuts Anti-Hillary Portions of Jill Stein Interview
August 27th, 2016 7:18 AM
On Tuesday, PBS's Judy Woodruff did a live interview with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein which was carried on Facebook. The entire interview, plus questions asked by viewers, is present at the network's Facebook page.
That interview without the Facebook questions was also broadcast on PBS's NewsHour — but not quite all of it. For some reason, key portions of Stein's answer to…
New Yorker Writer Slams 'Creepy Vibe' at Clinton Foundation Events
August 26th, 2016 4:15 PM
During this week's episode of Political Gabfest – a “political-commentary podcast” produced by the far-left culture magazine Salon -- a pro-Hillary guest surprisingly unleashed a several-minute-long criticism of the Clinton Foundation and its “performance” regarding public charities. Adam Davidson, a contributing writer at The New Yorker magazine, stated that “there is a real creepy vibe to me”…
Karma for the Clintons at Last?
August 26th, 2016 3:22 PM
Hold on; we may finally be getting some fireworks in this lackluster presidential campaign -- as the Clinton Foundation scandal seems to be gathering steam. Could the Clintons finally have to face the music for their adult-lifetime of corruption? Is it possible that Hillary Clinton's lifelong scheme to be America's first female president could be derailed by this power couple's wanton venality?
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‘Morning Joe’ Hits Hillary on Foundation, Lets Up in Touting Speech
August 26th, 2016 3:14 PM
Hillary Clinton joined the cast of characters on MSNBC’s Morning Joe late in Friday’s show and co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski questioned her somewhat fairly about the Clinton Foundation and had facial expressions that embodied the lack of trust the American people have in her, but they backed off at some points in hailing her “remarkable” Thursday afternoon speech that could be seen…
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Cuomo Lets Guest Claim Trump 'Outsourced' Camp to 'White Supremacists'
August 26th, 2016 12:24 PM
On Friday's New Day on CNN, during a segment focused on the major presidential candidates both accusing each other of "bigotry," host Chris Cuomo failed to challenge Rep. Hakeem Jeffries when the New York Democrat claimed that GOP candidate Donald Trump "time and time again," has "sort of outsourced parts of his campaign to white supremacist groups."
Love U Hillz! 10 Crazy Examples of Women’s Mags Gushing over Hillary
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August 26th, 2016 10:19 AM
Women's magazines are notorious for their undying devotion to Hillary; but sometimes, they go a bit too far. Hopefully, if you don't get sick, this slideshow will spark some chortles and eye-rolls.
Blogger Not Sure Trump Would Be a Worse President Than Dubya
August 25th, 2016 11:30 PM
Many liberals are certain that a Donald Trump presidency would be an unprecedented fiasco, but The Washington Monthly’s D.R. Tucker isn’t among them. In a Sunday post, Tucker suggested that in terms of racism and overall “incompetence,” a Trump administration would be a sort of sequel to George W. Bush’s, and speculated that Republicans who are backing Hillary Clinton may be, “on a very subtle…
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Kelly Confronts Ramos on Trump Disdain, Not Branding Hillary a 'Liar'
August 25th, 2016 11:00 PM
On Thursday night, Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos met his match in Fox News Channel’s Kelly File host Megyn Kelly, who proceeded call out Ramos on his claim that journalists shouldn’t be neutral in their coverage of Donald Trump and wondered if he’d do the same for Hillary Clinton since many consider her to be a liar like some Latinos consider Trump a racist.
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ABC, NBC Swoop in to Defend Clinton from Trump’s ‘Bigot’ Remark
August 25th, 2016 10:59 PM
The war of words in the 2016 race for president reached a new level Thursday when both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton accused one another of being a “bigot.” On CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor James Brown seemed disappointed in them, starting the show off saying, “The presidential campaign may have hit a low point today, and there are still 75 days to go.” While Brown seemed disappointed, both…
NPR: Clinton Rape Claim 'Old News,' But Priest Abuse Charges Never Age
August 25th, 2016 9:05 PM
“It's important to say right up front that this isn't a story about pedophile priests,” began the NPR reporter on Wednesday night....in a story with the online headline “Catholic Church Groups Fight Bills To Revive Old Sex Abuse Cases.”
Some legislators want to put in a "grace period" for new sex-abuse lawsuits outside the statute of limitations. The people who call their show All Things…
‘Atlantic’ Previews an ‘Era of the B***h’ Clinton Presidency
August 25th, 2016 8:11 PM
According to The Atlantic’s Michelle Cottle, a Hillary Clinton presidency will not only be a win for women as the first woman takes the White House – but it will usher in an “era of the bitch,” not because Clinton is one, but because Cottle believes a Clinton presidency will create an uptick in the amount of sexism and misogyny in the United States.
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Hillary Gives Chocolate to 'Cooperative,' 'Wonderful' Press; Skips Q's
August 25th, 2016 5:42 PM
In her latest attempt on Thursday afternoon to dodge questions from her press corps in extending her streak of days without a press conference to 264 days, Hillary Clinton tried some chocolate from a local store after blasting Donald Trump and the despicable alt-right movement and implored the employees to feed the assembled press because they’re “so wonderful, so cooperative, [and] so…