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Rose to Kevin Spacey: 'Talk About Your Bromance with Bill Clinton'
March 13th, 2015 3:27 PM
Charlie Rose, on his PBS show, couldn’t resist asking actor Kevin Spacey about his “bromance” with former President Bill Clinton. The star of House of Cards -- whom CNN recently hired for their documentary on the 2016 presidential candidates -- revealed how tight he is with the ex-president. Spacey: "I was a true friend. And never doubted him, never stopped believing in him. Thought he was an…
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Kimmel to Obama: ‘Do You Have Hillary Clinton’s New E-Mail Address?'
March 13th, 2015 12:07 PM
President Barack Obama was both comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s main topic of discussion and guest on his late night talk show on ABC Thursday night, with topics in the opening monologue and sit-down interview ranging from softball questions about driving, seeing a dentist, and aliens, to substantive topics such as the letter 47 Republican Senators sent to Iran, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, and…
English, Spanish Network Evening Newscasts Skip Clinton E-Mail Scandal
March 13th, 2015 1:06 AM
The English and Spanish language networks combined to completely ignore the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal on their Thursday night shows. The network evening news blackout, which involved English-language networks ABC, CBS, and NBC and Spanish-language networks MundoFox, Telemundo, and Univision, was only the second such occurrence since the scandal broke after the evening newscasts on March 3 in…
Liberal Writer: Hillary Should Nominate Obama For Supreme Court
March 12th, 2015 11:05 PM
Veteran journalist Steven Waldman, a former Washington correspondent for Newsweek and a senior adviser to the Federal Communications Commission for two years during Obama’s first term, argues that an Obama nomination would be “good for [Hillary], and very good for progressives. Would he want it? It’s possible he’d view it as too confining, but it may be the only job a former president can get…
NYT's Patrick Healy: Hillary's Toughest Foe Is...the Media?
March 12th, 2015 10:37 PM
New York Times reporter Patrick Healy's news analysis" surveyed the splintered GOP presidential field, the barren Democratic one, and claimed that "Early In 2016 Race, Clinton's Toughest Foe Appears to Be the News Media." Healy really seems to think the press, and presumably the Times, has given Hillary Clinton a rough ride over her career. NewsBusters begs to differ.
NewsBusted: Hillary's Going to Need All the Magic She Can Muster Now
March 12th, 2015 4:53 PM
According to a new report, witchcraft is experiencing a resurgence among American women. In fact, one prominent witch is about to become the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller.
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Fox News Exposes Possible 'Criminal Case' in Clinton E-Mail Scandal
March 12th, 2015 11:38 AM
ABC and CBS on Wednesday night and Thursday morning minimized their coverage for Hillary Clinton's still-ongoing e-mail scandal. It was left to Fox's Megyn Kelly to report that "the potential criminal case against Hillary Clinton may have gotten a whole lot stronger." She informed viewers, "We are told that every employee leaving the State Department, every one, must sign the OF-109 form."
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NBC Covers 'New Fallout' in Hillary E-Mail Scandal; ABC, CBS Give Secs
March 12th, 2015 11:37 AM
Keeping up the pressure on Hillary Clinton on Thursday, NBC's Today was the only network morning show to provide a full report on the latest developments in the e-mail scandal still swirling around the 2016 Democratic contender. ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning had already moved on, each offering only seconds-long news briefs on the controversy.
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Halperin: Hillary 'Evaded Deftly' Enough for Scandal to 'Go Away'
March 12th, 2015 11:02 AM
The political writing team of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin came on Charlie Rose’s PBS show, on Tuesday, to dissect Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal press conference and while the two were mostly critical, Halperin was definitely the softer of the two as he thought Hillary could escape yet another scandal: “I think her performance today is enough to have Democrats come back into her corner...…
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CBS’s Nancy Cordes Uncritically Quotes Iran’s Ayatollah
March 12th, 2015 9:48 AM
On Thursday’s CBS This Morning, reporter Nancy Cordes concluded a fairly balanced report over the battle between members of Congress and the White House surrounding nuclear negotiations with Iran by uncritically quoting the Supreme Leader of Iran slamming the GOP letter to his country as “ridiculous, disgusting, and gross.”
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ABC Moves on from Clinton E-Mail Scandal; CBS Devotes Only 20 Seconds
March 11th, 2015 9:45 PM
In what may be the beginning of a move by networks to bury Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir ignored the story in its Wednesday night broadcast with the CBS Evening News following close behind with only a 20-second news brief. Over on NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell updated viewers on the scandal in a full segment, including news of a report by the State…
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Barbara Boxer: GOP After Hillary Because 'She's Exciting the Public'
March 11th, 2015 6:41 PM
Could you use some "Hill-arity" after a long day? On the Ed Show, Barbara Boxer claimed Republicans are going after Hillary "because they know she's exciting the public." Right. For good measure, Boxer said that she "unequivocally" trusts Hillary.
David Corn of way-left Mother Jones was surprisingly skeptical, saying that "whether Barbara Boxer trusts her or not," Hillary critics have a…
Fournier Unloads on Hillary: ‘Pay-Phone Candidate in an iPhone World’
March 11th, 2015 6:40 PM
In dual columns Tuesday and Wednesday, National Journal columnist Ron Fourier tore into Hillary Clinton and her email scandal, declaring her to be “[a] pay-phone candidate in an iPhone world” and having utterly failed to answer numerous questions as to why “she seized control of documents that were supposed to be on a government server.”
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Huh? ABC's Nicolle Wallace: Media 'Hate' Hillary Clinton
March 11th, 2015 5:10 PM
According to View co-host Nicolle Wallace, supposedly the "conservative" voice on the show, members of the media "hate" Hillary Clinton more than "my party." On Wednesday, Wallace offered a bewildering analysis of the likely 2016 Democratic candidate: "The media, they hate her the most, okay? More than my party. They hate her."