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Ignore 'Stupid March Polls! Joe Scarborough Goes Baghdad Bob For Biden

March 23rd, 2024 6:44 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough goes full Baghdad Bob for Biden. He suggests people should ignore "stupid March polls" that show Biden losing, and analogizes the race to the 1980 race between Carter and Reagan, before Carter's support collapsed at the very end.

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Beschloss On MSNBC: Putin, Xi Will Start October Crisis To Help Trump

March 4th, 2024 8:23 AM

On MSNBC, a paranoid Michael Beschloss fears that in order to help Trump, Putin, China, and Turkey will spark an international crisis shortly before the 2024 election, to undermine confidence in Biden.  Beschloss also claims that because schools aren't teaching "civics," people don't understand the difference between democracy and dictatorship, and are therefore gulled into supporting Trump.…

A Time for Truth in America

November 2nd, 2023 2:27 PM

Over the last week, one conservative Republican rose up, and one conservative Republican stepped down. Former Vice President Mike Pence, a consistent and unwavering Christian and constitutional conservative, announced the termination of his presidential campaign, saying, “It’s become clear to me; this is not my time.”

Israel’s Lesson for 2024: A Liberal Crackup

October 26th, 2023 6:02 PM

Conventional wisdom says voters don’t care about foreign policy. Nearly two years into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II, the conventional wisdom seemed to be right. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had little effect on the race for the GOP presidential nomination and opened no room for a challenger to Joe Biden among the Democrats. But the butchery Hamas perpetrated against Israeli…

The Media and The Hostages: In 1979 and Today

October 21st, 2023 4:00 PM

It was November 4, 1979. The President of the United States was Democrat Jimmy Carter. Carter was seen by many on the GOP side as a weak president, which was part of the reason Republican Ronald Reagan was making another try for the GOP nomination to face off with Carter in the soon-to-arrive 1980 presidential election.

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MSNBC Mourns Americans Didn't Listen To Carter's Sweater Speech

July 14th, 2023 3:56 PM

MSNBC’s Chris Jansing welcomed author David Lipsky to her Friday show to promote his new book The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial and amid the usual lamentations about “deniers,” the duo appeared to blame the current state of the environment on Americans for not taking well to Jimmy Carter’s infamous 1977 sweater speech.

Dear Trump Haters: Can You Contain This Fire?

April 11th, 2023 2:26 PM

One can trace former President Donald Trump’s indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg back to the media/Democrat belief that Trump’s 2016 election was illegitimate. Sure, some, like Hillary Clinton, questioned former President Barack Obama’s birthplace. And, after the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision, some, for a time, groused and called George W. Bush “president select…

Reagan-Hating PBS Reheats Old ‘October Surprise’ Election Conspiracy

March 24th, 2023 11:20 AM

PBS celebrated the return of the ancient “October Surprise” election conspiracy theory -- the unsubstantiated rumor that Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, led by William Casey, delayed the release of the 52 American hostages in Iran in order to win election over Democrat Jimmy Carter. The original version was advanced by former Carter aide Gary Sick before being discredited…

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Carter-Trump Cable Double Standard On Allowing Wives In Meetings

February 24th, 2023 10:14 PM

CNN's Poppy Harlow gushes "I love that" over a report that Jimmy Carter invited Rosalynn to attend cabinet meetings. But the liberal media was aghast over news Donald Trump permitted Melania into the Situation Room on one occasion.

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CBS Crew Fascinated by Comrade Bernie’s Latest Far-Left Screed

February 20th, 2023 1:38 PM

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) made his second stop on the gauntlet of CBS shows on Monday’s CBS Mornings after a stop on Sunday’s Face the Nation (and ahead of Monday’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) promoting his book It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism. While Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan pressed Sanders on his latest act of…

President’s Day Parade (of Quotes): Using History to Spin the News

February 20th, 2023 8:50 AM

Journalists love to use past presidents to measure today’s politicians, either to build up those who exemplify their historical liberal heroes, or to belittle conservatives with whom they disagree. Here’s a deep dive into the MRC’s archives showing how the media have used presidents from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to JFK as talking points in today’s political battles.

Obama Warns About ‘Raw Sewage’ of Disinformation — Ignores Dem Garbage

January 26th, 2023 10:14 AM

In the wake of the “Twitter Files,” let’s revisit former President Barack Obama’s warning last April about the spread of misinformation: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe.”

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PBS Humorist Blames Reagan For Increased American Ignorance

September 24th, 2022 1:53 PM

Political humorist and satirist Andy Borowitz joined Walter Isaacson on Friday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss his new book Profiles in Ignorance which purports to report on the country’s growing anti-intellectualism. However, Borowitz’s segment prove the book is actually just an anti-Republican screed as he blames the problem on Ronald Reagan and defends Democrats…

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FLASHBACK: NYT Tried to Spin 1970s Stagflation to Protect Carter Too

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June 10th, 2022 11:06 AM

Remember when The New York Times attempted to spin the 1970s stagflation crisis in order to protect former President Jimmy Carter’s political image before the 1980 elections? MRC Business does.