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Hateful Joy Reid: It’s Racist to Oppose Far-Left For the People Act!

March 25th, 2021 1:14 AM

Wednesday on MSNBC, ReidOut host Joy Reid peddled the farcical narrative that the For the People Act is necessary for “democracy protection.” With help from former AG Eric Holder, Reid insisted “the GQP” doesn’t want people to vote and, with help from the supposedly racist Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), have been the only ones keeping the “Jim Crow relic” known as the filibuster alive…

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NEW NewsBusters Podcast: 'State-Run Radio' and War on Fox News

February 24th, 2021 8:30 PM

In the latest analytical session of the NewsBusters podcast, Executive Editor Tim Graham describes how National Public Radio assumes the tone of "state-run radio" when Democrats win the presidency. This week's confirmation hearings for Attorney General designate Merrick Garland were accompanied by a an affectionate seven-minute profile on NPR's Morning Edition by Carrie Johnson, their Justice…

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WATCH: Doocy Demolishes Psaki on Biden’s Immigration Double Standard

February 23rd, 2021 7:20 PM

A day after struggling with questions about embattled OMB Director nominee Neera Tanden, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki found herself being torched Tuesday by Fox News’s Peter Doocy about the administration’s immigration policies and specifically the reopening of a detention center both President Biden and Vice President Harris derided as an abomination under the Trump regime.

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'View' Defends Neera Tanden Tweets, Again: 'Where Are the Lies?'

February 23rd, 2021 3:00 PM

View hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin doubled down on their defense for Biden OMB Director nominee, Neera Tanden, on Tuesday’s show, focusing solely on the numerous controversial tweets she’s sent on Twitter over the years.

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Sunny Hostin Outraged by Cotton Pressing Garland on 'Racial Equity' EO

February 23rd, 2021 1:37 PM

The View co-host Sunny Hostin defended President Biden's "racial equity" executive order on Tuesday's show and accused GOP Senator Tom Cotton [R-AR] of having white "privilege" for daring to challenge it in Merrick Garland's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday.

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PBS Anchor Claims 'the American People' Are Critical of GOP Over Court

September 24th, 2020 10:44 PM

On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, as she interviewed Wyoming Republican Senator John Barrasso over the issue of filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg's vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, host Judy Woodruff twice framed criticism of Republicans as coming from "the American people" as she spent the entire interview pressing him over the push to confirm a new justice before the election.

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FLIP-FLOP: Four Years Ago, Media Demanded Election-Year SCOTUS Vote

September 24th, 2020 7:55 AM

While journalists today loudly criticize Republicans as hypocrites for moving forward on replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trip through the Media Research Center’s archives shows the liberal media are also exhibiting more than their fair share of hypocrisy. Four years ago, when Republican leader Mitch McConnell would not permit a Senate vote on a liberal replacement to…

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MSNBC Sounds the Alarm over Trump's Judicial Appointments

December 16th, 2019 5:44 PM
MSNBC Live co-hosts Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi took a brief break from talking about impeachment Monday afternoon to agonize over another way in which President Trump and congressional Republicans are a threat to the republic: judicial appointments. Together with liberal legal eagle Danielle McLaughlin, they lamented Trump's high number of judicial appointments, the lack of a Democratic…
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CNN Freaks Out Over McConnell Saying He'd Fill Supreme Court Seat

May 29th, 2019 11:27 AM
On Wednesday's New Day on CNN, the show was fixated on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell commenting last night that he would work to fill a hypothetical U.S. Supreme Court vacancy if one occurred in 2020, as hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota brought up the issue repeatedly across all three hours of the show. Additionally, no conservative commentators were included in the panel…
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Scarborough Suggests Dems Add Court Packing To National Emergencies

February 26th, 2019 2:42 PM
One of the most radical schemes that the left has come up with in the aftermath of the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and declination to confirm Merrick Garland was to advocate court packing. On MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday, co-host Joe Scarborough took it one step further and suggested Democrats add it to a list of national emergencies that they can…

Time to End the Judiciary Circus

September 25th, 2018 4:37 PM
The Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus announced last year it was closing after a 146-year run, largely because of high operating costs, costly legal battles with animal rights groups and declining ticket sales, especially after elephants were retired from the show. Brett Kavanaugh's embattled nomination for the Supreme Court has become a circus, and it's time for the Senate…
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Ruhle Compares Kavanaugh Smears to Garland Not Getting Confirmed

September 24th, 2018 12:13 PM
On Monday morning’s MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle made quite the comparison by suggesting that the smears against Judge Brett Kavanaugh were on par with Obama Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland not having a hearing, dismissing the President’s charge that these attacks were unprecedented for an appointee.

Eye Roll: ABC's Dowd Slams Brett Kavanaugh…and Clarence Thomas

September 18th, 2018 10:23 PM
ABC News political analyst and former George W. Bush campaign official Matthew Dowd decided not to wait until Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Instead, Dowd not only hammered the current nominee, but he also reached all the way back to 1991 and stated that Clarence Thomas has at least one thing in common with…

A New Court Nominee, But TV News Employs Same Old Biased Script

July 11th, 2018 10:21 AM
Since the 1980s, the well-worn liberal playbook is to claim that Republican appointees to the Supreme Court should be voted down as ideologues who are outside the judicial mainstream. The establishment media aids this tactic by often tagging GOP nominees as “conservative,” while ignoring — or even disputing — the liberal bent of Democratic nominees to the Court. True to form, ABC, CBS and NBC’s…