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Hasan Compares Israel to Putin and Assad, Demands U.S. Let Hamas Live

March 1st, 2024 2:14 PM

Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who is launching his own media company, traveled to CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Thursday to discuss the conflicting narratives behind the deaths of several Gazans who were gathered around an aid truck. While Hasan had no problems relying on Hamas-supplied statistics, he condemned the media for trusting the Israeli military while comparing it to…

Putin Is Pushing Where There’s Mush

February 26th, 2024 9:29 AM

This week, Vladimir Putin finally — allegedly — murdered his chief political rival and critic Alexei Navalny. Navalny’s death followed an attempt by Putin’s operatives in 2020 to kill him by poisoning; Navalny survived the attempt, worked with online specialists to unmask the actual agents responsible for the poisoning and then returned to Russia, where he was promptly arrested on trumped-up…

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Tapper: Biden Gets 'Unfiltered' with Fat Cats But Avoids Interviewers

February 23rd, 2024 9:18 AM

On Thursday's The Lead on CNN, in a segment titled "Biden Unfiltered," anchor Jake Tapper reported Biden telling a group of San Francisco donors that although Putin is a "crazy SOB," the real existential threat is climate change. He noted Biden, like Obama, gets "looser" around big donors off-camera, but he's skipping interviews and press conferences, which doesn't inspire confidence…

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Pretend Tough Guy: Macho Joe Scarborough Mocks 'Little' Mike Johnson

February 20th, 2024 8:52 PM

Macho MSNBC host Joe Scarborough continued to expose his troubling obsession with outward manifestations of masculinity. Macho Joe was back at it Tuesday during Tuesday's Morning Joe, twice referring to the Republican Speaker of the House as "little" Mike Johnson.

Musk’s X Platform Makes Surprise Suspension of High-Profile Account

February 20th, 2024 3:39 PM

The social media platform, X, briefly suspended the account of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after she accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of her husband's death. The suspension, which lasted 45 minutes, was soon lifted with X citing an error by their defense mechanism against manipulation and spam. The platform has not clarified what triggered…

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CNN Commentator: Trump Might Envy Putin, Wishes He Could Murder Foes

February 19th, 2024 3:51 PM

In the 2 pm hour of CNN News Central on Monday, their Democrat commentator Maria Cardona came unglued about how fiendishly Donald Trump supports Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. She said Putin could imagine Trump admires him over Navalny's death, that how do we know Trump didn't say, “You go, bro, I wish I could do that here!”

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Capehart Tries To Blame Trump For Putin Murdering Alexei Navalny

February 17th, 2024 9:50 AM

After outspoken Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny was murdered on Friday, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour to claim that former President Donald Trump “emboldened” Putin and clearly looks forward to a Trump win in November.

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Scarborough Goes Goober To Mock MAGA Who Might Believe Trump On NATO

February 12th, 2024 10:17 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough puts on a goober accent to mock MAGA supporters who believe Donald Trump's claim that he told the leader of a large NATO country that if attacked by Russia, he would not defend it if they were delinquent in their payments, and to the contrary would tell "them," i.e. Putin, to do "whatever the hell they want."

NewsBusters Podcast: The Elites Explode Before Tucker's Putin Gabfest

February 7th, 2024 10:35 PM

Tucker Carlson announced he's in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin. Elitists like Bill Kristol and Adam Kinzinger exploded in anger at the "traitor." Journalists have been known to interview anti-American tyrants before, so what gives?

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Scarborough: 'One Year From Now, Democracy Could Be OVER!'

December 18th, 2023 11:19 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough scaremongers that one year from now, if Trump is elected, "democracy could be over." He mocks as "clowns" media critics who say that the liberal media is helping Trump by calling him a "fascist."

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Alberta Compares Trump, Evangelical Supporters to Putin

December 6th, 2023 10:55 AM

The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta took his book tour to the Tuesday edition of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip where he warned that Evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump are not that different than Vladimir Putin.

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Scarborough: House GOP Favors Jew-Haters, Tax Cheats, Aliens & Putin

November 1st, 2023 11:44 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough claims that "illegal immigrants," in addition to other reprobates like anti-Semites and Vladimir Putin, will like Speaker Mike Johnson's legislative proposal to fund aid to Israel without other spending items.

The New York Times Vladimir Putin Op-Ed, 10 Years Later

September 9th, 2023 2:45 PM

Over the last several years it has become commonplace for media to accuse various Republicans and conservatives of promoting Russian interests, but exactly ten years ago this coming Monday the New York Times literally opened up its op-ed pages to Vladimir Putin to allow him to spread his propaganda.

The Russian Syndrome of Political Murder

September 8th, 2023 3:32 PM

WASHINGTON -- While verifying the authenticity of quotes in my new book, “How Do We Get Out of Here? Half a Century of Laughter and Mayhem at The American Spectator -- from Bobby Kennedy to Donald J. Trump,” I was brought to a standstill by one quote in particular. It is the work of a very fine historian done some 20 years ago, Helene Carrere d’Encausse. The quote reads as though it was a…