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CNN Celebrates Kanye West Calling Bush a Racist After Katrina in 2005
October 17th, 2024 10:39 PM
On Sunday's episode of TV on the Edge: Moments that Shaped Our Culture, CNN devoted the hour to looking back at the infamous moment in 2005 when rapper Kanye West blurted out the accusation that President George W. Bush "doesn't like black people" during a telethon to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.
NYT Blames GOP for SOTU Speech Discord -- But Dems Started It vs. Bush
March 9th, 2024 9:52 AM
An interactive slide show posted to the New York Times site on Wednesday, the day before President Biden’s State of the Union address, “How the State of the Union Became a Picture of Disunion,” relayed a fake history of partisan scrapping at recent State of the Union addresses suggesting Republicans were almost wholly responsible. But Baker completely skipped over the start of the…
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CNN's Tapper Slams 'Cruelty' of GOP Opposing Teen Transgender Surgery
February 24th, 2023 5:10 AM
On Tuesday's The Lead show, CNN host Jake Tapper did his part to promote transgender surgery for underage teens as he devoted a segment to fretting over Idaho's push for a state ban. Republicans only stood for "cruelty" and "meanness" that is somehow against God.
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'Blackish' Blasts Bush as 'Alcoholic' 'Failed President'
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October 29th, 2019 11:12 PM
The TV show Blackish pulled from ten-year-old material when they started bashing former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in their latest episode, which aired Tuesday.
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Media Loved Bush-Bashing Kanye, But Mock ‘Bizarre’ Trump Fan
October 12th, 2018 12:26 PM
When it comes to the so-called mainstream media, it’s a case of Kanye West vs. Kanye West. The Networks on Thursday and Friday mocked the “bizarre,” “surreal” rapper for appearing at the White House with Donald Trump. But these outlets gushed over the “thoughtful” entertainer when he derided then-President George W. Bush as a racist.
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More Hollywood Hate: Director Unveils Biopic About ‘Ruthless’ Cheney
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October 4th, 2018 2:48 PM
A new character assassination, er, I mean biopic about Vice President Dick Cheney is set to hit theaters this Christmas. Starring Christian Bale in the titular role, Vice appears to be less of a thoughtful political drama detailing Cheney’s role during the Bush years, and more of a gritty, gangster movie, depicting the vice president’s quest for absolute power.
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Unglued Matthews Uncorks Hissy Fit on Bolton, Compares Him to Tojo
March 22nd, 2018 10:42 PM
Thursday marked an awful, no-good, very bad day for MSNBC host Chris Matthews as President Trump picked John Bolton to replace H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser. Less than an hour later, Matthews uncorked a hissy fit for the ages on Hardball lasting the whole show on the man he dubbed a modern Hideki Tojo and “biggest hawk there's ever been.”
'Ballers' Slams 'Right-wing F**ks Denying People Equal Opportunity'
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August 7th, 2017 12:51 AM
The August 6 episode of Ballers, "In the Teeth," had a couple of great moments for the left-wing viewers as one athlete provided a cliché soundbite about the right trying to keep people of color from succeeding, and another character was called out by the feminist PC police for pointing out that a woman with the NFL who has never played professional football doesn't know what it's like to play…
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CNN’s ‘Hard-Hitting’ Report: Is Donald Trump Afraid of Stairs?
March 22nd, 2017 8:32 PM
Since CNN’s middle name is “News,” viewers of the weekday morning New Day program expect to catch up on the latest headlines and watch in-depth investigations on the topics of the day. That wasn’t quite the case on Wednesday, when the final segment of the program was devoted to a “hard-hitting” report on whether President Donald Trump is afraid of stairs.
The two-minute segment by Jeanne Moos,…
Lib Pundit: Trump’s Proposed Budget ‘Stupid’ and ‘Sadistic’
March 17th, 2017 8:58 PM
Esquire’s Charles Pierce is accusing President Trump of adding to something he vowed to subtract from. In a Thursday post, Pierce called the White House’s proposed federal budget a “vast, noxious swamp into which all those tributaries of modern conservative thought have emptied themselves. People die in there, swallowed up in deep sinkholes of empowered bigotry and class anger.”
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Chris Matthews: 'Tough Guy' Steve Bannon Is ‘Like Darth Vader’
February 23rd, 2017 9:12 PM
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews compared White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday to Star Wars villain Darth Vader, even though “he’s a good speaker” albeit “a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got.”
Columnist: ‘Fake News’ Now Trump’s ‘Rightwing-Populist Bludgeon’
January 12th, 2017 9:01 PM
Logic and proportion may be non-factors in media coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency, fears Lloyd Grove. In a Wednesday column, Grove opined that journalism “is in danger of passing through the looking glass, only to land in a menacing, topsy-turvy world, namely the White House Press Room…It’s likely to be [a] place where language will occasionally signify its opposite, and government…
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CNN's Stelter Lumps Bush 'Mission Accomplished' in With Clinton 'Lies'
December 4th, 2016 2:56 PM
On Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, while introducing a segment about how to deal with a President Donald Trump when he "lies" about something, host Brian Stelter dubiously included a clip of former President George W. Bush from his April 2013 speech declaring that the U.S. had "prevailed" in Iraq as an example of Presidents telling "lies" alongside deliberate presidential deceptions like Bill…
NYT Hails Obama’s ‘Sacred Duty’ to Troops, But Bush Staged Photo Op
December 4th, 2016 9:05 AM
Presidential visits to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed should be non-political events worthy of non-partisan coverage, but the New York Times manages to shows its colors even in those solemn moments. In the half-page “Obama’s Sacred Duty: Visiting the Wounded -- Trips to Walter Reed Take Toll and Inspire," reporter Gardiner Harris brought a somber, emotional, personalized tone to the proceedings…
