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CNN Propagandists Accuse Barr of 'Parroting Trump's Talking Points'

Duncan Schroeder
July 29th, 2020 6:45 PM

On Wednesday’s New Day, CNN co-hosts Alisyn Camerota and John Berman brought on legal analyst Elie Honig and Early Start anchor Laura Jarrett to “parrot” Democratic talking points about Attorney General William Barr’s responses at the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Tuesday. Demonstrating a startling lack of self-awareness, the partisan hacks accused Barr of “parroting Trump's talking…

 

Bozell Letter to The FCC: Stop Univision's Foreign Bailout

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MRC Latino Staff
July 7th, 2020 11:58 AM

Four years ago, Univision asked for (and received) a rule waiver from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), allowing Televisa to expand its stake in the network beyond the 25% limit established by law. Shortly after announcing its proposed sale to a new investor group, Univision quietly asked the FCC to change its rules yet again, this time in order to allow 100% foreign ownership.…

 
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Mitchell Aghast as AG Barr Vows to Defend Constitutional Rights

Kyle Drennen
April 22nd, 2020 4:05 PM
On her 12:00 p.m. ET hour show on Wednesday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell expressed her dismay at Attorney General William Barr vowing to defend the constitutional rights of citizens during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. She fretted that his comments were “a signal to the protesters” objecting to some of the more draconian shutdown policies across the country.
 

AG Barr: No ‘Feasible Alternatives’ for People Banned from Big Tech

Corinne Weaver
February 19th, 2020 1:55 PM
In his introductory statement made to the Department of Justice Section 230 Workshop, Attorney General William Barr discussed the problems brought on by the rise of Big Tech. “No longer are tech companies the underdog upstarts,” said Barr to the Feb. 19 panels. “They have become titans of U.S. industry.”
 

News Media Alliance Sets Sights on Limiting Section 230 at DOJ

Alexander Hall
February 18th, 2020 7:06 PM
The fate of free speech on the internet could be discussed at an upcoming discussion hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The News Media Alliance (NMA), a thousands-strong coalition of U.S. news organizations, is criticizing the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provided legal protection for tech companies from the consequences of users’ posts. The NMA seeks…
 
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Media Go Gaga Over Eric Holder Trashing AG Barr as ‘Unfit’

Kyle Drennen
December 12th, 2019 4:08 PM
On Thursday, hosts on MSNBC and CNN were thrilled by Barack Obama’s former Attorney General Eric Holder – who famously politicized the Justice Department – penning a profoundly hypocritical Washington Post op/ed in which he accused current Attorney General William Barr of being “plainly ideological” and “nakedly partisan.”
 

Robert Mueller’s Upside-Down Justice

Cal Thomas
June 4th, 2019 2:24 PM
It's a familiar quote from Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist, but with special contemporary relevance in light of a statement last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller: “‘If the law supposes that,’ said Mr. Bumble... ‘the law is a ass — a idiot.’” But it isn't so much that the law is fractured, rather it is practitioners who sometimes do it an injustice.
 
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Mark Levin: FBI Interference ‘Worse Than Russians Could Have Dreamed’

Randy Hall
June 15th, 2018 4:21 PM

Hours after the U.S. Inspector General office released a report on Thursday regarding liberal media bias in the Department of Justice and the FBI, radio host Mark Levin used an appearance on that day’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Hannity program to address the fact that “those people had as their purpose to interfere” with the 2016 presidential election. As if that wasn’t shocking enough,…

 
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ABC, CBS Try to Shield Mueller Investigation from FBI Agent’s Lib Bias

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 14th, 2018 10:02 PM
The Department of Justice's Inspector General dropped a bombshell report on Washington, D.C. on Thursday which detailed their deep dive into the FBI’s handling of the Clinton e-mail probe. It found that former FBI Director James Comey was insubordinate, validating President Trump’s decision to fire him, but it also found that a small group of FBI agents had it out to get candidate Trump. Despite…
 

WOW: I.G. Report Finds FBI Agents Received ‘Benefits’ from Journalists

Curtis Houck
June 14th, 2018 4:38 PM
First reported by The Daily Caller’s Joe Simonson, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General report on the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe found on Thursday that not only were “numerous FBI employees...in frequent contact with reporters” when they shouldn’t have been, but they “improperly receiv[ed] benefits from reporters,” including food, golf trips, and tickets to sporting events.
 
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CNN Frets WH Will ‘Seize’ Upon I.G. Report, ‘Take’ a ‘Victory Lap’

Curtis Houck
June 14th, 2018 3:51 PM

Moments after Thursday’s long-awaited release of the Department of Justice Inspector General report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation, a CNN Newsroom panel dismissed it as a “mild” report in which “[t]he other shoe didn’t drop” and will provide “[p]lenty of ammunition for both sides.” However, they fretted that the White House will “seize” on its findings and “…

 
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Williams, Guest Attack Trump for Enforcing Obama Policy on Leakers

Richard Howell
June 8th, 2018 4:55 PM
Reports of the seizure of New York Times reporter Ali Watkins’ personal belongings and the arrest of a senate staffer who allegedly leaked  information to her have been met with consternation from the media. On Thursday night's The 11th Hour, however, host Brian Williams and guest Peter Baker of The New York Times discussed the precedent for such action: the Obama administration. 
 
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Byron York: Key Claims in Dec. NY Times Trump-Russia Story Are False

Tom Blumer
June 2nd, 2018 1:33 PM
Friday evening, Fox News's Martha MacCallum interviewed Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York. In that interview's second half, the pair discussed new information which contradicts key contentions about "How the (Trump)-Russia inquiry began" made in a December New York Times story. That story claimed that the investigation began as a result of a May 2016 "heavy drinking"…
 

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Again Slams Opponents as 'Too Stupid'

Randy Hall
May 24th, 2018 7:06 PM
Put simply, MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough has a very nasty habit. When someone disagrees with him, he often resorts to hammering that person as being either “too stupid” or “too incompetent” to be taken seriously. That pattern of behavior continued on Wednesday, when the former Republican stated that “you’re too stupid to handle household appliances” if you believe there was a…