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Keep the Faith: CNN Boasts Mueller Hearing, Report Lead to Impeachment
July 24th, 2019 4:09 PM
During a brief break in Wednesday afternoon’s House Intelligence Committee hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, CNN again did its best to keep the faith for their boss Jeffrey Zucker and fellow lefties amidst their permanent impeachment campaign, hailing the hearing as part of a “Watergate roadmap” to begin ridding America of President Trump.
PBS Spin: 2020 Could Determine Trump's Status as 'A Free Man'
July 24th, 2019 3:56 PM
After Special Counsel Robert Mueller's underwhelming testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor declared that Mueller had raised the stakes in 2020. No longer is 2020 a contrast of visions between President Trump and whoever the Democratic nominee is, but, "it may also come down to [Trump] being a free man." Host Judy Woodruff agreed, "That's a good…
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Todd: ‘Complete Failure,’ Can’t ‘Combat’ Right’s ‘Propaganda Machine’
July 24th, 2019 3:07 PM
NBC’s Chuck Todd echoed his MSNBC colleagues when he expressed disappointment over Robert Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday. On NBC News’ live coverage of the event, the Meet the Press moderator called the testimony “a complete failure” and added “on optics this was a disaster.” Later on in the coverage Todd whined that “you have a propaganda machine on the right” and “the Democrats haven’t…
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Disappointed MSNBC Blasts Mueller Hearing as a ‘Boring' 'Disaster'
July 24th, 2019 2:00 PM
Disappointment. Anger. Sadness. The journalists and hosts at MSNBC on Wednesday alternated between these emotions as it became clear that Robert Mueller’s testimony wasn’t going the way they thought it might. Various network personalities raged at how the hearings were turning into a “boring” “disaster.” MSNBC analyst Jeremy Bash bluntly concluded, “I thought he was boring, I thought in some…
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ABC Lauds Mueller 'Sticking to the Facts' 'Not Playing Politics'
July 24th, 2019 1:57 PM
ABC’s live coverage team was quick to come to Robert Mueller’s defense after his first fumbling testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this morning was roundly criticized by media on both sides of the aisle. ABC characterized Mueller’s confused and evasive performance as simply the former Special Counsel being apolitical and “sticking to the facts.”
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MOP-UP: CNN Hails ‘Bombshell’ Hearing as ‘Big Deal,’ ‘Bad’ for Trump
July 24th, 2019 1:49 PM
While others in the liberal media conceded that Wednesday morning’s House hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn’t go as swimmingly as planned, CNN largely operated in an alternate reality concocted by Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Instead, the analysts and hosts triumphantly hailed the hearing’s contents as a “big deal,” a “bombshell,” and “really bad” for Trump that it was “almost…
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It’s Mueller Day, So of Course Scarborough Drops a Nazi Reference
July 24th, 2019 12:26 PM
If it’s a weekday, then it’s time for a Nazi reference on Morning Joe. Previewing Robert Mueller’s testimony in front of Congress, Joe Scarborough compared Donald Trump to the evil of Hitler and the Nazis: Citing the Financial Times, he blasted, “... The Nazis in the early 1930s would rail against quote, 'the system,' constantly railing quote ‘against the system’ because the, quote ‘system’ was…
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Networks Hope for ‘Gary Cooper’ in Mueller Report 'Movie!'
July 24th, 2019 10:29 AM
All three networks on Wednesday previewed Robert Mueller’s “historic” testimony before Congress with an excited and nervous tone, wondering if this “movie” version of his report could save the impeachment hype. Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos wistfully hoped that Mueller might turn out to be like famous cowboy star Gary Cooper.
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ABC Urges Dems, Now Is Time to Impeach: ‘Best Chance' 'Turning Point'
July 24th, 2019 8:00 AM
Journalists at ABC couldn’t hide their excitement over the upcoming Robert Mueller congressional hearing Wednesday morning, spinning it as the ideal time to impeach the President. Despite a failed attempt by one Democrat last week to secure the votes in the House for that cause, and the fact that the Justice Department says this hearing will not go beyond the bounds of the Mueller report, the…
Dreaming Mueller Implores Dems ‘Don’t Give a Speech; You Must Impeach’
July 24th, 2019 7:11 AM
Ahead of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony, USA Today commentary editor Jill Lawrence likely reflected the dreams of much of the Washington press corps when she wrote a column imagining what he would say “if he were to let loose and say whatever he wants.” She laughably conjured a scenario in which Mueller will use rhyme to convince Democrats, telling them..."Don’t…
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Nets Hype ‘Mock Hearings’ By Democrats Ahead of Mueller's Testimony
July 23rd, 2019 8:46 PM
The Tuesday evening before the highly anticipated congressional testimony of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the liberal broadcast networks tried to reassure their viewers that the Democrats were going in prepared. Hyping how Democrats were “huddling” in “one last prep session”, the networks noted the Wednesday hearing “might be their last chance to convince the American public on impeachment…
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SHOCK: CBS Allows That ‘Republicans Can Win’ the Mueller Hearings
July 23rd, 2019 4:25 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday allowed that it’s possible the Mueller hearings might not be a slam dunk for Democrats after all. Journalist Paula Reid even explained how “Republicans can win” the hearings. As proof, she referenced something that the media have largely ignored: The shocking texts of FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
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STUDY: TV Offered Deluge of Russia News, Buried Anti-Trump Bias
July 23rd, 2019 7:30 AM
In the 31 months since the President took office, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts alone have spent an astounding 2,634 minutes covering the investigations into alleged Russia collusion and obstruction of justice. Yet these newscasts have barely mentioned some of the crucial unresolved questions surrounding the investigation’s bias.
MSNBC Features Joyce Vance for 18 Minutes, Ignores Fox News Smear
July 22nd, 2019 11:16 PM
On Sunday morning, MSNBC legal analyst and former Obama-era U.S Attorney Joyce Vance offered quite the whopper that, if she were at Fox News, the CNN Media team would be tut-tutting for days on end. Instead, Vance’s false claim that the Fox News Channel would not be airing Wednesday’s House hearings featuring former Special Counsel Robert Mueller drew thousands of retweets. And in her two MSNBC…
