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CNBC’s Santelli Calls Out Chuck Todd for Picking Sides in Election

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 8th, 2017 2:31 PM
Sparks flew on the set of NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning as CNBC’s Rick Santelli accused moderator Chuck Todd of picking sides during the election. The confrontation occurred during a conversation about Russian meddling in the election and claims that intercepted communications showing their glee for Donald Trump’s victory. “To see Russians happy because Trump won: On election night, I never…
 

Meteorologist: Climate Change and Trump Have Driven Me to Therapy

Tom Blumer
January 8th, 2017 7:43 AM
Meteorologist Eric Holthaus, who has appeared a couple of times on these pages in the past (more on that shortly), is in therapy. Well, okay, lots of people are. But get a load of what has driven Holthaus into therapy: "I know many ppl feel deep despair about climate, especially post-election." And it's because of this, "There are days where I literally can't work," and "We don't deserve this…
 
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MSNBC Panel: Dems Need More Time to Grill ‘Bigot’ Sessions

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 6th, 2017 12:56 AM
MSNBC’s ever pleasant Joy Reid set her sights on Republican Senator Jeff Sessions on All In Thursday, with the usual accusation if racism. Reid and her panel of leftists were up in arms that congressional Republicans would only allow two days and four Democratic witnesses for Sessions’ attorney general confirmation hearing. “They have asked for more time because Jeff Sessions hasn't completed his…
 
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Nets Ignore Obama’s Fact Twisting Farewell Letter to Nation

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 5th, 2017 10:46 PM
National Intelligence Director James Clapper’s testimony about Russian meddling in the U.S. election Thursday, gave network news all the cover they needed to avoid mentioning President Barack Obama’s goodbye letter to the country. And all of the fact manipulation therein. “While President Obama's letter to the American people aimed to spotlight his legacy and achievement, it may have missed the…
 
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CBS Spotlights Anti-Jeff Sessions Protest at His Alabama Office

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 4th, 2017 10:18 PM
Wednesday evening appeared to be CBS’s turn to hype the sit-in protest, orchestrated by the NAACP, at Senator Jeff Sessions’ office in Mobile, Alabama, after ABC was the sole network reporting it that morning. “Six arrests were made last night when protesters from the NAACP staged a sit-in at Jeff Sessions' senate office in Alabama,” announced fill-in anchor Josh Elliott during the lead-in, “They…
 
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Nets Finally Side with Trump, Tout Tweet Aimed at House GOP

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 3rd, 2017 10:10 PM
The liberal Big Three networks finally found a use for President-elect Donald Trump, and it’s to smear Republican members of Congress. The same networks who blacked-out unethical Democrats were up in arms Tuesday after the House GOP attempted to reform the Office of Congressional Ethics, but after it’s retraction they credited the president-elect. “The best-laid plans of Republicans armed with a…
 

Trump Knows, Media Don’t: One-Sided ‘Free Trade’ Isn’t Free Trade

Seton Motley
January 3rd, 2017 2:16 PM
The media remain steadfast in their opposition to now-President-elect Donald Trump.  In their attempts to deny him first the office and now legitimacy therein, they have come up with all sorts of shorthand descriptives that are either vague or outright disingenuous. One of the most annoying of these - is “Donald Trump is anti-(free) trade.”
 

WashPost on Russian Connection to Vermont Utility Hack: Never Mind

Tom Blumer
January 3rd, 2017 11:20 AM
Monday evening, just three days after causing an uproar by reporting that "Russian hackers penetrated (the) U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont," the Washington Post is now saying that "Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility, say people close to investigation." In other words (cue the late Glida Radner's famous Saturday Night Live character Emily…
 

WashPost Keeps Alive Russia-Grid Hacking Story Despite Falling Apart

Tom Blumer
January 2nd, 2017 2:27 PM
UPDATE, January 3: "WashPost on Russian Connection to Vermont Utility Hack: Never Mind"  A not very funny thing happened to the Washington Post after its Juliet Eilperin and Adam Entous posted a story on Friday (now time-stamped as if it was Saturday) claiming in its headline that "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont." The claim, according to the utility…
 

Unproven 'Fake News' Media Meme: Russia 'Hacked the Elections'

Tom Blumer
December 30th, 2016 2:26 PM
The purveyors of what the establishment press likes to describe as "fake news" have nothing on the fake news the establishment press itself generates at the Obama administration's behest. For example, the Associated Press, in a very late paragraph in just one of its three reports on the topic Thursday, admitted that "Though the FBI and Homeland Security Department issued a joint report on '…
 
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MSNBC Analyst Smears Conservatives for Caring About Food Stamp Fraud

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 29th, 2016 12:34 AM
MSNBC’s Ari Melber was up in arms Wednesday night, as he filled in on The Rachel Maddow Show, at Fox News for daring to report that food stamp fraud was up to roughly $70 million in 2016. But the outrage at Fox gave way to outrage at the white working class for falling for the racist “dog whistle” of caring about said fraud. “Why is this all coming up again now,” he inquired to his radical…
 
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MSNBC Is ‘a Bit Lost’ on Trump’s Russia Policy, Chides Use of Twitter

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 23rd, 2016 2:09 PM
Even with many of their top personalities on vacation Friday, it didn’t slow down MSNBC’s smearing of President-Elect Donald Trump. Fill in host Katy Tur was in an admitted state of confusion on MSNBC Live, because of perceived conflicts with Trump’s approach to dealing with Russia. “You know, I've got to say, I got a bit of whiplash here. I'm not quite sure what's going on. Mark, can you break…
 
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Nets Ignore Obama Administration Possibly Turning Against Israel

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 22nd, 2016 11:19 PM

While all of the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) had tried to sow fear for President-Elect Donald Trump’s shifts on foreign policy in the past, they conveniently overlooked a potential major policy reversal from President Barack Obama Thursday. “The Obama administration was going to abstain from voting against a resolution critical of Israel, breaking with the Israel position on this…

 
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CBS Freaks Out: Trump Asked for Lists of Federal Programs and Workers

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 22nd, 2016 9:32 PM

In yet another report on CBS Evening News about seemingly nothing, the network tried to stoke fear of President-Elect Donald Trump’s upcoming administration Thursday night. The cause of their concern? He did the unthinkable and asked for a list of federal programs he would be overseeing. “The Trump transition team has been sending questionnaires to cabinet departments, not at all unusual, but…