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Huffing Gaslight: ABC Claims ‘We’ve Turned a Corner on Inflation’

August 11th, 2022 12:41 PM

Following CBS Mornings’ lead, ABC’s Good Morning America used the .6 percent drop in inflation for July to declare firmly that “we’ve turned a corner on inflation” ahead of the midterms that are set to handily strip Democratic control of the House. They were also bold (or desperate) enough to suggest that paying over $4 a gallon for gas “feels like a bargain.”

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Harlow Argues With Guest When Reminded Left-Wing Violent Threats Exist

August 11th, 2022 12:09 PM

CNN Newsroom host Poppy Harlow did not like being reminded on Thursday that left-wingers also commit and threaten to commit acts of violence. During an interview with former Trump acting Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis Brian Murphy, Harlow demanded examples that violence isn’t just a right-wing phenomenon.

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PBS Helps 'The Destructionists' Author Tie Trump, GOP To Terrorism

August 11th, 2022 9:56 AM

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has a new book entitled The Destructionists where he claims the Republican Party is the enemy of all things good and decent. On Wednesday, he took his book tour to PBS’s Amanpour and Company where he warned that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago could lead to another Oklahoma City-like bombing, but that it is important to remember…

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LOL: MSNBC Whines About Biden's Lack of Positive Press Coverage

August 11th, 2022 12:01 AM

If you need a laugh then keep reading because this will give you a chuckle. On Wednesday night's The 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Stephanie Ruhle and guest and MSNBC host Simone Sanders whined about President Joe Biden's supposed lack of positive news coverage. Anyone who's been paying attention to the American news media knows how insane that complaint is. In reality, the media is…

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Weirdo Scarborough on Trump Raid Critics: 'Let's Tan Our Testicles!'

August 10th, 2022 11:55 PM

When the news of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago being raided by the FBI broke, Morning Joe had an absolute field day, pointing and laughing at the former president’s misfortunes like bullies reacting to a mild burn. On Wednesday, it was the same exact thing all over again, except Joe Scarborough and his broadcasting pals went after all Republicans, calling their logic “twisted.” And watch out:…

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CBS Cries Over 'Inhumane' GOP 'Stunt' Sending Migrants to NYC

August 10th, 2022 8:41 PM

On Wednesday night’s CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Margaret Brennan and correspondent Nancy Chen bemoaned the fact that Texas Governor Greg Abbott is taking the migrants who are pouring across the U.S./Mexico border and putting them onto busses to New York City and Washington D.C. to let their liberal mayors handle them.  Instead of pointing out how if President Joe Biden secured…

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CNN Confused Why GOP Circling the Wagons After Mar-a-Lago Raid

August 10th, 2022 7:14 PM

A strange intersection of narratives occurred on Wednesday morning’s At This Hour, when CNN host Kate Bolduan and new co-host of The View Alyssa Farah Griffin were bemused why so many conservatives had such a negative reaction to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, despite the news that the Bureau had foiled a plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to assassinate former National…

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Trump Raid Disrupted 'Great Legislation of Joe Biden'

August 10th, 2022 5:39 PM

Former adviser to George W. Bush Mark McKinnon just wanted to boast about Joe Biden’s Presidency on CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight with stand-in host Laura Coates, but the FBI had to go and raid President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Citing the string of massive spending bills passed by congressional Democrats making their way to Biden’s desk, McKinnon proclaimed, “he doesn’t even get one…

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'Are You Kidding Me?' CNN's S.E. Cupp Told To Get Out Of Her Bubble

August 10th, 2022 4:04 PM

CNN Newsroom with Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell is usually not a contentious show, but Wednesday’s edition was a little different as Republican strategist David Urban appeared to encourage political commentator S.E. Cupp to “come out of the bubble” on the matter of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

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CBS Celebrates Inflation Still High, Declares NO RECESSION in Sight

August 10th, 2022 1:49 PM

Inflation fell just .6 percent in July and CBS Morning was treating the news like it marked the end of the Great Depression. With gas prices still way above where they were last year and people still paying through the nose for basic necessities, on Wednesday, CBS business analyst Jill Schlesinger joyously proclaimed that inflation had “peaked” and spewed the Big Lie that America was…

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ABC Allows 19 Seconds on Seizure of GOP Rep’s Phone; CBS, NBC Ignore

August 10th, 2022 12:50 PM

The FBI on Tuesday seized the phone of Congressman Scott Perry, yet you wouldn’t know it if you watched that night’s evening news or Wednesday’s morning news programs. CBS and NBC completely buried the story. ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday allowed a scant 19 seconds to the development, which happened in the wake of the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home. 

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'It's Christmas!' Colbert Celebrates 'Most Beautiful' Mar-a-Lago Raid

August 10th, 2022 9:54 AM

CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert must live a rather dull life because how else does one come to the conclusion that the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is like Christmas? Not only did Colbert compare the raid to that holiday on Tuesday, he also declared the related news headline “the most beautiful sentence America has ever produced.”

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Ruhle Demands You Stop Calling The FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a Raid!

August 9th, 2022 11:41 PM

On MSNBC's The 11th Hour, host Stephanie Ruhle spent the opening segment of her show on Tuesday evening with her assembled panel to discuss the fallout from the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. While the panel discussion itself could constitute a NewsBusters blog in and of itself, what Ruhle said at the end of the segment outshined…

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WATCH: Doocy Battles Jean-Pierre Over Trump Raid on Mar-a-Lago

August 9th, 2022 11:03 PM

With President Biden having spent Monday in flood-stricken Kentucky and departing Wednesday for vacation in South Carolina, Tuesday marked perhaps the week's only White House briefing, so reporters got in their takes about the FBI raid of former President Trump's Florida home. Of course, Fox's Peter Doocy did battle with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on the raid and whether the White…