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MSNBC's Reid Smears GOP Voters as 'Voting KKK,' 'Neonazism' in WH
November 11th, 2016 3:07 PM
Liberal MSNBC host Joy Reid has been in meltdown mode since the news of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton, as evidenced by some of her over the top tweets from the past couple of days as she has tried to link Trump and even his supporters to neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. On Thursday, reacting to news that the Trump campaign's Steve Bannon would work in the White House, Reid snarked…
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CNN's Cuomo Complains GOP Guest's Media Criticism 'Hard to Swallow'
November 9th, 2016 6:05 PM
On Wednesday's New Day on CNN, as Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson appeared as a guest to discuss the aftermath of Donald Trump's election to the presidency, co-host Chris Cuomo repeatedly pressed his GOP guest on what the new President would do to make it up to those who did not support him who might feel like they were victims of "division and anger" during his campaign.
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Deadspin Editor on Trump's Win: 'F**k Everything And Blame Everyone'
November 9th, 2016 5:01 PM
Alex Pareene unleashed an extended diatribe in reaction to the election of Donald Trump in a Wednesday item on Deadspin: "Blame white people. Blame white men in particular, but reserve plenty of blame for white women....Blame rich people, as always. Blame the public...for Donald fucking Trump getting more votes than Donald Duck....Blame the Founders for enshrining white supremacy in our…
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Van Jones: Trump Won Due to 'White-Lash' to Obama, 'Changing Country'
November 9th, 2016 10:50 AM
Former Obama administration "green jobs czar" Van Jones gave a very blunt, racially-tinged reaction to the impending victory of Donald Trump during CNN's Election Night coverage: "It's hard to be a parent, tonight, for a lot of us. You tell your kids, don't be a bully. You tell your kids, don't be a bigot....And then, you have this outcome....how do I explain this to my children?" Jones later…
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CNN's Bernstein Sees GOP 'Voter Suppression,' 'Intimidation'
November 8th, 2016 9:10 PM
Appearing as a panel member on a special noon edition of Tuesday's At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan, CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein accused Republicans of engaging in "voter suppression" and "voter intimidation" in this year's elections, and claimed that "they don't want a bigger tent and won't say it out loud."
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CNN Presses Kaine on Hillary's Divisive Rhetoric; ABC, CBS Go Soft
November 8th, 2016 5:19 PM
CNN's Alisyn Camerota one-upped her Big Three network peers on Tuesday's New Day by pressing Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine over running mate Hillary Clinton's not having a "message of unity" during their campaign. Camerota played a clip of Mrs. Clinton claiming she will "be a president for all Americans" and wondered, "Why hasn't Hillary Clinton been hitting that message harder…
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Cuomo: Cruz Talk of Blocking Clinton Judges Is 'Really Frightening'
November 8th, 2016 11:02 AM
On Tuesday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of how the election of a President Hillary Clinton could dramatically change the U.S. Supreme Court, co-host Chris Cuomo fretted that it was "really frightening" to hear Republican Senator Ted Cruz talk about obstructing Clinton's judicial nominees and allowing the number of Supreme Court justices to remain at eight. Cuomo: "I think you got Ted…
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CNN Panel Frets Comey Hurting Clinton, Trump Talks Like a 'Tyrant'
November 8th, 2016 12:46 AM
On Monday's New Day on CNN, as a panel of regular CNN political analysts fretted that FBI Director James Comey has hurt Hillary Clinton's "momentum" and boosted Donald Trump with the recent resumption of activity in the Clinton email investigation, CNN political analyst David Gregory repeated his recent claim that Trump is speaking like a "tyrant" in calling for his opponent to be jailed and in…
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Stephanopoulos Badgers Conway on Clinton E-Mails; Goes Soft On Mook
November 7th, 2016 5:17 PM
On Monday's GMA, ABC's George Stephanopoulos hounded Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on James Conway announcing that the FBI would not change its findings on the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. The Clinton Foundation donor wondered, "Do you accept [Comey's] finding now?" Stephanopoulos also played up that Comey "said that no reasonable prosecutor would bring the case, and the…
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CNN's Cuomo Again Wrongly Claims Comey 'Says No Crime' by Clinton
November 7th, 2016 2:04 PM
On Monday's New Day, during a segment with Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo made his latest claim that FBI Director James Comey found that Hillary Clinton did not commit a crime in her handling of her State Department work email, even though the FBI director merely declined to recommend trying to prosecute her without directly stating his view on whether she committed…
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MSNBC's Alter Frets a Prez Trump: 'Well-Being of Millions' at Stake'
November 6th, 2016 3:14 PM
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC political analyst and Daily Beast columnist Jonathan Alter was busy scaremongering to get anti-Donald Trump voters to the polls, as he asserted that "the well-being of millions of citizens" is "on the ballot," and worried that there would be a "constitutional crisis" if Trump won the popular vote while losing the Electoral College: "Look, I'm…
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Maher Panics Over 'Fascist' Prez Trump, Confesses 'Cried Wolf' on Bush
November 5th, 2016 11:53 PM
On Friday's Real Time on HBO, far left host Bill Maher seemed to be in a panic over the possibility that Donald Trump will be elected President, as he repeatedly hit on his worries that there is a "slow-moving, right-wing coup" that will bring to power a "fascist" President Trump, even going so far as to invoke the Rwanda genocide of the 1990s and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Maher even ended up…
Newsweek: 'Racist Voter Suppression' To Blame For Trump-Clinton Tie
November 4th, 2016 7:58 PM
Newsweek's Alexander Nazaryan wildly claimed in a Thursday post on Twitter that "racist voter suppression" was the root cause of the statistical tie between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in North Carolina, according to recent poll. The senior writer didn't explain what he specifically meant by his statement, but it could be a reference to a recent lawsuit filed by the NAACP that alleges that…
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CNN's Cuomo: NC 'Seems to Be Rigged Against African-American Vote'
November 4th, 2016 6:42 PM
On Friday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of early voting statistics from North Carolina finding black turnout is down from 2012, co-host Chris Cuomo asserted that "it seems to be rigged against the African-American vote" as he recalled Donald Trump's accusations of election "rigging," and suggested that there was "sinister" activity by the Republican legislature in making changes in the…