NYT’s Kristof: Trump Is Scientifically Proven ‘Threat to Democracy’
On Wednesday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a column promoting an upcoming book by Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt arguing that President Trump shows the “four warning signs” of being a “dangerous authoritarian.”
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Sour Grapes: MSNBC Upset Trump Only Called on ‘Conservative Outlets’
MSNBC flashed some bitterness on Wednesday afternoon following President Trump’s first joint press conference of 2018, complaining that Trump only called on “conservative outlets” Washington Examiner and the Fox News Channel with only the latter one offering “a challenging question.”
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MRC’s Noyes: Anti-Trump Media Doesn’t Care If Wolff Book Is Sketchy
The Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes on Wednesday hammered the media’s obsession with bad news for Donald Trump, noting that journalists don’t care if Michael Wolff’s gossipy book is only half true. Appearing on Fox Business’s Cavuto, the research director reminded, “This is the story they want to spend all their time on even though they can't confirm the most salacious details of Michael Wolff…
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Sam Bee Announces Her ‘Apologizing for America’ Tour
TBS’s Full Frontal host Samantha Bee teased Tuesday the theme of her show for 2018: apologizing for America. The anti-Trump comedian revealed on her Youtube channel that on January 24, her show would premiere what she’s calling “The Apology Race.”
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Univision Attacks President’s Son for Birthday in Mexican Restaurant
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With so much important news going on, the principal national evening newscast of Univision incredibly decided to devote more than two minutes of time to attacking President Trump’s son, Eric, for celebrating his 34th birthday in a Mexican restaurant in New York.
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'Morning Joe': Trump Listens to 'Voices in His Head'
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, reacting to President Trump’s comments during an open door meeting with top members of Congress about DACA and immigration reform, co-host Joe Scarborough argued that Trump’s performance was indicative of his supposedly deteriorating mental state and even stooped to mocking Trump as a doddering, forgetful, and schizophrenic old man who listens to “voices in his head”…
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MSNBC's 'Proof' Wolff Book Is True? Rapper’s Trump Theories
Tuesday on The Beat With Ari Melber, the MSNBC host spent an entire segment building up the salacious claims made about the Trump White House in Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury.
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CBS Has Now Devoted 20 Minutes to Slobbering Over ‘The Post’
CBS REALLY loves The Post. The journalists at CBS This Morning have now devoted 20 minutes and 48 seconds over the last month to promoting the Vietnam-era film about The Washington Post’s efforts to publish the Pentagon Papers. Unsurprisingly, the hosts at CBS really enjoy a movie that touts “non-partisan” reporters as “heroes” for exposing a Republican president.
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Ellen, Streep Hail ‘President’ Oprah: ‘Where Do I Send the Check?'
Talking to actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks about the Golden Globes on her show Tuesday afternoon, host Ellen DeGeneres could not wait for Oprah Winfrey to run for president in 2020. Dubbing the liberal media mogul “our future president,” DeGeneres urged her guests to join in the sycophantic praise.
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Nets Stuff Shows With Over 2 Hours of Wolff Gossip Book Insults
The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks engaged in a feeding frenzy over Michael Wolff’s gossip-filled book, as they ate up the salacious details in Fire and Fury. From January 3 through January 9, the networks stuffed their evening and morning programs with over two hours of coverage of the Wolff book and the subsequent fallout for former Donald Trump aide Stephen Bannon.
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Carlson Calls Out Ramos for Labeling His Political Opponents Bigots
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Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson and Univision’s Jorge Ramos got into a fiery exchange during Tuesday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight with the backdrop of President Trump’s televised immigration negotiations. The two went back and forth loudly debating the merits of immigration reform. And when Ramos began to claim Trump was using racially coded language, the Fox News host called him out for trying to…
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ABC: Immigration Talks Were Just Trump Fighting ‘Dim-Witted’ Narrative
Tuesday was a busy day at the White House as President Trump hosted bipartisan immigration talks, part of which were televised to the public, which no other president had done before. The two sides walked away with a rough framework for what parts of the immigration puzzle they wanted to work on first. But according to ABC’s World News Tonight, the event was specifically staged so that Trump…
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Matthews Touts Wolff’s ‘Facts’; Lies About Bannon Creating Breitbart
Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff stopped by Tuesday’s Hardball for his latest interview and he used the chance to lament with host Chris Matthews that it’s “a tragedy” that Steve Bannon has been ousted from Breitbart but Donald Trump hasn’t been removed from the presidency. Right off the bat, Matthews pushed some fake news in wondering what Wolff made about the Bannon news, asserting that “…
Google's Fact-Checker Targets Conservatives, Ignores Left-Wing Media
Google’s new fact-checker is just as bias as you would expect. On Tuesday, The Daily Caller reported that the feature, for the most part, only targets conservative sites. For example, both The Daily Caller and Daily Wire are fact checked (and mostly incorrectly as the two sites point out), but Vox, HuffPost, ThinkProgress, Slate, Salon, Mother Jones, and Daily Kos are not.
