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Behar Scolds Republican Do 'Right Thing,' Be McCain and Vote With Dems
The media continued marching in lockstep with the Democrat impeachment agenda Thursday, as View co-host Joy Behar demanded Republicans “do the right thing” by voting against their party. After co-host Meghan McCain complained how exhausting the impeachment process was, Behar sneered that the only thing she found exhausting was Republicans not “doing the right thing,” ie: what best serves…
Life Lesson? GOP Senators Warned Their Obits Will Focus on Trump Trial
Will the Trump impeachment define the careers of Senators and House members when they pass away in the years to come? A morbid thought, but Ryan Goodman, a lawyer in the Pentagon during the Obama administration, is warning on his website Just Security that "history" -- as measured by (liberal) media obituaries -- should make the president's defenders nervous about their legacy.
Politico Worries Trump Will Take 'Victory Lap' After Acquittal
Politico is deeply concerned about impeachment. Not that it could drag on for weeks or even months. No, their worry is that the almost inevitable acquittal of President Donald Trump will lead him to taking a "victory lap" as he's itching to plot a "flashy series finale for impeachment."
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NBC Fears Trump Team ‘Legalizing Watergate,’ Pushing ‘Absolute Power’
As the Senate impeachment trial went to a break during the 3:00 p.m. ET hour Wednesday afternoon, anchors of NBC News special coverage immediately went to work blasting the arguments from President Trump’s defense team as “dubious,” “legalizing Watergate,” and asserting “absolute power.”
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Annoyed Todd Laments Timid Dems, ‘Missed Opportunity’ on Impeachment
As Democrats become more glum about the possibility of getting witnesses and extending the impeachment trial, their counterparts in the media are sharpening criticism of how the whole thing has been handled. Over two hours on Thursday, Chuck Todd repeatedly lamented “missed opportunities” and failure to be “aggressive.”
NYT Rescues Biden: ‘I Don't Think Much About Anything Joni Ernst Says'
The New York Times played white knight for candidate Joe Biden after Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa so cruelly brought up the controversy surrounding Biden’s son Hunter, and his lucrative, controversial position at Ukrainian energy exploration company Burisma, which is at center stage during impeachment proceedings. Reporters Thomas Kaplan and Nick Corasaniti tried to turn things back around…
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CNN's Avlon: Alexander Must Vote for Witnesses to 'Save Republic'
On New Day, angst-filled CNN political commentator John Avlon asks, "will the headline be: Lamar Alexander saves the republic, or saves the Republican party?" In other words, the republic will be lost if Alexander votes against witnesses.
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As Impeachment Rolls on, Fox DOMINATES CNN in the Ratings
It’s one thing for a cable news network to come in first place among its rivals for weeks, months or even a year, but it’s quite another now that the Fox News Channel is celebrating the achievement of topping the ratings charts for 18 consecutive years. Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt touted the victories, adding the most-watched show on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, "finished the month as…
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VIDEO: 2020 Media Face Off Against 1999 Media on Impeachment
Before the Articles of Impeachment even reached the Senate, liberal journalists on broadcast and cable news insisted that any trial would be illegitimate without witnesses. Who’d ever heard of a trial without witnesses, they asked? As it turns out, their counterparts from 1999 had. Back then, journalists were adamant that any witnesses in President Clinton’s Senate trial would needlessly prolong…
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Lockhart: Dershowitz's Argument Sounds Like What Hitler Would Say!
A week after being roasted for tweeting a fake conversation between Republican senators, CNN political commentator and former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart claimed Wednesday night during the Senate trial’s dinner break that an argument used by Trump legal team member Alan Dershowitz was “un-American” and akin to those used by “authoritarian people” to justify “genocide.”
When ‘Never Again’ Means Nothing
This week, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces during World War II. Politicians of all stripes dutifully tweeted, “#NeverAgain.” Meanwhile, many of those same politicians continued to forward the worst sort of anti-Semitism, blithely ignoring the fact that anti-Semitism isn't a relic of the past but a thriving part of the present.
Democracy and Tyranny
During President Donald J. Trump's impeachment trial, we'll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we've become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation's two most fundamental documents, the Declaration…
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Impeachment Obsessed: NBC Ignored Trump Signing USMCA Trade Deal
In a celebration on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, President Trump gathered with blue-collar workers, union leaders, CEOs, and Republican lawmakers to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal into law. It was a hard-fought campaign promise three years in the making that helped many Americans, but NBC Nightly News didn’t think it was noteworthy as they…
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IRONY: Lemon, WashPost Hacks Claim Media Are ‘Not at War’ with Trump
On the same CNN Tonight in which host Don Lemon refused to apologize for his venomous Saturday night segment against Trump supporters, Lemon and guests Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker hilariously insisted Wednesday that the media are not a political party, “not at war” with the Trump administration, and journalists “apologize” when they get stories “wrong.” Oh, and in…
