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To Call Out Trump 'Lies,' MSNBC Turns to....Benghazi Liar Susan Rice?
Susan Rice is best known as the top Obama adviser who lied on five different network talk shows in 2012, claiming the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was caused by a YouTube video. But MSNBC put Rice on the air shortly after President Trump's speech about Iran on Wednesday as a "fact checker."
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Hostin Condemns Trump 'Provoking' Iran While They 'Show Restraint'
Even as the danger appears to deflate with Iran, the media won’t stop suggesting we are entering WWIII. The View hosts started Wednesday’s show with that same Chicken Little routine, worrying about their own kids getting drafted. Co-host Abby Huntsman also fretted that by taking terrorist Quasem Soleimani’s life, the U.S. would be on the wrong side of history, while fellow co-host Sunny Hostin…
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Stephanie Ruhle Wonders Why Trump Suddenly Trusts Intel Agencies
Concerned that President Trump may not have fully thought through the possible ramifications of droning Qasem Soleimani, MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle wondered on Monday why Trump suddenly trusts the intelligence agencies. Ironically, the answer she got from the panel showed it was MSNBC that is the one that apparently has problems trusting the IC.
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Chuck Todd Rants: Trump ‘Ham-Handedly Tried to Politicize’ Iran Speech
During NBC’s special coverage of President Trump’s speech on tensions with Iran on Wednesday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd took time to scold the Commander in Chief for allegedly trying to “politicize” the address by calling out the Obama administration’s failed Iran policy.
Facebook Exec: Don’t Use ‘Lever’ to ‘Change the Outcome’ of Election
Democrats and the media have blamed Facebook for President Trump’s win in 2016. Now Facebook is firing back. Facebook Vice President of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth wrote an internal memo defending Trump’s 2016 campaign. Facebook Vice President of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth wrote an internal memo defending Trump’s 2016 campaign. He wrote, “Parscale and Trump just did unbelievable work. They weren’t running…
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MSNBC: ‘Rational’ Iranians Must Deal With ‘Irrational’ Trump
According to MSNBC, it’s the “rational” Iranians who must deal with the “unpredictable” Donald Trump as the world waits to see if the U.S. will escalate tensions. Appearing just prior to the President’s address on Wednesday about the latest actions in the Middle East, Mohyeldin mentioned an unidentified “colleague”: “He was saying that it’s unimaginable to think in this day and age it would be…
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NBC’s Engel Fears Trump Will ‘Taunt’ or ‘Humiliate’ Iran
Appearing on the 3rd Hour Today show on Wednesday, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel fretted over the possibility that President Trump may “taunt” or “humiliate” Iran during an upcoming address to the nation and possibly spark “another cycle of violence.”
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FLASHBACK: ‘Cynical’ ‘Traitors’ Questioned Clinton’s Military Strike
Ever since Donald Trump last week ordered the killing of Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani, journalists have skeptically questioned his motives and the timing of the strike in the midst of an impeachment effort. On the Sunday Today, Harry Smith cynically noted that “impeachment, no one’s talked about impeachment, what, for two or three days now?” The New York Times wondered if Trump was trying to…
NY Times Podcast Host: Soleimani's a Hero Like...Martin Luther King??
Iranian military general and terrorist operative Qasem Soleimani -- like civil rights hero Martin Luther King? That was one of several propaganda-type of comments about Soleimani, killed in a drone strike on Trump’s orders, that were heard on the Tuesday edition of the New York Times podcast The Daily. Host Michael Barbaro cited MLK, and reporter Farnaz Fassihi quoted supporters saying "Gen.…
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Sharpton Repeats Flawed Claim Hate Crimes Spiked After Trump Rallies
Over the weekend, MSNBC host Al Sharpton repeated a study highlighted last March by the Washington Post that made the claim that during the 2016 presidential race, there was an increase in hate crimes in counties that held Donald Trump rallies, even though the findings were discredited as misleading last September by another study published by Reason magazine. MSNBC host Yasmin Vossoughian also…
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CNN’s Amanpour Shows More Deference to Iranian VP than Sec. Esper
CNN International and PBS host Chrisitane Amanpour opened Tuesday’s joint program (airing live in the afternoon on the former then late-night on PBS) with two interviews in which she couldn’t have been more stark, going softer on an Iranian vice president than U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. In other words, it was par for the course with Amanpour.
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Gambling With Lives: Acosta Claims Trump Had ‘Night at the Casino’
In the aftermath of the Iranian missile attack against two U.S. bases in Iraq Tuesday evening, it appeared as though there were no U.S. casualties (as of this post's publication) and both President Trump and Iranian officials were ready to deescalate the situation. But CNN was not having it. During an appearance on CNN Tonight, chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta insisted that Trump was…
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MSNBC Touts Iranian Lies About U.S. Troops, Hails ‘Revered’ Soleimani
On Tuesday’s Hardball and reacting to Iran having launched missiles at an Iraqi military base housing U.S. soldiers, NBC News Tehran bureau chief Ali Arouzi likely bolstered his perch in the eyes of the Iranian regime, promoting one propaganda point after another to MSNBC host Chris Matthews. This included the utterly false claim that “30 U.S. soldiers have been killed in this attack.”
Bozell & Graham Column: Our Unpatriotic Press Coddles Dictators
In the wake of Qasem Soleamani's death, CNN host Brian Stelter insisted patriotism is defined by tough questions. There’s nothing wrong with skeptical questions. But why is it impossible to celebrate blowing up the man responsible for the deaths of untold thousands, including over 600 Americans? And why do they so often fail to muster that same sort of skeptical questioning for the tyrants and…
