Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, longtime NBC presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin cracked that maybe the U.S. should have let the South go as she and host Maher fretted over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's popularity in red states. She even invoked the infamous caning of abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner in 1856 that made…
Time Glorifies Blasey Ford as a 'Historic Figure,' So 'Guileless'
So what happens to the media memory of Kavavaugh vs. Ford if Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed? Time's cover story on Ford illustrates they're already painting the same numbers as they did after Clarence Thomas was confirmed. Glorify the accuser as a heroine of history. On the cover were the words "Her Lasting Impact." Online, the cover story had the headline "How Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony…
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Jim Sciutto: Kavanaugh Being Accused of Gang Rape Is Just Politics
So what's the big deal? Brett Kavanaugh was accused of being involved in gang rape but why does he have to act so upset about that? I mean, that accusation was just politics. Who would make such absurd analysis? Well, a good bet would be a CNN anchor, specifically Jim Sciutto because that's what he did on Thursday's Newsroom when analyzing Kavanaugh's understandably angry reaction to being…
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CNN Panel Explodes in Anger After Learning Kavanaugh Has the Votes
Upon hearing that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had the votes be confirmed, a CNN panel at the 4:00pm EST hour responded as you would expect, with hysterical tirades against the “sexism” and “racism” of America, adding that the Founding Fathers would be upset today, and this confirmation would energize women to vote against Republicans at the midterm elections this November.
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Sharpton: Kavanaugh Supporters Like People at Lynchings after Church
We knew that Senator Susan Collins would come under attack by the left for her "yes" vote on Kavanaugh. But comparing Collins to people who would attend lynchings after going to church? No one would sink that low, right? Wrong. On MSNBC Friday afternoon, Al Sharpton said: "these people would go to church and then go to the lynching after clothing themselves in morality. And that's what we're…
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Wow: CNN’s Chalian Admits This Was ‘Perhaps’ Trump’s ‘Best Week’
Moments after Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins announced Friday afternoon that she’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, liberal journalists were despondent. But for others decided to face the music and CNN’s David Chalian did so by admitting that this was “perhaps” Donald Trump’s “best week as President.”
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Trump Supporter Steve Cortes Calls Out Race-Obsessed CNN Panel
During Thursday’s edition of CNN Tonight With Don Lemon, the eponymous host asked his panel to weigh in on Senator Orrin Hatch waving his hand at angry left-wing protesters and telling them to “grow up.” It did not take long for the panel to make the entire debate about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the source of anger for the protesters who confronted Senator Hatch, all about race and…
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Watch the Moment Chris Hayes Realizes Kavanaugh Will Be Confirmed
On Friday afternoon, moderate Senators Susan Collins and Joe Manchin announced they both would vote yes on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. As you might expect, MSNBC hosts didn’t take the news well. Liberal host Chris Hayes actually dropped his head in sorrow at the news.
WashPost Urged to End Dishonest Label of Rubin as ‘Conservative'
During her nine-year tenure as a blogger for the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin has written columns that have been described by the newspaper as coming “from a conservative perspective.” More than three dozen conservative leaders disagreed with that assessment on Wednesday, when they sent a letter to the Post’s editorial board stating that Rubin has “repeatedly rejected conservative ideas and…
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Ari Melber: Kavanaugh ‘Didn’t Apologize’ for 'Perjuring Himself'
It was Joy Behar’s birthday Friday and the co-host of The View was celebrated by her fellow hosts with guest appearances and birthday wishes from Democrat politicians and liberal news anchors.The panel also talked about the news of the day, the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, with guest hosts MSNBC anchors Ari Melber and Chris Hayes sounding more like View hosts than actual…
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MSNBC Frets at ‘Right Wing’ Maine, Cheers ‘Profile in Courage’ Alaska
The journalists on MSNBC, Friday were partially disturbed and partially relieved as they parsed the tea leaves on how the final vote would go for Brett Kavanaugh. On the one hand, moderate Republican Lisa Murkowski is a “profile in courage” for voting against the Supreme Court nominee. But Susan Collins might fall victim to the “very right-wing” desires of Maine.
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Post-Cloture NBC Hopes Other GOPers Vote No; ‘Beyond Reelection’
During and after the cloture vote Friday morning to move forward with Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, NBC’s Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell held out hope that unnamed Republican Senators could change their minds to oppose Kavanaugh and that, amidst the onslaught of pressure (read: verbal harassment from the left), voting against the Judge is thinking “beyond reelection.”
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On NBC, Ellen Trashes ‘Angry’ Kavanaugh: ‘He Can Get Away With It’
During an interview with Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie aired Friday morning, liberal talk show host Ellen DeGeneres reacted to allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by blasting the judge for being able to “get away with” being “angry” during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which Democrats were smearing him as a rapist.
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Roberts: ‘Very, Very Partisan’ Kavanaugh, ‘Bearing Weight' of #MeToo
Breaking in with live coverage Friday, before and after the Senate vote to proceed onto the confirmation vote Saturday of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, ABC News’s Cokie Roberts, Jon Karl, Mary Bruce, David Muir and Terry Moran slammed the proceedings and the nominee as “very partisan” and an example of how sexual assault victims would be treated. Roberts saved her harshest rebuke for…