MSNBC’s Joy Reid: ‘Family,’ ‘Church’ Tropes of 1950s-era Nationalism
During President Trump’s first State of the Union address on January 30, MSNBC host Joy Reid took to Twitter to rant about how polarizing the speech was – not because of any of the policies he mentioned, but because it talked about things like “family” and “church,” which she dismissed as outdated and nationalistic tropes.
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Christie: Nothing Trump Could've Said at SOTU Would've Made Dems Happy
Immediately following President Trump’s positive State of the Union address, which ABC complained was “divisive” “gloomy” and “sad,” the same ABC team was still in meltdown mode two hours later on Nightline. But newly instated ABC News contributor Chris Christie was the only one to declare the truth of the matter, that Democrats had become so partisan that there wasn’t “anything” he could’ve said…
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Dour Dowd Claims Country as Divided as During Civil War
Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America Wednesday morning to review President Trump’s State of the Union address, Chief Political Analyst Matthew Dowd worried that he “didn’t get any sense there was any room for compromise” in the speech and even proclaimed that the nation was as divided today as it was during the Civil War.
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Chuck Todd: Trump’s Speech ‘Set Things Back,’ ‘Offended' Democrats
After trashing President Trump’s State of the Union address moments after it ended Tuesday night, on Wednesday morning, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd was back at it on the Today show, fearing the speech “set things back” and “really offended a lot of Democrats,” which apparently included him.
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CNN’s Don Lemon on Record Low Black Unemployment: ‘Thanks, Obama’
It became obvious on Monday evening that CNN has never adopted the Fox motto of “fair and balanced” reporting,especially when Don Lemon -- liberal host of the weekday CNN Tonight program -- tried to deflect any effort by GOP President Donald Trump to take credit for the recent significant drop in black unemployment.
Bozell & Graham Column: Imagining President Hillary's Press
President Trump’s first State of the Union address is a fine occasion to imagine how close we came to President Hillary Rodham Clinton. Imagine Hillary actually campaigned in the Midwest instead of Arizona and won closely contested Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. (Imagine the exact same congressional results.) Then imagine the dramatic difference in tone in our “news” media and…
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NBC Trashes ‘Subdued,’ ‘Tired’ SOTU Speech Filled with ‘Hyperbole’
On Tuesday night, NBC threw what could be described as a hissy fit following President Trump’s first State of the Union address by attacking it as a “subdued,” “tired” President and speech that will keep “the fact checkers...busy” but didn’t address Russia or gun control.
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CNN Discredits Own Poll Showing Overwhelming Positive Reaction to SOTU
In an amazing example of just how out of touch they were with the American people Tuesday, CNN prefaced the release of their very positive State of the Union reaction poll by claiming it wasn’t representative of the nation. “It's not representative of the country overall it is a poll of people who watched the speech. Well, who watches a State of the Union address? Fans of the person giving it,”…
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Director Sad That ‘Intelligent People’ Have to Watch 'Racist' Trump
MSNBC’s hyperbolic, frenzied State of the Union coverage climaxed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Despite the fact that 75 percent of Americans approved of the speech, director Rob Reiner lamented that “intelligent people” like Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow were forced to listen to the “racist” “liar” Trump.
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CNN Laments Trump Using Patriotic Language in SOTU, Alienating Dems
It didn’t take long for CNN to crank the anti-Trump ridiculousness up to 11 after President Trump’s State of the Union address. Just 19 seconds after Trump concluded his speech CNN host Jake Tapper, and later Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger, whined about how Trump used patriotic language that would inevitably “turn off” liberal Democrats. But their complaints weren’t directed at the…
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Rattled MSNBC: Trump ‘Stokes the Fires’ With North Korea, ‘Wants War'
Chris Matthews does not understand why Donald Trump said such nasty things about North Korea. The MSNBC host on Tuesday was clearly rattled by the President’s State of the Union criticism of the outlaw country. Matthews chided: “Why did he stoke the fires tonight? Why did he bring out the really tough case of their family losing their kid who was hiking through the mountains there? What was the…
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ABC Meltdown: ‘Divisive,’ ‘Gloomy,’ SOTU Stoked ‘Racial Tensions’
To match their vicious pre-State of the Union address coverage, ABC lost its mind following President Trump’s first such address, slinging mud at the President for delivering a “divisive,” “gloomy,” and “sad speech” that did nothing to “unify” the country and instead “stok[ed]...racial tensions.”
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Juvenile MSNBC Crew Giggles, Touts Trump Limo Being Flipped Off
After pompously declaring that MSNBC regulars like the disgraced Brian Williams would “fact check” Donald Trump’s State of the Union, Williams and Rachel Maddow on Tuesday went juvenile and touted a protester flipping off the President’s limo. The disgraced ex-Nightly News anchor mocked, “It encountered a small but vocal, as they say, group of protesters including a gentleman you seen who had a…
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Nets Use Pre-SOTU to Bludgeon ‘Embattled,’ ‘Deeply Unpopular’ Trump
Well, that didn’t take long. Minutes before President Trump’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday, the major broadcast networks pulled out the long knives to attack the “embattled” and “deeply unpopular” President leading a GOP that’s “paying the political price in recent special elections” for a presidency whom people believe is working “against them.”
