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Heilemann: What Does Lewandowski Have to Prove to Prove His Innocence?
Imagine that a senior Hillary aide--not to mention Hillary herself--were indicted over the email scandal. In a million years, could you imagine John Heilemann asking what such person would have to do to prove his or her innocence? Neither could I. But on today's With All Due Respect, Heilemann asked a Florida criminal defense attorney [not Lewandowski's lawyer]: "What is the legal standard? What…
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Tapper to Trump Adviser/Huckabee Daughter: ‘Aren’t You Just Ashamed?'
Following former Cruz adviser Amanda Carpenter’s emotional interview Tuesday afternoon denying smears being perpetuated about her being involved with her former boss, The Lead host Jake Tapper grew visibly frustrated as Trump senior adviser and Mike Huckabee’s daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeatedly denied any role the campaign had to the point that Tapper unsuccessfully asked if she’s “…
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PBS Glides Over Enquirer Smear of Cruz, Pushes Dark Future for the GOP
One could offer credit to the PBS NewsHour for mostly avoiding the unsubstantiated National Enquirer story claiming Ted Cruz had five secret mistresses. The closest the NewsHour came to it came on Friday was anchor Judy Woodruff saying "Cruz accused Trump of being behind tabloid accusations of extramarital affairs. It was the latest in the escalating war of words over women this week between the…
Ironic: Socially Liberal Apple Benefits from Hobby Lobby Precedent
How's this for irony? Socially liberal San Francisco Bay area-based Apple may arguably may have been bolstered in its position against the FBI in the matter of the San Bernardino jihadist's iPhone by virtue of the Hobby Lobby decision, an attorney writing in Christianity Today magazine argued today.
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Softball Interviewer Scarborough Chides Obama for Softball Interviews
It was the pot calling the kettle black on Morning Joe Tuesday. Joe Scarborough was up in arms over President Obama’s criticism of the media for not reporting the way he would like. Scarborough called Obama out for opting for more friendly news outlets that provided the “easiest questions and he would be speaking to his audience directly.” But the fact is Morning Joe had their own softball…
Streisand: 'It Is Time We Grew Up as a Nation' and Elected Hillary
Singer, actress and liberal activist Barbara Streisand is trying to play the “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar” gender card on behalf of her pal and Democratic presidential front-runner, Hillary Clinton.
Streisand recently penned an op-ed in The Huffington Post last week, “The Sexism in Politics,” and how Clinton faces “outright sexism” in the presidential race. Very original. We haven’t heard that…
Charles Pierce: Media Helped Trump By Ignoring Right-Wing ‘Madness’
Conservatives and liberals often agree that the media have played an outsized role in making Donald Trump the Republican presidential frontrunner but differ about how they’ve done it. (Here’s a view from the right.) Lefty Esquire blogger Pierce argues that the list of offenders in this regard is long; in fact, it includes every journalist who’s failed to point out over the last few decades that…
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Networks Push Obama’s ‘Lengthy Indictment’ of ‘Ugly’ Primaries
All three network morning shows on Tuesday hyped Barack Obama’s “lengthy indictment” of 2016's “ugly” primaries. The President, who has lashed out at Ted Cruz in the past, gave a speech on Monday where he lectured, “The number one question I am getting as I travel around the world is what is happening in America?” CBS This Morning’s Major Garrett trumpeted, “President Obama delivered a lengthy…
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MSNBC Journalist Admits Network Doesn't Play Hardball With Trump
On Monday's Last Word, MSNBC's Tony Dokoupil inadvertently revealed that his network restrains itself from pressing Donald Trump too hard. Dokoupil reported on conservative radio host Charlie Sykes's "incredibly blistering" interview of Trump earlier in the day, and underlined that the personality "knew it was going to be a one and done. He does not have to go back to Donald Trump ever again.…
Bloomberg: Yale Endowment-Targeting Connecticut Is 'Cash-Strapped'
In a variation on a popular saying in real estate — "The three most important factors are location, location and location" — the State of Connecticut, since Democrat Dannel Malloy became Governor five years ago, has employed three strategies to balance its budget: raising taxes, raising taxes, and raising taxes.
The Nutmeg State's next planned round of tax increases includes a proposal pushed by…
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Atlantic's Goldberg: 'I'm Not Flacking for Obama, But'
Methinks the Goldberg doth protest too much . . . Twice during his appearance on today's Morning Joe, The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg claimed that he wasn't there to "flack" for President Obama on foreign policy . . . but then proceeded to do just that.
The Atlantic recently published a long piece by Goldberg on Obama's foreign policy, based on the author's interviews of the president and some…
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Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Gleefully Joke About Tabloid Smear of Cruz
In the first full weeknight since The National Enquirer tabloid published its unsubstantiated piece alleging that GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz has been engaging in extramarital affairs, late-night comedy hosts Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel spent portions of their Monday monologues promoting the smear as legitimate and wondering how any woman could be interested in Cruz.
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FNC's MacCallum Blasts Censorship Of Recent Islamic Terror Attacks
Monday night’s The Kelly File hosted by FNC’s Martha MacCallum, held an interesting debate over the State Department’s refusal to condemn radical Islam in the recent attacks in Brussels and Pakistan. Guest Larry Korb, former Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, defended the State Department’s reticence while guest Brooke Goldstein, Director for the Law Fair Project with MacCallum pressed Korb…
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Sarandon on Bernie: 'I Really Want to Be on the Right Side of History’
Promoting her endorsement of socialist Bernie Sanders on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s All In, liberal actress Susan Sarandon proclaimed that she’s backing Sanders because she “really want[s] to be on the right side of history” and not with Hillary Clinton or anyone who’s “tak[en] any money from fracking or Monsanto or, you know Super PACs or Wall Street or big farm.”
