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Rubio Berates Paper, Debate Moderators as ‘Evidence’ of Liberal 'Bias'
During Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate on CNBC, Senator Marco Rubio (Fl.) excoriated the Florida newspaper The Sun-Sentinel and debate co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for raising questions about his young age and calls for him to resign from the Senate due to missed votes as examples of “a double standard” and “bias that exists in the American media today.”
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Cruz Takes CNBC Debate Panelists to Task for Bias
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took CNBC debate panelists to task for their liberal bias: “The questions that have been asked so far at this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media....The contrast with the Democratic debate, where every thought and question from the media was, which of you is more handsome and why?...And nobody watching at home believes that any of the moderators…
Harwood Hounds Jindal Over Cutting Spending In Louisiana
As I noted earlier this evening, in an early question in the undercard GOP debate tonight, CNBC's John Harwood pressed Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) on his staunch opposition to tax hikes. Well, later in the same debate, Harwood hit Jindal from the other side of the ledger as regards spending cuts, and the $1.6-million shortfall that the state treasury saw earlier this year. It, by the way, has since…
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Chris Matthews Fesses Up: Hillary Has ‘Got Allies in the Media’
With much of the political world tuned into CNBC for the first Republican presidential debate, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews ran wild on Wednesday and fessed up to the fact that Hillary Clinton has “got allies in the media” and not “some evil forces” out to attack Clinton as some liberals believe.
Buzzfeed DC Bureau Chief Mocks GOP 'Short Bus Debate'
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Apparently, Buzzfeed takes the GOP presidential field as seriously as thinking people take, well, Buzzfeed. In a tweet posted immediately after the first GOP Debate tonight, John R. Stanton, DC Bureau Chief of Buzzfeed posted this derogatory tweet directed at the GOP candidates:
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CNBC’s Harwood Declares Obama’s Economy Is ‘Strongest in the World'
Continuing to come unhinged and flash his liberal colors in the first CNBC Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, co-moderator John Harwood pontificated that President Obama has made the United States economy “the strongest in the world.”
CNBC's Harwood Presses Gov. Jindal Over Opposition to Tax Hikes
Well, CNBC GOP debate moderator John Harwood didn't waste any time. Shortly into the "undercard" debate tonight, the journalist pressed Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal about whether he would "do for the federal budget what you did for the Louisiana budget" and citing "many Republicans are opposed to the approach that you've taken in Louisiana" by "tr[ying] so hard to avoid anything that can be called…
Hemingway: Harwood Has 'No Business' Moderating GOP Debate
Mollie Hemingway -- the winner of the first annual Noel Sheppard Media Blogger of the Year Award -- has an excellent piece at The Federalist detailing why "CNBC's John Harwood Has No Business Moderating A GOP Presidential Debate."
Univisión atrae a republicanos dispuestos a golpear a conservadores
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Los lectores de este espacio saben que he sido un crítico acérrimo de la división de noticias de Univisión. Estas críticas se han extendido a la cobertura prejuiciada de las noticias del día, su práctica institucional del periodismo de opinión en favor de políticas progresistas (siendo la amnistía inmigratoria la más prominente entre muchas), y su promoción general de la candidatura presidencial…
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CNN's Cuomo Touts Hillary Clinton 'Giving Her Best' on Colbert
Wednesday's New Day on CNN spotlighted the late night shows' latest shots at the Republican presidential candidates. Michaela Pereira spotlighted how "Hillary Clinton got her own dig in. Stephen Colbert asked her about going up against Donald Trump or Ben Carson." The morning newscast also featured one-liners from NBC's Seth Meyers and TBS's Conan O'Brien, who targeted three of the GOP contenders…
Open Thread/CaptionFest: CNBC Debate 'Spin' Credentials
Consider this your pre-CNBC GOP debate open thread/caption contest (photo via Erick Erickson).
Time Lashes Out at Carly Fiorina’s ‘Dodgy Claims,' ‘Convenient Truths’
The November 2 issue of Time magazine investigated the “dodgy claims” of a female presidential candidate. Of course, the subject was Republican Carly Fiorina and not Democrat Hillary Clinton. In a cover story entitled “Carly Fiorina’s Convenient Truths," writer Philip Elliott openly attacked, “Dodgy claims are becoming a Fiorina hallmark.”
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NBC: Clinton ‘On the Offensive’; Ready to ‘Counterpunch’ GOP
Ahead of Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, NBC’s Today promoted Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton having “her own battle plan heading into tonight,” preparing to respond to the GOP 2016 field with a new ad blitz.
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MSNBC's Wolffe Fails to Note Hillary Hypocrisy on Equal Pay
During a segment on MSNBC Tuesday evening devoted to the question of whether Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has engaged in sexist criticisms of Democratic presidential primary opponent Hillary Clinton, anchor Richard Wolffe played for his audience a Clinton campaign ad centered on the issue of "equal pay," underscoring how the former first lady is running on feminist themes to fire up female…
