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Shocker: ABC Offers Positive Portrait of ‘Amazing’ Ben Carson
What’s going on here? Good Morning America, somehow, aired a shockingly positive portrayal of Ben Carson on Wednesday, promoting the Republican as “amazing” and having a “resume like no other candidate.” This is quite a change from ABC’s previous attacks on Carson.
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Chris Matthews: Was 'Stupid' When Hillary Said GOPers Were Her Enemies
Reacting to a sound bite of Joe Biden from today's Rose Garden announcement in which the Vice President obliquely criticized Hillary Clinton for a remark at the Democratic debate in which she said Republicans were her "enemy," Hardball host Chris Matthews said Clinton's comment was "stupid" and probably driven by her trying too hard to toss out red meat to the partisan debate audience.
Of course…
Univision usa entrevista complaciente con Hillary para impulsar agenda
La última vez que cubrí una entrevista "exclusiva" con Hillary Clinton en los medios hispanos la encontré tan aduladora que bien podría haber sido un “…aviso comercial de la campaña de Hillary.” Sin embargo, después de haber visto el romance de Arantxa Loizaga de Univisión difundido hace poco desde San Antonio, me parece que hablé demasiado pronto.
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Cheers ‘Universally Beloved’ Joe Biden
On Wednesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reacted to the news that Vice President Joe Biden had decided to not run for president by touting how “universally beloved Joe Biden is as an American political figure.”
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CNN Gushes Over Biden's 'Fitting Sign-Off' in Deciding Not to Run
CNN's Jim Acosta sang Vice President Joe Biden's praises on Wednesday's Legal View, mere moments after the Democrat announced that he was not running for president: "It was extraordinary political theater to be out here...it was unbelievable to see us all called together at the very last minute to witness what we just saw. But, in many ways, it was a kind of a fitting sign-off for this vice…
Open Thread: Joe Biden Decides Against POTUS Bid
Flanked by his wife and the president, Vice President Joe Biden announced moments ago in the White Rose Garden that he decided to not seek the Democratic nomination for president.
Consider this post today's open thread.
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Joy Behar Touts Trump’s Liberal Views: ‘He Agrees With Bernie’
On Wednesday’s View, liberal co-host Joy Behar admitted that she was “starting to warm up to Trump a little bit now” given the numerous liberal positions the Republican frontrunner has taken over the years. After Behar admitted Trump will “never replace my arousal feelings for Bernie” she touted how Trump “is not as bad as the rest” of the GOP field.
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Broadcast Networks Help Dem Presidential Contenders Push Gun Control
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The Democrats are determined to make the issue of gun control a presidential campaign issue, according to The Washington Post. And they already have the help of the news media.
Although the broadcast network evening shows said nothing about gun control immediately following the first Republican presidential debate, the Oregon community college shooting on Oct. 1, changed the media’s agenda. It…
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Andrea Mitchell Tees Up John Kerry to Blast GOP ‘Climate Deniers’
During an interview with Secretary of State John Kerry at a State Department climate forum on Tuesday, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell urged the Secretary to slam the GOP: “Republican candidates are not only silent on the subject, they are climate deniers. And even candidates who led the way in 2008, the nominee [John McCain], is now silent on the subject because of Tea…
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Mika: 'Disconnect Between People I Talk to and Rest of Country'
It might be apocryphal, but the famous quote attributed to Pauline Kael, the late film critic of the New York Times, is along the lines of "how could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him."
Mika Brzezinski had her Pauline Kael moment on today's Morning Joe. Mika declared herself "really surprised" by poll numbers showing there are more Americans dissatisfied with Hillary Clinton's…
Lefty Prof: Ben Carson the ‘Antithesis of the Civil Rights Struggle'
Daily Kos writer Denise Oliver-Velez has two plans related to New York state’s primary election next April: vote for Democrats, and give Ben Carson the finger. Carson won’t see it, but that’s not the point -- it’s a therapeutic gesture.
In a Sunday screed, Oliver-Velez, an adjunct professor of anthropology and women’s studies at SUNY New Paltz, charged that Carson “has become the antithesis of…
Matthews: Giuliani His Kind of GOPer: Pro-Choice, 'Cosmopolitan'
Welcoming his first guest on his Tuesday Hardball program to discuss the rise of Donald Trump and the "Fall of the House of Bush" and other establishment Republicans, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews gushed over former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the last of a dying breed of "moderate" "cosmopolitan" pro-choice East Coast Republicans.
Univision Uses Chummy Hillary Interview to Sell Clinton-Castro Ticket
The last time I covered an “exclusive” Hillary Clinton interview on Hispanic media, I found it to be so fawning as to be “...practically a Hillary campaign commercial.” After watching Univision’s Arantxa Loizaga recently-aired Hillary lovefest from San Antonio, though, it appears I may have spoken far too soon.
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CNN: Fiorina 'Went to War' With Planned Parenthood; Used 'Falsehood'
Carol Costello took aim at Carly Fiorina on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom over her attack on Planned Parenthood at the last Republican presidential debate. Costello asserted that "some say Carly Fiorina can't figure out how to define feminism for a GOP audience...she effectively stood up for women everywhere with that great comeback to Donald Trump. But then, she went to war with Planned Parenthood...I…
