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NBC: Clintons ‘Hounded by Questions’; GOP ‘Won’t Allow it to Go Away'
In a report for Thursday’s NBC Today about Bill Clinton saying he would stop giving paid speeches if Hillary was elected president, correspondent Andrea Mitchell lamented: “The charity has been lauded for its good works but both Clintons are being hounded by questions about potential conflicts of interest from donors and high-dollar speeches.”
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ABC Ignores Hillary's Expanding Donor Scandal
ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday ignored a new report indicating that Hillary Clinton's favors for donors to her family's foundation go back to her days as a U.S. Senator. CBS This Morning allowed 42 seconds on the Clinton Foundation scandal in general, but didn't specifically mention the new allegations. "Former President Bill Clinton is defending his family's charity and rejecting…
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NBC Hits Jeb Bush for Staff Changes; Trip to Europe Now ‘Overshadowed'
Once again, NBC Nightly News offered the lone segment on the 2016 presidential campaign during its Wednesday program by choosing to hit expected Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for some recently announced changes in his staff that interim anchor Lester Holt ruled has “overshadowed” his trip to Europe this week. Leading into senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing’s report from…
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Diane Rehm Assumes Sanders Has Dual Citizenship — Based on Facebook
Among the many tired, bogus complaints heard from the establishment press is the one about how careful they are compared to the reckless knaves in the blogosphere and New Media. You see, they only use reliable sources, while bloggers will believe anything anyone writes or posts on the Internet.
Well, I suspect there are very few people in the blogosphere dumb enough to rely on a Facebook comment…
CNN Digs Up Ancient Past, Opens 'Pandora's Box' For Hillary
While trying to do Hillary a favor and expose one of her top opponent’s dirty laundry, Democrats may have opened up a “Pandora’s Box” of the past for the left’s 2016 favorite, Hillary Clinton.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Right’s ‘Freedom’ Brings Oligarchy, Corruption
When it comes to the word “freedom,” liberals and conservatives long have told each other, in effect, “I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Take Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, who in a Tuesday Washington Post column urged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to endorse a “far more expansive” concept of freedom than the right’s “constrained notion” that’…
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MSNBC Live Mocks Republicans for Being Less Popular Than Voldemort
On the June 10 edition of MSNBC Live, Thomas Roberts chose to highlight a non-scientific poll that showed several Republican candidates for president polling behind Voldemort from Harry Potter. MSNBC Live regular Frances Rivera noted that the Terminator, the shark from Jaws, and Lord Voldemort all had higher favorability ratings than many of the major Republican players.
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Maddow Mourns: Liberal Republicans Like Lincoln Chafee Are 'Extinct'
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow on Tuesday couldn't help herself as she fawned over the liberal credentials of Republican turned independent turned Democrat Lincoln Chafee. Despite the fact that Chafee is no longer a member of the GOP, the journalist repeatedly hyped his former status. She recounted, "In 2004, when President George W. Bush was running for re-election as president there was one…
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NBC Hypes Rubio ‘Under Fire’ for ‘Money Troubles’
On Wednesday, NBC’s Today seized on two New York Times hit pieces against Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, as national correspondent Peter Alexander proclaimed: “He is one of the Republicans' fastest rising stars, just 44, the youngest presidential candidate in the field. But this morning, new scrutiny is focused on Florida Senator Marco Rubio's financial struggles and spending…
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CNN Spins On 'Meaner Jeb Bush,' Romney's 'Total Disaster' In Europe
CNN’s Newsroom with Carol Costello analyzed Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush's trip to Europe and campaign shakeup on Tuesday, and couldn't help but put a negative spin on it.
Even Chris Hayes Mocks NYT Rubio Coverage: 'False Flags' by Campaign
In the wake of the New York Times running multiple stories on Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, first on his accumulation of parking tickets and the second on his personal finances, MSNBC host Chris Hayes took to Twitter on Tuesday afternoon and seemingly mocked the paper for its coverage of the Florida senator.
Unlike Rubio, NY Times Skipped Over Obama's Tickets, Student Loans
There’s no doubt The New York Times is showing an aggression in covering Marco Rubio that they did not show for Obama eight years ago. After the alleged “scoop” of Rubio’s four parking tickets over 18 years last Friday (and in Saturday’s paper), the Times on Tuesday ran a big piece on how Rubio is supposedly a disaster when it comes to his own personal finances: “a series of decisions over the…
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Bloomberg’s Halperin, Heilemann Hype Latest NYT Hit Piece on Rubio
The hosts of Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect dove into the latest New York Times piece about 2016 Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Tuesday and came away with the conclusion that the story concerning Rubio’s personal finances is both “dangerous” and “totally legitimate.” Halperin declared “The New York Times has shoved Marco Rubio down deep into the barrel” and gushed to John…
Does Matthews Know How Little Clinton Foundation Cash Goes to Charity?
During a panel discussion on Tuesday's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews picked a fight with his panel's lone Republican, who was highlighting the hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton's left-wing populist attacks on wealth given the track record of the Clinton Foundation. Matthews snarled that the Foundation was truly a charitable enterprise, although tax records show roughly just one-tenth of Foundation…
