The Horror: WashPost Turns to SPLC, CAIR Over Trump Jr AR-15 Cross Pic
January 7th, 2020 10:22 AM
If The Washington Post made a New Year’s resolution to cut down on the political hackery, get back to a sensible regimen of responsible sourcing, and maybe lose a few pounds of pomposity, it’s already been broken in spectacular fashion. A January 7 piece from Sarah Pulliam Bailey involves Donald Trump Jr., social media, religion, and firearms -- what could go wrong?
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ABC’s 'View' Crew Brings on Judge Judy to Endorse Bloomberg
January 7th, 2020 10:00 AM
Now that we’ve actually entered the year of the 2020 presidential election, the contest will undoubtedly become more contentious all the way through Tuesday, November 3. One sign of the ever-growing debate took place on Monday, when Judy Sheindlin – the star of the successful syndicated Judge Judy television program -- appeared on ABC’s The View show and discussed her role in a new advertisement…
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Surprise: CBS Presses Warren on Whether Soleimani Was a Terrorist
January 6th, 2020 5:34 PM
Given that journalists have echoed Democratic talking points on the killing of Qasem Soleimani and touted the militant as a “revered,” “inspiring” leader, it was a breath of fresh air on Monday to see CBS This Morning’s Ed O’Keefe flat-out ask Elizabeth Warren if he was a “terrorist.”
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Golden Globe Awards Hysteria: 'Climate Disaster,' 'On Brink of War'
January 6th, 2020 12:27 AM
The first awards show of the busy season is now in the books. On Sunday night, The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards aired on NBC. Ricky Gervais was the show’s host and he did a great job. Unfortunately, his advice to the celebrities to skip the political speeches wasn’t heeded by all.
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Biden Lies to Fox News About Opposing Raid on Osama bin Laden in 2011
January 4th, 2020 8:46 PM
The latest test of the "independent fact-checkers" just unfolded in a Joe Biden interview with Peter Doocy of Fox News in Dubuque, Iowa. It's cut, and dried. Biden is on record opposing Obama's decision to take out Osama bin Laden in 2011. But now he's claiming he never did. It's an easy "Pants on Fire" for PolitiFact. It's Four Pinocchios for The Washington Post.
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The Media Don't Treat Bernie Sanders With Enough Respect?
January 4th, 2020 5:59 PM
In his newsletter, CNN's Brian Stelter touted how Mike Allen of Axios was slamming the media. For what? "The media rarely treats Sanders, 78, with the seriousness warranted by his sustained popularity and fundraising."
David Brooks Fantasizes Trump 2020 'Landslide Defeat' to Biden
January 4th, 2020 1:57 PM
David Brooks engages in New York Times "conservative" fantasy to imagine the 2020s, where "the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party," including Trump's "landslide defeat" to Joe Biden, which "left him humiliated, and the Republicans lost their Senate majority."
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CNN's Berman Calls Killing of Soleimani 'Murder'
January 3rd, 2020 9:24 AM
CNN's John Berman calls the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani "murder." Berman and co-host Poppy Harlow also not-so-subtly suggest that President Trump's ordering of the strike was a "wag the dog" move in the context of the impeachment proceedings and re-election campaign.
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ABC Touts 2020 Dem Fundraising, Skips How Trump Beat Them All
January 2nd, 2020 10:16 PM
In their Thursday report on the state of the Democratic primary at the start of the election year, ABC’s World News Tonight took the opportunity to boast about how well their candidates were doing terms of fundraising. But, they were the only broadcast network to omit how President Trump’s fundraising numbers were blowing them out of the water, $46 million for the fourth quarter of 2019 alone…
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NBC & ABC Only See Republicans ‘Vulnerable’ on Impeachment
January 2nd, 2020 12:02 PM
On Thursday, the NBC and ABC morning shows rang in the new year by hyping only Republican senators being politically “vulnerable” on impeachment and “potential breaks in the GOP ranks.” There was no discussion of Democratic lawmakers paying a political price for supporting the radical action against President Trump and the coverage even seemed to place them in the driver’s seat of the…
2020 Trump Economy ‘Nearly Recession-Proof’ Despite Media Predictions
January 2nd, 2020 10:04 AM
For all the media brouhaha over an imminent recession in 2019, President Donald Trump’s economy has continued to stupefy prognosticators going into the new year.
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2020 Resolution: Lemon Promises to ‘Fight,’ and Be More Biased?
January 1st, 2020 1:42 PM
Shortly after the United States started to ring in 2020 on Wednesday (and more than a few drinks), CNN Tonight host Don Lemon announced he had a major New Year’s resolution for the upcoming election year that he wanted people to know about: “lean in harder” and “fight.” Essentially, he was vowing to be more biased in his reporting.
HuffPost Whines Bloomberg News Violated Its Policy By Doing Journalism
December 30th, 2019 9:25 AM
Bloomberg News drew fire earlier this year for making it company policy to not investigate its owner (liberal billionaire 2020 presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg) or his Democratic rivals going into the election. The company said they would continue to investigate President Donald Trump, however.
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ABC, NBC Try to Sweep Away Joe Biden’s Vow to Obstruct Congress
December 29th, 2019 10:31 AM
On Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden vowed to not comply with any subpoena to testify in the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Trump. Such an action could be classified as obstruction of Congress, the same thing Trump was being impeached for. Biden began to backpedal over the weekend and he was aided in that effort by ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today. Both used…
