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MSNBC's Velshi Gives Okay to Rubin’s Dangerous Rhetoric on ICE, BBB

July 10th, 2025 11:26 AM

On his eponymous Sunday show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi voiced agreement with ex-Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin as the embittered ex-Republican trashed the GOP over its deportation policies. She also claimed that 50,000 people a year will die as a result of the Republican budget plan.

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Amanpour, Ex-Husband Warn Trump's Budget Cuts Will Get People Killed

July 8th, 2025 2:33 PM

For their Tuesday podcast, CNN/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour and ex-husband/former Clinton official Jamie Rubin warned that Trump’s budget cuts, both foreign and domestic, will get people killed.

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PBS Teams Up With Liberal 'Non-Partisans' to Bash Trump's Budget Bill

July 6th, 2025 7:56 PM

As President Trump’s big budget bill neared a crucial vote in the Senate on Monday, PBS News Hour’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez, covered only one side of a critical part of the bill federal health care spending on Medicare and Medicaid. The sole guest for the segment not only represented a liberal health group, KFF (previously known as the Kaiser Family Foundation), but…

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CNN Suggests GOP Bill Contrary To The Spirit Of The Constitution

July 3rd, 2025 1:57 PM

Against a chyron that read “America 249 Years After the Declaration of Independence,” CNN’s Dana Bash welcomed historian Jon Meacham to Thursday’s edition of Inside Politics to promote his new book, which is just an overpriced foreword to the Declaration and the Constitution. Both Bash and Meacham would suggest that this 4th of July, GOP efforts to pass President Trump’s One Big…

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Oliver Attacks GOP For Wanting Medicaid Work Requirements

July 1st, 2025 9:32 AM

HBO’s John Oliver was in a bit of a difficult position for Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight. The previous week he suggested that President Trump was on the verge of putting the country into the middle of another Middle East disaster, but that prediction didn’t come true, so he did the best thing he could: hope everyone forgot that he said he would have more to say about that and…

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IT’S (D)IFFERENT: Legacy Newscasts Dump All Over ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

July 1st, 2025 2:14 AM

The Legacy Media took turns taking potshots at the One Big, Beautiful Bill in their network evening newscasts. This is in stark contrast to how large Biden-era legislation was covered and serves to remind us that if it weren’t for double standards, there’d be none at all.

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MSNBC Compares LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health To That Of Combat Veterans

June 22nd, 2025 5:52 AM

On Friday afternoon’s MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Reports, the host lamented over the Trump administration’s decision to shut down the LGBTQ support option on the National Suicide Support hotline.

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Brooks Invokes Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin To Mark Musk's Departure From DOGE

May 31st, 2025 9:48 AM

New York Times columnist David Brooks did the not-so-clever trick of insisting he wasn’t saying what he was indeed saying on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour as he reflected back on Elon Musk’s time at DOGE by comparing him to Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin.

PolitiFact Torches Straw Man To Label Johnson 'False' On SNAP Reforms

May 30th, 2025 1:11 PM

On Sunday, Speaker Mike Johnson gave CBS’s Margaret Brennan what many considered to be a much-needed education on the House’s Big Beautiful Bill’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reforms. However, on Thursday, PolitiFact’s Loreben Tuquero asserted that it was Johnson who was the “false” one, although she had to torch a straw man to do so.

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Nets Find New Respect For Musk's Deficit Concerns As GOP Pushes BBB

May 28th, 2025 10:24 AM

According to a NewsBusters study, ABC, CBS, and NBC’s coverage of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting efforts at DOGE was 97 percent negative, but on Wednesday, their respective morning shows of Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and Today found a strange new respect for Musk’s concerns about the deficit as they used him to undermine the Big Beautiful Bill recently passed by…

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Face the Nation or Face the Facts? Mike Johnson SCHOOLS Brennan on BBB

May 27th, 2025 8:06 PM

CBS’s Margaret Brennan butted heads with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday’s installment of Face the Nation over the proposed tax cuts in what has been dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The proposed cuts mentioned in the segment were regarding ending Medicaid and S.N.A.P. fraud, as well as cutting back on erroneous spending by government agencies.

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PBS Attacks GOP For Deficits While Attacking Spending Cuts

May 24th, 2025 10:03 AM

The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks tried to have it both ways on Friday. The three men attacked the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill for its negative effects on the deficit, but also its spending cuts, meaning PBS either wants to raise most people's taxes, but is too…

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'Say Good Bye To Grandma': Kimmel, Daily Show Continue Attacks On BBB

May 23rd, 2025 10:00 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Ronny Chieng continued their dishonest attacks on the GOP’s spending bill, dubbed The Big Beautiful Bill, on their Thursday shows, calling it “mostly ass,” “cartoonishly mean,” and insisting people should “say goodbye to grandma.”

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House Passage of ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Draws Mixed Legacy Coverage

May 23rd, 2025 12:43 AM

The United States House of Representatives passed its “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, which seeks to renew the tax cuts first enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a significant plank of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. But coverage on the legacy media newscasts was mixed, at best.