Salon: GOP Will 'Miss George Stephanopoulos' As Debate Moderator

In the wake of the furor over his gifts to the Clinton Foundation, George Stephanopoulos has taken himself out of the running to moderate a Republican presidential debate set to air on ABC next February. That development gave Salon’s Jim Newell a peg for his Friday argument that GOPers are off-base in their recent push for conservatives (or at least non-liberals) to moderate their party’s debates…
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Frank Rich on 2016: ‘Neophyte’ GOP vs. ‘3:00 In The Morning’ Hillary

Liberal New York magazine essayist Frank Rich appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday and repeatedly blasted the GOP’s foreign policy views when stacked up against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The former New York Times columnist contended Clinton was the “red phone at 3:00 in the morning candidate and you have bunch of fresh-faced youngish Republicans for the most part who look like …
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Stephanopoulos Again Apologizes for Clinton Foundation Donations

On Sunday’s This Week, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos made a second on-air apology for failing to disclose that he donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation from 2012-2014. 
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Fox News Sunday Slams Stephanopoulos’s Clinton Foundation Donations

On Fox News Sunday, the entire political panel blasted ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos for his failure to disclose $75,000 worth of donations to the Clinton Foundation despite covering the Clintons and promoting the work of the foundation over the years. Brit Hume criticized the ABC anchor’s actions and argued “if there's anybody in the world that you want to seem independent from it’s the…

Stephanopoulos Interviewing GOPer Is Like Rove Interviewing Dems

Would Hillary Clinton - or any other Democrat candidate - consent to be interviewed on Fox by Karl Rove? 

Flashback: George Stephanopoulos to Hillary Clinton: 'I Love You'

Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos was rocked this week by the revelation that he donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation. But Stephanopoulos's affinity for the Clintons has never been in doubt. In 1999, the now-ABC anchor declared his "love" for Hillary Clinton and received heartfelt affection in response. On page 428 of his memoir All Too Human, Stephanopoulos…

James Taylor: Obama Is Greatest President 'Of All Time'

The Associated Press knows when something should be on its “Big Story” page...like another celebrity who still thinks Obama is the greatest. AP’s Mesfin Fekadu began: “Barack Obama supporter James Taylor doesn't just think the U.S. president is great — he believes Obama is the greatest of all-time.” "I am just thankful for every day that he's in office. I am so proud that he represents my…
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NBC Harps on Jeb Bush's 'Pretty Bad Week;' 'Apparent Snub' from Rove

Friday's NBC Nightly News picked up where Today left off earlier in the day by hyping former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's "long week," after his Monday remark that he would have authorized an invasion of Iraq if he had been president in 2003. Lester Holt echoed Savannah Guthrie in underling that Bush has "struggled since then to put daylight between him and his brother's legacy on Iraq." He also…
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Chris Matthews: 'There Was No Intelligence Saddam Had WMD. Never'

It's easy for people--with the possible exception of Jeb Bush--to say that they would not have supported the invasion of Iraq knowing what we know now about WMD there. But Chris Matthews took things a foolish step further on this evening's Hardball, actually claiming that "there was no intelligence they had a weapon. Never was."  Really?  So Hillary, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Ted…

Contest: What Will the GOP Cave On Next?!

Bloomberg News ran a happy news story this week about the "surprising" development of Republicans joining Democrats in their effort to end our "incarceration generation" by the simple expedient of putting fewer criminals in prison. And Bloomberg wasn't just talking about the media's usual lickspittle, Sen. Rand Paul. 
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Morning Joe Shocked at Stephanopoulos Story; No 'Modern Parallel'

After having stayed silent on the George Stephanopoulos scandal on Thursday, MSNBC finally covered the story with multiple segments on Friday’s Morning Joe devoted to Stephanopoulos’s previously undisclosed donations to the Clinton Foundation. Surprisingly, the main theme that was derived from segments of banter was how the panelists were struck by the ABC News chief anchor’s inability to…
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Clinton Political Director Gets Another Ingratiating Interview

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Amanda Rentería, national political director of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, has received another cushy interview, this time at the hands of none other than Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. Following on the heels of a puff piece on Telemundo, the six and a half minute interview with Rentería on Univision also failed to bring up the flurry of financial and ethical controversies swirling…
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La directora política de Clinton recibe otra complaciente entrevista

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Amanda Rentería, directora de política nacional de la campaña presidencial de Hillary Clinton, recibió otra servicial entrevista. Esta vez, de parte de nada menos que Jorge Ramos, conductor estelar de Univisión. Después de una insustancial entrevista en Telemundo, los seis minutos y medio de entrevista de Rentería en Univisión tampoco cuestionaron la serie de escándalos financieros y éticos que…
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CNN's Costello: Hillary Clinton Should 'Take Tough Questions'

On Friday's CNN Newsroom, liberal anchor Carol Costello actually didn't buy the spin of a Hillary Clinton supporter on her skirting of questions from the press. When Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman did his best to shield Mrs. Clinton, Costello interjected, "I want our political candidates to take tough questions." She later underlined that "she's not answering questions! About her…