Media Outrage Over Justice Kennedy: ‘Get Your Abortions Now’

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Katie Yoder
June 27th, 2018 3:57 PM
The media are very worried about Justice Kennedy leaving for one main reason: abortion. On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. The media immediately expressed fury that, with a pro-life judge as replacement, Roe v. Wade might be overturned. The 1973 Supreme Court decision legalized abortion on a federal level in the United States. Overturning it would leave…
 
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CNN Suffers Five-Alarm Fire Over Losing Kennedy in Trump Era

Curtis Houck
June 27th, 2018 3:34 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement triggered a seismic legal and political tsunami and, as expected, some at CNN didn’t take it very well, fretting the loss of Kennedy as a “moderating force” who legalized sam-sex marriage, kept abortion legal, and saved affirmative action. In addition, one guest and former clerk lambasted Kennedy for his “…
 
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Shameless Hypocrisy: NBC’s Schmidt Condemns ‘Politics of Incitement’

Kyle Drennen
June 27th, 2018 11:41 AM
Just one day after NBC News Political Analyst Steve Schmidt took to MSNBC to trash the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban as the “fulfillment of Osama Bin Laden’s vision” of America, the ex-Republican strategist had the audacity to show up on NBC’s Today show Wednesday to denounce the “politics of incitement.”
 
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MUST SEE: Chris Matthews Suffers Epic Meltdown Over Travel Ban Ruling

Curtis Houck
June 26th, 2018 11:35 PM
This is what having an awful, no good, very bad day looks like. MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews unleashed two separate tirades on Tuesday against the U.S. Supreme Court and decisions of theirs he doesn’t like in light of their decision to give President Trump “[t]he Good Housekeeping seal on his campaign to divide the country and approving his travel ban crudely aimed at Muslims.”
 
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Fireworks: Jake Tapper Torches Keith Ellison Over Louis Farrakhan Ties

Curtis Houck
June 26th, 2018 8:01 PM
CNN’s The Lead spent almost six minutes on Tuesday discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Trump’s travel ban with Minnesota Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, but host Jake Tapper turned the tables on Ellison by grilling him for the remaining five minutes on his ties to anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and sexist Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. 
 
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Schmidt: SCOTUS Ruling Fulfilled Osama Bin Laden's Vision for America

Curtis Houck
June 26th, 2018 5:22 PM

Former Republican and MSNBC political analyst Steve Schmidt has been suffering near daily meltdowns over the Trump administration for some time, but the last week saw a level of desperation.  On Tuesday’s Deadline: White House, Schmidt vilely suggested that the Supreme Court’s travel ban ruling for the Trump administration “was a fantastic fulfillment of Osama bin Laden's vision” for America…

 
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MSNBC Features 10 Guests in 90 Minutes to Denounce Travel Ban Ruling

Kyle Drennen
June 26th, 2018 4:00 PM

Within the first 90 minutes after the Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s travel ban on six countries, MSNBC brought on a total of 10 guests who condemned the high court’s decision and warned that it marked a dark day for America. One liberal pundit and politician after another were teed up to freak out over the ruling.

 
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Schmidt Invokes Hitler; Trump 'Faction' 'Trying to Impose Cruelty'

Brad Wilmouth
June 26th, 2018 3:34 PM
On Monday's Deadline: White House, MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt railed against President Donald Trump and his supporters as the former Republican-turned-Democrat complained that the Trump "faction" is "trying to impose systematic cruelty upon all the rest of us," and even threw in a Hitler reference as he invoked "Munich circa 1928." Even though the former John McCain campaign strategist last…
 
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Chuck Todd: Andrea Mitchell is ‘LeBron James' of Reporters

Kyle Drennen
June 26th, 2018 11:25 AM
In a fawning profile for NBC News Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell for the latest issue of InStyle magazine, colleague and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd gushed that the veteran liberal reporter was “like the LeBron James of foreign correspondents.” He added: “It’s the same awe that I have watching him play after all these years. Why are you still this good? Aren’t you tired?”
 
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‘Go Home, Jim!’ Trump Supporters Heckle ‘Fake News Jim’ Acosta

Curtis Houck
June 25th, 2018 6:33 PM
Hours before President Trump arrived on Monday night at a South Carolina campaign rally with incumbent Republican Governor Henry McMaster, CNN’s chief White House correspondent and carnival barker Jim Acosta faced quite the crowd behind him during a live shot with chants of “go home, Jim” and “fake news Jim,” while one attendee moved from side to side with a “CNN Sucks” sign.
 
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Hoover Relaunches Buckley’s Firing Line By Accusing GOP of Racism

Kyle Drennen
June 25th, 2018 5:08 PM
Providing yet another reason to defund public broadcasting, PBS has tapped liberal Republican and CNN political commentator Margaret Hoover to relaunch conservative icon William F. Buckley’s legendary public affairs program Firing Line. As Hoover appeared Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America to promote the new show, co-host George Stephanopoulos teed up a clip of her grilling House Speaker Paul…
 
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Even CNN’s ‘New Day’ Found Time for Maxine Waters’s Deranged Rant

Curtis Houck
June 25th, 2018 2:26 PM
While ABC’s Good Morning America was asleep at the wheel on Monday morning having failed to cover California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters’s call for Americans to physically confront members of the Trump administration, CNN’s New Day miraculously found nine minutes and 43 seconds for Waters.
 
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Kelly Slams Seth Rogen for Insulting Paul Ryan in Front of Kids

Kyle Drennen
June 25th, 2018 1:20 PM

On her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show on Monday, NBC anchor Megyn Kelly blasted liberal actor Seth Rogen for refusing to take a picture with House Speaker Paul Ryan and even shaming the Wisconsin Congressman in front of his kids. None of the other network morning shows mentioned Rogen’s incivility toward the Republican leader.

 
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ABC Ignores Waters Encouraging Public Bullying of Trump Admin

Kristine Marsh
June 25th, 2018 10:30 AM

After White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was refused service at a Virginia restaurant last Friday evening from the shop’s anti-Trump owner, Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters encouraged supporters at a rally to continue “pushing back” and “stepping on” members of the Trump Administration when they are out in public, pumping gas, going to the movies or at the grocery store.…