NBC Sports Blog: NFL Star Who Tweeted Trump Risks ‘Very Real Backlash’
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April 19th, 2020 1:01 PM
Mike Florio at NBC’s Profootballtalk blog doesn’t want to sing Kumbaya, national pandemic crisis or no. And that’s cool. What isn’t cool is his nasty dishonesty in using his blog to go after NFL stars who don’t show enough contempt for Florio’s political enemies.
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ABC, NBC Chide Unemployed Protesters as ‘AstroTurf,’ Not The Majority
April 19th, 2020 11:02 AM
As media elitists, their jobs were safe and they could easily work from home. But during their Sunday morning newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today, chided and cast aside the unemployed Americans taking to the streets as state stay-at-home orders left them in financial ruin. ABC even suggested their angry protests could be “AstroTurf” movements designed to embarrass…
WashPost Sports Blisters Trump's Recovery Plan
Culture
April 19th, 2020 10:00 AM
Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins let fly Saturday morning with a thunderous literary salvo on President Trump over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her assault was highly personal and dismissive of the White House's Thursday announcement of a cautious, three-stage recovery plan.
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PBS's Woodruff: 'How Many Lives Were Lost' Because of Trump's 'Delay'?
April 18th, 2020 10:58 PM
There's a reason why Donald Trump hasn't granted an interview to PBS since he announced his run for president in 2015. That reason came out in a contentious PBS NewsHour interview on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence. It's nothing like the softness Woodruff has offered Hilllary Clinton. She asked Pence "How many lives do you believe were lost as a result of the delay by this administration…
San Francisco Chronicle Spins for Pelosi’s Corona Chinatown Invite
April 18th, 2020 4:00 PM
On January 31st, President Trump announced a travel ban from China. And was promptly denounced as a racist and xenophobe by both Democrats and the media. There, for example, was former Vice President Joe Biden tweeting this:
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Zakaria Complains There Was Military Response After 9/11 Attacks
April 18th, 2020 3:01 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, CNN host Fareed Zakaria complained that the U.S. invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, and engaged in some bizarre history revisionism as he suggested that the only response that was needed was to start locking cockpit doors. Additionally, Zakaria went over the top in lauding President Barack Obama as being similar to Star…
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CNN's Bernstein: Trump Tweets Incited Insurrection
April 18th, 2020 2:56 PM
It is one thing to claim that President Trump's Friday tweets calling to "liberate" various states were unwise and counterproductive, but according to Carl Bernstein, who joined CNN's Chris Cuomo that night, they were tantamount to inciting insurrection.
NYT Whining Trump Won't Play Dictator: 'Ceding...Leadership' on Virus
April 18th, 2020 2:31 PM
Make up your mind! The New York Times, which has criticized Donald Trump for wanting to play dictator in his response to the coronavirus pandemic, is now criticizing him for “ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic” on Saturday’s front page: “Right-Wing Protests Find Megaphone in Trump.” Reporters Michael Shear and Sarah Mervosh stated: "His stark departure from the more…
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Williams Wails: Trump Stoking ‘Populist Prairie Fire’ Against Dem Govs
April 18th, 2020 11:41 AM
On MSNBC Friday afternoon, co-anchors Brian Williams and Katy Tur denounced President Trump for urging some states less impacted by the coronavirus to gradually reopen. Williams claimed Trump was trying to stoke “populist prairie fire” against Democratic governors “who so far have been adept in handling this virus.”
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MSNBC Cues Pelosi to Spew Trump 'Hoax' Lie, Claim Trump 'Cost Lives'
April 18th, 2020 11:09 AM
MSNBC ducked out of the Friday night briefing for a typical DNC-style softball interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Republicans get the third degree, Democrats get the "What would you like to say about that?" Melber started by asking Pelosi to "walk us through" what's going on with the small-business loan program that's running out of funds. Then Melber cued up the Speaker to lie that the…
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MSNBC's Jeremy Bash Urges Trump To Stop 'Scapegoating' China
April 18th, 2020 6:10 AM
Amidst the backdrop of the U.S. government looking into whether the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab and China revising its official death count, MSNBC's Jeremy Bash joined Andrea Mitchell on her Friday show to urge the administration to stop scapegoating and denigrating China with "xenophobic rhetoric."
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Acosta, Blitzer TRASH Americans Weary of Lockdowns, Cover for Lefties
April 18th, 2020 1:55 AM
Liberal media elites sure don’t seem to have a problem with life-crippling stay-at-home orders stretching through 2020 into 2021 and 2022, do they? On Friday’s Situation Room, CNN host Wolf Blitzer and chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta griped about how President Trump would not only acknowledge the mental toll that they’ve taken on the American people, but not denouncing those voicing…
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Blitzer, Friedman: Mentally Ill Trump Will Cause More COVID-19 Deaths
April 17th, 2020 9:24 PM
On Friday, CNN’s Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer illustrated why, if he were still a journalist of decency, facts, and integrity, he wouldn’t have gone about an interview with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman the way he did. Instead, Blitzer wondered if President Trump would be to blame for deaths of Americans who have protested economically, mentally, and physically crippling stay-at-home…
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Amanpour Hints Pandemic May Save Lives If It Inspires Climate Reforms
April 17th, 2020 8:54 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co., PBS and CNN International host Christiane Amanpour again devoted a segment of her show to talking up the possibility of preserving the cleaner air that has resulted from people being forced to stay indoors during the deadly coronavirus pandemic. She even suggested that as many as 75,000 lives might be saved as a result of the cleaner air, and fretted over the…
