Debates

CNN's Hill Wonders Why People Have Negative Reaction to 'Socialism'
October 14th, 2015 1:11 PM
On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, during a discussion of the Democratic presidential debate, liberal CNN political analyst Marc Lamont Hill defended Bernie Sanders' socialist views and griped about Hillary Clinton apparently taking a jab at the Vermont Senator as the CNN analyst complained that "she's playing to people's insecurities and fears," and "play[ing] to the cheap seats."
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NBC: Clinton Team ‘Ecstatic’; Hillary ‘Poised and Passionate’
October 14th, 2015 11:56 AM
On Wednesday, NBC’s Today celebrated Tuesday night’s Democratic debate by heaping effusive praise on front-runner Hillary Clinton. Correspondent Peter Alexander began his report by cheering: “Hillary Clinton's debate experience, her debate preparation paid off last night. Her advisers this morning are ecstatic. They insist she was on, that she looked poised and passionate...”

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Joy Behar Declares ‘I’m Aroused’ by ‘Hot’ Bernie Sanders
October 14th, 2015 11:31 AM
On Wednesday’s The View, co-host Joy Behar gushed over Bernie Sanders’ performance at last night’s CNN Democratic debate and she proclaimed that the Socialist “aroused” her. The liberal ABC host gushed that Sanders was so “menschy in that moment like a real guy” when he defended Hillary Clinton from scrutiny over her e-mail scandal and insisted that she “find[s] him to be eye candy, not ear candy…

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MRC’s Bozell: CNN Should Treat Dems Just Like GOP During Debate
October 14th, 2015 9:49 AM
On Tuesday night’s Kelly File, MRC President Brent Bozell helped preview CNN’s Democratic presidential debate and demanded that the cable network treat the Democratic candidates the same as the Republicans were treated when Jake Tapper moderated CNN's Republican debate. In response to CNN’s Anderson Cooper who claimed it will be hard to get the Democrats to actually challenge each other, Bozell…

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Geist: 'My Conservative Friends' Thought Cooper Would Go Easy on Dems
October 14th, 2015 7:30 AM
Wow: an MSMer who not only has "many" conservative friends, but is willing to admit it on live national TV?
On today's Morning Joe, in the course of praising Anderson Cooper's performance as debate moderator, Geist let drop that prior to the debate "many of my conservative friends" thought CNN would go easy on the Dems, but that five minutes in, they told him "oh, I guess he's not going to go…
Politico Proclaims: ‘Hillary Crushes It’ in Democratic Debate
October 14th, 2015 3:51 AM
In its lead article early Wednesday morning on the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the night before, Politico proclaimed that “Hillary Clinton crushe[d] it” as she “delivered some of the evening’s most stinging retorts” and “moved with relative ease from swipes against her Democratic rivals to more direct attacks on Republicans.”
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Van Jones Compares Hillary to Beyoncé, Proclaims BLM 'Won This Debate'
October 14th, 2015 1:26 AM
Opining on how he thought the first 2016 Democratic debate unfolded on Tuesday night, CNN political commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones compared the “flawless” Hillary Clinton to Beyoncé and touted his belief that activists in the Black Lives Matter movement were the true winners of the debate. Jones declared: “Basically tonight, Hillary Clinton was Beyoncé. She was…

Conservative, Libertarian Leaders React to CNN Democrat Debate
October 14th, 2015 12:12 AM
They watched so you don't have to. Here are the reaction of various conservative leaders to the Democratic debate on CNN, both as regards the candidates themselves, and how the network managed the debate.
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Borger Hypes Hillary Did 'Extraordinarily Well' in Debate; 'So Adept'
October 14th, 2015 12:06 AM
In the first minutes after the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night, CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger sang the praises of Hillary Clinton for having performed “extraordinarily well” who proved herself “so adept at making herself the candidate of both experience and change.”

Bozell Live Facebook Chat About Dem Debate: Noon Eastern Oct. 14
October 13th, 2015 11:51 PM
MRC President Brent Bozell will be taking your questions during a LIVE Facebook chat at 12 PM ET Wednesday, October 14, 2015. He will be discussing tonight's presidential debate, the ongoing role of the media during the election, current events, and anything else you'd like to talk about.
Please stop by his Facebook page at 12 p.m. Eastern Wednesday to join the discussion!

Celebs, Media Love ‘Black Lives Matter’ Question During the #DemDebate
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October 13th, 2015 11:04 PM
During the Democratic debate Tuesday night, candidates were asked the question, “Do black lives matter or do all lives matter?” This mind-numbing question brought out gushing answers of affirmation, “Well of course black lives matter!” from Sanders, Clinton and O’Malley, who all went on to lament that we “need to do more.” Of course that PC Q&A was received with gusto from the media elite who…
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Bernie Sanders Attacks Media for Mentioning Hillary’s ‘Damn E-Mails'
October 13th, 2015 10:25 PM
Rallying to the aid of fellow 2016 Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton during the first debate Tuesday night, Democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) angrily lamented the focus on Clinton’s e-mail scandal and berated the media for covering Clinton’s “damn e-mails.”
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ABC, NBC Cheer ‘Relatable’ Hillary; ‘Burden’ for Her to Stay in Front
October 13th, 2015 8:18 PM
On Tuesday night ahead of the first 2016 Democratic presidential debate, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News put forth their best efforts to paint a favorable scene for Hillary Clinton by touting her as “relatable” while “need[ing] to show voters a different side” as she shoulders the “burden” of trying “to protect her front-runner status.”

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'Daily Show' Host Hammers CNN for 'Begging' Joe Biden to Join Debate
October 13th, 2015 6:50 PM
During Monday evening's edition of The Daily Show on the Comedy Central cable network, new host Trevor Noah mocked the efforts by the Cable News Network not only to promote the first Democratic debate in the 2016 presidential contest on Tuesday, but also to add another participant to the event: vice president Joe Biden.
Noah rattled off the current candidates: former U.S. secretary of state…