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Chuck Todd: GOP Are Being 'Absurd' in Trying to 'Punish' Our 'Economy'
September 29th, 2021 7:18 PM
On Tuesday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, host Chuck Todd battled Indiana Sen. Mike Braun over the GOP's refusal to assist the Democrats in passing their agenda by raising the debt ceiling. According to Todd, the GOP have been playing "Russian Roulette" and threatening to "punish the American economy" with an "absurd" "game of chicken."
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Eager ABC: Will Republicans 'Embarrass,' 'Rebuke' Trump on Border?
March 11th, 2019 10:45 AM
Monday, the networks were eager to bash President Trump for holding firm to his campaign promise of a border wall, as he includes it again in a budget proposal before Congress this morning. ABC’s reporters at Good Morning America were the most effusive in their disgust for Trump, admitting that they were hoping that Republicans would “stand up” and “embarrass” the president with a “rebuke” over…
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TV's Shutdown News Blamed Trump, Touted Victims Over Border Debate
February 4th, 2019 8:00 AM
In just 35 days, the partial government shutdown generated nearly five hours of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts. By a six-to-one margin, network reporters framed the shutdown as the fault of President Trump, not the Democrats. Out of 297 minutes of total shutdown coverage, just 27% was devoted to the debate over the border wall — far less time than was given to TSA workers…
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Joe Scarborough Sides with Nancy Pelosi: Wall 'Immoral'
February 1st, 2019 7:46 AM
When it comes to having a spokesman for Trump-Hater Nation, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the rest of the loony left must be thrilled. In Joe Scarborough, they have someone who gets three hours of TV time every weekday morning to beam Trump hatred to the masses. Doing his bit on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough sided with Pelosi in proclaiming the wall "immoral."
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CNN's Cupp: Trump Pandering to Ann Coulter's 'Wall Porn' 'Fetish'
January 28th, 2019 3:31 PM
During Saturday’s edition of S.E. Cupp Unfiltered, the eponymous host gloated about President Trump’s decision to “cave” to the Democrats as she opened her show. She later had some unusual analysis when it came to the border wall, arguing that a handful of President Trump’s supporters have a “sexual fetish” for a wall on the southern border with Mexico.
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Morning Joe Excited By Pelosi Continuing To Block SOTU
January 28th, 2019 1:19 PM
MSNBC's Morning Joe has spent the better part of the last few weeks lamenting the government shutdown, framing the the budget impass as a 35-day exercise in futility based around a concocted crises. On Monday, the morning show cheered the end of the "petty" stalemate while also applauding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for having "schooled" the President by still refusing to schedule the State of…
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NBC's Chuck Todd: Trump 'Helped Solidify' Pelosi's Power over Dems
January 27th, 2019 10:22 AM
With the partial government shutdown over, at least for now, NBC News diverted some time from bashing President Trump to mocking how he was helping Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-D). During Sunday Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd quipped about how “the only difference between the deal that he rejected on day one and the deal he took now was February 8th to February 15th.” On top of that, Todd…
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MSNBC's Katy Tur Compares Trump to a Four-Year-Old
January 26th, 2019 2:51 PM
During Friday afternoon’s MSNBC Live, host Katy Tur compared President Trump to a four-year-old. Here was Tur laying out her analogy: “We generally sometimes talk about the President in saying that the best way to get him not to do something, or to do something, is to tell him not to do something. That’s how you talk...that’s what happens with your four-year-old.” Behaving like a faithful MSNBC…
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MSNBC Declares ‘Ginormous Win’ for Pelosi, Trump’s ‘Formidable Foe'
January 26th, 2019 11:44 AM
Minutes before President Trump announced a deal to end the partial government shutdown Friday afternoon, the anchors and correspondents on MSNBC were beside themselves with glee over the development, cheering it as a “ginormous win” for Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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CBS Reporter Shocked as Border Agent Calls Illegal Crossings a Crisis
January 25th, 2019 4:28 PM
While many people in the mainstream media have said they do not consider the situation at the border between the United States and Mexico a serious problem, one reporter with CBS News was surprised to hear an agent of the Border Patrol actually refer to the setting as a “crisis.” During an interview with Fernando Grijalva, correspondent Mireya Villarreal was taken aback when the agent called the…
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CNN Blasts ‘Shameful’ Trump for Shutdown Causing ‘Agony’ in America
January 25th, 2019 3:34 PM
Reacting to President Trump’s Friday afternoon decision to cave and reopen the government without border wall money, CNN Newsroom nonetheless eviscerated the President as if he had announced the government would be staying closed. Instead, anchors and correspondents condemned Trump as “shameful” for having “single handedly shut down the government” that caused “agony” and illustrated a White…
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Acosta: Shutdown Deal Is ‘Bright, Shiny Object’ to Distract from Stone
January 25th, 2019 1:49 PM
So after the liberal media berated the Trump administration and blamed them for the shutdown, one of media’s chief instigators suggested that a deal to reopen the government is a distraction from the pre-dawn indictment and arrest of Roger Stone? Well, it turns out that’s the logic spinning inside the mind of CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who knocked rumors of a deal during…
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Navarro to Furloughed Workers: Eat, Sleep at Trump Hotels, Don't Pay!
January 25th, 2019 12:02 PM
The mood at ABC’s The View alternated between sheer glee over Roger Stone’s arrest Friday morning, and anger over the government shutdown. Friday co-host Ana Navarro gushed that furloughed workers should essentially dine and dash at Trump property hotels to show their disgust for the administration.
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Moore: ‘Don’t Pay Taxes’, 'Don’t Commit Crimes’ During Shutdown!
January 25th, 2019 9:18 AM
Always logical left-wing director Michael Moore was so distraught about the government shutdown that he told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Thursday people should just abandon their duties to the government, including paying taxes. Moore went on to tell people not to "commit crimes" because the "FBI wasn't getting paid."
