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SCOTUS Study: Nets Spent 25 Min. Extolling Dem Wins, ZERO for GOP Wins

June 30th, 2020 9:26 PM

Over the last two weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued six major rulings that touch on issues ranging from gay rights to religious freedom. And in the midst of those events, the decisions of some of the justices went ways that those invested in the outcomes didn’t expect. But one truth was constant throughout the over two-week period: the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) celebrated…

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CNN Cheers Roberts 'Striking Fear' Into Trump's Base on Abortion

June 29th, 2020 2:00 PM

Despite abortion being an issue which continues to divide Americans, CNN Newsroom cheered the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a Louisiana pro-life law as restoring “integrity” and “stability” in the law and “public’s expectations” on abortion. During the 10-minute-segment Monday morning, no journalist or analyst pointed out this law was aimed to protect the life of the mother…

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PICKING SIDES: ABC Cheers Apolitical Roberts: ‘Cares a Great Deal'

June 29th, 2020 12:23 PM

ABC journalists on Monday breathlessly broke in with live reaction to the Supreme Court striking down a Louisiana law restricting abortion. The pivotal fifth vote was provided by John Roberts who sided with the Court’s liberals. Of course, this mean that now Roberts “cares a great deal” about being apolitical. ABC also repeated Planned Parenthood talking points about the Court and 2020. 

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CNN Cheers SCOTUS Ruling Hails Roberts' 'Integrity'

June 29th, 2020 9:00 AM

On Monday morning’s CNN Newsroom, host Jim Sciutto brought on political analyst Sabrina Siddiqui, chief legal analyst and national politics reporter Jeffrey Toobin, and Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic to celebrate the Supreme Court striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortions. Rejecting the guise of a news network, the panel unabashedly applauded the ruling. Toobin …

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After Celebrating Trump’s SCOTUS Losses, Nets Hide Deportation Win

June 25th, 2020 10:44 PM

Last week, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) celebrated two Supreme Court Rulings that went their way with some help from the conservative justices; one about gay rights and the other protecting DACA. But when it came to Thursday’s decision on a deportation case, which saw liberal Justices Breyer and Ginsburg join conservatives for a 7-to-2 majority in President Trump’s favor…

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Hayes & Goldberg Argue SCOTUS ‘Diffused Election Year Bomb's for GOP

June 19th, 2020 7:22 PM

Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In¸ stated in a Thursday night interview with New York Times op-ed columnist Michelle Goldberg, that Chief Justice John Roberts acted politically to fight the Trump administration on LGBTQ and DACA in order to actually help Republicans in an election year. He particularly cited public polling to bolster the high court decisions.

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Michael Steele Mocks Conservatives Over Liberal Court Rulings

June 19th, 2020 6:25 PM

Appearing as a guest on Friday's MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, contributor Michael Steele was true to form as an MSNBC Republican as he mocked conservatives for disapproving of liberal victories in recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, and bizarrely suggested that iconic former conservative Justice Antonin Scalia would approve of the decisions.

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Sneering Scarborough: Evangelicals ‘Sold Political Souls to Trump'

June 19th, 2020 5:13 PM

On Friday’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough just could not seem to resist his urge to trash President Trump and his supporters once again. In his first segment of Morning Joe, Scarborough turned a discussion about the latest Supreme Court ruling on DACA into an attack on Trump voters, namely evangelical voters with whom Trump is popular. Using religious language by referring to…

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Nets Boast SCOTUS Loss for Trump Before Victory for Dreamers

June 18th, 2020 9:09 PM

In a perfect example of how the left and the media put hating President Trump ahead of almost everything else (including their own political victories), the first reaction the broadcast networks had to the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling protecting DACA was to boast about it being a “big blow” to the President. They would eventually note how hundreds of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” were…

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ABC Cheers Supreme Court's 'Body Blow' to Trump On DACA

June 18th, 2020 2:35 PM

ABC News broke in Thursday morning with an enthusiastic report hailing the Supreme Court for striking down the Trump administration’s bid to end the DACA program. Coming on the heels of the court’s pro-LGBT ruling earlier this week, the ABC journalists reveled in Chief Justice John Roberts “siding with the liberals” again but also giving a “body blow” to President Trump.

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Joy Behar: Justice Thomas ‘Should Hang His Head in Shame’ for Dissent

June 16th, 2020 4:10 PM

The View hosts celebrated the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling yesterday that extended the meaning of “sex” in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban on employment discrimination to also now include gender identity and sexual orientation.Co-host Joy Behar reacted with glee, mocking Trump voters before trying to shame Justice Clarence Thomas.

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McCain Irritates Co-hosts By Calling Out 'Believe Women' Hypocrisy

May 20th, 2020 2:37 PM
The View co-host Meghan McCain irritated her co-hosts on Wednesday’s show by calling out the left’s convenient double standards on sexual assault allegations made against men in positions of power. The co-hosts were blasting Matt Lauer’s “fact-check” of the rape allegations against him, when Joy Behar brought up the accusations against Joe Biden, and cautioned how we shouldn’t actually “believe…
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CNN's Toobin Rants Over 'Outrageous' GOP Lawsuit in Wisconsin

May 16th, 2020 9:50 AM
On Thursday's New Day show, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin went on a tear against Wisconsin Republicans for successfully suing to end the stay-at-home orders enacted by Democratic Governor Tony Evers. Toobin declared that state Republicans had made Wisconsin a "failed state" with their "outrageous lawsuit," and went on to claim Republicans promote a "disbelief in science."
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CNN's Berman Cues Liberal Senator to Bash McConnell's Judge Moves

May 6th, 2020 11:57 AM
On Tuesday's New Day show, CNN host John Berman prodded Maine Senator Angus King (an independent who caucuses with Democrats) to bash conservative judicial nominee Justin Walker as he opened his interview with the Maine Senator. The CNN host gave no pushback when Senator King derided Walker as "that unqualified judge," and complained that it was "ridiculous" that they were returning to D.C. in…