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Matthews Mocks Neocons Defending Israel in War as ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’
March 16th, 2016 3:45 AM
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was still hard at work making befuddling statements early Wednesday morning following the third installment of Super Tuesday with comments that mocked “neocons” as wanting everyone to go into battle “for Israel” as “blah, blah, blah” while fellow panelist Joy Reid attacked Rubio’s concession speech as unoriginal and mash-ups of Reagan and President Barack Obama.
CNN Tags Killer of American in Israel as Palestinian in 20th Paragraph
March 10th, 2016 8:08 PM
Those not well-versed on events in the Middle East and how the international press routinely distorts its coverage there might think from the following headline at CNN.com yesterday — "American fatally stabbed in Israel terror attack that wounds 10 others" — that the state of Israel carried out the brutal attack which killed Vanderbilt Universtity student and U.S. Army veteran Taylor Force. Of…
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FNC’s Bret Baier Hammers Hillary on Her E-Mails, Disarray in Libya
March 8th, 2016 12:36 AM
The Fox News Channel and Special Report host Bret Baier finally received their first chance in the 2016 election to extensively question Hillary Clinton through their Democratic Town Hall on Monday and, put simply, Baier did not waste the roughly 30 minutes of airtime as he posed hard questions on Libya and her private e-mail server scandal.
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MSNBC Uses Reagan to Spank GOP, Wanted to 'End' Cold War 'Not to Win'
March 6th, 2016 11:41 PM
As former Newsweek editor-in-chief Evan Thomas appeared as a guest on MSNBC Sunday to discuss former First Lady Nancy Reagan's passing, host Chris Matthews and Thomas used Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon to chastise the current Republicans for being too unwilling to compromise.
After Thomas asserted that Reagan and Nixon "are rolling over in their graves" and recalled that Nancy…
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Ex-AG Rejects Suggestion Hillary Wouldn't Be Charged in Email Probe
March 3rd, 2016 8:01 AM
Members of the Morning Joe panel tried their best to block and tackle for Hillary given the revelation that the person who set up her server has been granted immunity. Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the most troubling issue is the way things got from the SIPRnet--a Pentagon system used for exchanging Secret information--to Hillary's server.
Mukasey explained that someone must have…
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O'Donnell Links Lead Up to March 15 Primaries to Cuban Missile Crisis
March 3rd, 2016 2:52 AM
In one of the more intriguing historical analogies you’ll see made in this presidential election, MSNBC’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell compared the 13 days until the March 15 Republican primaries that could decide whether or not Donald Trump is the GOP presidential nominee to the Cuban Missile Crisis from the 1960s.
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ABC’s GMA Devotes Only 22-Second Brief to Shooting Death of Rookie Cop
February 28th, 2016 5:01 PM
On Sunday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America chose to devote only a tease and scant 22-second news brief on the tragic shooting death of a rookie police officer in a Washington D.C. suburb and instead devote over half the hour-long newscast to previewing the Oscars later that day on ABC.
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Vice-Chair Gabbard Resigns From DNC; AP Buries the News in a Timeline
February 28th, 2016 4:37 PM
The simmering feud between the Democratic Party establishment and leftists who believe that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has acted more like "Democrats Nominating Clinton" than a genuine political party presenting viable alternatives to Hillary Clinton, visibly erupted today.
This morning, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard resigned her position as Vice Chair at the DNC and…
Pundit On SCOTUS Vacancy: GOP ‘Taking a S**t on the Constitution’
February 26th, 2016 11:59 AM
Scatology has typically been out of bounds in mainstream-media political commentary. (Not in all political commentary, of course. For example, actor John Cusack once called former actor Ronald Reagan “a criminal who used the Constitution as toilet paper.”) Nonetheless, Michael Tomasky went there in a Wednesday column trashing Senate Republicans for refusing to consider any Supreme Court…
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CNN Touts Evangelicals Who Find Cruz 'Against the Teachings of Jesus'
February 20th, 2016 5:11 PM
On Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, correspondent Randi Kaye filed a report recounting her discussions with mostly young evangelical Christians in South Carolina as she asserted that the group she spoke with think GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz is "against the teachings of Jesus" on the issues of "poverty, war, and how to treat strangers." Implying that Cruz is not "compassionate," she…
Professor: Republicans Rejoice in Their ‘Culture of Stupidity’
February 18th, 2016 9:55 PM
A famous T-shirt of the early 1990s featured Bart Simpson’s message that he was an underachiever “and proud of it, man!” Such shirts would be fitting garb for the many Republicans who squander their intellects for ideological reasons, implied NYU public-policy professor Mark Kleiman in a Wednesday Washington Monthly blog post.
“I doubt that Republican office-holders or voters have, on average,…
Shocker: ‘Chicago Med’ Doesn’t Succumb to Stereotype of Bitter War Vet
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February 17th, 2016 1:11 AM
Despite a completely gratuitous shower scene in the opening of NBC’s Chicago Med episode “Clarity,” the story includes a nice (and rare) touch for network television – a nod to a patriotic American proud of his service to his country despite his own personal struggles.
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Napolitano: Hillary 'Is a Felon and Should Be Indicted'
February 10th, 2016 12:17 PM
On Judge Jeanine Pirro's Saturday Fox News program, Judge Andrew Napolitano succinctly summarized the implications of the latest revelations concerning Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was the Obama administration's Secretary of State.
One can't help but notice that almost no one else is making Napolitano's obviously valid points. If a Republican or conservative had done…
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Fusion: Cut 'Excessive Defense Spending' to Pay Reparations
February 3rd, 2016 1:24 PM
On Tuesday's America With Jorge Ramos, Fusion's Nando Vila advanced the left-wing cause of reparations to the descendants of slaves. Vila asserted "the moral case for reparations is a clear one. Black people are 16 times poorer than white people, because white people have systematically stolen wealth from black people for hundreds of years — through slavery, Jim Crow, housing discrimination,…
