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Nets Try to Keep Impeachment Dream Alive, But Some Express Doubt

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 24th, 2019 9:42 PM
In the wake of the “disaster” that was the Democratic-led House hearings with Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday, some in the liberal media were honest about how it blew up in their faces. Yet, during the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, the liberal media were desperately holding onto the dream that Mueller would help Democrats impeach President Trump. But there were a couple of…
 

NYT Perked Up in the PM: Democrats 'Painted' Trump as 'Risk to Nation'

Clay Waters
July 24th, 2019 8:03 PM
Wednesday was Mueller Day on Capitol Hill. For seven hours the special counsel provided testimony before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, carried live for those Americans still interested in his completed investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. electoral process in 2016. The Times saw "conservative conspiracy theories" and griped that Rep. Devin Nunes…
 
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Watch as Reporters Get Their High Hopes Crushed by Mueller ‘Disaster’

Bill D'Agostino
July 24th, 2019 6:59 PM
If the left-wing media were hoping for a slam dunk during Special Counsel Mueller’s testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, it’s clear from their reactions that they don’t think they saw one. The responses from TV journalists ranged from nonplussed to outright upset (aside from weirdly giddy CNN panels), with some analysts and reporters going so far as to declare the hearings “a disaster,” and the…
 

Politico Admits 'Bob Mueller Is Struggling' In House Hearings

P.J. Gladnick
July 24th, 2019 6:42 PM

There was just no way around avoiding the fact that Robert Mueller turned in a rather lackluster performance at the Congressional hearings on Wednesday. His appearances before Congress, upon which many Democrats pinned their hopes for harming or even impeaching President Trump, turned out to be something of a dud.  This was the conclusion of Politico's Senior White House Reporter, Darren…

 
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CNN Mess: Panelists Concede Trump Won, But Still Insist Dems Impeach

Curtis Houck
July 24th, 2019 6:14 PM
Just after 3:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, the Robert Mueller hearings came to a merciful end. In the immediate 30 minutes or so, an assembled group of CNN personalities painstakingly admitting that the President had won the day while others also insisted that Congress can only sufficiently protect American democracy if the President is impeached.
 
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Keep the Faith: CNN Boasts Mueller Hearing, Report Lead to Impeachment

Curtis Houck
July 24th, 2019 4:09 PM

During a brief break in Wednesday afternoon’s House Intelligence Committee hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, CNN again did its best to keep the faith for their boss Jeffrey Zucker and fellow lefties amidst their permanent impeachment campaign, hailing the hearing as part of a “Watergate roadmap” to begin ridding America of President Trump.

 

PBS Spin: 2020 Could Determine Trump's Status as 'A Free Man'

Alex Christy
July 24th, 2019 3:56 PM
After Special Counsel Robert Mueller's underwhelming testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor declared that Mueller had raised the stakes in 2020. No longer is 2020 a contrast of visions between President Trump and whoever the Democratic nominee is, but, "it may also come down to [Trump] being a free man." Host Judy Woodruff agreed, "That's a good…
 
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ABC Lauds Mueller 'Sticking to the Facts' 'Not Playing Politics'

Kristine Marsh
July 24th, 2019 1:57 PM
ABC’s live coverage team was quick to come to Robert Mueller’s defense after his first fumbling testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this morning was roundly criticized by media on both sides of the aisle. ABC characterized Mueller’s confused and evasive performance as simply the former Special Counsel being apolitical and “sticking to the facts.”
 
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MOP-UP: CNN Hails ‘Bombshell’ Hearing as ‘Big Deal,’ ‘Bad’ for Trump

Curtis Houck
July 24th, 2019 1:49 PM
While others in the liberal media conceded that Wednesday morning’s House hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn’t go as swimmingly as planned, CNN largely operated in an alternate reality concocted by Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Instead, the analysts and hosts triumphantly hailed the hearing’s contents as a “big deal,” a “bombshell,” and “really bad” for Trump that it was “almost…
 
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It’s Mueller Day, So of Course Scarborough Drops a Nazi Reference

Scott Whitlock
July 24th, 2019 12:26 PM
If it’s a weekday, then it’s time for a Nazi reference on Morning Joe. Previewing Robert Mueller’s testimony in front of Congress, Joe Scarborough compared Donald Trump to the evil of Hitler and the Nazis: Citing the Financial Times, he blasted, “... The Nazis in the early 1930s would rail against quote, 'the system,' constantly railing quote ‘against the system’ because the, quote ‘system’ was…
 
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Blundering John Dean to CNN: Mueller Found 'There Was Collusion'

Mark Finkelstein
July 24th, 2019 11:07 AM
On CNN this morning, in the pre-game of Robert Mueller's testimony today, John Dean, Mr. Cancer-on-the-Presidency, told John Berman: "The [Mueller] report indicates there was collusion, contrary to Mr. Trump's statement." Of course, the single most noteworthy finding emerging from the Mueller report, as even NPR had to admit, was that there was not any collusion between Russia and the Trump…
 
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Networks Hope for ‘Gary Cooper’ in Mueller Report 'Movie!'

Scott Whitlock
July 24th, 2019 10:29 AM
All three networks on Wednesday previewed Robert Mueller’s “historic” testimony before Congress with an excited and nervous tone, wondering if this “movie” version of his report could save the impeachment hype. Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos wistfully hoped that Mueller might turn out to be like famous cowboy star Gary Cooper. 
 
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ABC Urges Dems, Now Is Time to Impeach: ‘Best Chance' 'Turning Point'

Kristine Marsh
July 24th, 2019 8:00 AM
Journalists at ABC couldn’t hide their excitement over the upcoming Robert Mueller congressional hearing Wednesday morning, spinning it as the ideal time to impeach the President. Despite a failed attempt by one Democrat last week to secure the votes in the House for that cause, and the fact that the Justice Department says this hearing will not go beyond the bounds of the Mueller report, the…
 
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Nets Hype ‘Mock Hearings’ By Democrats Ahead of Mueller's Testimony

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 23rd, 2019 8:46 PM

The Tuesday evening before the highly anticipated congressional testimony of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the liberal broadcast networks tried to reassure their viewers that the Democrats were going in prepared. Hyping how Democrats were “huddling” in “one last prep session”, the networks noted the Wednesday hearing “might be their last chance to convince the American public on impeachment…