JFK, Reagan and Biden

March 31st, 2022 11:35 AM

President Biden’s speech from Warsaw Saturday night, reminded me of two previous presidents who delivered speeches confronting the autocracy that was then the Soviet Union and is now Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, a man Biden has rightly called a war criminal. On June 26, 1963, Kennedy spoke before the Berlin Wall which the Soviets had erected to stem the flow of Berliners out of the communist…

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Burns: Biden Rallying Democracy, Ruhle Dismisses Founding Fathers

March 31st, 2022 11:12 AM

To promote his new Benjamin Franklin documentary on Wednesday, Ken Burns journeyed over to MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle where he told the show’s namesake host that he was worried about the future of democracy and then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and President Biden reversed those concerns. For her part, Ruhle dismissed the Founding Fathers as white male landowners.…

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Go Figure: WH Reporters Refuse to Ask Biden Flack About Hunter Biden

March 30th, 2022 12:17 PM

White House communications director Kate Bedingfield took her turn Tuesday at the Briefing Room podium as the fifth person to speak to reporters and, predictably, the issue of Hunter Biden’s life of corruption didn’t come up over the 80 questions from reporters despite her own record dismissing the infamous laptop as Russian disinformation. Instead, we had some solid questions about President…

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Brokaw Blames Fox News, ‘Poisonous Right-Wing’ for Putin Invasion

March 29th, 2022 3:00 PM

Making his latest appearance Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, NBC special correspondent and former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw blamed “Fox News and ever more poisonous right-wing political organizations” for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as they’ve “constantly attack[ed]” President Biden, weakening him and the west.

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Big Tech Let SEVEN Dictators Post, Including Putin — Still Ban Trump

March 29th, 2022 9:56 AM

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube allow seven dictators, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, unfettered access to post on their platforms, influencing approximately 50 million followers as of March 28. Meanwhile, former leader of the free world President Donald Trump is still banned.

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Nets Skip Biden Claiming Gaffes Didn’t Happen, ABC Props Up Outbursts

March 28th, 2022 9:06 PM

At a Monday press conference after returning from a gaffe-packed trip to Europe where he made multiple provocative comments regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden asserted to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy that none of his gaffes occurred. And despite running reports highlighting his biggest gaffe and showing Biden sticking to it, none of the broadcast evening…

NewsBusters Podcast: Biden Pooper Scoopers Go Into Overdrive in Poland

March 28th, 2022 8:57 PM

President Biden's gaffes in Poland about the red-hot Russian war on Ukraine have not gone over well among the European allies. Our media elites wanted to compare Biden to JFK or Ronald Reagan speaking boldly about Russia, but they ended up trying to insist these gaffes weren't really gaffes. Either they soft-pedaled them or ignored them entirely.

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Doocy Time Returns in Battle With Biden Over Rash of WH Walkbacks

March 28th, 2022 6:24 PM

Making his first appearance during a White House Q&A since March 10 (when he asked Jen Psaki whether President Biden owns an electric car), Fox News’s Peter Doocy went toe-to-toe with Biden Monday over numerous statements the latter made during last week’s European excursion that drew condemnations from international leaders and White House walkbacks.

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Watch as CNN Pundits Hopelessly Spin Biden’s Putin Line as No Problem

March 28th, 2022 3:02 PM

Reacting Monday to President Biden’s off-the-cuff comments Saturday that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” CNN’s New Day featured three analysts/pundits who had all decided that not only was it not that big of a deal, but it was proof of Biden’s strength and level of advanced strategic knowledge.

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CRINGE: CBS Compared Ukraine’s Independence to Kid Running Away

March 26th, 2022 12:30 PM

Well that didn’t age well. Over 30 years ago, CBS compared newly independent states in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union to annoying brats running away from home. Of course, the bizarre commentary came from the late Andy Rooney. Rooney began, “Who would have thought a year ago that the 15 states in the Soviet Union would decide to split up?” 

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Velshi Wonders if Ukrainians Benefit From Being White Christians

March 26th, 2022 11:47 AM

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi used his Saturday show to ponder if Ukrainians fleeing the war zone in their country benefit from being white Christians while Syrians and Afghans do not.

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Wow: CBS Calls Out Biden Flip Flops on Sanctions (ABC Still Spinning)

March 25th, 2022 12:13 PM

Unlike ABC, CBS Mornings on Friday actually called out the Biden administration’s flip flopping over whether Russian sanctions work or don’t. ABC’s Good Morning America, however, pretended like Joe Biden hasn’t repeatedly contradicted his own White House on the issue. 

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Hayes: GOP 'Over Inflated' Al-Qaeda Threat, Fight Trump Instead

March 24th, 2022 11:12 PM

On Thursday night's episode of MSNBC's All In, host Chris Hayes spent the opening segment of his show trying to downplay the threat Al-Qaeda posed to the United States and the world in an attempt to make the case that the threat to the global order is made by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hayes also suggested that former President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy just like…

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ABC Ignores Biden Backtracking on Russian Sanctions

March 24th, 2022 8:31 PM

During the evening news coverage of President Joe Biden's press conference following the emergency NATO summit in Brussels, ABC's World News Tonight completely ignored Biden's backtracking on the purpose of the Russian sanctions. After claiming they would help deter Russia from invading Ukraine, on Thursday Biden reversed course and said "sanctions never deter." Despite ABC's silence…