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CBS Lectures Scalise on Rhetoric, Whines GOP Is ‘Angry’ Trump Was Shot

July 14th, 2024 1:56 AM

On Saturday following the attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, CBS was out of control in demanding Republicans be the ones to lower the proverbial temperature and alter their rhetoric to soothe our collective body politic. Of course, as our Alex Christy wrote about earlier, they even expressed concern about the well-being of…themselves.

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Criminalizing Dissent? Networks Blame GOP for Paul Pelosi Attack

October 31st, 2022 3:08 PM

On Monday morning, the objective from the liberal broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC was clear: blame conservatives as accessories for attempted murder in the attack of Paul Pelosi by a Berekely-residing nudist. The networks even admitted “no specific motive has been identified,” but argued without evidence tens of millions of right-leaning Americans are “play[ing] foosie with the forces…

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Shameless CBS Downplays GOP Ballfield Shooting, Kavanaugh Suspect

June 14th, 2022 4:12 PM

Given how CBS Mornings and the network morning news shows covered the January 6 hearings versus the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, it wasn’t shocking to see that a Tuesday segment warning about political violence ignored the party ID of those attacked five years ago on this date in Alexandria, Virginia (congressional Republicans), the gunman’s tilt (progressive),…

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STUDY: When There’s a Slaughter, the Press Loves to Blame the Right

May 23rd, 2022 9:50 AM

An avowed racist committed an unspeakable act on May 14, 2022, murdering 10 African Americans at a grocery story in Buffalo, New York. The mainstream media reacted in a sadly predictable way: They took an evil action by a disturbed individual and attempted to link conservatives everywhere to it. 

NY Times Frets About Freedom of the Press as Palin's Libel Suit Looms

January 25th, 2022 5:46 PM

A June 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to the 2011 attempted assassination of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that left six dead. Palin filed a defamation suit. The Times is worried that the press’s free ride in the judicial system may be ending, as demonstrated in Jeremy Peters’ “Sarah…

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Nets Skip Anniversary of GOP Baseball Shooting, CNN Muddies Motive

June 15th, 2021 10:12 PM

Four years ago Monday (June 14), a leftist extremist who was a fan of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow carried out a mass assassination attempt against Republican lawmakers in Alexandria, Virginia as they practiced for the congressional baseball game. It was a heinous act that the FBI had only just gotten around to calling domestic terrorism, but it was of no interest to…

NEW NewsBusters Podcast: When Joy and Brian Show Us Who They Are

June 7th, 2021 6:15 PM

Welcome back, NewsBusters Podcast listeners! Yes, Tim Graham is continuing his much-deserved vacation to a far more beautiful section of America than The Swamp, so news analyst Nicholas Fondacaro and I will be co-hosting the next two weeks. On today’s show, we went after that putrid Brian Stelter-Jen Psaki interview, the vile rhetoric of MSNBC’s Joy Reid, and the latest happenings with Chris “…

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Joy’s Hodgepodge of Hate: Reid, Pals Spend Night Aboard a Crazy Train

May 18th, 2021 11:32 PM

MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid and one guest after another spent Tuesday night gaslighting viewers on a litany of issues, ranging from downplaying the Alexandria ball field shooting to insisting a January 6 commission will be the top issue in the 2022 midterms to comparing police to a “lynch mob” invading Iraq in 2003 to claiming Democrats have always accepted presidential election…

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Sciutto: Why Hasn't Scalise Shooting Led to GOP Embracing Gun Control?

April 21st, 2021 2:50 PM

A confused Jim Sciutto asked former GOP Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom why his fellow Republicans refuse to embrace gun control even after the 2017 Alexandria shooting where they were the ones being shot at. For Sciutto and Flake the only reasonable explanation was fear of getting primaried.

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Nicolle Wallace Suggests 'Blood' on Trump Hands If Squad Attacked

July 17th, 2019 6:02 AM
On her MSNBC show, Nicolle Wallace suggests that President Trump will have "blood on his hands" if, in the wake of his recent tweets, one of The Squad members is attacked. Wallace didn't play that game when a Rachel Maddow fan shot Rep. Steve Scalise on a softball field.
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At Univision, Some Bombmakers Are More Equal Than Others

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October 31st, 2018 4:40 PM
Univision may have broken the irony meter with this particular booking: Congressman Luis Gutiérrez on Sunday political talker Al Punto, in order to discuss the recent attempted mail bombings and make distinctions between types of nationalism. Given Gutiérrez’ history, perhaps it would’ve been best that he sit this one out.

Nets Barely Mentioned That Scalise Shooter Was a Loony Leftist

October 29th, 2018 4:21 PM
While the liberal media have been obsessed with blaming Donald Trump’s rhetoric for provoking the man who sent letter bombs to Democrats and CNN last week, they barely mentioned that the man who shot at Republicans on a baseball in 2017 was motivated by anti-GOP hatred.

His Critics Have Not Blamed Him for the California Fires Yet

August 2nd, 2018 5:14 PM
WASHINGTON — It has been a pretty good week for Donald Trump. The economy is growing faster than anyone on the left or in the middle or among the Never-Trumpers believed possible. Inflation is low, and employment is at a record high. Moreover, the president and the European Union reached an understanding on trade last week that signals the likely end of a trade war, at least with Europe.
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Cuomo Tries to Pin Liberal Violence on Trump Rhetoric

June 27th, 2018 5:11 PM
Tuesday night on Cuomo Prime Time, CNN host Chris Cuomo declined to condemn Democrat Maxine Waters’ inflammatory statements that liberals should harass Trump administration officials. Instead, he blamed President Donald Trump’s “divisive rhetoric” for a lack of civility in the country. Despite having two different guests challenge him on his 9:00 EST show, Cuomo refused to directly condemn…