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'The Stench': MSNBC Parrots Sotomayor Warning If Roe Overturned
December 2nd, 2021 11:11 AM
Something's rotten in the state of MSNBC. On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show Wednesday afternoon, the panel was thrilled by Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor's statement today, during oral argument regarding Mississippi's law restricting abortion, that overturning Roe v. Wade would create a "stench" over the Court. The "stench" word was heard no fewer than eight times during…
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MSNBC Attacks ACB: 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Hypocrite'
September 26th, 2020 1:19 PM
On MSNBC's AM Joy show, guest host Tiffany Cross calls Amy Coney Barrett a "wolf in sheep's clothing." And frequent MSNBC commentator and writer at The Nation repeatedly calls her a "hypocrite."
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Scarborough Frets at Trump and McConnell Shaping Courts for ‘50 Years'
September 19th, 2019 10:18 AM
Self-described "conservative" Joe Scarborough frets that if President Trump and Mitch McConnell are successful, they will "shape the judiciary for the next 50 years." Scarborough expressed his concern in the context of criticizing Joe Kennedy for launching a Democrat primary campaign against incumbent Sen. Ed Markey in Massachusetts. Scarborough worries that money spent on that campaign will…
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NBC Celebrates Sotomayor’s 10 Years on Supreme Court With Cake
September 4th, 2019 11:33 AM
On Wednesday, NBC’s 3rd Hour Today show excitedly welcomed on liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to promote her new children’s book, Just Ask! Co-host Al Roker was beside himself with glee, declaring: “We’ve got a Supreme Court justice. Come on! How great is this job!” Later in the fawning segment, Sotomayor was even presented with a cake to celebrate her 10th anniversary on the high…
USA TODAY Front Page Oozes Over Sotomayor, 'The People's Justice'
August 17th, 2019 3:01 PM
The top of Friday's USA Today offered a sugary valentine to Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, hailed with the words “‘The People’s Justice.’” Underneath, the subhead added: “Supreme Court’s intrepid Sonia Sotomayor is liberal warrior on the bench and off.”
NY Times Cuts Kavanaugh: 'Son of Privilege,' Father a 'Swamp Creature'
July 15th, 2018 4:27 PM
The front page of Sunday’s New York Times brought the expected comprehensive dissection of President Trump’s second Supreme Court justice nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in 4,500 words: “Trump’s Choice: Beltway Insider Born And Bred – Father Was A Lobbyist – Supreme Court Nominee Is Being Promoted as Business Friendly.” A photo caption online made the ideological toneclear: “The Supreme Court…
The Liberal Media’s Perpetually Skewed SCOTUS Coverage
July 9th, 2018 8:00 AM
President Trump won’t officially announce his latest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court until this evening, but it’s already easy to predict the liberal media’s spin. As with all recent Republican nominees, reporters will repeatedly label them as “conservative,” which will nicely reinforce the Democrats’ strategy to paint them as outside “the mainstream.” But when Democratic Presidents announce…
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Morning Joe Panel Pulls 180, Turns on Michael Wolff
February 1st, 2018 12:02 PM
On Thursday, the panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe dog piled Michael Wolff for propagating an unfounded rumor that President Trump had been having an affair with his ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley. The confrontation became so heated that the show’s co-anchor Mika Brzezinski eventually cut the interview short and asked Wolff to leave
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FLASHBACK: Media Advocated for Obama’s Supreme Court Picks
March 20th, 2017 9:15 AM
If the liberal media cover the Neil Gorsuch hearings the same way they handled Barack Obama’s choices for the Supreme Court, they will do everything they can to pave the way to an easy confirmation. When they weren’t singing the praises of their backgrounds, or even comedic stylings, liberal reporters and anchors tried to downplay the leftist leaning of Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Merrick…
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Supreme Court Nominees Always Too Conservative for the Liberal Media
March 15th, 2016 10:25 AM
Whomever Barack Obama selects to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia expect the liberal media to worry the selection isn’t progressive enough. As might be expected, journalists criticize the Supreme Court appointments made by Republican presidents as “hardline” and “very conservative.” But even the nominees elevated by recent Democratic presidents have been challenged as not…
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Chuck Todd Serves Up 'Fact Check' for Mistake Ted Cruz Didn't Make
September 15th, 2015 11:21 AM
Imagine if the presidents Bush had refrained from appointing David Souter and John Roberts to the Supreme Court, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz said before the Eagles Forum conference in St. Louis over the weekend. If the Bushes went with "rock-ribbed conservatives" instead, Cruz suggested, the high court would have rejected Obamacare and same-sex marriage.
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Salon: Right Prone to ‘Animalistic Fear' of the Ill-Defined 'Other'
November 12th, 2014 2:11 PM
Edwin Lyngar argues that right-wingers not only “creat[e] and exploit…irrational fear” but also disdain empathy, whereas “kindness…is the hallmark of liberalism.” The article was headlined I was a conservative coward: How the midterms evoked my past of shame, terror and Fox News”.
MSNBC's Carmon Tweets 'Et Tu, Sotomayor' in Reax to Justice's Obamacar
January 2nd, 2014 8:21 AM
Apparently, "I will think before I tweet" should be on Irin Carmon's New Year's resolution list. Her failure to do so shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square signaling the beginning of 2014 has caused her considerable embarrassment.
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an injunction which "temporarily prevented(the government) from enforcing contraceptive coverage…
NBC's Pete Williams: Democrat 'More Likely to Appoint' 'Less Ideologic
July 1st, 2012 3:00 PM
Readers are advised to remove all food, fluids, and flammables from proximity to their computers before proceeding. You've been warned.
NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams on this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show actually said that when it comes to nominating judges, "A Democratic president is more likely to appoint somebody near the middle who is less ideological" (video…
