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Meacham Meltdown on NBC: ‘Monarch’ ‘King’ Trump Now ‘Above the Law’
January 31st, 2020 4:06 PM
As it appears more and more likely that the Senate will be moving to exclude witnesses and acquit Donald Trump, the journalistic reaction has become frenzied. After MSNBC compared it to letting a wife beater go, NBC’s Jon Meacham on Friday fretted that the Senate is making Trump a “king” who is “above the law.” He warned, “President Trump is functionally a monarch at this point. If the king does…
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MSNBC Aims Massive Fire Hose of Venom at GOP Amid Celebrating Leak
January 31st, 2020 3:54 PM
Before Friday’s session of the Senate impeachment trial, MSNBC’s hatred was in full display for those who wouldn’t be voting and thinking the way they’ve demanded, lobbing one firebomb after another while simultaneously decrying the lack of bipartisanship and civility.
Network Ratings Collapse Across First Week of Senate Impeachment Trial
January 31st, 2020 3:23 PM
Common complaints during the first seven days of the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump were that the broadcasts went on far too long, and the hearings were boring in part because the coverage usually ran from 1 p.m. through primetime and sometimes into the early morning hours. With that in mind, it comes as no surprise that ratings for coverage of the hearings fell sharply among the “…
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Rush Mocks Chuck Todd for Saying Trump Can 'Bulldoze the Constitution'
January 31st, 2020 3:12 PM
In the 1 pm Eastern hour on Friday, Rush Limbaugh shared a new soundbite from Chuck Todd on NBC, complaining that the lesson of this failing impeachment attempt is that if you're popular enough, you can "essentially bulldoze the Constitution." Replied Rush: "This is the sound of utter futility! The sound of total frustration!"
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'View' Hosts Call on God to Save America From Trump Being Acquitted
January 31st, 2020 2:56 PM
The View hosts implored God to save America from President Trump, on Friday, after finding out there wasn’t enough votes from Republicans to allow witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial. Co-host Sunny Hostin seethed that the GOP was now a party of “extremists” who dismantle democracy and the Constitution for power. Friday co-host Ana Navarro tried to find the silver lining and begged John…
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Lefty Comics Colbert and Bee Envy Canada's Vote of No Confidence
January 31st, 2020 1:24 PM
If you thought a ditzy celebrity attempting to exert their political will upon you was obnoxious enough, imagine a foreign born star doing just the same. On Thursday's Late Show With Stephen Colbert, aired early Friday morning, Canadian-bred Full Frontal host Samantha Bee (who now holds dual citizenship with the US) longed for a process of impeachment in the United States that replicates Canada’s…
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Chuck Todd Fears ‘Risk’ of Dems ‘Folding Too Quickly’ on Impeachment
January 31st, 2020 12:43 PM
Acting out of sheer desperation Friday morning, while anchoring MSNBC special coverage of the Senate impeachment trial, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd attempted to argue there was a “risk” for Democrats “folding too early” ahead of President Trump’s expected acquittal. Later in the hour, he seemed resigned to the fact that the “talk radio wing” of the Republican Party had “won” the day.
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BONKERS MSNBC: Acquitting Trump Is Like Letting Wife Beater Go!
January 31st, 2020 12:12 PM
As Thursday turned into Friday and impeachment acquittal seemed more likely, the late night coverage on MSNBC devolved into hyperbolic claims of the end of “truth” and that Republican Senators are about to let go the equivalent of a wife beater. Host Ali Velshi turned to the liberal media’s voice of reason, Michael Moore.
Cruz Predicts Conclusion to Impeachment on ‘Verdict’ Podcast
January 31st, 2020 11:58 AM
What will be the deciding factor in Senate impeachment trial? How badly do the senators wish to go home, theorized Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). In an episode of the “Verdict with Ted Cruz” podcast titled “A Day in the Life” on Jan. 30, the Senator described to co-host Michael Knowles how the conditions of living and working in the Senate may force a final judgment over the weekend.
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Sour-Grapes Scarborough 'Fine' with Trump Acquittal
January 31st, 2020 9:35 AM
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough claims to be "fine" with President Trump's impending acquittal. Scarborough says that despite the coming vote to prevent John Bolton's testimony, "the truth will be shouted from the mountaintops" and "will only make the Republicans look worse."
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NYT's Mara Gay: Without Witnesses, We're No Better Than Venezuela!
January 31st, 2020 9:24 AM
MSNBC’s unhinged liberal panel continued their emotional downward spiral all the way into Friday morning, after Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) revealed he would be voting against bringing in witnesses for the impeachment trial. The New York Times’ editorial board member Mara Gay was so distraught, she fretted it was “too late” for “our democracy” and we would be just like Russia or Venezuela, if…
Bozell & Graham Column: Turn the Page on Impeachment
January 31st, 2020 6:15 AM
The national narrators of our politics love brandishing the word “historic” to describe the Trump impeachment process. But by now, it feels unexceptional, more like Chapter 27 of the Same Old Saga. In their overdramatic Trump narrative, the president is always a democracy-killing villain who is about to get his comeuppance. In the first week of trial coverage, Nicholas Fondacaro of the MRC found…
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MSNBC FREAKS Over ‘Jim Crow’ GOP Engaging in Ukraine ‘Cover Up’
January 31st, 2020 1:11 AM
In the moments after Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced late Thursday that he would not support witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial, MSNBC rhetorically curled up in the fetal position over the “Jim Crow” and “submissive” GOP engaging in a “cover up” and “an extraordinary act of self-abasement” that’s left America in “a very scary moment.”
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CNN Suffers MELTDOWN After Alexander Says He'll Oppose Witnesses
January 31st, 2020 12:47 AM
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander was the last of four moderate Republicans the liberal media had held out hope for voting to hear more witnesses in the impeachment trial. But shortly after the Senate trial ended the question and answer portion, the Senator made it known he was finished hearing the evidence and was ready to vote. Upon hearing this development, CNNers (particularly those with a…
