As former Senate staffer Tara Reade gave her first on-camera interview detailing her sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden on Thursday, neither ABC’s World News Tonight that evening nor Friday’s Good Morning America mentioned the important development. While NBC and CBS did cover the story, both networks framed Reade’s public comments as a “response to Joe Biden’s strong denial.”
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And It’s Gone: Nets Already Tired of Covering Rape Claim Against Biden
Just four days after the broadcast network evening newscasts finally covered the rape allegation against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the first time, after ignoring it for over a month, ABC, CBS, and NBC had had enough. During their Monday evening newscasts, none of them ran stories on the subject despite developments still breaking over the course of the day. NBC’s Today was the…
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Mitchell Fears Trump Sullied ‘Hallowed Ground’ of Lincoln Memorial
On Monday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell and NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss feared that President Trump conducting a virtual town hall with Fox News at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday night to discuss the coronavirus pandemic had somehow sullied the “hallowed ground” of the Washington D.C. monument.
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MSNBC Would Have Asked Biden About Reade Sooner...But Coronavirus
Hours after Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski grilled presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden over sexual assault allegations against him, political correspondent Mike Memoli appeared on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports to suggest that the coronavirus pandemic was the reason that much of the media were slow to cover the scandal.
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Evening Nets End Their Tara Reade Blackout, Come to Biden’s Defense
Finally, the evening newscasts of ABC and CBS broke their silence on the rape accusation against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. While their respective morning newscasts had already covered the topic, Thursday night was the first time NBC News had dared to give it airtime. The contrast was stark in how they covered the accusations of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, where their mission was…
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MSNBC Books Ex-Planned Parenthood Boss to Say Govt. Has 'Failed Women'
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell is determined show to prove that in any crisis, women are the hardest hit. Mitchell invited former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post on at the conclusion of Wednesday show for a gratuitously divisive segment that argued women have it hardest during the current pandemic and the answer is to enact longstanding left-wing…
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MSNBC Trashes Bill Barr for 'Politicizing' Virus on State Lockdowns
On her Tuesday show, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell was in disbelief at the idea that the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division might sue states and localities for violating the constitution with excessive stay-at-home orders. It was not the first time Mitchell expressed confusion at the idea that the constitution still applies, even during a pandemic.
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NBC Demands Birx Quit Now, to Save Her ‘Credibility’ From Trump
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd repeatedly attacked the “credibility” of coronavirus task force doctor, Deborah Birx, as she has refused to comply with the media’s demands she politicize the virus. MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell went even further, suggesting Birx quit now to save her reputation.
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Mitchell & Pelosi Push Conspiracy Theory of Trump Delaying Election
During a softball interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell asked about a conspiracy theory being pushed by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden that President Trump would try to use the coronavirus pandemic to “kick back the election” in November. Rather dismiss the unfounded claim, the supposed journalist wondered how Pelosi could prevent the imagined…
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Mitchell Aghast as AG Barr Vows to Defend Constitutional Rights
On her 12:00 p.m. ET hour show on Wednesday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell expressed her dismay at Attorney General William Barr vowing to defend the constitutional rights of citizens during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. She fretted that his comments were “a signal to the protesters” objecting to some of the more draconian shutdown policies across the country.
During a fawning interview with former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell touted her guest’s new memoir and thanked the “predictably wonderful” Democrat for spending much of the segment trashing President Trump. At one point in the interview, Albright claimed “the Statue of Liberty is weeping.”
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DNC 'War Room' Uses 23 Tweets from Journalists to Rip Trump Briefing
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner pointed out the DNC war room's latest press release on Saturday's White House press briefing listed 23 tweets from "prominent reporters from the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Al-Jazeera, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and others."
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MSNBC's Jeremy Bash Urges Trump To Stop 'Scapegoating' China
Amidst the backdrop of the U.S. government looking into whether the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab and China revising its official death count, MSNBC's Jeremy Bash joined Andrea Mitchell on her Friday show to urge the administration to stop scapegoating and denigrating China with "xenophobic rhetoric."
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Andrea Mitchell, Jane Mayer Slam McConnell, Praise Pelosi on Pandemic
When the media is not blaming President Trump for all that is not well in the world, they are blaming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. On her Monday MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell brought on leftist New Yorker scribe Jane Mayer and the two lamented how, unlike Nancy Pelosi, McConnell has responded to the COVID-19 panic with a lack of seriousness.