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NBC’s Mitchell: Trump 'Embraces a Rogues Gallery of Dictators'
October 16th, 2018 1:00 AM
To kick off NBC Nightly News on Monday, the network huffed about how Trump was walking the fine line with America’s partner. After noting reports suggesting the Saudis were preparing to admit to killing Jamal Khashoggi, anchor Lester Holt chided the President. “Word of the acknowledgment comes just hours after Trump seemed to accept Saudi denials of any involvement while speculating Khashoggi may…
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CNN, MSNBC Tout Democrat Claims of 'Voter Suppression' in Georgia
October 12th, 2018 8:29 PM
Between Thursday night and Friday evening, a number of shows on both CNN and MSNBC have pushed claims by Democrats that Georgia Republicans are engaging in "voter suppression" targeted at black voters because of reports that more than 50,000 new voter registrations of mostly black voters are being held in limbo because of errors in the paperwork. But only CNN's Jake Tapper has bothered to note…
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CNN, MSNBC Tout U.N. Warning Only 10 Years Left to Fix Global Warming
October 9th, 2018 9:54 AM
On Monday morning, several shows on CNN and MSNBC picked up on a United Nations report alleging that the world only has about 10 years to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere to stave off "dire" and "catastrophic" consequences of global warming.
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MSNBC Frets at ‘Right Wing’ Maine, Cheers ‘Profile in Courage’ Alaska
October 5th, 2018 2:15 PM
The journalists on MSNBC, Friday were partially disturbed and partially relieved as they parsed the tea leaves on how the final vote would go for Brett Kavanaugh. On the one hand, moderate Republican Lisa Murkowski is a “profile in courage” for voting against the Supreme Court nominee. But Susan Collins might fall victim to the “very right-wing” desires of Maine.
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Post-Cloture NBC Hopes Other GOPers Vote No; ‘Beyond Reelection’
October 5th, 2018 1:45 PM
During and after the cloture vote Friday morning to move forward with Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, NBC’s Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell held out hope that unnamed Republican Senators could change their minds to oppose Kavanaugh and that, amidst the onslaught of pressure (read: verbal harassment from the left), voting against the Judge is thinking “beyond reelection.”
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Mitchell Wants FBI to Investigate Kavanaugh Being ‘Rude’ to Dems
October 2nd, 2018 3:42 PM
During an interview with Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy on Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell fretted that the seventh FBI background check into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was too restricted. Her hyperventilating over the issue got to a point where she suggested that the Bureau should actually investigate Kavanaugh for being “rude” to Democrats.
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Cable News Worried by Porn Lawyer's Role in Kavanaugh 'Circus'
September 26th, 2018 5:54 PM
A handful of cable pundits were less than thrilled to see highly political porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti injecting himself into the Judge Brett Kavanaugh controversy.
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MSNBC's Mitchell Gives Gore, Brown Forum to Push Environmental Agenda
September 21st, 2018 6:10 AM
Between Monday and Tuesday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell devoted two segments on her afternoon show to giving an unchallenged forum to environmental activists promoting the preferred liberal view that global warming is caused by humans and is making hurricane seasons worse, as Democratic Governor Jerry Brown appeared on Monday's show and former Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday.
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Brennan: Intel Chiefs Should Disobey Order to Release Docs or Resign
September 20th, 2018 2:43 PM
During Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, the eponymous host interviewed former CIA Director and NBC News senior national security analyst John Brennan, who obviously criticized the President’s order to release “highly classified documents” related to the Trump-Russia probe. Brennan has made his contempt for President Trump perfectly clear, previously accusing the President of “treason”…
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FLASHBACK: Media Using Same Playbook They Used to Smear Thomas
September 18th, 2018 8:30 AM
We’ve seen the media and the Democrats use this playbook before. When Justice Clarence Thomas was well on his way to being confirmed in 1991, the Democrats brought forth Anita Hill to accuse Thomas of sexual harassment, in a last ditch attempt to derail his nomination. And while it remains to be seen if the media turn the Brett Kavanaugh nomination process into a similar circus it’s instructive…
How the Networks Twisted the 1991 Thomas-Hill Hearings
September 17th, 2018 1:56 PM
It’s not as if we haven’t seen this before. Twenty-seven years ago, a last-minute accusation of sexual harassment prompted the Senate to re-open Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings; the ‘he-said, she-said’ confrontation was a media spectacle, including prime-time coverage on the broadcast networks. When it was over, the Media Research Center analyzed the coverage, and…
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Andrea Mitchell Hammered as She Tries to Politicize Disaster Relief
September 12th, 2018 5:19 PM
Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday unsurprisingly attempted to politicize disaster relief, lecturing the FEMA administrator about responsibility for infrastructure. She even went back to Hurricane Katrina as an example. To her annoyance, FEMA’s Brock Long corrected her on the facts.
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Andrea Mitchell Tees Up John Kerry to Blast Trump Administration
September 11th, 2018 5:03 PM
In a softball interview with former Secretary of State John Kerry about his new memoir, on Monday and Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell repeatedly teed up the Obama administration official to slam the Trump White House on various foreign policy issues as well as Bob Woodward’s tell-all book. She only managed one challenging question about Kerry’s tenure at the State Department.
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Even Andrea Mitchell Admits: Dems Obstructing Kavanaugh Hearing
September 4th, 2018 1:29 PM
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell made an admirably even-handed observation Tuesday during the network’s live coverage of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Supreme Court appointee Brett Kavanaugh. On Andrea Mitchell Reports, the veteran host remarked on the “very aggressive” posturing taken by Senate Democrats in the hearing, at one point admitting that the Democrats’ ultimate goal was simply to…
