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Ruhle: Demanding Harris Do a Serious Interview Is Asking For 'Nirvana'
September 21st, 2024 12:05 PM
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle revealed herself to be a dues-paying member of Journalists Against Journalism on Friday’s episode of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. During an argument with New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, Ruhle argued that demanding Harris do a serious interview was akin to asking for “Nirvana.”
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Maher Blasts New York Times's 'Terrible' Gaza Hospital Headline
October 21st, 2023 1:51 PM
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher condemned the New York Times on Friday for their “terrible” headline on the explosion at the Gaza hospital earlier in the week where they uncritically repeated Hamas’s line that the explosion was the result of an Israeli airstrike. At the same time, Times columnist Bret Stephens criticized his employer and the media as a whole on the…
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Stephens: 'End Of The United States' If Journos Ditch Objectivity
February 4th, 2023 11:41 AM
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens reacted to a Leonard Downie Jr. op-ed in the Washington Post calling for journalism to move beyond objectivity on Firday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO “would be the end of the United States.”
NYT Cancels Bret Stephens Column on Paper's Bungling of N-Word Scandal
February 12th, 2021 11:47 AM
The “woke” meltdown at the New York Times continues apace. Bret Stephens, one of the few right-leaning columnists at the paper, is the latest victim of “cancellation,” or at least his latest column was. Stephens’ latest column was rejected by higher-ups at the paper. In it, Stephens excoriated his bosses and in particular Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger for the brouhaha…
From the NY Times, With Hate: Mussolini, Jonestown, Fascism at RNC
August 31st, 2020 1:20 PM
On the fourth and last night of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times strangely issued fact checks not just for facts, but for warnings and predictions from Republican speakers if Democrats won the presidency. And each night, the paper’s team of live commentators offered gross, personal insults to the speakers: "...on the first day of the R.N.C. we witnessed a cult…
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Video: Media Declare Coronavirus Trump's 'Katrina,' 'Chernobyl'
March 19th, 2020 8:30 AM
Is there anyone out there who didn’t expect cable pundits to turn the coronavirus outbreak into a “Trump ruins everything” story? For the last few weeks, CNN and MSNBC’s talking heads have taken cheap political shots at the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, with their characterization of the situation ranging from “dangerous” to “the worst” government response, “ever.”
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POLITICIZING: MSNBC Declares Coronavirus to Be Trump's Chernobyl
March 12th, 2020 3:07 PM
Wanting a historical analogy for the response to COVID-19, the Thursday cast of MSNBC Live settled on the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, but instead of comparing the Soviet government's coverup to the Chinese government's coverup, the panel decided that it was President Trump that was analogous to the Soviet apparatchiks.
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Radical Left, Center Left Clash Over 'Plutocrat' Bloomberg on MSNBC
November 25th, 2019 12:24 PM
On Monday's Morning Joe, Anand Giridharadas, who seems to be setting himself up to be the left's fiercest critic of Bloomberg, clashed with New York Times columnist and Bloomberg defender Bret Stephens. When Stephens said "this is America" and people like Bloomberg who develop good ideas can be richly rewarded, a thin-skinned Giridharadas shot back, "you don't need to tell me 'this is America.' I…
‘Bedbug’ NY Times Columnist Withdraws From Public Debate With Rival
October 11th, 2019 7:09 PM
The ongoing battle between New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and George Washington University media professor Dave Karpf took another bizarre turn on Thursday, when Stephens pulled out of a scheduled debate with Karpf because the clash would not be closed to the public. Intended as the end of a feud between the two men that began back in August -- when the professor compared the columnist to…
Bret Stephens 'Bedbug' Freakout Continues, Comparing Prof to the Nazis
August 31st, 2019 8:51 PM
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is doubling down on his fury at being described as a "bedbug" on Twitter by college professor David Karpf. He's still comparing this little Twitter insult to Hitler. His latest Times column was headlined "World War II and the Ingredients of Slaughter: The spirit of certitude that dominated the politics of the 1930s is not so distant from us today."
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NYT Columnist Offended By ‘Bedbugs’ Crack, Mocked GOPers as Tyrants
August 27th, 2019 1:50 PM
Don’t be cruel to Bret Stephens. The New York Times columnist, who compared Republicans to murderous dictators and said the “serpent” Ted Cruz would sell his family into slavery, doesn’t like being called a “bedbug.” Not only that, he’ll complain to your boss if you do such a thing.
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Matthews, Guests Question Whether Trump Cares About El Paso Victims
August 7th, 2019 6:37 PM
It was another par for the course night of nonsense on Hardball Tuesday, featuring MSNBC host Chris Matthews waxing-poetic about past presidents providing leadership in challenging times compared to Donald Trump. His panelists then suggested his rhetoric led to the death of Latinos in El Paso that he truly doesn’t care about.
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MSNBC: Trump Hurls ‘Historic Slur’ at Biden Thanks to GOP’s ‘Silence’
May 29th, 2019 3:57 PM
MSNBC’s Hardball decided — to borrow a phrase from Scott Pelley — Tuesday night to make statements alleging analysis and facts that were divorced from reality, declaring that the President broke precedent by criticizing Joe Biden on foreign soil as a “low IQ individual” that’s a “historic slur” and was “absolutely astonishing” he’d treat Biden like an enemy of America.
NY Times Writer Hits His Own Paper's ‘Despicable' Attack on Jews
April 29th, 2019 3:55 PM
An anti-Semitic cartoon in the International edition of the New York Times depicted Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a guide dog with a big nose and Star of David around his neck, leading a corpulent, equally large-nosed President Trump wearing a yarmulke. the cartoon does not mark the paper’s first foray into anti-Israel tropes. After its first response flopped, the Times issued a…
