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Virus Deaths Hit Low, But Todd: Asks How Much 'Worse' Can It Get?

Mark Finkelstein
May 26th, 2020 7:20 PM
How deep in the partisan bag is Chuck Todd? Imagine a Democrat president presiding over the coronavirus epidemic. Now imagine daily US deaths plunging from 2,701 on May 6th, down to 504 yesterday. Todd would be breaking into live coverage to trumpet the good news. So how did partisan hack Chuck Todd react to that news today? By asking: "How much WORSE will this get from a public health standpoint…
 
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Mitchell Contrasts Trump's 'Awful' Record on Race Issues With Biden's

Ryan Foley
May 26th, 2020 7:53 AM
Appearing as a panelist on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell acted more as a Democratic strategist than a journalist. She did her best to do damage control for beleaguered presidential candidate Joe Biden, who stepped in it by telling radio host Charlamagne tha God that “you ain’t black” if you consider voting for President Trump. Mitchell quickly changed the subject by…
 
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Chuck Todd Laments Biden Has to Answer for Racist Comment

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 24th, 2020 10:15 AM
In a tacit admission of how the Democratic Party thinks of the black community on Friday, presumptive nominee Joe Biden exclaimed that if a black person had to think about voting for him or President Trump, then their blackness was in question. By Sunday, NBC was tired of hearing the outrage at Biden’s blatantly racist remark with Sunday Today host Willie Geist huffing that Biden had to apologize…
 
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MSNBC’s Tur Touts Climate as ‘Positive Consequence of the Pandemic’

Kyle Drennen
May 21st, 2020 12:01 PM
On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur touted the “drop in pollution”as a “positive consequence of the pandemic” that has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world and left tens of millions unemployed. Talking to Penn State University professor and climate activist Michael Mann, she hoped Americans would seize on this “unique” “opportunity” to “change our habits.”
 
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Nets Hail Obama’s Commencement Cudgel, Look Forward to More Attacks

Kyle Drennen
May 18th, 2020 2:04 PM

On Sunday and Monday, all three broadcast networks cheered former President Obama’s decision to use a virtual commencement address as an opportunity to launch a nasty partisan attack against President Trump. Instead of criticizing such unseemly political rhetoric being used during a speech to students across the country in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, network anchors and reporters…

 
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NBC Claims Trump Is ‘Nervous’ of Obama Using the ‘Might’ of His Name

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 17th, 2020 4:34 PM
In two college graduation speeches over the weekend, former President Obama bashed President Trump for his handling of the coronavirus crisis. Of course, this drew the adulation of the liberal media. Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC was a prime example of this as their panel of journalists gushed and suggested Trump was “nervous” of Obama becoming active in the 2020 race, and said the bashing was…
 

Column: Could Chuck Todd Be Any Lazier?

Tim Graham
May 13th, 2020 8:24 AM
The late Tim Russert had a reputation of meticulous preparation for his Sunday turns on Meet the Press. Now it seems Chuck Todd spends more time working on his hair.
 
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Chuck Todd Offers Mealy-Mouthed Apology for Deceptive Edit, Blames CBS

Curtis Houck
May 12th, 2020 6:58 PM

Behold, the epitome of laziness. On Tuesday’s MTP Daily, NBC News political director Chuck Todd offered a muddled and pathetic apology/non-apology for the deceptive edit Sunday’s Meet the Press carried out against Attorney General Bill Barr, saying that he was “very sorry for that mistake” but blamed CBS News clips for this kerfuffle. Only in the final seconds of the 65-second bit did Todd…

 
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NBC Relieved By Senate Hearing Free of Trump ‘Politicking’ & ‘Chaos’

Kyle Drennen
May 12th, 2020 3:59 PM

As NBC wrapped up its special coverage of the Senate coronavirus hearing late Tuesday morning, journalists repeatedly expressed their relief that the proceeding on Capitol Hill was supposedly free of the “politicking” and “chaos” they claimed plagued White House briefings on the pandemic.

 
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Nets Seize on Obama Trashing Trump’s COVID Response

Kyle Drennen
May 11th, 2020 3:17 PM

On Friday, audio of former President Barack Obama blasting the Trump administration’s coronavirus response during a phone call trying to drum up support for the Biden campaign was leaked to Yahoo News. Over the weekend and through Monday morning, the three broadcast networks repeatedly hyped the nasty, partisan attack without one word of criticism for Obama’s unseemly rhetoric.

 
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Nets Stunned By Flynn Case Being Dropped Because They Ignored Signs

Geoffrey Dickens
May 11th, 2020 10:41 AM

In 2020 the case against Michael Flynn began to collapse, as it became clearer that there was an attempt to entrap Flynn. These new developments unfurled from January through May, but the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening news programs refused to report them. So anyone who relied on them for their news was probably shocked when on May 7 the case was suddenly dropped. 

 
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NBC Tweets Apology After Chuck Todd Lies About AG's Comments on Flynn

Kristine Marsh
May 11th, 2020 9:31 AM
Is it really too much to ask that the media report a quote, accurately? Apparently it is for NBC. On Meet the Press Sunday, NBC political director and MTP host Chuck Todd cut short a clip of Attorney General William Barr defending the DOJ’s decision to dismiss the Michael Flynn case in a CBS interview. After Todd edited the clip to take out crucial context, he absurdly proceeded to bash Barr’s…
 
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Morning Fit: Mika Brzezinski Calls President Trump a 'Freaking Nut'

Mark Finkelstein
May 11th, 2020 9:03 AM
On today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski called Donald Trump a "freaking nut." What prompted Mika to use a variation on the F-word to describe the President of the United States? That he had the audacity, via tweets, to defend himself and his administration.    
 
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NBC Cheers Task Force Quarantines as a Rebuke of Trump and Reopening

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 10th, 2020 10:35 AM
Over the weekend, three of the nation’s top health officials and members of the Coronavirus Task Force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, began their two weeks of at-home quarantine after they came in contact with someone with the virus. NBC’s Sunday Today, used the opportunity to take a morbid victory lap and cheer it as a rebuke of President Trump and calls to reopen. Political director Chuck Todd…