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Oh Now They Like Him: ABC, NBC Tout Trump Dining With Chuck and Nancy

Nicholas Fondacaro
September 13th, 2017 9:31 PM
On Wednesday night, President Trump had dinner at the White House with Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. And in the wake of that development, two of the Big Three Networks (ABC and NBC), who had been almost exclusively negative about Trump for the last several months, suddenly found nice things to say about him.
 
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Acosta Lobbies WH to Believe 'Climate Change Thing’ Caused Hurricanes

Curtis Houck
September 11th, 2017 4:09 PM
CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta thought it was time during Monday’s White House press briefing to make a fool of himself, partnering with his fellow journalists in lobbying the Trump administration to both believe that global warming caused Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and rejoin the Paris climate deal to stop them.
 
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After Trashing Trump on DACA, ABC/CBS Ignore His ‘No Action’ Vow

Nicholas Fondacaro
September 7th, 2017 10:05 PM
For the last couple of days, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have spent much of their coverage of President Trump’s recent Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) decision slamming him for being heartless and cruel. But after a Thursday tweet, where the President reassured so-called “Dreamers” that he would direct “no action” against them in six months, both ABC and CBS…
 
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WH Press Use Briefing to Lobby for DREAMers, Question Trump's Heart

Curtis Houck
September 1st, 2017 6:14 PM

For Friday’s White House press briefing, reporters decided to play the role of lobbyists standing up for illegal immigrants known as DREAMers ahead of President Trump’s decision about whether to end the program.  Reporters from a variety of outlets took it upon themselves to inquire about whether DREAMers are real Americans and question the President’s compassion for others seeing as how, if…

 
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MSNBC Brings on Obama Hack to Blame Trump for Chemical Plant Explosion

Kyle Drennen
August 31st, 2017 12:19 PM
During MSNBC’s 10 a.m. ET hour on Thursday, anchor Hallie Jackson attempted to draw on the expertise of former OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Jordan Barab following explosions at a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas due to flooding from Hurricane Harvey. However, the partisan Obama official made it clear he was only interested in one thing – exploiting the crisis to gratuitously attack the Trump…
 
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NBC Spends More Time Slamming Trump Than Reporting His TX Assurances

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 28th, 2017 9:21 PM
In addition to hosting the Finnish President Sauli Niinisto on Monday, President Trump spoke numerous times about the rescue and recovery efforts underway in the State of Texas following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. But during NBC Nightly News, the network didn’t really want to bother with all of that, so they chose to focus on hammering him for his controversial pardon of former Arizona…
 
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MSNBC Warns: Trump Rally Raising ‘Concerns About People’s Safety’

Kyle Drennen
August 22nd, 2017 4:46 PM

Throughout the day on Tuesday, MSNBC sounded the alarm that President Trump’s planned rally in Phoenix, Arizona could lead to violence. Hour after hour, hosts, pundits, and correspondents hyped “concerns about people’s safety” and the “combustible situation” that was supposedly being created by the presidential visit.

 
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Nets Still Not Happy, Condemn Trump for New Condemnation

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 14th, 2017 9:32 PM
On Monday, President Trump called out the racist hate groups involved in Saturday’s chaos in Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to calling them “evil” and “repugnant,” Trump said: “Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups.” This full throated denouncement was exactly what the Big Three Networks (ABC,…
 
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NBC Lashes Out at President Trump After Charlottesville Attack

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 13th, 2017 10:14 AM
Saturday was marked by bloodshed in Charlottesville, Virginia after an apparent white nationalist plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters in a blatant attack. And on the morning after, NBC’s Sunday Today put President Trump in their sights as they unloaded on him while appearing to pin the blame for the attack on him. At one point even claiming he “enjoys” the support he gets from the bigots…
 
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So Much for Civility: NBC Touts Left-Wing Hate Against McCain

Kyle Drennen
July 26th, 2017 12:26 PM
While describing how John McCain returned to the Senate with a “hero’s homecoming” following his cancer diagnosis, on Wednesday’s NBC Today, correspondent Hallie Jackson also seized on nasty online attacks against the Arizona Republican by left-wing activists upset that he voted to open up ObamaCare repeal legislation to debate in Congress.
 
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Nets Use Trump's 'Made in America' Week to Bash Him

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Aly Nielsen
July 24th, 2017 11:58 AM
The White House declared the week of July 16, “Made in America” week to celebrate U.S. manufacturing -- a continuance of President Donald Trump’s “America First” campaign focus. But ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows minimized the administration’s focus, mentioning it only one night of the week and used it to criticize Trump.
 
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MSNBC Runs Segment on Venezuelan Crisis, Refuses to Mention Socialism

John Hirschauer
July 17th, 2017 3:47 PM
On Monday morning, Hallie Jackson ran a segment on MSNBC Live devoted to investigating the ills of Venezuela amid growing tensions in the South American country. For the entirety of the segment, neither the host nor her guest even mentioned the socialism that has bound the once prosperous nation to starvation.
 
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Nets Freak Over Trump Tweet, Only CBS Notes CNN Fake News

Kyle Drennen
July 3rd, 2017 12:56 PM
Just like clockwork Monday morning, all three network morning shows had a collective freak out over President Trump tweeting out over the weekend a doctored clip of him wrestling “CNN” to ground created out of an old WWE appearance he did years ago. Anchors and correspondents were indignant as they breathlessly hyped the social media controversy. Only CBC bothered to mention the context of the…
 
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NBC Decries Rise of Conservative Media for Creating Polarized Country

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 2nd, 2017 11:06 AM
What NBC’s Willie Geist spun as a rundown of the political echo chambers in America on Sunday Today, quickly devolved into a condemnation of the rise of conservative media. “Fake news is a favorite term, as you know, of President Trump. What you consider real and fake in many cases has become a question of where you're sitting and who you're listening to,” declared Geist at the start of the…