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MSNBC Legal Analyst Jill Wine-Banks Gave Max FEC-Allowed Cash to Biden
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May 8th, 2020 2:15 PM
Did MSNBC Legal Analyst Jill Wine-Banks somehow think it wouldn’t be controversial or a stain on her objectivity to fund presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign? Federal Election Commission records show that Wine-Banks contributed the maximum FEC-allowed $2,800 to Biden’s campaign March 10. Her contribution to Biden makes any of her analysis of the Trump administration…
The Eight Worst ‘Fake News’ Stories of the Trump Years
May 5th, 2020 9:00 AM
Journalists bristle when President Trump criticizes them as “fake news,” and they complain that such criticism erodes the public’s faith in the news media as an independent watchdog on the powerful. But Trump’s critiques wouldn’t have nearly as much impact if news organizations refrained from behaving as sloppy partisans, carelessly jumping on one false story after another if they think it will…
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Joy Reid Encourages Celeb Chef to Cook Up Virus Conspiracy Theory
May 2nd, 2020 2:21 PM
On Joy Reid's show, guest Andrew Zimmern, discussing what he claimed to be a lack of protective gear on farms, says he hopes it's just ineptitude, and not a " cabal of conspiracy." Zimmern says he prays that he's "not being a delusional paranoid, but something tells me there is something else going on." Joy Reid encourages Zimmern's paranoia, saying that from the time President Trump was elected…
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FNC Shows What Media IGNORED in Blaming Trump for Fish Cleaner Death
April 30th, 2020 3:31 PM
On The Ingraham Angle Wednesday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham blasted the media for blaming President Trump for the bizarre case of a man who died by ingesting fish tank cleaner in March, supposedly thinking it was Hydroxychloroquine. But Ingraham highlighted a new report out in the Washington Free Beacon, which found there may be more to this story than initially reported.
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MSNBC's Reid Wrongly Claims Europe Handling Pandemic Better Than US
April 28th, 2020 12:56 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy show on MSNBC, as she spoke with several medical doctors about the coronavirus pandemic, host Joy Reid claimed that countries with universal health care are handling the crisis better than the U.S., and even asserted that America's "former allies" in Europe are, "quite frankly, having better outcomes than we are." Reid made this claim in spite of the fact that per capita deaths…
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MSNBC Analyst: Trump a 'Cult Leader' Like Jim Jones
April 25th, 2020 2:38 PM
Donald Trump: akin to a homicidal cult leader? Yup, if you believe Joy Reid's guest this morning, MSNBC analyst Dr. Irwin Redlener. Calling President Trump a "cult leader," Redlener said that his: "cultish following reminds me of Jim Jones and the Koolaid and all that horrible stuff."
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MSNBC: Trump Backers Making China the 'New Scary Non-White People'
April 21st, 2020 11:42 AM
On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC host Joy Reid led an all-liberal panel which portrayed right-leaning protesters and Donald Trump supporters as racists who, in Reid's words, are "making China the new Mexico" and who see the Chinese as "the new scary non-white people."
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Meacham: Trump 'Coddles' His Fact-Challenged 'Base at Dangerous Level'
April 19th, 2020 9:46 PM
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham took many swipes at President Donald Trump and conservatives as he invoked Charles Lindbergh's Nazi sympathizer movement of the World War II era, and declared that conservative activists are in an "alternate reality" while liberals are "taking the science seriously." He also complained that China is being "scapegoated" and…
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New Yorker Snob on MSNBC Mocks White Male 'Lower-Educated' Trump Base
April 19th, 2020 3:01 PM
Joy Reid's show on MSNBC provides a virtual parody of liberal-elite condescension to Trump supporters. Reid found it "confusing" that Trump's populist base supports him despite supposedly not "getting anything economically out of this plutocracy." The New Yorker's Jane Mayer explained to Reid that Trump's "racist and anger-laced" rhetoric "excites the lower-educated part of his base, the white-…
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On MSNBC, Reza Aslan Likens White Evangelicals to 'Doomsday Cult'
April 14th, 2020 9:09 PM
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's AM Joy to discuss white evangelical Christians who steadfastly support President Donald Trump, former CNN contributor and religion expert Reza Aslan likened pro-Trump white evangelical Christians to a "doomsday cult" after recalling that there have been a limited number of pastors who have tried to illegally hold services with parishioners in defiance of the…
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TV News Thrills Over Cuomo, Our ‘Acting President’
April 14th, 2020 10:18 AM
For the past several weeks, TV journalists have been unrelentingly nasty in their coverage of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But they've also found a liberal Democratic politician to rally around: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo has become a darling of the liberal media thanks to his daily press conferences — along with the fact that he is not President Trump.
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Joy Reid Hits the Blunder Trifecta
April 12th, 2020 5:17 PM
Got those quarantine blues? Here's something to brighten your day! Joy Reid treated us to a trifecta of goofs and questionable calls on her MSNBC show this morning.
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Ex-ABC Journalist: 'I'm a Fan of' Cuomo, 'Wish' He Were Prez
April 7th, 2020 2:14 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, former ABC News weekend anchor Carole Simpson admitted that she is a "fan" of New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo and declared that "[I] wish very much" that he were President. The show also demonstrated that President Donald Trump's administration will be criticized no matter how they handle the pandemic because, within the same show, members were criticized…
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Joy Reid Wonders: Could FNC Be Sued for Misleading Viewers on Virus?
April 5th, 2020 2:41 PM
On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid wonders whether Fox News could be liable to viewers suing the network for having misled them regarding the dangers of the coronavirus. So much for all the alarm in the liberal media about legal punishments for news organizations in the Trump era.