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FLASHBACK: Media Blamed Rush Limbaugh, ‘Right-Wing’ for April Terror
April 20th, 2019 12:15 PM
The month of April saw some dark days for America. On April 19, 1995, it was the Oklahoma City Bombing. On April 15, 2013, it was the Boston marathon bombing. What do those two have in common? Liberal media outlets smeared conservatives as responsible for both. On the April 19, 2010 edition of Countdown, then-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann went on an unhinged rant, assigning Rush Limbaugh culpability…
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VIDEO: The Liberal Media’s Most Embarrassing Mueller Failures
March 25th, 2019 1:04 PM
The Sunday afternoon letter from Attorney General Bill Barr on the Mueller report has rocked the political world and burst more than a few bubbles in the liberal media, most notably their years-long insistence that the President and/or his team colluded with Russia. Some journalists have conceded this reality, while others are mimicking Japanese soldiers still fighting World War II in 1971.
ESPN Out to Make 'SportsCenter' Great Again ... with Leftist Olbermann
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December 6th, 2018 9:00 PM
A year ago, ESPN's SportsCenter broadcasts were so far to the Left side of the political ledger that critics aptly dubbed it "Woke Center." Since then, the rebranded "SC6" and its co-hosts/social justice warriors Jemele Hill and Michael Smith have moved on, and new ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro says he wants no politics on ESPN air. This was the prompt for Ben Strauss's Washington Post story, "ESPN…
NYT: Fox News, Book Publishers Part of ‘Incitement Industry'
November 1st, 2018 3:51 PM
New York Times media reporter Jim Rutenberg tried to tar mainstream conservative figures as hateful inciters of violence in “There’s Money In Conspiracy, And Outlets Are After It." The online headline: “You Don’t Need to Go to the Dark Web to Find Hateful Conspiracy Theories.” The online version featured a prominent picture of Judge Jeanine Pirro underneath the "hateful" headline. Rutenberg also…
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FNC's Ingraham Highlights Media Hypocrisy Over Use of the Word 'Mob'
October 11th, 2018 3:26 PM
During Wednesday’s The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham pointed out how the media strenuously objects to the use of the word “mob” to describe left-wing protesters but did not seem to mind using the word “mob” at all when describing tea party protesters back in 2009.
The Bigotry of Roseanne Barr and the Double Standard at ABC
June 2nd, 2018 2:30 PM
In light of Roseanne Barr’s racist Tuesday morning tweet, ABC cancelled the revival of its 80’s/90’s sitcom Roseanne, starring Roseanne Barr and John Goodman, after only one season despite it having fetched 18 million viewers for its premiere and been renewed for another season.
Post-Rosanne, ESPN Cautions Most Controversial Commentators
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June 1st, 2018 6:57 PM
The furor over Roseanne Barr's racist comments and the demise of her television program have rippled across Disney and all the way to ESPN's Bristol, Ct., headquarters. And why wouldn't it? ESPN's Jemele Hill and the recently rehired Keith Olbermann could erupt in outrageous outbursts at any time and cause the Disney-owned company additional public relations nightmares.
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Cupp Shames Disney for Rehiring Olbermann Despite His Rampant Misogyny
June 1st, 2018 12:35 AM
To begin Thursday’s edition of HLN’s Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp walked her viewers through how the liberal media’s double standard for punishing vile comments works. Between Roseanne Barr, Keith Olbermann, Joy Reid, and now Samantha Bee, there were a plethora of examples for her to choose from. But her most stern and forceful condemnation was reserved for ESPN and their parent company Disney for…
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CNN’s Powers Mocks Trump and Backers for Being ‘Aggrieved’: ‘Grow up'
May 31st, 2018 12:16 AM
CNN political commentator and USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers wore her disdain for Trump supporters and middle America on her sleeve during Wednesday night’s Anderson Cooper 360, as she berated them and President Trump for playing the victim.
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Amid Their Roseanne Firestorm, ABC Whines: Trump Hasn’t Condemned Her
May 30th, 2018 9:20 PM
Since canceling ratings-powerhouse Roseanne on Tuesday, ABC and Disney have been under tremendous fire for even hiring Roseanne Barr given her long history of racism and unhinged antics. And in a tweet Wednesday, President Trump called out the company’s double standard of keeping on other such people but who target him. Instead of keeping their head down and taking their lumps, ABC actually…
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WH’s Sanders Condemns Roseanne, Wonders Why ABC Didn't Go Further
May 30th, 2018 4:41 PM
Showing how delusional CNN and MSNBC are with wall-to-wall coverage of Roseanne Barr’s deranged, racist tweet about former Obama official Valerie Jarrett, it took until at least the ninth question in Wednesday’s White House Press Briefing for the now-fired ABC star to come up.
World Leader in Stupid: ESPN Brings Olbermann Back to Sports Center
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May 25th, 2018 2:31 PM
If you know anything about Keith Olbermann, you know he’s The Worst Person in the World to help ESPN pull out of its social justice spiral and get back on course covering sports. But according to USA Today, The Sultan of Sanctimony, the Colossus of Condescension, is returning to Sports Center as a guest host. And the timing could be any, well, dumber, just a day after the Wall Street Journal…
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Media: Trump Worse Than Bin Laden, Talks Like Charles Manson
December 8th, 2017 10:04 AM
Liberal reporters and hosts are closing out the year with a bang, spending the last month damning Donald Trump as an “unhinged” “sociopathic” mental case who was comparable to Charles Manson and Osama Bin Laden. Celebrities also raged against Trump as Netflix host Chelsea Handler hoped to see Trump in handcuffs” and Hunger Games movie star Jennifer Lawrence boasted if she ever met the…
Olbermann Says Trump's Done, He's 'Retiring from Political Commentary'
November 28th, 2017 1:21 PM
Keith Olbermann has proclaimed with all his usual bluster that he is “retiring from political commentary in all media venues” now that he is secure in the knowledge that President Trump’s time in the White House “will end prematurely and end soon.” Many people don’t believe this claim, just as it was wise to doubt Bill Moyers and Cher when they said they were retiring, and then un-retired.
