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CNN Uncorks Lunacy-Filled, Self-Absorbed Special on WH Press Corps

Curtis Houck
December 28th, 2018 5:35 PM
On Thursday night, correspondent Randi “Kush” Kaye offered an hour-long special on the White House Briefing Room that served as nothing more than a pompous exercise in lamenting how they believe the Trump administration has been unfair to them and are unraveling American democracy. The endeavor was dominated by attempts to make viewers to feel bad for CNN, fondly look back on past administrations…
 

NYT: 'Cold Political Calculation,' Race Tension in GOP's FL Strategy

Clay Waters
November 13th, 2018 3:44 PM
The front of Tuesday’s New York Times featured reporters Jeremy Peters and Maggie Haberman in the Florida capital Tallahassee, the heart of the latest controversial voting issues related to recounts to hit that state, for a “news analysis” that cast the Republican Party as ruthless and cynical and the Democrats as meek: “G.O.P. Fears Over Senate Edge Drive Push to Discredit Recount.” The…
 

Imtweetment: New York Times Reports Mueller Investigating Trump Tweets

P.J. Gladnick
July 27th, 2018 10:09 AM
New York Times reporters Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman had the unenviable task of trying to rationalize the effort by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate President Donald Trump's tweets for signs of obstruction of justice for a crime that has not been alleged in "Mueller Examining Trump’s Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry." The result is an example of the desperation…
 

NYT: Reality Equals CNN? 'Spotting CNN...Trump Rages Against Reality'

Clay Waters
July 26th, 2018 2:14 PM
New York Times reporters Katie Rogers and Maggie Haberman were offended that President Trump doesn’t like to watch CNN, using a leaked anecdote from Air Force One for a full-page story Wednesday: “A Bit of a Stir’ Aboard Air Force One: A TV Tuned to CNN.” The headline writers went overboard. The text box: “A president who rages against reality wants to keep the remote control for himself.” The…
 

'You Caused This!' Media Blame Trump for Newspaper Shooting on Twitter

Kristine Marsh
June 29th, 2018 10:15 AM

In the aftermath of a horrific shooting at a local newspaper office in Annapolis, Maryland Thursday afternoon, whom did the media immediately blame? Not the shooter, of course, but President Trump. From cable news to social media, journalists and media outlets irresponsibly sent out provocative tweets directly or indirectly blaming the president for supposedly inspiring the deadly shooting,…

 
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MSNBC Contributors Awkwardly Defend Rep. Waters's Call for Harassment

Bill D'Agostino
June 25th, 2018 9:37 PM
While many in both the Democratic Party and the media have agreed that Congresswoman Maxine Waters hurt her party’s image on Sunday when she encouraged her supporters to aggressively confront members of the Trump administration, MSNBC’s contributors appeared not to have gotten the memo. Numerous guests on the cable network were reluctant on Monday to condemn Waters for her comments, with some,…
 
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Even CNN’s ‘New Day’ Found Time for Maxine Waters’s Deranged Rant

Curtis Houck
June 25th, 2018 2:26 PM
While ABC’s Good Morning America was asleep at the wheel on Monday morning having failed to cover California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters’s call for Americans to physically confront members of the Trump administration, CNN’s New Day miraculously found nine minutes and 43 seconds for Waters.
 

NY Times Sees Deep Red Racism as Trump Gears Up for 2018 Elections

Clay Waters
June 20th, 2018 5:02 PM
The New York Times saw Red-state racism everywhere it looked, in Tuesday’s “Attacking Immigrants, Trump Keeps His Base Fired Up for the Midterms.” Reporters Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman went beyond the current border controversies to lump in the national anthem as a racist issue: "Mr. Trump’s broadsides against Hispanic migrants, like his criticism of black athletes who will not stand for…
 

NYT's Lead Story: Trump's Corrosive 'Paranoia' Harming Faith in Media

Clay Waters
May 31st, 2018 5:01 PM
Tuesday’s New York Times led with Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman rushing to tar President Trump’s criticism of the “deep state” and the mainstream press as corrosive, paranoid, and conspiratorial (while unwittingly strengthening his case) in “Trump’s Embrace Of ‘Spygate” Plot Sows Suspicions -- Eroding Public Trust -- Conspiracy Theories Are Brought From Fringes to the Oval Office.”…
 
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Can Comedy Recover From Michelle Wolf’s White House Debacle?

Christian Toto
May 5th, 2018 1:30 PM

The reviews are in, and they’re ugly. Comedienne Michelle Wolf’s performance at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner drew scorn from both sides of the aisle. Conservatives were understandably aghast at Wolf’s vicious brand of humor.

 

NYT Beans John Bolton With Obsessive 'Hard-Liner' and 'Hawkish' Tags

Clay Waters
March 23rd, 2018 11:26 AM
The sudden, if not unexpected, appointment of John Bolton as President Trump’s national security adviser led the New York Times on Friday and the paper packed a year’s worth of predictable “hard-line” and “hawkish” labels in one edition. (The Times has used “hard-line” to describe Soviet Communists and Iranians who support the continuing Islamic death sentence against author Salman Rushdie, so it…
 

NYT Denigrates Trump’s Economic Adviser Pick Kudlow, ‘TV Commentator'

Clay Waters
March 15th, 2018 6:30 PM
The New York Times on Thursday dismissed Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s pick to head the National Economic Council (replacing Gary Cohn) in “President Picks TV Commentator as His Economic Adviser.” The conservative economist and associate director for economics and planning in President Reagan’s Office of Management and Budget was reduced to someone who Trump picked for his loyalty and Trump-…
 

NYT's Haberman Compares Wikileaks Harm of HRC Campaign to 9-11 Attacks

Clay Waters
February 20th, 2018 1:58 PM
Tuesday’s New York Times featured a humdrum personal profile of its own reporter, Maggie Haberman, whose only point of interest was an offensive comparison the White House reporter made between Michael Bloomberg’s 2001 run for mayor of New York City and Donald Trump’s run for president in 2016. In both cases, “an unprecedented form of terror in an election” resulted in an unlikely result. One was…
 
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CNN Trashes Trump Response to Shooting

Ryan Foley
February 15th, 2018 11:14 AM
It should not have taken a crystal ball to predict that the media would use the tragic school shooting in Florida as an opportunity to push for gun control. Not surprisingly, the anchors of CNN’s New Day spent a sizable portion of its Thursday morning broadcast acting as advocates for gun control.