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Nets More Terrified by Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ ‘Rhetoric’ Than North Korea

Kyle Drennen
August 9th, 2017 3:34 PM

On Wednesday, the network morning shows portrayed President Trump’s stern warning to North Korea as being more “dangerous” than the rogue authoritarian regime threatening the world with nuclear weapons. Going into full panic mode, hosts and correspondents warned viewers that Trump was “going to make a bad situation worse” with his “blistering rhetoric.”

 
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Nets Freak Over Climate Study, Trump’s ‘Lack of Curiosity’

Scott Whitlock
August 8th, 2017 3:29 PM
All three networks on Tuesday worried about Donald Trump’s “lack of curiosity” in the wake of a “startling” new climate change report. After discussing a draft report leaked to the New York Times, Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos sneered, “No word yet on whether they will suppress, dismiss, or endorse the report.” 
 
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Nets Aghast Trump Justice Dept. Protecting Rights of White Students

Kyle Drennen
August 2nd, 2017 11:30 AM
On Wednesday, the network morning shows were all deeply troubled by a New York Times report that the Trump Justice Department was preparing to defend the civil rights of white students applying to college. At the top of ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos sounded the alarm: “Breaking overnight, new reports the Trump administration is taking on Affirmative Action, preparing…
 
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Brokaw: Remember U.S. ‘Concentration Camps,’ ‘Especially These Days'

Kyle Drennen
August 1st, 2017 4:07 PM
On Tuesday’s NBC Today, while marking the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing a 1942 executive order to intern Japanese-American citizens in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, co-host Matt Lauer and special correspondent Tom Brokaw both described the internment locations as “concentration camps.” Brokaw also emphasized that it was important to remember that period in…
 
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NBC Fears: Has Trump ‘Damaged the Office of the President?’

Kyle Drennen
August 1st, 2017 11:31 AM
During an interview with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-hosts Matt Lauer and Hoda Kotb fretted that Donald Trump was single-handedly destroying the American presidency. Noting that Graham was an “outspoken critic” of the President, Kotb wondered: “What do you think the President could do starting today to regain your confidence?”
 
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NBC Sees ‘Win-Win’ for Putin; Warns Trump May Lie About Meeting

Kyle Drennen
July 7th, 2017 1:08 PM
Hours before President Trump sat down for a meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Germany on Friday, NBC’s Today had already decided that the sit-down would be a complete failure for the American commander-in-chief and an inevitable victory for the Russian dictator.
 
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CBS, NBC Rage Over Trump’s ‘Outrageous’ ‘Mortal Sin’ on Golf Course

Scott Whitlock
June 23rd, 2017 1:00 PM
The journalists at CBS and NBC have found a new Donald Trump “outrage” to hyperventilate over: The President drove his golf cart onto a green at one of the courses he owns. This, according to CBS This Morning guest host David Westin, is a “mortal sin.” Matt Lauer insisted he was “gasping” over video of Trump. 
 
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Lauer: Trump Guilty of ‘Emotional Definition’ of Obstruction?

Kyle Drennen
June 7th, 2017 11:52 AM
Matt Lauer is not a legal scholar, but apparently the morning show host likes to play one on TV. On Wednesday’s NBC Today, while lamenting reports that former FBI Director James Comey would not accuse President Trump of obstruction of justice during his congressional testimony on Thursday, Lauer still tried find a crime by absurdly claiming that Trump’s actions surrounding the Russia…
 
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NBC Promotes Anti-Gun Special From New Comedy Central Host

Kyle Drennen
June 6th, 2017 4:14 PM

At the end of Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer brought on comedian and newly-named Comedy Central late-night host Jordan Klepper to promote his upcoming one-hour special on the cable channel. Based on Klepper’s work routinely mocking gun-owners as a Daily Show correspondent and the trailer for the satirical documentary, viewers can probably expect another typical…

 
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Nets Thrilled U.S. Diplomat Resigned Over Trump Climate Decision

Kyle Drennen
June 6th, 2017 12:55 PM
On Tuesday, the network morning shows were delighted by the news that diplomat David Rank had resigned from his post as Acting U.S. Ambassador to China over President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate deal. Anchors touted the departure as “more fallout” from the White House rejecting the environmental agreement and evidence of a “revolt in the foreign service.”
 
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Today Show Panel Horrified at Trump ‘Blowing Up’ Climate Deal

Kyle Drennen
June 2nd, 2017 1:45 PM
The anchors and pundits on Friday’s NBC Today were beside themselves while decrying President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord. The morning show panelists employed alarmist rhetoric to denounce Trump for stopping “history” and “blowing up” the deal.
 
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Commerce Sec Calls Out Lauer’s Blatant Bias on Climate Deal

Kyle Drennen
June 2nd, 2017 10:28 AM
In a hostile interview with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer didn’t even bother to conceal his contempt for President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. In response, the cabinet official exposed the anchor’s liberal bias on the topic.
 
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NBC: Don’t Worry, ‘We’re Back to the Same Story Lines' on Russia

Kyle Drennen
May 30th, 2017 4:22 PM
Opening Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie assured their liberal viewers that with President Trump back from his overseas trip they were going to guarantee that the Russia investigation was the top headline. Guthrie welcomed the audience by announcing: “The President’s back from his overseas trip, but some of these same headlines persisting.”
 
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Matt Lauer Fears Trump Doesn’t Have ‘Gravitas’ to be President

Kyle Drennen
May 25th, 2017 1:07 PM
Interviewing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer tried to get the former Bush cabinet official to say that Donald Trump did not have the seriousness to be president: “You were here during the campaign and I asked you about Trump....And when I asked you did he have the gravitas to be commander-in-chief, you dodged it a little bit....you’ve now had…