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CBS Frets: ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in Fight Over Trump Travel Ban
February 6th, 2017 12:50 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday hyperventilated over conflicting rulings on Donald Trump’s travel ban, insisting that it’s a brewing “constitutional crisis.” At first, legal expert Rikki Klieman simply explained the normal process the travel ban would follow through the courts: “Whoever is going to lose here, whichever side, you could have the three-judge panel deciding one way or…
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CBS Lets 'So Smart' Liberal Lawyer Spin Gorsuch As Not 'Mainstream'
February 1st, 2017 1:31 PM
Wednesday's CBS This Morning turned to liberal attorney David Boies for his take on President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. However, the newscast failed to provide balance by bringing on a conservative legal expert. Boies twice asserted that Gorsuch was "not in...the mainstream of judicial thought." Anchor Norah O'Donnell later gushed over the "so smart" guest.
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Media Loathed Limbaugh vs. Obama in '09, Now Join Anti-Trump Pile On
January 26th, 2017 10:16 AM
Instead of scolding the divisive and unhelpful repudiation of a new President, the news media are enabling the sore-loser Left. But eight years ago, liberal journalists freaked out after Rush Limbaugh said of incoming President Barack Obama and his ardently liberal agenda: “I hope he fails.”
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CBS, NBC Scold Spicer for Trump’s ‘Battle’ With ‘Icon’ John Lewis
January 16th, 2017 5:37 PM
In back-to-back interviews with Donald Trump spokesman Sean Spicer on Monday, CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today grilled the incoming White House press secretary over the President-elect getting into a “battle” with “civil rights icon” John Lewis after the Democratic Congressman questioned the legitimacy of the election.
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CBS Grills Conway Over BuzzFeed's Unsubstantiated Trump Reporting
January 11th, 2017 1:57 PM
On Wednesday, CBS This Morning's anchors hounded Kellyanne Conway over an appendix to a recent intelligence report given to Donald Trump that supposedly highlighted Russia's attempts to compromise the President-Elect, as well BuzzFeed's unsubstantiated document dump related to it. Charlie Rose, Norah O'Donnell, and Gayle King repeatedly tried to get Conway to verify something that she wasn't…
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Kantor Lauds Obama's ‘Above the Fray, Unifying, Nonpartisan Tone'
January 9th, 2017 1:06 PM
Fresh off her glowing column on Sunday polishing First Lady Michelle Obama’s apple, author and New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor appeared on Monday’s CBS This Morning to similarly praise President Obama for being “a big believer in taking a kind of above the fray, unifying, nonpartisan tone.”
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After Ignoring Dem Corruption, Nets Fear GOP Will ‘Gut’ Ethics Panel
January 3rd, 2017 1:09 PM
Despite routinely ignoring Democratic corruption scandals, on Tuesday, the network morning shows were aghast that House Republicans dared to make bureaucratic changes to a congressional ethics panel, accusing the GOP of attempting to “gut” the investigative office.
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CBS Highlights ‘Violent Illness’ Caused By Marijuana Use
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December 29th, 2016 3:04 PM
CBS Evening News blunted marijuana's appeal after reporting how getting high could leave users violently ill. CBS has a history of touting marijuana as a medical “miracle” and economic “gold rush,” but on Dec. 28, the network hashed out the symptoms of a marijuana-induced illness called Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS).
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CBS Promotes Bernie Sanders's Slam of 'Reactionary' Trump Cabinet
December 21st, 2016 12:16 PM
Wednesday's CBS This Morning deemed a Facebook post from Senator Bernie Sanders worthy of a 55-second short report. Norah O'Donnell noted how the left-wing politician "criticized some of the Cabinet picks" from President-Elect Donald Trump. She quoted from Sanders, who asserted that "the American people are going to have to organize and fight back against this reactionary movement toward…
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ABC, NBC Yawn At Obama Setting Pardons Record; CBS Barely Covers
December 20th, 2016 12:24 PM
None of the Big Three networks' Monday evening newscasts, nor ABC and NBC's morning shows on Tuesday, covered how President Obama set a one-day record for pardons and commutations on Monday. ABC's GMA on Tuesday apparently thought Merriam-Webster's 2016 'Word of the Year' more important, as it devoted 45 seconds of air time to that story. The same morning, NBC's Today also didn't cover the…
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Nets Hype ‘Last-Ditch’ Liberal Push to Reverse Election Results
December 19th, 2016 1:16 PM
As members of the Electoral College were set to formally elect Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States on Monday, the network morning shows seized on left-wing efforts to pressure electors to reject the will of voters in their respective states and deny Trump the 270 votes necessary to win the presidency.
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Journalist on CBS: ‘Racialized’ GOP Opposed Obama From the Start
December 13th, 2016 2:27 PM
The hosts at CBS This morning on Tuesday brought on a fawning, pro-Barack Obama journalist to cement the legacy of the President. Atlantic national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates identified racism as a key reason for Republican resistance to Obama.
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Nets Hype ‘Diplomatic Firestorm’ After Trump’s ‘Controversial Call’
December 5th, 2016 12:28 PM
On Monday, the networks continued their freak-out over President-elect Donald Trump accepting a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan. The CBS, NBC, and ABC morning shows all fretted over the “diplomatic firestorm” sparked by the “controversial” move.
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Nets: Trump ‘Under Fire’ for ‘Pirate Yacht’ of ‘Wealthiest Cabinet'
December 1st, 2016 12:20 PM
On Thursday, all three network morning shows recited the same liberal, class-warfare attack lines in response to President-elect Donald Trump nominating billionaire Wilbur Ross for Commerce Secretary and Wall Street executive Steve Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary, fretting that the picks would create the “wealthiest cabinet in history.”