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ABC Brings on Lee to Tout Illegals: ‘I Call Them People Seeking Peace'
The liberal co-hosts of The View on Monday brought on far-left director Spike Lee to tout his new music video opposing the wall. Referring to illegals crossing the border as “people who are seeking peace,” Lee hyped the protest song he directed for the rock group The Killers. Of course, the women of The View asked no tough questions. Instead, Lee recounted going to the border as a caravan…
January 21st, 2019 1:41 PM
Lady Gaga Smears Mike Pence and His Family as ‘Disgrace’
Lady Gaga started off her new Las Vegas residency, dubbed “Enigma,” with a political bang. The famous avant-garde singer, now A-list actress, took time out of her Saturday show to blast Vice President Mike Pence as a “disgrace” to his Christianity, and complained to the crowd about the “fucking president” not getting the government back up and running.
January 21st, 2019 11:48 AM
ABC Admits ‘Rush to Judgement’ Over MAGA Hat Teens Viral Vid
ABC’s Good Morning America admitted Monday that the incident at the March for Life that went viral appearing to show Catholic teens in MAGA hats sneering at a Native American veteran, was taken out of context. However, ABC failed to acknowledge that their own network also slandered these kids with their hasty reporting based off of on one viral video.
January 21st, 2019 11:38 AM
Buzzfeed's Leopold Was Source for 2006 Fake News Rove Indictment Story
Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold along with Anthony Cormier broke the now increasingly discredited story that President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower project in Moscow. The story pretty much lost all credibility on Friday when Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team issued an unusual statement that the Buzzfeed story is "inaccurate."
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January 21st, 2019 9:44 AM
NYT Uses Distortions, Falsehoods to Link MLK to Anti-Israel Movement
Michelle Alexander, a new New York Times columnist, was given front page Sunday Review real estate for her 2,300-word screed offensively linking civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. to the Palestinian cause against Israel, in “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine -- Martin Luther King Jr. spoke bravely on Vietnam. We must do the same to meet this moral challenge.” But two sites that cover…
January 21st, 2019 9:36 AM
Tapper to Senator: If Trump's View Is 'Racist,' Were You Once Racist?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is facing a series of interviewers pressing her to account for being "too conservative" on immigration when she was in the House of Representatives. It happened on ABC yesterday, and it happened on CNN's State of the Union. Jake Tapper pressed her from the Left, but at least put a Trump needle in there:
January 21st, 2019 8:33 AM
Fox News Showcases Ex-Obama Border Chief Promoting Border Wall
This weekend, Fox News Channel again demonstrated that it is the only major news outlet to give attention to the case in favor of building President Donald Trump's border wall as Fox and Friends Saturday gave former Obama administration Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan a forum to argue in favor of building the wall, citing how much more effective walls are even if not 100 percent impenetrable.
January 21st, 2019 8:27 AM
NYT's Politicized TV: Brexit ‘Exploitation of Nativism and Bigotry'
Reading James Poniewozik’s New York Times review of Brexit, airing on HBO and starring Sherlock’s Benedict Cumberbatch as a consultant for the successful “Leave” movement, it’s clear he isn’t a fan of the choice British voters made in June 2016 (neither is anyone else at the paper). Poniewozik has a pattern of rating shows and movies based on how anti-Trump or politically correct they are.
January 20th, 2019 7:08 PM
Maher Calls Trump a Terrorist, 'Dangerous Menace'
After a two month-long hiatus, Real Time With Bill Maher returned to the airwaves Friday. This episode was true to form when it comes to Trump-bashing, with the eponymous host calling President Trump a “dangerous menace” and a “terrorist.” At the beginning of the show, Maher interviewed John Kasich; the former Republican Governor of Ohio who now works as a CNN Contributor. Maher repeatedly tried…
January 20th, 2019 6:20 PM
Reid Falsely Accuses GOP of Killing Immigration Reform in 2009
During special coverage of President Trump’s immigration speech on MSNBC Saturday, anchor Joy Reid interviewed former Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo. The discussion focused on President Trump’s immigration speech, with the two arguing about whether both sides or just Republicans deserve blame for the stalemate that led to a government shutdown. As she tried to make the case that…
January 20th, 2019 5:53 PM
Chuck Todd Irritated Dubious Buzzfeed Used to ‘Tar All Media’
In an outburst on Twitter on Saturday, NBC moderator Chuck Todd lashed out at “those trying to tar all media” with the dubious Buzzfeed story by suggesting they “aren’t interested in improving journalism but protecting themselves.” That irritation carried over to Sunday’s Meet the Press where he ended the show by decrying those people once again, despite “all media” pouncing on the now-debunked…
January 20th, 2019 4:21 PM
ABC Has No Women's March Query for Dems, GOP Hit on MAGA-Hat Teens
On ABC's This Week, host Martha Raddatz began the program with Democrat presidential aspirant Kirsten Gillibrand, but never asked her a single question about the Women's March controversies over anti-Semitism, even though she spoke on Saturday at a Women's March event in Des Moines. But Raddatz pressed Sen. Jim Lankford (R-Okla.) to denounce a viral video that alleged to show Catholic teenagers…
January 20th, 2019 4:10 PM
On CNN, Buzzfeed Defends Dubious Report With Shady Deflections
Buzzfeed News got into hot water over the weekend, after the Special Counsel’s Office issued a rare public rebuke regarding the outlet’s claim President Trump directed his attorney to lie to Congress. Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith and co-author of the dubious piece Anthony Cormier appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” to defend themselves and “to talk about process”, but what viewers got were shady…
January 20th, 2019 2:07 PM
Clueless: WashPost 'Fact Checker' Wants Real-Time TV Trump Rebuttals
On Friday, AP media reporter David Bauder reported on PolitiFact founder Bill Adair, now at Duke University, preparing technology for "real-time TV fact checks" during the 2020 campaign: "The TV product would call on a database of research from Politifact, Factcheck.org and The Washington Post to point out false or misleading statements onscreen." Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler tweeted Friday…
January 20th, 2019 11:40 AM