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Steele Dossier Revelation: Vox Throws Hillary Under the Bus
With the revelation yesterday in the Washington Post that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC paid for the research that resulted in the infamous Steele (aka "Golden Showers") dossier that contained allegations of supposed ties between Donald Trump's campaign and the Kremlin, it will be interesting to see what the reaction will be from liberal media outlets. In the case of Vox, we didn't…
October 25th, 2017 11:50 AM
Bias: 1,000 Minutes for Trump/Russia vs. 20 Seconds for Hillary/Russia
Here’s one top takeaway from network news coverage in 2017: Sneaky Russian influence in American politics is a huge story if it involves Republicans/Donald Trump, but a non-story if it involves Democrats/Hillary Clinton. From January 20 through October 20, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts have aired 1,000 minutes of coverage of the Trump/Russia/collusion conspiracy theories; since The Hill…
October 25th, 2017 11:27 AM
ABC Gives Just Seconds to Clinton Dossier, Spent 10 Minutes on Don Jr.
Wednesday morning, all three networks covered the damning revelations that broke last night, revealing the Clinton campaign and DNC paid for the controversial Russian “dossier” released just days before Trump’s inauguration. While CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today show gave full reports to the serious topic, ABC’s Good Morning America only devoted a few seconds to the story, as an end to another…
October 25th, 2017 11:23 AM
NYT Hails Flake’s Lashing of Coarse Trump, Hunts for More GOP Rebels
The media-friendly spectacle of retiring Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake taking to the Senate floor to denounce Trump unleashed a predictable chorus of reportorial hosannas, including two front-page stories and a full-story excerpt from Flake's speech in Wednesday’s New York Times. Also on the Times' front page, congressional reporter Carl Hulse eagerly took up a search for more anti-Trump…
October 25th, 2017 11:20 AM
Lauer to Flake: Wouldn’t Country Be Better Off if Hillary Won?
During an interview with Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake about his harsh criticism of President Trump, on Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if, for the sake of “protecting democracy,” it would have been better for Hillary Clinton to have won the 2016 election.
October 25th, 2017 11:04 AM
Rob Reiner About Trump: ‘I Just Want Him to Go Away’
When Meathead isn’t pushing Russian conspiracy theories on news networks, he spends his free time … complaining about Donald Trump.
So in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actor, director, and liberal megaphone tried to link his latest film, LBJ, to his feelings on Trump and conservatives. When Ashley Lee asked him if he would ever direct a Trump movie, Reiner responded, “No, I don’t…
October 25th, 2017 9:21 AM
Racist Mayor Wants to Make America Great Again on BET's 'Tales'
BET’s Tales is described as a scripted anthology series of "song stories," that uses hip-hop song lyrics to create mini movies. The October 24 episode titled “99 Problems” is based on the lyrics of a Jay-Z song and boy does it have problems!
October 25th, 2017 7:30 AM
Nazis, Incest & Abortion: A Jam-Packed 'American Horror Story'
With storylines about gender-curious gerbils and killer clowns, American Horror Story: Cult has been pretty off-the-wall but, in the October 24 episode "Winter of Our Discontent," they managed to go off the deep end. The episode had everything, from a Nazi cop, to an incestual threesome, to a woman bleeding to death from an abortion.
October 25th, 2017 2:23 AM
CW's 'Legends of Tomorrow' Introduces Muslim Superhero
Not wanting to be outdone by its fellow DC program Supergirl, CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has apparently decided to jump on the political train by introducing a new character to their cast: a Muslim hactivist from a dystopian future. If you think that’s a load of political posturing, then you would be right.
October 25th, 2017 1:29 AM
ABC Comedy Celebrates 'Mighty' Maxine Waters 'Reclaiming Her Time'
ABC’s The Mayor continues to lower my expectations by falling from a semi-decent comedy to another run-of-the-mill left-leaning political sideshow. Just when it manages to be passable, the show reminds me just what side of the political spectrum they cater for weekly. This time, it’s a costumed appearance of people’s favorite “new” member of the Resistance Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
October 25th, 2017 12:10 AM
Nets Fawn Over Retiring Flake, Downplay Likely Re-Election Loss
The longtime critic of President Trump, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake announced his retirement on the Senate Floor Tuesday in a spectacle targeting the President and designed to get the media all hot and bothered. After he called Trump "reckless, outrageous and undignified” all of the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) gleefully led their evening newscasts with the GOP infighting as they fawned…
October 25th, 2017 12:00 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: Media Skip Inconvenient Russian Truths
CNN is airing a bizarre new advertisement with the motto “Facts First,” but our “news” networks don’t deal first with facts. They sell us narratives, and their favorite is the wild speculation about what might happen next...to President Trump. The ABC, CBS, and NBC evening-news shows along have devoted 1,000 minutes to Trump's alleged collusion with Russia. But now, as real evidence breaks of…
October 24th, 2017 11:20 PM
'Blackish' Says Donald Trump 'Failed,' Has 'No Friends'
Family game night turns political on the October 24 episode of ABC's Blackish, "Advance to Go (Collect $200)," when Dre (Anthony Anderson) starts winning big and alienates the rest of the family.
October 24th, 2017 11:19 PM
ABC Breaks Clinton-Uranium Silence, Downplays House Investigation
ABC’s World News Tonight was the first network in the Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to break the broadcast news TV blackout and run some form of report for the Hillary Clinton-Uranium One scandal on Tuesday. Unfortunately, it was merely a news brief that lasted 20-seconds and wrote off the newly announced congressional investigation as “baloney.”
October 24th, 2017 9:37 PM