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WH Reporters Advocate for Single-Payer Health Care, Push Hill Tweets
Wednesday’s White House press briefing didn’t feature CNN’s Jim Acosta, so his colleagues picked up the slack with lobbying efforts for single-payer health care, ensuring wealthy Americans don’t get tax cuts, and anti-Trump comments by ESPN’s Jemele Hill. Los Angeles Times reporter Noah Bierman got the ball rolling on single-payer health care, asking Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders what…
MSNBC Hosts Gush Over 'True Champion' LGBT Activist, Suggest 'Statue'
On Wednesday's MSNBC Live with Velshi and Ruhle, the two MSNBC hosts ended their show by lavishing over the top praise on a gay rights activist -- Edith Windsor -- who passed away and is credited with helping to legalize same-sex marriage in the U.S. The two recommended that a "statue" or a "monument" be built in her honor, and Stephanie Ruhle lauded her as a "true, true champion" and declared…
Nothing to See: CBS, PBS Skip Dem ID for Sex Abuse Claims Against Lib
Time for another edition of Name That Party! Seattle’s liberal Democrat Mayor Ed Murray resigned on Tuesday after five people accused him of sex abuse. Unsurprisingly, CBS and PBS avoided identifying the progressive politician as a Democrat. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie, however described him as a “Democrat” and “vocal critic of Donald Trump.”
Singer Slams Hollywood for Pushing Abortion, Planned Parenthood
As many in Hollywood unabashedly support the abortion industry, one artist is setting herself apart by challenging the narrative. In a recent interview with MRC Culture, Kaya Jones of the Pussycat Dolls described Hollywood’s push of abortion as showing “how evil our world has become.”
NBC Reporter Wanted to Throw Up After Trump Won
“The room goes wavy. My stomach churns. I can feel the bile in the back of my throat.” That reaction to Donald Trump winning the 2016 election didn’t come from Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, it came from the pages of NBC correspondent and MSNBC anchor Katy Tur’s book about covering the campaign.
Hurricane Devastation Gives Firms Chance to Show Capitalism Has Heart
Horrible disasters like the recent Category-4 Hurricanes Harvey and Irma focus attention on heart-wrenching stories of lost lives, near misses and property destroyed in the storm or ravaged by looters. They also have an uncanny way of illustrating the many people who will pull together in a crisis and how the benefits of capitalism are often used to help those in need.
Can It Be? NPR Gives Hillary (Comparably) Tough Book Interview
In a metaphorical Candy Land of sugary interviews, Hillary Clinton seems to have stumbled into one media outlet that just had to make her uncomfortable. It was NPR, and Morning Edition anchor Rachel Martin. Martin asked, just for starters, about how many young women didn't vote Clinton, "which is presumably not a sexist choice."
Behar Tells Clinton She Mourned Election: 'Felt Like I Lost a Friend'
September 13 on ABC’s The View, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made her first talk show appearance since the election ten months ago, to promote her recently released memoir, What Happened. She sat at the table for over 40 minutes, fielding mostly friendly questions from the hosts. Host Joy Behar even revealed when Clinton lost the election, she felt like a friend had died and “…
Rapper Sings About Trump and Assassinations: ‘Wyclef for President’
Artists are more than willing to jump on the political train to make a buck these days. Trump, presidents, politics, these are all dollar signs to singers and actors alike. After a long hiatus spend dabbling in Haitian politics, singer and rapper Wyclef Jean made a return to the stage to sing once again. Only this time, it was the Salon stage, and this time, he sang a song called “If I Was…
When Will Networks Discover Columbus Monument Vandalism?
Clearly, it’s a bad time to be a dauntless Italian navigator whose explorations led directly to the founding of the greatest nation and force for good the world has ever known. More specifically, it’s a bad time to be a monument to that intrepid seaman.
Priorities: NBC Silent on Menendez Bribery, Hypes Cruz Twitter ‘Like'
What’s more important? A staff member for a Republican senator apparently “liking” a pornographic tweet on Twitter or a Democratic senator on trial for bribery and corruption, facing possible resignation and years in prison? If you answered with the first option, then you might work for NBC News.
Today Hosts Coddle Clinton: ‘How’s Your Pain?’
In a friendly softball chat with Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, NBC’s Today show co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer did their best to feel the pain of the failed Democratic presidential nominee, even calling her new book about the 2016 campaign a “literary cleanse” designed to heal the wounds of her defeat.
Robert Redford to Esquire: Trump Is ‘Our Fault,’ Worse ‘Than Nixon’
Starring in movies about politics allegedly gives celebrities a political background. At least, that’s what Robert Redford thought in his latest interview.
Lauer Asks Hillary: Do You Think Trump ‘Stole the Election’?
During an exclusive live interview with Hillary Clinton on Wednesday’s NBC Today to promote her new book about the 2016 presidential campaign, co-host Matt Lauer was eager to enable her to keep making excuses for her loss to Donald Trump. He urged the failed Democratic nominee to go further than she had in the memoir and say that Trump “stole the election.”