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The Press Mocked the Reagans' Love For Each Other
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan died today.
The Associated Press's Christopher Weber, in an otherwise predictably passive-aggressive obituary, got one thing right: "The Reagans' mutual devotion over 52 years of marriage was legendary." How nice of him to acknowledge that now. The fact is that while it was visible during Ronald Reagan's presidency, everyone with eyes to see could recognize the…
MSNBC Uses Reagan to Spank GOP, Wanted to 'End' Cold War 'Not to Win'
As former Newsweek editor-in-chief Evan Thomas appeared as a guest on MSNBC Sunday to discuss former First Lady Nancy Reagan's passing, host Chris Matthews and Thomas used Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon to chastise the current Republicans for being too unwilling to compromise.
After Thomas asserted that Reagan and Nixon "are rolling over in their graves" and recalled that Nancy…
Cruz Shreds Media for Wanting ‘Coronation’ of Trump as GOP Nominee
Republican presidential candidate and Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) sat for an interview with CBS’s John Dickerson Friday afternoon in National Harbor, Maryland that aired on Face the Nation. Cruz lambasted the media for “hav[ing] a coronation” of Donald Trump as the GOP nominee so he could be viciously defeated by Hillary Clinton in November.
Ex-NY Times Editor: I'm Against 'Loaded Language' in Trump Stories
It's not every day that your hear a leader of the liberal media declare that they oppose "loaded language" in news stories, especially in The New York Times. On Wednesday's All Things Considered, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik explored how lefty sites like Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post openly declare Donald Trump is a liar, racist, and xenophobe. Former Times executive editor Jill…
Hillary Shocks Dickerson With Support for Staffer Being Given Immunity
During her lone Sunday morning talk show interview one day after Super Saturday, Hillary Clinton shocked CBS’s Face the Nation host John Dickerson when she exclaimed how she’s “delighted” that former State Department staffer Bryan Pagliano has been granted immunity to cooperate with the FBI’s investigation of her private e-mail server. Dickerson initially asked part way through the interview…
CNN's Kohn Claims Trump Will Put People in 'Internment Camps'
Appearing as a panel member for CNN's live election coverage on Saturday, liberal CNN political commentator and Daily Beast columnist Sally Kohn hyperbolically predicted that a President Donald Trump would put people in "internment camps" and get rid of habeas corpus when it was her turn to give final thoughts on the day's news.
'Journalists' Deserve Most of the Blame for Newsroom Shrinkage
Columbia Journalism professor Dale Maharidge has produced a lengthy lament about the state of print and newsroom journalism, and how hard it's been on those forced out of their jobs. It's present online at The Nation, one of the far-left's flagships, and at BillMoyers.com, the web site of the former Johnson administration press secretary. The delusional Moyers believes that "We have an…
Nazi Card: David Brooks Suggests Trump Staging 'Nuremberg Rallies'
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, is it fair to play the full Nazi card against him? David Brooks--the fellow who was so impressed by the crease in Obama's pants--apparently thinks so.
On today's Meet the Press, commenting on images of Trump supporters at a rally responding to his request to raise their right hands to pledge to vote for him, Brooks said "if we're going to get Trump, we might…
PBS Host Tavis Smiley: 'Blacks Could Still Hire Trump'
PBS talk show host and liberal political commentator Tavis Smiley penned an op-ed in USA Today on Friday taking issue with “conventional wisdom” that Hillary Clinton had the black vote on lockdown, despite her many victories on Super Tuesday. "Blacks could still hire Trump" was the provocative headline in the paper.
Smiley cautioned that even though Clinton has received some pretty big…
Press Euphoria Over Jobs Report Blows Off Lower Hourly Pay, Earnings
The press is mostly thrilled over yesterday's Employment Situation Summary from the government, which reported that the unemployment rate stayed at 4.9 percent and that the economy added 242,000 seasonally adjusted payroll jobs. President Barack Obama took the opportunity to take what CNBC's Jeff Cox described as "a victory lap ... in Friday remarks to the media."
Well, why not? Obama was secure…
The Ruling Class Romneys and the Media
Mitt Romney's condemnation of Donald Trump sounds a lot like his dad George's condemnation of Barry Goldwater.
NYT Tears Into GOP Field as Racist, Extremist 'Monster in the Mirror'
The New York Times on Friday and Saturday let its readers know that the Republicans were getting what they deserved for pandering to right-wing extremism and xenophobia, while Hillary Clinton had successfully gained the sensible center. Friday’s lead editorial, “The G.O.P.’s Monster in the Mirror,” began with a little implied Trumpian vulgarity, then smeared the two Republican senators in the…
Rubio Tangles with CNN’s Bash in CPAC Q&A over Media's Trump Craze
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Senator Marco Rubio (Fl.) brought the boisterous crowd at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to their feet early Saturday afternoon and tangled with CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash as she spent large portion of the question and answer session harping on Donald Trump and the campaign’s rhetoric.
New Yorker Writer to ‘Rational’ Conservatives: Vote For Hillary!
Adam Gopnik has some advice for “rational or far-sighted conservatives”: since it’s too late to deny the Republican presidential nomination to “the monster they’ve created,” Donald Trump, they shouldn’t hesitate to support the “reasonable, experienced mainstream centrist,” Hillary Clinton.
Of course, Gopnik doesn’t think that’s likely to happen. He wrote in a Thursday post, “At this moment when…