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Hume Unloads on Obama over Cable News/Terrorism Comment in NYT
Commenting on how The New York Times removed a phrase from a Friday article explaining how President Obama told a group of columnists that he hadn’t consumed enough cable news to fully understand the anxieties of Americans over terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Fox News Sunday panelist Brit Hume lambasted the President for his “snark” and frame of mind that makes him “impatient with the…
December 20th, 2015 3:49 PM
ABC’s Cokie Roberts Dismisses Bernie Hours After Praising Him
Hours after praising socialist Senator Bernie Sanders prior to ABC’s Democratic presidential debate on Saturday night, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts completely reversed course on Sunday’s This Week and brushed off Sanders as unelectable and having shot at the nomination even if he wins both the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in February 2016.
December 20th, 2015 2:36 PM
Traister: End of 'White Male Power' Causing 'Fury and Violence' in US
The current election campaign pits the forces of backlash (“the old and angry”) against the forces of frontlash (“the new and different”), and November’s vote will be “a referendum on the existence and civic participation of Americans who are not white men,” contended Traister in a Wednesday piece for New York magazine.
Traister posited that “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton…represent an altered…
December 20th, 2015 12:16 PM
AP's D'Innocenzio Makes Disappointing Online Sales Growth Seem Strong
What little remains of the economy's momentum appears to be riding on Christmas season consumer spending being perceived as strong. Unfortunately, it hasn't been.
Following up on her early Friday excuse-making for why things haven't gone too well at the malls so far — it's because the weather has just been too darned nice — Anne D'Innocenzio at the Associated Press worked over the available…
December 20th, 2015 10:57 AM
Noyes Joins FNC to Discuss Winners of MRC's Worst of the Worst Winners
On Saturday morning, MRC Research Director Rich Noyes joined co-host Tucker Carlson on the Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends to highlight a few winners from the 2015 edition of Notable Quotable’s Worst of the Worst, including overall winner MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry for her diatribe about the term “hard worker” having racist connotations.
December 20th, 2015 8:02 AM
Fail: MSNBC Skips Out on Airing Post-Democratic Debate Analysis
After airing an hour of coverage following the last Saturday night Democratic presidential debate on November 14, MSNBC skipped out on airing any post-debate analysis after Saturday’s third Democratic debate on ABC and instead played yet another episode of its weekend jail series Lockup.
December 19th, 2015 11:47 PM
ABC’s Raddatz Throws Softball to Hillary on First Spouses
In the final set of questions of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate prior to the closing statements, ABC’s co-moderator Martha Raddatz served up a massive softball to frontrunner Hillary Clinton concerning how former President Bill Clinton would function as a member of the First Family if Hillary is elected president.
December 19th, 2015 10:54 PM
Awkward: ABC Restarts Democratic Debate Without Hillary Onstage
In one of the more awkward and bizarre happenings you’ll see in a debate, Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate on ABC restarted without frontrunner Hillary Clinton following a commercial break and continued for over a minute until she returned to the stage.
December 19th, 2015 10:04 PM
Eleanor Clift Rushes to Defend First Amendment Rights of Jihadists
President Obama is doing all he can to prevent ISIS from propagandizing via the Internet, and Democrat presumptive heiress Hillary Clinton has a plan along the same lines, according to McLaughlin Group regular and Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift.
But when GOP candidate Donald Trump proposes much the same thing, albeit in a more aggressive Trumpesque manner, it's an all-out assault on the…
December 19th, 2015 9:28 PM
ABC Lets Stephanopoulos Host Pre-Debate; Teams w/Panel to Tout Hillary
Showing that they’ve learned next to nothing from the George Stephanopoulos/Clinton Foundation scandal, ABC allowed its chief anchor in Stephanopoulos to anchor its pre-game coverage of Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate. Not surprisingly, the former Clinton White House official teamed with DNC Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile to gush over how Hillary Clinton has “found her footing during the…
December 19th, 2015 9:00 PM
Jake Tapper: 'Absolutely' DNC Is Burying Debates to Help Hillary
CNN’s Jake Tapper hit the nail on the head when he said the reason the DNC has held a limited number of presidential debates is because of one reason – to protect and help Democratic presidential candidate frontrunner Hilary Clinton.
"I don't know anybody in Washington who disagree with that. The idea that the number of debates has been limited, and they’ve been scheduled on Saturday nights,…
December 19th, 2015 8:35 PM
NYT's Shows Sudden Respect for Paul Ryan for Big-Spending Budget
The lead story in Saturday's New York Times heaped praise upon the passage of a package of spending increases: “Avoiding Rancor, Congress Passes A Fiscal Package -- $1.8 Trillion Measure – Spending Rise and New Tax Breaks Suggest End of Austerity." This big-spending budget earned Ryan some strange new respect, with reporter David Herszenhorn praising his “deftness in pacifying rebellious…
December 19th, 2015 8:02 PM
ABC's Moderator David Muir: Suave, Debonair, Lighter Than Air
Since taking over the evening-news baton from Diane Sawyer, ABC anchorman David Muir has become known for a newscast that's tighter, brighter, and lighter -- or, just dumber. Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi noted Muir's newscast has a severe aversion to leading with international news when it can lead with, oh, thunderstorms.
His interviews have been the same. His interview a couple of…
December 19th, 2015 4:54 PM
Zakaria: Obama Thinks Cable News 'Massively Exaggerates' ISIS Threat
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, during a discussion of President Barack Obama's news conference, CNN's Fareed Zakaria downplayed the threat to the U.S. posed by ISIS as he forwarded the President's view that ISIS "does not pose an existential threat," noting that President Obama "often points out that gun violence takes many, many more people" in the U.S. than radical…
December 19th, 2015 4:26 PM