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Nets Hail Obama’s Commencement Cudgel, Look Forward to More Attacks

Kyle Drennen
May 18th, 2020 2:04 PM

On Sunday and Monday, all three broadcast networks cheered former President Obama’s decision to use a virtual commencement address as an opportunity to launch a nasty partisan attack against President Trump. Instead of criticizing such unseemly political rhetoric being used during a speech to students across the country in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, network anchors and reporters…

 
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Stephanopoulos Gets SCHOOLED on Administration’s Early COVID Response

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 17th, 2020 1:34 PM
In a feisty appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who has proudly described himself as a national quartermaster during the pandemic, took ABC chief anchor and Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos to school on how the Tump administration had responded in the early days of the pandemic. At one point, Stephanopoulos even seemed to concede that the facts…
 
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ABC Drama: Doctor Blames 'Anti-Choice' People for Hospital Bombings

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Karen Townsend
May 15th, 2020 1:02 AM
Never let an opportunity to bash pro-life people go to waste is the mantra of Hollywood. Even if the dialogue has to stretch to include an unfounded, nasty accusation by a medical doctor. ABC's Station 19 included a doctor saying "anti-choice" people bombed her hospital because she did embryonic stem-cell research to find a cure for lymphoma.
 
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Cognitive Dissonance: Nets Cause Unease With Conflicting COVID Reports

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 14th, 2020 9:48 PM

What makes a crisis, such as the one we’re all living through, worse is when the public gets mixed and/or conflicting messages about what to expect. This causes confusion and anxiety. And that’s exactly what the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC have been creating with the cognitive dissonance plaguing their evening news reports, which reach millions of people.

 
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Nets Ignore Radical Provisions in Dems' $3 Trillion Stimulus Package

Ryan Foley
May 14th, 2020 9:33 PM

All three of the morning news shows on the alphabet soup networks mentioned that House Democrats had unveiled a $3 trillion stimulus package that included economic relief for Americans facing economic hardship because of Coronavirus. All three reports made sure to mention that President Trump and/or the Republicans had vowed to block the bill. None of the reporters mentioned that radical…

 
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Nets Yawn as Blue California Is Shocked By Big GOP House Win

Scott Whitlock
May 14th, 2020 12:40 PM
Republicans scored a big win on Tuesday night, but you wouldn’t know it from most of the media. Former Navy pilot Mike Garcia flipped a blue congressional seat in California, turning the Democratic district red for the first time in over 20 years. Yet, the network newscasts skipped it on Wednesday night and again on Thursday morning. 
 
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Nets Tout Whistleblower Testifying Today, Ignore Dem Ally Ties

Kristine Marsh
May 14th, 2020 10:03 AM
ABC, NBC and CBS spent Thursday morning eagerly touting anti-Trump “whistleblower” Dr. Rick Bright testifying against the Trump administration on Capitol Hill today for their response to the coronavirus, but left out a crucial detail surrounding his testimony. Namely, that he was going to be questioned by a friendly Democrat ally, who’s district benefited financially from him.
 
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ABC/NBC Ignore Flynn Unmaskers Getting Exposed, CBS Defends Biden

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 13th, 2020 8:59 PM

While Wednesday's CBS Evening News was the only broadcast network to mention that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn's unmaskers had been exposed after two Republican senators released the evidence, anti-Trump White House correspondent Paula Reid downplayed the significance of the three-page list of names. She also stepped up to defend presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, whose name…

 

Study: Nets Bury Important Facts Corroborating Biden Sex Assault Claim

Scott Whitlock
May 13th, 2020 9:00 AM
After hiding the Joe Biden sexual assault story for weeks, the networks caved and finally reported the accusations by Tara Reade. But while the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening shows have now reluctantly covered the claim itself, they have ignored or downplayed important circumstantial evidence that corroborates Reade’s shocking allegation against the presumptive Democratic presidential…
 
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Kimmel Bashes 'Lunatics' Who Want Apology for Sketchy Pence Clip

Kristine Marsh
May 12th, 2020 3:39 PM
Instead of humbling himself after getting caught in a lie, what does late night host Jimmy Kimmel do? He doubles down and plays the victim instead. He opened his ABC show Monday night going on a nearly five minute rant against his critics on Twitter after they called him out for playing a deceptively edited clip of Vice President Mike Pence on his show last week.
 
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Biden Struggles With Flynn Questions on ABC, Barely Asked About Reade

Kyle Drennen
May 12th, 2020 11:37 AM
During an exclusive live interview on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday, Joe Biden struggled to answer surprisingly challenging questions from co-host George Stephanopoulos about the controversy swirling around the Michael Flynn case. Meanwhile, the presumptive Democratic nominee escaped the conversation with only 39 seconds spent on Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against him.
 
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NBC Calls Out Gov. Cuomo for Forcing COVID Patients into Nursing Homes

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 11th, 2020 9:15 PM
Denouncing it as “a path to disaster,” investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden’s Monday report for NBC Nightly News called out Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for forcing nursing homes in his state to take in coronavirus-positive patients just out of the hospital. On top of that, she pointed out how he had refused to give those facilities personal protective equipment (PPE). All of…
 
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Nets Seize on Obama Trashing Trump’s COVID Response

Kyle Drennen
May 11th, 2020 3:17 PM

On Friday, audio of former President Barack Obama blasting the Trump administration’s coronavirus response during a phone call trying to drum up support for the Biden campaign was leaked to Yahoo News. Over the weekend and through Monday morning, the three broadcast networks repeatedly hyped the nasty, partisan attack without one word of criticism for Obama’s unseemly rhetoric.

 
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Smackdown: Citing the MRC, McEnany Embarrasses the Liberal Media

Curtis Houck
May 8th, 2020 3:27 PM
Along with reporters donning masks (which led to muffled questions), Friday’s abbreviated White House Press Briefing was tough sledding for the liberal media. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany began her third briefing highlighting the Justice Department dropping the Michael Flynn case and citing NewsBusters before ending later with a zing to a perturbed Paula Reid from CBS.