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FLASHBACK: 4 Years, 4 Worst Political Moments at the Oscars
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February 7th, 2020 8:47 AM
Along with the red carpet, Best Picture, and the Oscar itself, the annual Academy Awards has become synonymous with left-wing political speeches and grandstanding. Since 2016, MRC Culture's On TV blog has covered the Oscars in all its liberal glory, from the anti-Trump opening monologue jokes to the activist acceptance speeches.
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ABC Rips 'New Low' and 'Crossing a Line' in Politicians Mocking Faith
February 6th, 2020 4:14 PM
Rampant editorializing broke out at ABC News after their live coverage of President Trump’s remarks about his acquittal on Thursday. Inside the White House, reporter Jon Karl described Trump’s remarks as “incredibly vicious” and “very personal.” Then anchor Tom Llamas played competing clips of President Trump and Speaker Pelosi criticizing each other about prayers and their sincerity. Llamas set…
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NBC Lauds Romney: ‘President of the Republican Resistance’ to Trump
February 5th, 2020 9:36 PM
Following his vote to convict President Trump on the impeachment charge of abuse of power, which ultimately failed, NBC Nightly News made their feelings clear and gave Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) a hero’s welcome. In back-to-back segments, they praised him for “voting his conscience over his party” and dubbed him “the president of the Republican resistance to Donald Trump.”
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ABC Hypes ‘Horrified’ Democrats 'Held Hostage’ by Trump’s SOTU
February 5th, 2020 9:57 AM
Just like their cable news peers, ABC chose to complain about President Trump’s State of the Union address last night, instead of celebrate it. On Good Morning America Wednesday, anchor George Stephanopoulos and chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl recounted the national address entirely from the perspective of the Democrats, serving up judgement only for President Trump and Republicans…
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ABC: Trump Honoring ‘Divisive,’ ‘Racist’ Limbaugh Undercuts Airmen
February 5th, 2020 6:30 AM
With NBC need of a panic room on Tuesday night after President Trump’s State of the Union and CBS needing a thank you card from Trump, ABC came down closer to the peacock network. For ABC, they repeatedly harped on the “political” President honoring the “controversial and divisive” and “racist” Rush Limbaugh to what they deemed a slap in the face to the Tuskegee Airmen Trump hailed earlier in…
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ABC, NBC Omit New Poll Showing Trump Approval Spike to Record High
February 4th, 2020 9:19 PM
Ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, Gallup, a polling service often cited by the media, released their latest findings that showed the President’s approval rating hitting a new record high of 49 percent (highest ever from Gallup), despite the impeachment trial. It was an inconvenient truth that ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News refused to report during…
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Watch: Frustrated Media SHRED Democrats Over ‘Epic Failure’ in Iowa
February 4th, 2020 2:13 PM
The TV news media have declared the Iowa Democratic Caucus a disaster, after a series of technical failures prevented the Democratic Party from being able to determine a winner. Across cable and broadcast networks Tuesday morning, a throng of overtired journalists laid into the DNC with a combination of frustration, confusion, and relentless mockery.
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Impeachment Gets 77x More TV Time than Economic Successes
February 4th, 2020 9:25 AM
According to a new Media Research Center study, for each minute the broadcast evening newscasts spent talking about the President’s successful economic programs, viewers heard 77 minutes about the Democrats’ impeachment push, a massive disparity. Overall, coverage of the President was 93% negative during the last four months, reaching 95% negative in January 2020.
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Nets Hype Schiff's 'Warning' to GOP, Ignore His Conspiracy Theories
February 3rd, 2020 9:28 PM
Monday was the final day of the Senate’s impeachment trial before Wednesday’s likely acquittal of President Trump. As such, the Democratic impeachment managers were pulling out all the stops, putting out every argument they had no matter how crazy. One claim by Congressman Adam Schiff (CA) suggested if they didn’t remove Trump from office, he might sell Alaska back to Russia. Despite his unhinged…
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Desperate ABC Pushes for Senate to Censure Trump Over Ukraine Call
February 3rd, 2020 3:18 PM
As the media’s hysteria died down Monday, over the Senate's “no witnesses” vote, President Trump's impending acquittal approaches, deflating the media’s hopes and dreams. ABC News broke in midday today, during a break of the trial, to tout their wish that more punishment would come to President Trump, through a Senate censure.
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TV Buries 2020 Dems Under Avalanche of Impeachment News
February 3rd, 2020 8:55 AM
In the liberal media’s zeal to cover House Democrats’ push to impeach President Trump, the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential candidates — and the radical policies of their frontrunners — have all but disappeared from TV news. A Media Research Center study found the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts spent 236 minutes in January covering impeachment, compared vs. 88 minutes on the Democratic…
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ABC Fears Trump Post-Acquittal, He ‘Has Not Escaped This Issue’
February 2nd, 2020 10:47 AM
As ABC News was wrapping up the politics segment of Sunday’s Good Morning America, co-anchor Dan Harris and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos shared their deep-seated fears of how President Trump would govern after his likely impeachment acquittal on Wednesday. “Assuming that he is acquitted, which it looks like he certainly will be, what kind of impact do you think that will have on his…
ABC's Top Analyst: One Big Impeachment Loser Is 'Checks and Balances'
February 2nd, 2020 8:48 AM
On Saturday's Good Morning America, ABC chief political analyst Matthew Dowd was asked about political winners and losers of impeachment, and the former Bush pollster insisted one of the big losers was "the constitutional system of checks and balances."
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FLASHBACK: Super Bowl Softballs for Obama; Hardballs for Trump
February 1st, 2020 2:15 PM
Just prior to the Patriots facing off against the Rams in Super Bowl LIII, Donald Trump will talk to CBS journalist Margaret Brennan during the pregame show. It’s his second as President since talking to Fox's Bill O’Reilly for the 2017 Super Bowl (skipping it in 2018). For most of Barack Obama’s eight years, he had the luxury of softball interviews with liberal journalists. (Except in 2011 and…
