Blackish & Bluish: ABC Comedy Hits Blue-Collar Workers After Election
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November 10th, 2016 2:22 AM
Though they may not have known it, Blackish just tackled one of the biggest issues surrounding the election: the blue-collar worker. Of course, I believe it was probably all a coincidence, but it actually is funny how it worked out - and I don’t say that often about ABC shows.
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'Speechless' Promotes Sexting for Minors
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November 10th, 2016 1:38 AM
ABC seems to have a fascination with sexualizing kids lately. In Wednesday night’s episode “D-a-t-e-Date?” on ABC’s Speechless, Ray (Mason Cook) organizes a boys’ night after a girl breaks his heart. When his mother (Minnie Driver) embarrasses him, the only way he can get back in with the guys is to show a fake picture of his nipple, pretending it is his girlfriend’s.
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Rattled Joy Behar: 'The View' Is the Only ‘Check’ on President Trump!
November 9th, 2016 4:32 PM
A clearly rattled Joy Behar on Wednesday reacted to the election of Donald Trump as President by declaring, seriously, that The View will be the only remaining check on the businessman’s total power. She began by inaccurately stating, “What scares me the most... is that not since George W. Bush has there been a White House, a Senate and a House of Representatives all from the same party.” (Barack…
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ABC’s Martha Raddatz Gets Emotional as She Bashes Trump
November 9th, 2016 2:45 AM
ABC News journalist Martha Raddatz on election night struggled to not get emotional as the night got worse for Hillary Clinton. Speaking of Trump on foreign policy, her voice quivered, “I was also looking back [voice breaks] at an interview Tim Kaine gave. Tim Kaine has a son in the Marine Corps. He was asked, by John Dickerson, ‘So if Donald Trump is democratically elected, and your son is…
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ABC’s Gibson: Trump Is ‘Toxic,’ Should Learn to Apologize from Hillary
November 8th, 2016 8:06 PM
Minutes after the first polls closed on election night Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos kicked it over to ABC’s “former leader” Charlie Gibson for his take on the election. After poking fun at the former ABC anchor for how long he had been cover politics, Gibson let it all out. “You know, what's dismaying, George, … I haven't seen much majesty in this campaign,” he whined to Stephanopoulos.
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Evening News Nets Marvel at Tears for Hillary, Glass Ceiling Breaking
November 8th, 2016 7:37 PM
The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were all live at 6:30 p.m. Eastern leading into their Election Night coverage and predictably, they were already giddy at scenes of Hillary supporters crying and the Clinton campaign’s election night event featuring a glass ceiling.
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CNN Presses Kaine on Hillary's Divisive Rhetoric; ABC, CBS Go Soft
November 8th, 2016 5:19 PM
CNN's Alisyn Camerota one-upped her Big Three network peers on Tuesday's New Day by pressing Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine over running mate Hillary Clinton's not having a "message of unity" during their campaign. Camerota played a clip of Mrs. Clinton claiming she will "be a president for all Americans" and wondered, "Why hasn't Hillary Clinton been hitting that message harder…
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Nets Hail Hillary Voting: Time to See if Her ‘Dream Comes True’
November 8th, 2016 2:10 PM
On Tuesday, the broadcast networks lead off their Election Day coverage by gushing over Hillary Clinton casting her ballot in Chappaqua, New York. The 8:00 a.m. ET breaking news coverage on the CBS, ABC, and NBC morning shows celebrated the “momentous moment” in which the Democratic nominee would find out if her “dream” of being president “comes true.”
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Stephanopoulos Badgers Conway on Clinton E-Mails; Goes Soft On Mook
November 7th, 2016 5:17 PM
On Monday's GMA, ABC's George Stephanopoulos hounded Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on James Conway announcing that the FBI would not change its findings on the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. The Clinton Foundation donor wondered, "Do you accept [Comey's] finding now?" Stephanopoulos also played up that Comey "said that no reasonable prosecutor would bring the case, and the…
Local TV Reporters Fired After Partying at Hillary-Jay Z Rally
November 7th, 2016 3:52 PM
Last week when rap star Jay Z held serve at a concert in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena in hopes of spurring a big voter turnout of millennials and African-Americans for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, local ABC affiliate WEWS Good Morning Cleveland anchor Jackie Fernandez and meteorologist Somara Theodore not only waited in line on company time, but blasted photographs of their…
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Nets Cheer Clinton ‘Cleared’ by FBI; Fear ‘Damage’ Already Done
November 7th, 2016 12:55 PM
On Monday, the network morning shows were simultaneously giddy with excitement over FBI director James Comey “clearing” Hillary Clinton by closing the bureau’s investigation into her email scandal while also being fearful over the “political damage” that had been done to the Democratic nominee in the final days of the campaign.
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Like Mother, Like Daughter? Nets Censor Chelsea’s Corruption
November 7th, 2016 12:02 PM
Like the old saying goes: The apple doesn’t far fall from the tree. According to new e-mails released by WikiLeaks, both Chelsea Clinton and her husband Mark Mezvinsky leveraged the Clinton Foundation for personal gain. Number of seconds devoted to these scandals by the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks? 0
MRC’s Notable Quotables: Justifying Media Hostility to Trump
November 7th, 2016 9:30 AM
In the November 7 edition of Notable Quotables: The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank blasts that Donald Trump has “threatened democracy” and therefore any sort of press “neutrality” on the GOP nominee would be legitimizing “the illegitimate.” NBC’s Chuck Todd and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos get put on the defensive by Trump and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Also in this issue: a freelance…
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ABC, NBC: Clinton Corruption Charge Overused and Thrown Around a Lot
November 6th, 2016 1:20 PM
With Election Day just two days away, both ABC and NBC seemingly continued to try to slow Hillary Clinton’s descent in the polls, Sunday, by downplaying all the talk surrounding multiple FBI investigations into her activities. On ABC's This Week, Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos tried to shutdown such talk from Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus by flippantly declaring, “You're just…