'Stupid Fact Checks': NBC, USAT Hit Trump's 'Acid Wash' References

October 10th, 2016 10:08 PM
Former late-night TV host David Letterman was famous for his entertaining and fun "Stupid Pet Tricks" segments. In the current presidential election cycle, the press, while claiming that Donald Trump and his campaign lie so often that the backlog of required genuine fact-checking on important matters is sky-high, is instead engaging in a non-entertaining, not at all fun effort known as "Stupid…
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NBC, CBS Grill Trump Campaign Chief on Inviting Clinton Accusers

October 10th, 2016 12:33 PM
On Monday, the hosts on NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning demanded Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway explain herself for daring to invite Bill Clinton’s sexual assault accusers to Sunday night’s debate. By contrast, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook got nothing but softballs tossed his way on the same morning shows.
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Double Standard? NBC Employs Trump, Bush For Years After 2005 Exchange

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October 10th, 2016 11:52 AM
The fallout from the Trump’s lewd video continues to impact NBC. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported on Oct. 11, that a source from NBC’s Today said host Billy Bush’s firing is imminent and a matter of “when,” not “if.” Neither Trump nor Bush were forced by the network to leave in 2005 for the explicit conversation. NBC continued to work with Trump for nearly a decade and eventually promoted Bush from…
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NBC, ABC Interrogate Clinton Accuser: Aren’t You Just a Trump ‘Prop’?

October 10th, 2016 9:23 AM
Immediately following Sunday night’s presidential debate, ABC and NBC set about trying to discredit Bill Clinton’s sexual assault accusers who attended the event as guests of Donald Trump. In a clip aired on ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, correspondent Tom Llamas grilled former Clinton White House aide Kathleen Willey backstage: “Do you think Donald Trump used you as a political prop today…
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Schieffer, Mitchell Bemoan Debate: 'How Have We Come to This?'

October 10th, 2016 3:13 AM
After a presidential primary in which the major broadcast networks assigned more than a lion’s share of coverage to Donald Trump overtopping his opponents, the lack of self-awareness following Sunday’s presidential debate was palpable as two network veterans bemoaned “how have we come to this” with so much “venom” between Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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CBS, NBC Duck Vulgar Tweet by Clinton Aide in Post-Debate Coverage

October 10th, 2016 1:10 AM
Aside from the fireworks inside the debate hall at Sunday’s second presidential debate, one campaign controversy that bubbled up that CBS and NBC refused to acknowledge in their post-debate analysis was a tweet from a Hillary Clinton campaign aide telling Donald Trump to “go fuck [himself]” regarding his treatment of the Khan family.

103 Minutes for Trump Tape, Just 8 for Hillary's Wall St. Speeches

October 9th, 2016 8:18 PM
An MRC analysis of the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows from Friday evening, October 7 through Sunday evening, October 9, found a whopping 103 minutes of airtime devoted to audio recordings of Donald Trump talking about his attempted sexual conquests, but less than eight minutes spent on speech excerpts showing Hillary Clinton boasting in her speeches to big Wall Street banks that…
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Chuck Todd Denies Hillary Attacked Bill's Sex Assault Victims

October 9th, 2016 4:09 PM
Viewers of Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC could witness the recurring elephant in the room with regard to the Clintons that journalists repeatedly try to tamp down, in the form of Hillary Clinton's reported history of threatening and trying to discredit women who have made sexual assault accusations against her husband. Liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus tried to minimize the issue to…
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ABC Censors 'Embarrassing' Leaks of Hillary Clinton Speeches

October 8th, 2016 9:13 PM
ABC's morning and evening newscasts, as of Saturday morning, have yet to report on the Friday release of purported excerpts from some of Hillary Clinton's speeches to corporate audiences. The same programs on Friday evening and Saturday morning hyped the vulgar Donald Trump audio from 2005. By contrast, Friday's CBS Evening News mentioned how the website Wikileaks "published...some embarrassing…
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Nets Push Clinton Effort to Exploit Hurricane for Political Gain

October 7th, 2016 11:46 AM
On Friday, all three network morning shows dutifully advanced concerns from Hillary Clinton’s campaign that Hurricane Matthew could impact voter registration in Florida and touted the Democratic nominee’s demand that the state’s deadline for registration be extended to help her get more support at the ballot box in November.
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Transgender 'Woman' Has Prostate Cancer on NBC’s ‘Chicago Med’

Culture
October 7th, 2016 4:06 AM
In an odd bit of déjà vu, NBC’s medical drama Chicago Med used the exact same transgender storyline in Thursday night’s episode as viewers saw the day before on CBS’s Code Black. Alexandra Grey, a transgender woman in real life, is certainly cashing in on Hollywood’s latest cause – making being transgender seem normal. Ironically these episodes have shown transgenders to be very unhealthy.
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Supersnore: Gun Owners and Christian Conservatives Spoofed Again

Culture
October 7th, 2016 3:48 AM
Well, it’s no surprise NBC’s Superstore continues to push left-wing themes throughout their second season. What was impressive was how they covered so much in tonight’s episode, "Guns, Pills and Birds," in so little time. Buckle up, folks, this one’s a doozy.
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Meyers Gushes to Chelsea: 'Your Family Has Been Attacked For So Long'

October 6th, 2016 3:03 PM
For the second night this week, NBC has played nice with Hillary Clinton’s daughter, while not giving the same treatment to Donald Trump’s children. It started on Saturday Night Live, when Chelsea was noticeably missing from a political skit while Trump’s children were shown as creepy “Children of the Corn.” On Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, the former SNL comedian continued the…
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Actor Promises ‘Conservative Point of View’ on Netflix Show

October 6th, 2016 1:34 PM
Appearing on Thursday’s NBC Today to promote new episodes of his Netflix sitcom The Ranch, actor Ashton Kutcher touted the show as being like “a country song” and surprisingly told viewers it would represent the “conservative point of view” of “rural America.”