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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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WOW: NBC’s Guthrie Grills Biden on Son’s ‘Sleazy’ Ukraine Dealings
February 3rd, 2020 11:31 AM
During a surprisingly contentious interview with former Vice President Joe Biden conducted over weekend and aired on Monday, NBC’s Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie repeatedly pressed the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate on his son Hunter’s suspicious business dealings in Ukraine, even labeling them “sleazy.” Biden quickly snapped and lashed out amid the scrutiny.
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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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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…
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Meacham Meltdown on NBC: ‘Monarch’ ‘King’ Trump Now ‘Above the Law’
January 31st, 2020 4:06 PM
As it appears more and more likely that the Senate will be moving to exclude witnesses and acquit Donald Trump, the journalistic reaction has become frenzied. After MSNBC compared it to letting a wife beater go, NBC’s Jon Meacham on Friday fretted that the Senate is making Trump a “king” who is “above the law.” He warned, “President Trump is functionally a monarch at this point. If the king does…
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Rush Mocks Chuck Todd for Saying Trump Can 'Bulldoze the Constitution'
January 31st, 2020 3:12 PM
In the 1 pm Eastern hour on Friday, Rush Limbaugh shared a new soundbite from Chuck Todd on NBC, complaining that the lesson of this failing impeachment attempt is that if you're popular enough, you can "essentially bulldoze the Constitution." Replied Rush: "This is the sound of utter futility! The sound of total frustration!"
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Chuck Todd Fears ‘Risk’ of Dems ‘Folding Too Quickly’ on Impeachment
January 31st, 2020 12:43 PM
Acting out of sheer desperation Friday morning, while anchoring MSNBC special coverage of the Senate impeachment trial, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd attempted to argue there was a “risk” for Democrats “folding too early” ahead of President Trump’s expected acquittal. Later in the hour, he seemed resigned to the fact that the “talk radio wing” of the Republican Party had “won” the day.
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NBC Fears Trump Team ‘Legalizing Watergate,’ Pushing ‘Absolute Power’
January 30th, 2020 12:52 PM
As the Senate impeachment trial went to a break during the 3:00 p.m. ET hour Wednesday afternoon, anchors of NBC News special coverage immediately went to work blasting the arguments from President Trump’s defense team as “dubious,” “legalizing Watergate,” and asserting “absolute power.”
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Impeachment Obsessed: NBC Ignored Trump Signing USMCA Trade Deal
January 29th, 2020 9:17 PM
In a celebration on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday, President Trump gathered with blue-collar workers, union leaders, CEOs, and Republican lawmakers to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal into law. It was a hard-fought campaign promise three years in the making that helped many Americans, but NBC Nightly News didn’t think it was noteworthy as they…
Evening News Spin: 100% Negative on Trump Defense, 95% Positive Dems
January 29th, 2020 7:05 PM
A Media Research Center study of broadcast evening news coverage of the opening arguments of both sides, found ABC, CBS, and NBC did not live up to the standard they demanded of Republicans. They gave Democrats double the airtime and showered their arguments with mostly praise, while expressing only criticism of the President’s legal team.
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Chuck Todd Offers John Bolton ‘Full Hour’ of Meet the Press
January 29th, 2020 12:44 PM
While discussing the possibility of former National Security Advisor John Bolton testifying in the Senate impeachment trial, during MSNBC’s special coverage Wednesday morning, anchor Chuck Todd eagerly offered the ex Trump aide the “full hour” of Sunday’s Meet the Press to air accusations against the President.
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CBS, NBC Suggest Middle East Peace Plan a Ploy to Hedge Impeachment
January 28th, 2020 10:13 PM
On Tuesday, President Trump along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his challenger Benny Gantz, together announced a new peace plan to settle the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was a plan that guaranteed a two-state solution, but during their evening newscasts, CBS and NBC chastised the plan and suggested it was just a ploy to save Trump from impeachment and…
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Chuck Todd Urges Schumer to Call Trump to Testify
January 28th, 2020 4:19 PM
During NBC News live special coverage of the Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd urged Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to call President Trump as a witness and get him “under oath on this.”
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Nets All But Ignore Second Day of Trump Defense, Gush for Bolton Book
January 27th, 2020 9:58 PM
Monday was day two for President Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial and it was the first full day for his legal team to layout their fact-based arguments for acquittal. Yet, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC chose not to air their arguments, as they did with House Democrats. Instead, they chose to disregard the defense in favor of pouncing on reported allegations made in the…
