On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the show gave an unchallenged forum to liberal MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas -- who also hosts a show on Vice TV -- to promote a universal health care system and more regulations on businesses as he also derided the conservative "obsession" with "freedom" as being "paranoid," "infantile" and "childlike."
President Trump has tweeted feverishly about “Obamagate,” loosely defined as everything the Obama-Biden team did to ruin Trump’s candidacy (and then presidency) using their executive-branch powers. The Trump-loathing press has responded with an unusual tactic. The self-appointed guardians of democracy who have auditioned themselves as America’s great explainers are playing dumb.
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Amanpour Admits UK's National Health Does Not Prevent Racial Disparity
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. show on PBS and CNN International, as host Christiane Amanpour spoke with Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project about racial disparities in Covid-19 deaths in the U.S., Amanpour surprisingly admitted that the UK's National Health Service has not prevented a similar disparity there after Hannah-Jones claimed that racism has prevented universal health care…
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Amanpour Mocks Trump's 'America First' as 'First' in Corona-Deaths
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour's hyperbole button was on as she essentially mocked President Donald Trump's "America First" policy by touting misleading claims that America is "first" in coronavirus infections and deaths, and also highlighted quotes calling the U.S. a "collapsing republic" and likening it to a "Third World dictatorship."
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Top 14: Celebrating the ‘Silver Linings’ of the Pandemic
The PBS NewsHour on Friday night reported on 74 interviews they did with Biden staffers about Tara Reade’s accusations and her short career in Biden’s office in 1993. It added up to helping Biden weather the accusation. Pundits David Brooks and Mark Shields said the idea Biden assaulted Reade looks "increasingly unlikely."
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Amanpour and Goodwin Cheer Higher Taxes and Increased 'Welfare State'
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour and former NBC presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke favorably of higher taxes on the wealthy in the U.S. and the increased welfare state in Britain that came about post-World War II.
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NY Times Scribe Gets Admonished by His Own Paper for Too Much Opinion
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil insisted Centers for Disease Control boss James Redfield should just resign. Even the Times issued a statement saying that was too much opinion.
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WH Reporters Peddle Fear, Impugn Trump’s Motives on Reopening, Testing
The White House press corps must have consumed plenty of Wheaties ahead of Monday’s presidential press conference as, by and large, reporters came at President Trump with an emphasis on fear to keep Americans in their homes and impugn the motives of Trump on both death tolls and testing. And when CBS’s Weijia Jiang made her latest scene a la Jim Acosta and sought to have Trump ensnared in a…
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Amanpour Pushes Goodall to Charge 'We Brought' Pandemic 'on Ourselves'
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour was again trying to find a "silver lining" in the coronavirus pandemic as she spoke with primatologist Jane Goodall about her reaction to the crisis. Goodall declared that "we brought this on ourselves" as she complained about deforestation and factory farms, and fretted that governments like the Trump…
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Shields Slams Barr for Ruining Himself, Becoming 'Trump's Roy Cohn'
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, liberal pundit Mark Shields ripped Attorney General William Barr for ruining his own legacy by being the president's "in-house lawyer," but he wanted a more stinging insult. He suggested he was "Donald Trump's Roy Cohn," a lawyer hated by liberals for prosecuting Soviet agents like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the Cold War years. Shields pretended the whole time that…
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NPR's Michel Martin Cues Journalist to Hint Trump Voters Are Racist
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin prodded The New Yorker's Evan Osnos to suggest that Donald Trump supporters are racists even if they don't like to admit it. He also hinted that they vote racist because they support a President whose actions "explicitly, demonstrably, measurably harm people of color."
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Smackdown: Citing the MRC, McEnany Embarrasses the Liberal Media
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.
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Amanpour Tries to Have EU Official Bash Trump Over Disinfectants Line
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour tried to prod her guest -- the European Commission's president, Doctor Ursula von der Leyen -- to bash President Donald Trump over his confused suggestion that doctors might treat coronavirus patients with disinfectants. Doctor Leyen, who was appearing on the show to discuss a fundraising effort to help fight…