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Amanpour Pushes Goodall to Charge 'We Brought' Pandemic 'on Ourselves'

May 11th, 2020 3:30 PM
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'

May 9th, 2020 9:45 PM
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

May 8th, 2020 10:27 PM
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

May 8th, 2020 3:27 PM
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

May 5th, 2020 10:22 PM
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…
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PBS Highlights Missteps by NY Democrats in Pandemic Response

May 1st, 2020 6:19 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the show devoted a segment to the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, and gave a surprising amount of criticism toward Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Amanpour: Is Trump a 'Danger' to the U.S. and to the World?

May 1st, 2020 4:10 PM
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour asked if President Donald Trump is a "danger to the people of the United States and to the world" as she spoke with former Senator Heidi Heitkamp and gave the North Dakota Democrat a forum to be critical of the Trump administration.
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Here Are the BEST Trump Smackdowns of Journalists at COVID Briefings

May 1st, 2020 10:30 AM
News reports percolated last week that formal White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings could go away or see a dramatic overhaul. Instead of showing seriousness and sobriety during this pandemic, camera-hawking, far-left egotists picked fights with President Donald Trump only to cry foul afterward to sympathetic colleagues. MRC analysts combed through our archives of the briefings to resurrect…
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Bill Frist Calls Out NPR's Michel Martin for Loaded Abortion Questions

April 29th, 2020 4:12 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the program showed a pre-recorded interview between NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin and former Republican Senator Bill Frist in which Martin tried to suggest hypocrisy on the part of pro-life Republicans who have pushed to reopen some states during the pandemic. Frist bristled at her attempt to link the pandemic to abortion and scolded…
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PBS Likens Trump to 'Authoritarians' for His Media-Bashing 'Playbook'

April 26th, 2020 7:55 PM
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International host Christiane Amanpour held a discussion on the topic of whether some countries will use the pandemic to increase authoritarian powers, and the segment began with a discussion of President Donald Trump's behavior, with panelists likening him to authoritarian world leaders, and blaming him for many Americans distrusting the news media.
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Amanpour Sees 'Undercover Assault' on 'Clean Air' by Trump

April 24th, 2020 8:55 PM
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour declared that the Donald Trump administration is "conducting a major undercover assault" on EPA regulations and clean air as she gave a sympathetic forum to Washington Democratic governor and global warming alarmist Jay Inslee to promote his agenda.
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Amanpour Cues Liberal Senator to Say Trump's Urging 'Armed Rebellion'

April 23rd, 2020 6:34 AM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. PBS and CNN International host Christiane Amanpour cued up her guest, Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, to promote his anti-gun views as the two spoke during a segment that was mostly devoted to the pandemic.

Michelle Obama Gets Her Own PBS Show, After Massive PBS Gov't Bailout

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April 21st, 2020 1:18 PM
As if sapping the joy out of the lunch hour for kids in public school wasn’t enough, Michelle Obama is back to treat all school age youngsters to some educational reading time. The Former First Lady recently announced her new show on PBS KIDS in which she will be reading classic children’s books for the youngsters dealing with quarantine.
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PBS's Woodruff: 'How Many Lives Were Lost' Because of Trump's 'Delay'?

April 18th, 2020 10:58 PM

There's a reason why Donald Trump hasn't granted an interview to PBS since he announced his run for president in 2015. That reason came out in a contentious PBS NewsHour interview on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence. It's nothing like the softness Woodruff has offered Hilllary Clinton. She asked Pence "How many lives do you believe were lost as a result of the delay by this administration…