CBS Boston Freelancer Tweets ‘Trump Died Sleeping’ Calms Him
November 30th, 2016 6:48 PM
Twitter is a great place for journalists to vent and to leak their liberal bias for all to see. And exactly that happened Tuesday night when CBS Boston Freelance Writer David Leavitt tweeted, “’Trump died sleeping’ #CalmMeDownIn3Words.” Leavitt’s tweet has garnered over 900 retweets, more than 2,300 likes, and almost 2,000 responses, many of them negative.
NY Times Wrings Hands Over Whether to Report Trump Tweets as News
November 30th, 2016 12:59 PM
President-Elect Donald Trump just tweeted something really astounding about his domestic policy. However, should it be reported as news? What to do? What to do? Oh, what a quandary! Anybody with a lick of common sense would agree that, of course, it should be reported as news. After all, what difference does it make whether the medium is television, radio, telegraph, smoke signals, carrier…
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Cooper, Powers: Trump Should Be 'Boning Up' on Policy, Not Watching TV
November 30th, 2016 12:56 PM
CNN's Anderson Cooper was aghast on the Tuesday edition of his program over Donald Trump still regularly posting to Twitter even after being elected president: "When I first heard that he was Tweeting about something that was on this broadcast — a number of Tweets; again, factually-incorrect Tweets...I kept thinking, doesn't he have, like, a briefing book on ISIS to be reading last night?"…
'Hamilton' Creator Boosts Planned Parenthood on #GivingTuesday
November 29th, 2016 3:45 PM
On Tuesday, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda spotlighted abortion giant Planned Parenthood as part of the annual #GivingTuesday effort on Twitter. Miranda re-Tweeted a follower's post that sang the praises of his mother, Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda, for her service on the national board for the left-wing organization. The celebrity added, "Working on this...," and included the Giving Tuesday hashtag…
Media Freak Out Over Trump's Conservative HHS Pick Tom Price
November 29th, 2016 11:12 AM
Hours after Donald Trump announced Republican Congressman Tom Price as his pick for Health and Human Services Secretary, the media had already begun their witch hunt against him. Price is a vocal opponent of Obamacare with a consistently conservative record on social issues such as abortion. This, of course, made him an easy target for liberal journalists who took to Twitter Tuesday morning to…
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CNN's Cuomo Presses Conway on Sessions, Trump's Tweets
November 21st, 2016 2:55 PM
As Donald Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway appeared as a guest on Monday's New Day on CNN, co-host Chris Cuomo spent close to half the segment pressing her over Trump's recent tweets criticizing Saturday Night Live's biased portrayal of him, along with the cast members of the play Hamilton recently confronting Vice President-elect Mike Pence at one of their shows.
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After Actor Lectures Pence, NY Times Treats 'Hamilton' Cast As Victims
November 20th, 2016 11:43 AM
Friday evening, Vice President-Elect Mike Pence attended a showing of Hamilton in New York City.
His announced presence received a decidedly mixed reaction from the play's audience, followed by a public lecture from a cast member with the full cast present after the play's curtain call. Naturally, President-Elect Donald Trump took umbrage, and tweeted his displeasure at Pence's rude treatment. …
LA Times Boosts 'Fake News' List That Smears Conservative Sites
November 16th, 2016 4:15 PM
Jessica Roy spotlighted Merrimack College Professor Melissa Zimdars's list of "False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical 'News' Sources" in a Tuesday item on Los Angeles Times's "Trail Guide" blog. Roy pointed out that "Breitbart, the 'platform for the alt-right' whose chairman was just named Trump's chief strategist, is on there." However, Professor Zimdars, a self-identified feminist,…
AP, NY Times Ignore Calif. Startup CEO's Trump Assassination Threats
November 15th, 2016 10:55 AM
On Sunday, Matthew Harrigan, the President and CEO of PacketSled, Inc., posted specific threats to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump on Twitter and Facebook. The company's board placed Harrigan on administrative leave on Monday and announced his "resignation" very early Tuesday morning.
That a company CEO could do what Harrigan did has to be national news, right? Well, not yet. Searches…
‘Amoral,’ ‘Disgusting’ People Mag Ripped for ‘Glamorizing’ Trump
Culture
November 11th, 2016 11:35 AM
Many people are taking the hashtag #NotMyPresident seriously, believing that any endorsement or recognition of Donald Trump’s new role is an acceptance of the man himself.
Defiant Celebs Protest #StillWithHer, #NotMyPresident
Culture
November 10th, 2016 12:43 PM
It’s been a rough week for celebrities. The realization that views espoused in their liberal strongholds of LA and NYC were not shared by many Americans was a startling reality check to say the least. But many have refused to give up the fight. As the election outcome became increasingly clear Tuesday night, the Clinton camp reached for tissues, shots and barf bags. Hope was shattered … not the…
Hollywood Channels Resignation, Revenge: ‘Revolution is Coming’
Culture
November 9th, 2016 1:52 AM
By midnight, things were not looking good in the Clinton camp. After their earlier expressions of panic and disbelief, many stars seemed to resign themselves to the probable outcome of a Trump presidency.
Hollywood Freaks Out: ‘About to Throw Up’
Culture
November 8th, 2016 11:28 PM
Around 10 p.m., Hollywood stars began to panic. Hillary Clinton wasn’t as far ahead as they had expected her to be. In fact, the race was far from a landslide. Reflecting the anxiety of the Tinsel Town set, actress Mia Farrow re-tweeted a NYT poll showing that, as of 9:40 pm, Trump had a 55-percent chance of winning the election. As a comment on the tweet, she simply posted: “Xanax.”
NBC's Mitchell to McCaskill: 'We're Fine' For 'Taking Back the Senate'
November 8th, 2016 1:02 PM
Shortly after noon on Monday, in three publicly visible tweets to Missouri Democratic Party Senator Claire McCaskill, Mitchell referred to how "we're going to be fine in terms of taking back the Senate," whined about how FBI Director James Comey had "muddled this race," and wondered why "he sent that letter" — presumably referring to his letter to Congress in late October concerning the Hillary…