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Willie Geist: Al Sharpton and I Can't Afford to Shop on 5th Avenue
July 9th, 2020 12:56 PM
On Morning Joe, commenting on de Blasio painting "Black Lives Matter" on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, Willie Geist says to Al Sharpton, "Rev, guys like you and I can't necessarily shop on 5th Avenue. We just look into the windows and hope someday we can."
Melissa Francis TEARS into ‘Jackass’ Mayor Bill de Blasio
Business
May 22nd, 2020 9:23 AM
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has been vastly criticized for his poor handling of the coronavirus, and one Fox Business anchor has had enough of him. “You wouldn’t know energy if you ran it over with your chauffeured SUV as you napped in the back seat, having awoken at noon.”
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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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Joy Reid Wonders: Could FNC Be Sued for Misleading Viewers on Virus?
April 5th, 2020 2:41 PM
On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid wonders whether Fox News could be liable to viewers suing the network for having misled them regarding the dangers of the coronavirus. So much for all the alarm in the liberal media about legal punishments for news organizations in the Trump era.
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MSNBC Hits De Blasio on Incompetence, Missed Chance to 'Save Lives'
April 3rd, 2020 12:56 PM
Given how quickly and how aggressively journalists have moved to politicize the coronavirus and to blame Donald Trump, it was a bit of a shock on Friday to see Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist quiz Mayor Bll de Blasio (albeit gently) on his early incompetent handling of the virus crisis. Geist demanded, “Knowing what you know now, do you wish you'd closed the schools a little bit earlier? Do you…
Stop Pretending Pandemic Politics Are the New Norm
April 2nd, 2020 2:39 PM
"There are no libertarians in a global pandemic." So goes the smug punchline of large-government advocates who point to the necessity of collective action in the face of an unprecedented global crisis. Without government, they say, we'd all be dead. Few libertarians would disagree. The hardcore libertarians at Reason magazine aren't spending their days fulminating over the evils of government-…
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Scarborough: 'Everybody Saw This Coming in January' (De Blasio Didn't)
April 1st, 2020 10:00 AM
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, regarding the coronavirus, that "everybody saw this coming in early January." Yet on Scarborough's own Morning Joe, on March 10th, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus. On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, criticizing President Trump, said:
NYTimes Plays Statistical Games, Hypocritically Hits Trump's China Ban
March 29th, 2020 1:53 PM
New York Times fact-checker Linda Qiu targeted President Trump’s coronavirus response, with statistical sleight of hand, and managed to criticize Trump both for what he does and for not doing it quickly enough: “Analyzing the Patterns in Trump’s Falsehoods About Coronavirus.” After the paper criticizing Trump for the restrictions, Qiu then criticized him for skepticism of those restrictions.…
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Watch Tucker Do What CNN WON’T DO, Showing NYC Dismissing Virus
March 27th, 2020 3:52 PM
If you want to feel hopeless about the coronavirus pandemic and be convinced President Trump has allowed the virus to wreak havoc, CNN is the place for you. But Thursday night on the Fox News Channel, Tucker Carlson provided a reality check in showing how New York City’s far-left local officials initially dismissed the virus. And thanks to CNN, they’ve been able to absolve themselves of…
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NBC Allows de Blasio to Push New Deal-Style Spending, Bash Border Wall
March 18th, 2020 11:25 AM
Appearing on Wednesday’s 3rd Hour Today show, Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was treated to a softball interview from co-host Savannah Guthrie, even as he pushed for massive New Deal-era spending and slammed continued construction of the southern border wall during the coronavirus pandemic.
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On MSNBC, De Blasio Calls for Nationalizing Industries to Stop Virus
March 14th, 2020 2:22 PM
Hard-core socialists aren't letting a national emergency go to waste. They want to exploit it to realize their ultimate dream: government ownership of the means of production--the very definition of socialism. On Joy Reid's MSNBC show this morning, Bill de Blasio, the extreme-left mayor of New York City, actually proposed the: "nationalization, literally a nationalization, of crucial factories…
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Fox Highlights Criminal Alien Who Killed After NYC Ignored ICE
January 17th, 2020 12:56 PM
On Thursday morning, Fox and Friends made time for the kind of story that is a reminder of how important it is to enforce immigration laws and deport aliens who commit serious crimes rather than allow liberal sanctuary cities to cover for them.
When Anti-Semitism Doesn’t Matter
January 2nd, 2020 3:11 PM
In October 2018, during Sabbath morning services, a white supremacist attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, murdering 11 people and wounding another six. In April 2019, in the middle of Passover, a white supremacist attacked the Chabad of Poway synagogue, murdering one person and seriously wounding another three. Both incidents started absolutely necessary conversations about the…
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Disgusting: CNN Downplays, Refuses to Condemn Death Threats to Mitch
August 6th, 2019 9:15 PM
Less than a day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was subjected to death threats from protesters outside his home and threatening Twitter hashtags (#MassacreMoscowMitch and #MassacreMitch), two CNN shows downplayed the protesters and one also featured 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio expressing support for one of the hashtags.
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