Press Slow to Report Monday Night's Swedish Riots
February 21st, 2017 11:39 AM
The Tuesday Morning Briefing at the New York Times tells us that President Donald Trump, at his rally in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, "claimed that Sweden was experiencing a crisis because of immigration" and had "suggested that a terrorist attack had occurred there the night before." Concerning the latter, Trump said no such thing, nor did he "suggest" it. Concerning the former, if Sweden's…
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CNN Finds Humor in UK Parliament Insulting Trump to Downgrade Visit
February 20th, 2017 11:55 PM
Debate raged in the United Kingdom’s Parliament Monday over whether or not President Donald Trump should be extended the warm welcome of a full state visit. As insults targeting Trump flew back and forth, CNN seemed to get a good laugh out of it all. “Insults flying over Trump's invitation for a formal state visit to the UK,” hyped Erin Burnett during her show OutFront, “One Member of Parliament…
WashPost's Sullivan Fears Journalists Will Be 'Hunted Down'
February 20th, 2017 9:43 PM
Donald Trump, like virtually every president before him, is upset that there have been leaks to the news media (and heaven knows who else) from his administration. In his Thursday press conference, Trump emphasized that leaks of classified information or matters relating to national security are "criminal" acts — because they are — and promised to pursue the leakers. That, and Trump's Friday…
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Nets Tout Anti-Trump Protesters Rallying for ‘Not My President Day’
February 20th, 2017 9:05 PM
“Not my president” started off as a rallying cry for liberals shattered by Hillary Clinton’s historic defeat to Donald Trump. But during Monday’s Presidents’ Day holiday, leftists gathered for anti-Trump protests in cities from coast-to-coast in celebration of “Not My President Day.” The liberal Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) seemed to revel in the play on words the rallies brought. “And…
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CBS Lets Dem Claim Millions Barred from Voting, But Tougher on GOPer
February 20th, 2017 5:54 PM
Add CBS host John Dickerson to the list of journalists who have apparently not felt the need to press Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings when he claims that millions of Americans have been "denied their right to vote" because of alleged "voter suppression" perpetrated by Republicans. Reminiscent of ABC's George Stephanopoulos from last week's This Week, on yesterday's Face the Nation,…
NYT Says Remove Racist Trump; Wonder If Nasty Liberals Hurt Cause
February 20th, 2017 4:33 PM
Remove him from office or just call him a racist? That was the dilemma faced by two New York Times columnists this weekend. First, the prickly Charles Blow ventured into the Midwest to rant against Donald Trump at the Cleveland Public Library, while his colleague Nicholas Kristof put odds on Trump's removal.
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Politico Misquotes Limbaugh on Russian Involvement in Election
February 20th, 2017 3:50 PM
Opening his program on Monday, Rush Limbaugh referred to a Politico item by Hanna Trudo, who reported on his appearance on the February 19 edition of Fox News Sunday. Trudo opened by claiming that "Rush Limbaugh says he doesn’t buy the notion that Russia influenced the election of President Donald Trump." Rush observed on the air that this isn't what he said. Then Trudo doubled down and…
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Nets Decry Trump ‘Declaring All-Out War on Journalists’
February 20th, 2017 3:35 PM
Monday’s network morning shows were aghast at President Trump continuing to criticize the liberal media with a Friday tweet in which he labeled them “fake news” and “the enemy of the American people.” In response, the ABC, NBC, and CBS broadcasts accused him of “declaring an all-out war on journalists” and compared Trump to Richard Nixon in the midst of Watergate.
Michael Moore’s ‘Resistance Calendar’: ‘Our Goal Is Trump's Removal’
February 20th, 2017 2:42 PM
Getting overwhelmed by all the protests lately? Never fear. Michael Moore has a “resistance calendar” to help you keep track of them.
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Morning Joe Fears Trump’s Media Criticism Will Cause Terror Attack
February 20th, 2017 2:15 PM
Monday, on MSNBC's Morning Joe, political analysts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann began a segment by hammering President Trump’s tweet on Friday criticizing the media again as "fake news" and an "enemy of the American people." Heilemann linked Trump’s comments to the possibility of inciting a terror attack similar to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing.
Tasteless NBC Marks ‘Milestone’: Trump Won’t Have Shortest Presidency
February 20th, 2017 1:28 PM
In a Monday morning post by Chelsea Bailey, NBCNews.com sneered that President Donald Trump “will celebrate a milestone” and “small victory” in that he won’t “have the shortest term” as President following a tumultuous first month. How NBC News thought that Trump would be removed from office or worse was not surprising, but it only gives credence to those like the President arguing the media is…
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Lemon Walks When Panelist Tags First Family Cost Concerns 'Fake News'
February 20th, 2017 11:28 AM
On Friday at CNN, a clearly upset Don Lemon, covering a topic that almost no one in the press cared about for eight years during the Obama administration, abruptly ended a segment about the costs of protecting President Donald Trump and the First Family, and began to walk away from the set before the next commercial break began. Why? One of his panelists called the obsession with these costs "…
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Cuomo: 'Someone Will Get Hurt' By Trump's Attacks on Media
February 20th, 2017 11:16 AM
On CNN's New Day Monday, co-host Chris Cuomo warned that in the midst of President Donald Trump attacking the press as "the enemy of the American people," people, especially journalists, "will get hurt." Senior media correspondent Brian Stelter agreed, "I am worried. I'm worried because somebody who’s deranged can take that language and can take action against a journalist either at a rally or a…
Judd Apatow: Feels 'Like I've Just Been Raped' With Trump as President
February 20th, 2017 10:22 AM
Do rape “jokes” ever count as comedy? Apparently they do when Trump is involved. Liberal Hollywood writer and producer of films like Bridesmaids and Anchorman Judd Apatow actually compared living with Trump as President to getting raped, during a stand up comedy show in Los Angeles Saturday. Apatow, like many in Hollywood, seems to be unusually upset with the election calling him a “madman” and a…