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ABC: Trump Picks 'White Men,' Like Most 'Conservative' Justices
January 31st, 2017 10:27 AM
During Tuesday’s Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos spoke with ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl and Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran about Trump’s potential Supreme Court Justice pick. Karl’s report described both front-runners, Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, as conservative picks that would get pushback from Democrats. Stephanopoulos agreed by oddly…
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Naked Politics: Lena Dunham Pushes Obamacare from Bathtub
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January 31st, 2017 9:28 AM
Actress and producer Lena Dunham wants you to get covered. But ironically, she delivered her message nude.
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MSNBC: Osama ‘Prayed’ for the Travel Ban, ‘We’re All Crusaders Now’
January 31st, 2017 1:22 AM
The radical rhetoric targeting President Donald Trump got extremely out of hand during Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, with accusations that America’s number one enemy for 10 years, Osama bin Laden, desired Trump’s travel ban. “Osama bin Laden’s whole theory of a war of the west on Islam now gains great credence thanks to what Donald Trump just did,” declared the Huffington Post’s Howard…
CW’s ‘Jane the Virgin:’ Donald Trump 'Ruined a Lot of Things'
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January 31st, 2017 12:16 AM
We already know that The CW's Jane the Virgin was "with her," but they came back with another swipe at President Trump again this week. Rogelio blamed Donald Trump for “ruining romance” and the Spanish-accented narrator piped up that Trump has ruined “a lot of other things, too.”
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Samantha Bee to Host Trump Roast on Night of Correspondents’ Dinner
January 30th, 2017 10:46 PM
The White House Correspondents' Dinner slated to be held in Washington, D.C., on April 29 will face a “counter-event” hosted by Samantha Bee, the foul-mouthed host of the Full Frontal weekly program on TBS.
Entitled “Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner,” the “alternative gala” was announced on Monday by Bee, who was a correspondent on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show before getting her own…
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NBC’s Holt Lectures Viewers on the Meaning of the Statue of Liberty
January 30th, 2017 10:39 PM
With the debate over the legality of President Donald Trump’s immigration and travel ban still raging Monday evening, NBC broadcasted their Nightly News program “from the shadow of the Statue of Liberty” accompanied by a lecture from anchor Lester Holt. “Behind me the Statue of Liberty, which for nearly 130 years, has symbolized the welcome arms of a country of immigrants,” he opined at the start…
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WashPost's Rubin Cheers on MSNBC's Hayes Gloating Over GOP Worries
January 30th, 2017 7:55 PM
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin appeared on Friday's All In with Chris Hayes to play the role of allegedly right-leaning MSNBC guest who mostly offers agreement to the liberal MSNBC host, and spends little time injecting the conservative point of view into the conversation. As Hayes focused on reports that Republicans have expressed worries in private meetings about how to repeal…
#DeleteUber: When Celebs Act Without the Facts
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January 30th, 2017 5:05 PM
In addition to slamming Donald Trump at 2017’s hyper-political SAG awards, many celebrities took to social media this weekend to criticize the president’s new immigration policies. So when Uber appeared to capitalize on the controversial travel ban, the stars quickly dropped the ride-hailing phone app.
MRC's Tim Graham: I Dare The Media, Tell Us Who You Voted For!
January 30th, 2017 4:27 PM
NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on the C-SPAN interview program Washington Journal on Sunday morning to discuss the "war" between the media and the Trump administration. Trump's waging a war? Graham said "Well, yes, he is, in a way, and for many people, for many conservatives who didn’t necessarily back him in the primaries, it was the best part of Trump. Because we have an…
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Fake News: NBC Deceptively Edits Giuliani on Immigration Order
January 30th, 2017 4:05 PM
Despite all of the media hand-wringing over fake news lately, on Monday, NBC’s Today engaged precisely in that kind of shoddy journalism as the morning show deceptively edited a soundbite from Rudy Giuliani about President Trump’s immigration order.
AP Ignores Falling Obama-Era Union Rolls, Takes Aim at Wisconsin
January 30th, 2017 2:02 PM
You would think that the establishment press and the rest of the opposition to Donald Trump's administration might be able to capitalize substantively (shrieking fundraising letters don't count as "substance") on Kellyanne Conway's shaky reference to "alternative facts" about a week ago. (She should have said, "I have different, more defensible estimates than you do," because she did.) So far…
Calm Down: Sports Columnist Demands Brady End Friendship with Trump
January 30th, 2017 1:46 PM
Talk about losing your mind, folks. In a Monday morning post, USA Today columnist Nancy Armour decreed that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady “has some explaining to do” about why he’s friends with President Trump and Brady “no longer gets a pass” for simply associating with him.
57X Coverage of Trump’s Temporary Ban v Obama Ending Wet Foot Dry Foot
January 30th, 2017 1:24 PM
On January 30, the first weekday morning after President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order which temporarily banned immigration from several Middle East countries, the networks devoted 64 minutes, 8 seconds of coverage to this topic. However, on January 12, then-President Obama ordered the ending of America’s longstanding “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which had allowed Cuban refugees…
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CNN Boosts Liberal Actor's Fundraising Rebuke To Trump's 'Tyranny'
January 30th, 2017 1:03 PM
CNN's New Day on Monday trumpeted Kal Penn's online fundraiser for refugees, and gave him a platform to attack President Trump over his recent executive order on immigration. Penn underlined that "the Women's March was a great example of coming together and standing up against the, sort of, tyranny that we're experiencing right now." The former Obama administration official later cited how his…