Hollywood Whines Over Supreme #StolenSeat
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Hollywood entertainers really brought out the snark in anticipation of the president’s Supreme Court announcement.
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Apocalyptic Matthews: D.C. Is ‘Bound Up in Fear, Rage' by Trump Today
Hardball host Chris Matthews was on edge Tuesday night as he awaited President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, grimly staring into the camera with an apocalyptic warning that Trump “is, tonight, conducting a campaign of shock and awe against this country’s institutions” putting Washington “on defense.”
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Nets Thrilled by Obama Attacking Trump’s Immigration Order
Tuesday’s network morning shows cheered a statement from former President Obama blasting President Trump’s executive action on immigration and praising leftist protesters taking to the streets. Leading off NBC’s Today, fill-in co-host Hoda Kotb hailed: “In his first statement since leaving office, former President Obama is expressing support for the ongoing protests against Trump’s orders, saying…
Ramos Ramps Up 'Racial War' Rhetoric
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Univision anchor/activist Jorge Ramos laid low for a very short time in the wake of an election where he got everything wrong. But now that Donald Trump is in office, Ramos has ramped up and returned to form. Anyone expecting a chastened, humbled Ramos is in for quite a shock.
The Week That Was
Republican members of Congress met in Philadelphia last weekend for what was called a retreat. It might have been more accurately labeled an advance. Perhaps not since the days of Franklin Roosevelt's first term has so much been done by so few that will potentially impact so many (to paraphrase Winston Churchill in a completely different context).
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Whoopi Wonders: Is America 'Really Much Different' Than the Taliban?
Tuesday on the View, host Whoopi Goldberg led a segment based off of the ridiculous question, "Is America becoming like the Taliban?" Whoopi referenced Monday’s show, where co-host Jedediah Bila talked about terrorists hating American values like freedom and democracy. Tuesday, Whoopi wondered if it was actually America who hated freedom and was trading it in for "Taliban values" with Trump in…
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Dickerson Feebly Presses Ellison on Anti-Israel Comments & Slam by ADL
As Minnesota Democratic Representative and DNC chair candidate Keith Ellison appeared as a guest on Sunday's Face the Nation on CBS to react to President Donald Trump's recent restrictions on immigration, host John Dickerson made a feeble attempt to get the far left Congressman to respond to the anti-Defamation League slamming him for anti-Israel comments he made at a private meeting in 2010.…
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Kimmel Mocks Trump By Giving Him a Fake News Network
Monday night on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the late-night host mocked the President’s hostile relationship with the press by giving him a fake pro-Trump news network. Kimmel opened the segment with feigned sympathy, snarking that the media was “very hard” on Trump but he “deserved” “even-handed” coverage, before playing a clip from “Trump TV.”
Media Yawn Over Dem Filibuster, Scolded GOP Blocking of Obama Pick
Network reporters have barely noticed the brass knuckles threat from Senate Democrats to filibuster whoever President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court, regardless of the nominee’s qualifications or ideology. But that’s not the approach they took when Republicans blocked President Obama, then a lame duck, from picking a Justice during his final months in office.
NYT’s Hulse: GOP Facing Nightmare, This Time Over ‘The Dreamers’
New York Times Washington correspondent Carl Hulse has been writing versions of the same story for years -- Republicans on the defensive. On Tuesday, he paired his standard trope with the issue the NYT is most liberal on -- amnesty for illegal immigrants -- to starkly slanted effect for his “On Washington” column, “Are ‘Dreamers’ Next? G.O.P. Fears Backlash.”
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ABC: Trump Picks 'White Men,' Like Most 'Conservative' Justices
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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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’
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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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.”
