WashPost: Trump's Press Blackout Is Gray...No It's Worse Than Putin!
June 21st, 2016 1:46 PM
It’s two newspapers in one! The Washington Post ran a bizarre story about Trump and the media on the front page of the Style section on Tuesday. “Trump’s blacklist turns out to be a bit gray” was the headline. Trump’s campaign may deny press credentials, but reporters can easily just attend events and file stories, as Jenna Johnson for the Post is doing now.
But then the “blacklist is really…
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‘Independent’ Larry King Hasn’t Voted GOP for President in 48 Years
June 21st, 2016 12:13 PM
Larry King apparently doesn’t want to face his biases. The veteran journalist appeared on CNBC, Tuesday, to insist that he’s “independent” and fair-minded. Yet, Squawk Box co-host Joe Kernan got King to admit he hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate in almost 50 years. While discussing his likely support for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, Kernan quizzed, “Have you voted…
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Networks Whine Over Senate Gun-Control Votes ‘Going Nowhere’
June 20th, 2016 11:56 PM
The Senate voted on four gun-control proposals Monday evening, two from Democrats and two from Republicans, but all of them failed to pass. Even though the result was predicted in advance, all of the networks were disgruntled by the outcome. “The problem is that Democrats and Republicans have two different solutions to the problem, and their half-hearted attempts at compromise have simply gone…
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Dyson: We Have a 'Moral Obligation' to Protest Trump at GOP Convention
June 20th, 2016 8:09 PM
With all this year's preliminary political events concluded and the Republican National Convention set for July 18-21 in Cleveland, Georgetown University professor and former MSNBC analyst and guest host Michael Eric Dyson declared last Wednesday that Americans have a “moral obligation” to protest presumptive GOP candidate Donald Trump as a “racist demagogue for president.”
The tumult began when…
NYT Sunday Tackles Scare-Mongering Trump, 'Race-Baiting' Reagan
June 20th, 2016 5:02 PM
The New York Times took a witheringly anti-Trump, anti-Bush, anti-Reagan stand on the front page of the Sunday Review. Veteran liberal journalist Michael Tomasky contributed, “No More Fear – Has political scaremongering lost its magic?” By “scaremongering,” Tomasky is talking about the Republican Party’s traditional tough stand against terrorism. Contributor Kevin Baker went further, falsely…
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From 'Pope' to 'Nazi': Morning Joe's Love-Hate Relationship with Trump
June 20th, 2016 3:46 PM
The vicissitudes of election coverage over the past year have made one thing certain: Morning Joe has been on an emotional rollercoaster with Republican nominee Donald Trump. In late 2015 and early 2016, Trump was regularly featured on the show and praised for his unprecedented primary performance. Now, as Trump’s favorability plummets in the polls, so too does his favorability among the Morning…
HuffPo Says Trump Supporters Need ‘Straitjackets’ in GOP ‘Obituary’
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June 20th, 2016 1:07 PM
According to Huffington Post, the Grand Old Party will become the Dead Old Party at the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland. Cause of death? Support for presumptive nominee Donald Trump.
Feasting on Trump's Controversies While Ignoring Hillary’s Scandals
June 20th, 2016 11:02 AM
Voters who have relied on the network evening newscasts for information about the 2016 presidential candidates saw four times more airtime devoted to controversies involving presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump than to the scandals surrounding his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. During the recently concluded primary season (January 1 to June 7), the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts conveyed…
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Lemon Inserts Gun Control Push While Lecturing Guest on 'Politicizing'
June 19th, 2016 8:37 PM
On Friday's CNN Tonight, while going on a rant lecturing a Republican guest about "politicizing" the Orlando nightclub terrorist attack, host Don Lemon inserted what sounded like his own political push for more gun control while he was still lecturing his guest about being political.
NYT Pities Muslims Robbed of Ramadan, Goes After GOP Not Saying 'Gay'
June 19th, 2016 8:30 PM
After the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since 9-11, New York Times reporter Liz Robbins found time to pity some Muslim high school students who had their feelings hurt, on the front of Saturday’s edition: “Young New York Muslims, Robbed of a Respite.” Another article left no mistaking which political party was on the right side of the issue: "President Obama called it both 'an act of terror…
NY Mag Pundit: ‘Trump TV’ Would ‘Cater’ to Right’s ‘Delusions’
June 19th, 2016 2:20 PM
A few days ago, Vanity Fair reported that Donald Trump is “considering creating his own media business, built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid to become the next president of the United States.” Jonathan Chait thinks such a venture “makes sense” since there’d be a “numerically large” ready-made audience for its fare. “Perhaps [Trump] grasps a truth the official…
Chelsea Handler has Mexican Children Beat Trump Piñata with Sticks
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June 17th, 2016 9:47 PM
In “Trump Mania & Kegal Exercises,” Netflix’s Chelsea used three Mexican teenage girls – ages 14-16 – in her quest to regularly bash Donald Trump. The attack ended with Chelsea hoisting a piñata made in the likeness of Trump in public so a crowd would gather and help the teens smash it. Talk about overwrought aggression!
Daily Kos Writer: Only ‘Idiots’ Think Saying ‘Radical Islam' Matters
June 17th, 2016 8:52 PM
In a Monday piece, the writer who goes by Doctor RJ dismissed opponents of the PC agenda as “white conservatives” who believe they’re being victimized by “a thought-policing left,” whereas in reality “this is not a situation where people are being silenced from expressing an opinion.” As the Doctor sees it, “When we break the political correctness argument down, it’s really about idiots wanting…
NYT: Phrase 'Radical Islam' 'Offensive...Taken on Darker Connotations'
June 17th, 2016 4:40 PM
On the front of Friday’s New York Times, reporter Damien Cave profiled the city victimized by an Islamic terrorist through the eyes of a Muslim trauma doctor who helped treat the victims. Cave, hypersensitive to alleged racism on the part of Republicans, allowed his heroic Muslim doctor subject to attack both Donald Trump and American intolerance. And Max Fisher made a second attempt to explain…