Nets Award Trump 84 Percent of Pre-Super Tuesday 3 GOP Coverage
Ahead of the third installment of Super Tuesday on Monday, the broadcast network evening newscasts followed their predictable pattern of focusing almost exclusively on Donald Trump to the tune of a whopping 84 percent of the Republican campaign segments totaling nearly 15 and a half minutes.
Blogger: Obama Has Done More For Blue-Collar GOPers Than GOP Has
These days, one of the biggest meta-debates in politics concerns apportioning blame for the staying power of the Donald Trump circus. How much of Trump’s popularity is attributable to, say, the mainstream media? To conservative talk radio? In a Sunday post, The Washington Monthly’s Martin Longman pointed the finger at Republicans and absolved President Obama.
Apropos of Trump’s economically…
Noticias Univisión impulsó protestas anti-Trump en Chicago
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Así es como Univisión ayudó a impulsar las protestas violentas contra el mitin de Donald Trump en Chicago.
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Defense of Free Speech MIA on Univision
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What is the biggest missing element in Univision’s coverage of protesters' efforts to shut down Trump rallies? Voices that denounce the deliberate disruption or suppression of free speech.
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Hypocritical Wallace Hits GOP for Not Calling Out Trump Sooner
Appearing on Monday’s NBC Today, political analyst Nicolle Wallace condemned Republicans for not speaking out sooner against Donald Trump, following instances of violence at rallies for the GOP frontrunner. However, only one week earlier, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Wallace condemned Trump’s opposition within the party as “illegitimate.”
Paper: Trump Rally Cancelled Because 'His Supporters Became Violent'
Layers of editors and fact-checkers at the Columbus (OH) Dispatch and others involved in its production "somehow" failed to detect the creation of an obviously false caption to a campaign rally photo of Donald Trump taken by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer.
The photo, taken on Friday at Trump's St. Louis appearance by the Post-Dispatch's David Carson, had the following caption, apparently…
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Rubio Lambastes Media for ‘Wall-to-Wall’ Trump Coverage for Ratings
In two separate appearances on Sunday morning political talk shows, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio continued to call out the liberal media for their favoritism toward GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by covering Trump’s rallies and press conferences “wall to wall” since it’s “good for ratings” despite the role it arguably plays in the degradation of the American political culture.
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CNN Anchor Taken Aback When GOP Guest Ties Clinton Camp to Birtherism
As CNN Newsroom host Poppy Harlow on Saturday tried to suggest Republicans like John Kasich deserve blame for not speaking out against Donald Trump when he was pushing birtherism against President Barack Obama several years ago, she was taken aback when her guest, Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges, turned the tables by implicating Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign in dabbling in similar…
Formerly Conservative Writer Foresees Decline of Conservatism
Michael Lind thinks that movement conservatives are becoming a minor force in American politics, supplanted less by liberal Democrats than by what might be called Trump Republicans.
In a Wednesday article for Politico, Lind contended that growing “populist discontent” is bringing about “the gradual replacement of Buckley-Goldwater-Reagan conservatism by something more like European national…
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Brazile: ‘Trump Is Amplifying Everything We Have Heard on Talk Radio'
Current Democratic Nation Committeewoman and ABC/CNN analyst Donna Brazile participated in Sunday’s PowerHouse Roundtable on ABC’s This Week where she claimed that by peddling racist “dog whistle” politics, Donald Trump has “amplif[ied] everything we have heard on talk radio for the last eight years.”
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MSNBC Panel Claims GOP Haven’t Done Enough to Denounce Trump
While his MSNBC show PoliticsNation now resides on Sunday mornings at 8:00 a.m. Eastern, Al Sharpton has still been doing his best to accuse conservatives of racism at every turn and this Sunday’s edition was no different as he and his assembled panelists claimed that the right has done little to nothing to distance itself from Donald Trump.
The Left Shuts Down Free Speech In Chicago
On Friday night, American citizens peaceably assembling in Chicago had their First Amendment rights shut down.
Oops: NBC Exposes Sanders Failing to Call For Refraining From Violence
Sometimes there's a problem when a far-left reporter admiringly covers a far-left political official or candidate. What occasionally happens is that items which would clearly be objectionable to sensible people make it to print or onto the airwaves because the lefty journalist doesn't recognize how problematic they are. If he or she did, it would be kept out of their reports.
At NBC News, former…
Liberal Writer Blasts MSM For Their Pro-Conservative Bias
Neal Gabler is an author and cultural critic who may be best known to NewsBusters readers as a longtime panelist on Fox News Watch. On Friday, lefty sites such as BillMoyers.com and Salon ran an article by Gabler in which he argued that for several decades, the mainstream media have greased the skids for movement conservatism and the Republican party.
For example, Gabler asserted that after…
