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Fox Media Panel Slams HuffPost for 'Irresponsible' Anti-Trump Coverage

May 10th, 2020 5:49 PM
During Sunday’s MediaBuzz on Fox News, a bipartisan media panel excoriated the “left-wing Huffington Post” for publishing a “ridiculous” anti-Trump article titled: “Donald Trump doesn't care if you die from coronavirus.” And after noting that the article “simply said, ‘Well, he has trouble expressing empathy,’” Anchor Howard Kurtz knocked them for suffering from a “classic case of Trump Trauma.”
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Stelter: Right-Wing Media Downplaying Virus Deaths By Covering Flynn

May 10th, 2020 1:10 PM
In kicking off Sunday’s un-Reliable Sources, host and liberal hack Brian Stelter tried to distract from the corrupt FBI officials exposed via the revelations in the General Michael Flynn case by suggesting: “right-wing” coverage of the case was an attempt to “downplay” and “normalize” the massive death toll from the Chinese Coronavirus.
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NBC Cheers Task Force Quarantines as a Rebuke of Trump and Reopening

May 10th, 2020 10:35 AM
Over the weekend, three of the nation’s top health officials and members of the Coronavirus Task Force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, began their two weeks of at-home quarantine after they came in contact with someone with the virus. NBC’s Sunday Today, used the opportunity to take a morbid victory lap and cheer it as a rebuke of President Trump and calls to reopen. Political director Chuck Todd…
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MSNBC's Melber Refuses To Confront Schiff About Transcripts

May 9th, 2020 2:39 PM
During the early part of the Trump Administration it was not uncommon for Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to tell every TV camera and sympathetic journalist he could find that it was beyond doubt that Trump had colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign. But recently released transcripts showed former Obama officials, despite their public proclamations to the contrary, had no such…

Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman Forced To Correct False OAN-Sale Story

May 9th, 2020 8:38 AM
One of the most recent entries in the ongoing battle of multiple cable television news channels is the One America News Network, a conservative entry that is also known as OANN or OAN. In a sign that the channel is starting to draw attention from people within the “mainstream media,” company president Charles Herring has responded to a “false and misleading” claim that a group associated with…

MSNBC Claims Putin Was Behind Dropping the Michael Flynn Case

May 9th, 2020 7:06 AM

After weeks of Andrea Mitchell Reports repeating Chinese Communist Party talking points, Andrea Mitchell and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and current MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi declared on Friday without any evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had something to do with the Justice Department's decision to drop the case against former national security…

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NPR's Michel Martin Cues Journalist to Hint Trump Voters Are Racist

May 8th, 2020 10:27 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin prodded The New Yorker's Evan Osnos to suggest that Donald Trump supporters are racists even if they don't like to admit it. He also hinted that they vote racist because they support a President whose actions "explicitly, demonstrably, measurably harm people of color."

NYTimes Headline Hijinks Hide Abortion Danger for Dems:'Deal Breaker'?

May 8th, 2020 6:58 PM
Reporter Maggie Astor profiled several young conservatives for her full-page lead National story in Thursday’s New York Times: “For Young Republicans, Abortion Fight Remains a Deal Breaker.” The framing of that headline is so strange. At first glance, one could easily think the “deal breaker” refers to the abortion issue being an electoral problem for the Republican Party, as liberal young people…
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Smackdown: Citing the MRC, McEnany Embarrasses the Liberal Media

May 8th, 2020 3:27 PM
Along with reporters donning masks (which led to muffled questions), Friday’s abbreviated White House Press Briefing was tough sledding for the liberal media. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany began her third briefing highlighting the Justice Department dropping the Michael Flynn case and citing NewsBusters before ending later with a zing to a perturbed Paula Reid from CBS.
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MSNBC Legal Analyst Jill Wine-Banks Gave Max FEC-Allowed Cash to Biden

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May 8th, 2020 2:15 PM
Did MSNBC Legal Analyst Jill Wine-Banks somehow think it wouldn’t be controversial or a stain on her objectivity to fund presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign? Federal Election Commission records show that Wine-Banks contributed the maximum FEC-allowed $2,800 to Biden’s campaign March 10. Her contribution to Biden makes any of her analysis of the Trump administration…
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CNN, Trump Campaign Clash Over Ad with CNN Footage In It

May 8th, 2020 1:40 PM
A lawyer for CNN’s parent company Warner Media sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump re-election campaign claiming a new advertisement is misusing CNN news coverage in a way that's "false, misleading and deceptive." They didn't want Dr. Sanjay Gupta sounding in any way positive about President Trump. But CNN also thinks Trump should never "punch down" and complain about negative ads.

Column: Hollywood's Heroic Comey Story Collapses

May 8th, 2020 6:11 AM
If the “first draft of history” in the news media sounds dubious, the “second draft” made by Hollywood is almost certainly going to be worse. I’m not talking about documentaries, which can be judged as journalism. I’m talking about movies and TV shows, which will inevitably be pressed to dramatize things so it is ever more loosely “based on real events.”
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Nets Ignored Trump Proclaiming Flynn’s Innocence Before Case Dropped

May 7th, 2020 11:51 PM
A week ahead of Attorney General William Barr’s decision on Thursday to have the Department of Justice drop their case against former General Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce the innocence of his former National Security Adviser. “What happened to General Michael Flynn, a war hero, should never be allowed to happen to a citizen of the United States again,” Trump…
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Nets Celebrated Flynn’s Plea Deal But Decry Case Getting Dropped

May 7th, 2020 9:51 PM
Nearly two and a half years after accepting a plea deal because he was entrapped by anti-Trump FBI investigators, former General Michael Flynn saw light at the end of the tunnel Thursday. After the case was reviewed by the Department of Justice, Attorney General William Barr order the case be dropped citing the fact Flynn had not lied about anything material or central to the Russia investigation…