Deadspin Slams 'Amphetamized' Trump for Putting Sports Above Cancer
September 12th, 2019 10:00 AM
The Deadspin blog has been hating on President Donald Trump throughout his presidency, and today writer David Roth gave him a fresh, sarcastic blistering. In writing about Trump's brain and his sports-related remarks at a Monday campaign rally in North Carolina, Roth said the president has a sulky childishness and elevates landing the 2026 World Cup for America and his friendships with members of…
NY Times: Trump Appeals to ‘Racial Division and Fear,' 'Racial Taunts'
September 11th, 2019 10:37 PM
New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon’s “Political Memo” Wednesday hails from a Trump rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Monday (in the district that held a special congressional election won by Republican Dan Bishop the next day), under a loaded headline that suggested both Trump and his rallygoers were racist: “To Message of Racial Division and Fear, Crowd Responds With Cheers.”…
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Hannity, Concha Tee Off on ‘Egregious’ CNN, MSNBC Russia Reports
September 11th, 2019 6:50 PM
Partnering Tuesday night on the Fox News Channel with The Hill’s Joe Concha, host Sean Hannity ripped into CNN and MSNBC for their various reports that not only appear to have some serious factual concerns regarding the reasons for extracting a CIA asset from Russia in 2017, but also put the life of that asset and his family in danger.
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Ahead of Debate, ABC Thrills: ‘Democrats Would Trounce’ Trump
September 11th, 2019 3:54 PM
On Wednesday, just one day before ABC News hosts the third Democratic primary debate ahead of 2020, Good Morning America co-host and debate moderator George Stephanopoulos excitedly touted new poll results showing President Trump “trailing all the top Democrats in head-to-head match-ups.” If only such hypothetical results nine months before the start of the general election campaign actually…
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King: Trump 'Locking Up Kids in Cages' Just Like My Horror Novel
September 11th, 2019 1:43 PM
Prolific horror fiction novelist Stephen King appeared on ABC’s The View, Wednesday to plug his newest book The Institute, about a group of teens with supernatural abilities who are kidnapped by a group of zealots, locked up and experimented on. While King claimed he left politics out of his stories, he connected the Trump administration “locking up kids in cages” as making his fictional novel,…
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Morning Joe Doomsday Scenario: Warren Wins Nomination, Loses to Trump
September 11th, 2019 11:17 AM
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that Democrat insiders see Joe Biden's campaign as a "slow-motion train derailment" and that he will not make it to the nomination. Instead, Elizabeth Warren is best-positioned to win the nomination. The panel expresses concern that Warren would lose to Trump. Mika Brzezinski says Biden is the Democrats' "best bet" for winning the presidency, and expresses the…
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Trevor Noah: Axed Taliban Meeting Shows Trump Is a ‘Pu*** A** Bi***'
September 11th, 2019 10:00 AM
For many comedians these days, vulgarity equals comedy. Gone are the times when anyone could enjoy a stand-up routine with the rest of the family. That was certainly the case when Trevor Noah used the latest edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central to slam Donald Trump for canceling a meeting between himself and terrorists from the Middle East, which the host claimed demonstrates that the…
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CNN Spends 181 Minutes Hyping Jim Sciutto’s Dubious CIA Stories
September 10th, 2019 8:03 PM
On Monday, CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto aired a questionable story blaming President Trump for the extraction of a longtime CIA asset in Moscow. A Monday night New York Times story cast serious doubts on the reasons Sciutto cited for the 2017 extraction, but CNN has stood by Sciutto. All told, a NewsBusters tally of CNN’s live, on-air coverage found a staggering 181…
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Whoopi Pulls 'Race Card' After Trump Comments on Bahamian Crime
September 10th, 2019 1:58 PM
Tuesday on The View, the hosts spun a comment President Trump made about criminals entering the U.S., as another example of how Trump hated black people. While answering a reporter’s question about hurricane refugees, he warned we had to be careful about letting in “very bad people” such as “drug dealers” and “gang members” into the country. View co-host Whoopi Goldberg complained that this was…
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After Hyping Recession Fears, ABC Find Americans Fear Recession
September 10th, 2019 1:31 PM
On Tuesday, ABC’s Good Morning America eagerly touted the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll showing a “dramatic drop in the President’s approval rating” that “seems to be fueled by real concerns about the economy.” Following weeks of the media rooting for a recession to hurt Trump’s reelection chances, the ABC morning show appeared thrilled that tactic was working with some of its viewers.
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Scarborough: 2020 Dems Going Radical on Illegals Is Big Warning Sign
September 10th, 2019 10:30 AM
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough cites a poll showing that, in the wake of the first three Democrat debates, Republican voter ID has risen to equal that of Democrats. Scarborough blames it on the radical positions the Dems adopted in the debates, on issues from illegal immigration to healthcare to debt forgiveness. Willie Geist observes that Joe Biden has remained in the lead despite his stumbles…
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PolitiFact Rains on Trump's Latest Rally with Mangled 'Fact Checks'
September 10th, 2019 8:07 AM
"Independent fact checkers" like Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post love counting up when Donald Trump repeats something he flagged as False. So what happens when fact-checkers keep repeating their own canards? See PolitiFact during President Trump's rally in North Carolina on Monday night.
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MSNBC Guest Tiffany Cross: Trump Could Be a ‘Secret Muslim President'
September 10th, 2019 7:06 AM
In Joy Reid’s never-ending quest to prevent President Trump from being re-elected in 2020, the MSNBC host has continued to slam the people who voted for the Republican occupant of the White House in 2016. On Sunday's AM Joy, she received support from MSNBC regular Tiffany Cross, managing editor of The Beat DC website, who claimed that “maybe Donald Trump is the secret Muslim president that they…
BUSTED: CNN, WashPost Peddled Deceitful Hate Crime Stat Smearing Trump
September 9th, 2019 10:55 PM
It was an anti-Trump statistic beloved by the liberal media. According to a study pushed by CNN, The Washington Post, and many others, President Trump’s 2016 campaign rallies caused a 226 percent spike in hate crimes in the areas they were held. Of course, the liberal media would run with that statistic. It fit their narrative perfectly: Racist Trump inspires his racist supporters to commit…