NYT's Rogers Mocks Trump Hotel, Eating Habits of Family, on Page One
August 26th, 2017 4:42 PM
New York Times reporter Katie Rogers is a kind of pop-social reporter in D.C. in the Trump era, and has little love for the people she covers. Rogers made the front page of Saturday’s edition with some snarky that seems a few months past its sell-by date: “Trump Hotel by Night: Lobbyists, $60 Steaks.” One would think sophisticated big-city Times editors would know $60 isn’t really all that much…
New Yorker: Psychiatrists Should Be Allowed to Call Trump Crazy
August 26th, 2017 11:55 AM
Support mental health or I'll kill you! New Yorker magazine seems to have this deep psychological need for President Donald Trump to be officially called crazy by psychiatrists. That need is so urgent that their August 23 article by Jeannie Suk Gersen on this subject almost exactly echoes their May 22 story by Jane Mayer on the same topic.
NBC’s ‘The Night Shift’ Paints ICE Agents as Cold-Hearted Monsters
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August 25th, 2017 11:03 PM
The August 24 episode of NBC’s The Night Shift laid out a heavy hand of virtue-shaming on the issue of illegal immigration by painting ICE agents as cold-hearted men only concerned about meeting quotas. Titled “Land of the Free,” the episode pitted the self-righteous doctors against mean-spirited federal employees doing their job.
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MSNBC Shocked Trump Hasn’t Screwed Up Hurricane Yet
August 25th, 2017 5:33 PM
The "journalists" at MSNBC seem eager for Hurricane Harvey to be a political disaster for Donald Trump, preemptively reminding everyone what the stakes are. Deadline: White House anchor Nicolle Wallace on Friday was amazed that the President hasn’t screwed it up yet: “It seems to me that this is the first event of this presidency where sort of the dire nature of the event seems to have halted…
Salon: 'Most Media' Are 'More Than Fair' to Conservatives
August 25th, 2017 5:08 PM
Writer Eric Alterman presents the relationship between President Trump and journalists as if it were a plot from a horror movie, and the audience knows what’s going to happen before the victim does. In Alterman’s view, the “racist, sexist, Islamophobic psychopath” Trump threatens the mainstream media, but reporters and editors are oblivious to the danger “not only to their livelihoods, but to…
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Morning Joe Rejects NYT Columnist’s Call for Obama to Attack Trump
August 25th, 2017 3:13 PM
On Friday’s Morning Joe, fill-in host Willie Geist invited New York Times columnist Caroline Randall Williams on the program to explain her op/ed in the paper imploring former President Obama to publically denounce President Trump. However, after Williams defended her article, the entire panel on the MSNBC show surprisingly agreed that it would be a terrible idea.
Feminist NYT Writer Likens Trump-Clinton Debate to Sexual Harassment
August 25th, 2017 3:08 PM
This week the media drooled over Hillary Clinton calling Donald Trump a “creep” in an audio excerpt from her upcoming memoir, where she was referring to Trump standing closely behind her during a presidential debate. While most of the media wondered if Clinton would’ve been better served if she had called Trump a “creep” in that moment, one feminist writer went so far as to say the incident was a…
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On Day of Rally, CNN and MSNBC Tout ‘Brave’ ‘Referee’ Journalists
August 25th, 2017 12:42 PM
Both before and after Donald Trump’s Tuesday rally in Arizona, an event in which he again slammed partisan journalists, guests on CNN and MSNBC hailed the “brave” reporters who act as “referees” for the American people.
Retired NPR Star 'Looking for Generals to Save Us From Democracy'
August 25th, 2017 6:54 AM
Recently retired NPR star Garrison Keillor may have stepped away from A Prairie Home Companion, but he rages weekly against President Trump as a columnist for The Washington Post. This week, he joined the cavalcade of Democrat hypocrites who suddenly want a military junta to take the government away from Trump before he vaporizes tens of millions of people.
Donald Trump's Problematic Device
August 24th, 2017 9:16 PM
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is in trouble again with his Moral Superiors. His problem, of course, is that he cannot throttle his B.S. Detector. It seems he acquired a B.S. Detector at some point in life that has usually served him well. It certainly did during his long years in business, and it has during his brief time in politics. Now, however, it is problematic.
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Wolf Blitzer Allows Dem Guest to Compare Trump Tactics to Nazi Germany
August 24th, 2017 4:59 PM
The mainstream media’s ongoing crusade against President Donald Trump hit yet another new low on Wednesday afternoon, August 23, when Wolf Blitzer, host of the Cable News Network’s weekday Wolf program, let a Democratic guest slam the Republican occupant of the White House as “out of control” and compared Trump’s attacks on the press to tactics used by Nazi Germany. Blitzer teed up the attack by…
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‘Hardball’: Trump Is Mentally Unstable, Hillary Book Is 'Remarkable'
August 24th, 2017 4:38 PM
Not exactly the top authority when it comes to sober analysis, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews teamed up with panelists on Wednesday night to deem President Trump as mentally unstable while a guest hailed Hillary Clinton’s book excerpt about debating Trump as “remarkable.”
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Schlapp Schools PBS: Trump Taking on Media, GOP Is Why He Was Elected
August 24th, 2017 4:05 PM
This week journalists and networks have been in a tizzy after Trump railed against them during rallies in Arizona this week. From openly wondering if he’s a sociopath to worrying his supporters would endanger their lives, journalists have been more concerned with expressing their own paranoia then reporting on the news. But conservative Matt Schlapp tried to break through all the hoopla during…
USA Today Promotes Crazy Trump Meme: Talk of ‘Mental Health Spreads’
August 24th, 2017 3:56 PM
USA Today on Thursday offered a front page story promoting the Donald-Trump-is-Crazy talking point. The paper devoted almost 1900 words to the topic with this headline for the print edition: “Talk of Trump’s Mental Health Spreads.” The online version insisted that the “debate over Trump’s mental health takes off.”
