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CBS Turns to Ex-LBJ Aide/Historian to Spin the Hunter Biden Pardon
December 3rd, 2024 9:34 AM
On Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus, they brought out former Lyndon Johnson assistant Doris Kearns Goodwin to assess Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. The 81-year-old Democrat was promoted as a nonpartisan expert, as a “Pulitzer Prize-winning historian” with six best-sellers. They oddly compared the Hunter pardon to Gerald Ford pardoning President Nixon and Abraham Lincoln pardoning…
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Colbert, Goodwin Fret Voting and Women's Rights 'Are Now Being Denied'
April 18th, 2024 10:04 AM
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin traveled to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday to promote her new book, which is part history, part memoir about her and her late husband’s experiences in the 1960s. For Goodwin and Colbert, the main takeaway was that the achievements of the 60s, such as civil rights, are currently under threat.
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Goodwin Compares Election Results to Winning Civil War, WWII
November 11th, 2022 1:47 PM
Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin stopped by Friday’s CNN This Morning to discuss the results of Tuesday’s election and despite the final results still being unknown, compared them to victory in the Civil War, World War II, and surviving the Great Depression.
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Let the Fawning Begin! Doris Kearns Goodwin Likens Joe Biden to FDR
November 9th, 2020 3:13 PM
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's MSNBC Live with Alex Witt, former NBC News presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin enthused over Joe Biden as the next President, likening his defeat of Donald Trump to Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeating Herbert Hoover, and touting his ability to connect with voters as being like Roosevelt.
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CRAZY TOWN: Lefty Historian Compares Joe Biden to...Abraham Lincoln?!
November 4th, 2020 11:12 PM
Early Wednesday night, CNN was measuring the White House drapes as they would return to power with Democrat Joe Biden poised to prevail in the election over President Trump, so it wasn’t all that surprising when presidential historian and LBJ aide Doris Kearns Goodwin went as far as comparing Joe Biden to Abraham Lincoln being reelected in 1864.
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Dem Hacks at CBS Hope for 1932-Style Blowout: ‘Fear,’ ‘Panic!’
November 2nd, 2020 10:47 AM
CBS This Morning hosts on Monday brought on liberal historian and media pundit Doris Kearns Goodwin to discuss what she and other journalists deeply hope for: That election day on Tuesday will be like 1932 and the landslide Democratic win of that year.
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Samantha Bee Pushes to Exploit Pandemic to Enact Socialism
May 15th, 2020 8:17 AM
On Wednesday's Full Frontal on TBS, liberal comedienne Samantha Bee spent much of her show advocating for maximum exploitation of the pandemic to advance liberal causes on issues like welfare and abortion. Leftists like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin contributed their voices to talking up liberal economic policies. The show even threw in the latest tired…
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Amanpour and Goodwin Cheer Higher Taxes and Increased 'Welfare State'
May 14th, 2020 5:30 PM
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour and former NBC presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke favorably of higher taxes on the wealthy in the U.S. and the increased welfare state in Britain that came about post-World War II.
Whatever Happened to Teaching History?
November 14th, 2019 2:10 AM
According to a report by the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the teaching of U.S. history to American students lags behind all other subject matters. The latest NAEP survey finds that proficiency levels for fourth-, eighth- and 12th-grade students are in the 20, 18 and 12th percentile, respectively. Part of this, I suspect, is the way the subject is taught. History is boring to…
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Todd Dismisses Idea That Hunter Biden Should Have Been Surveilled
September 30th, 2019 4:55 PM
Near the end of Sunday’s Meet the Press, panelist Hugh Hewitt responded to a question by host Chuck Todd regarding whether or not the Ukraine scandal would hurt Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. In his response, Hewitt stressed the importance of relying on “one standard” when it comes to surveilling Americans; arguing that if enough probable cause existed to use a FISA warrant against Carter Page…
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Lefty Historian: ‘Thrilling’ to See Dems Return ‘Joy’ to Washington
January 3rd, 2019 4:42 PM
Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports Thursday afternoon as Nancy Pelosi was reelected Speaker of the House, lefty historian Doris Kearns Goodwin hailed the Democratic leader as “the right person at the right time in the right place.” She went on to describe how “thrilling” it was to see Democrats regain control of the congressional chamber and bring “joy” back to Washington.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Imagines a Joyless Trump Resigning
December 11th, 2018 1:09 PM
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was chock full of wishful thinking about President Donald Trump conveniently fulfilling the ongoing liberal fantasy about his exit from office on the December 11 Morning Joe. Goodwin's delusion involved a Trump so lacking in joy that he would look for an honorable way out of the Oval Office via resignation.
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Kearns Goodwin: 'You Have to Give Trump that, He's Made a Connection'
October 16th, 2018 10:31 AM
Tuesday morning on CNN's New Day, liberal historian Doris Kearns Goodwin admits that President Trump has "made a connection" with his base, and that "he's made them feel that he's on their side."
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CNN, MSNBC Promote Goodwin Spewing Over Right Wing Court
October 7th, 2018 11:48 PM
On Sunday afternoon, as Doris Kearns Goodwin appeared on both CNN and MSNBC to promote her new book, the longtime NBC presidential historian fretted that after Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, the U.S. Supreme Court will go to the right on abortion, voting rights, and other issues, and on CNN called the possibilities "worrisome."
