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MSNBC Previews SOTU By Warning 'We Could Be A Dictatorship Next Year'

March 7th, 2024 2:04 PM

MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss dropped by Thursday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports to preview President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address and to warn that “we could be a dictatorship next year,” which means that Biden is akin to FDR warning about the Nazis and the Japanese prior to World War II.

The New American Antisemitism Could Cost Democrats Jewish Voters

February 27th, 2024 8:43 AM

In the aftermath of “from the river to the sea” anti-Israel protests on many college campuses and in the streets comes a perfectly timed book by Johns Hopkins University Professor Benjamin Ginsberg titled “The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, The Right, and the Jews.” Professor Ginsberg is especially hard on progressives and urges American Jews to move away from their longtime support of…

Liberals’ Dilemma: Immigration or Israel?

October 17th, 2023 11:29 AM

The war between Hamas and Israel forces everyone to recognize an uncomfortable truth: Immigration is a foreign-policy issue. In Germany, as throngs of Hamas supporters took to the streets, Henry Kissinger told Welt TV, “It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that…

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Beschloss Compares Biden to Lincoln, Attacks Debate About 'Curtains'

September 29th, 2023 10:16 AM

MSNBC presidential historian Michael Beschloss joined Thursday’s Alex Wagner Tonight to recap what the chyron described as President Biden’s “fourth address on saving democracy” and the previous night’s GOP debate. Naturally, Beschloss thought Biden was comparable to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt preparing the nation for World War II while lamenting Republicans were talking…

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CBS Praises Biden For Having 'Accomplished Many Important Things'

September 9th, 2023 11:22 AM

It can be hard to tell if Robert Costa is CBS’s campaigns and elections correspondent or a paid spokesman for Biden 2024 because on CBS Saturday Morning, Costa sat down with The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer where the two marveled over Biden having supposedly “accomplished many important things” and that people do not remember how “dark” it was when Biden took office.

President’s Day Parade (of Quotes): Using History to Spin the News

February 20th, 2023 8:50 AM

Journalists love to use past presidents to measure today’s politicians, either to build up those who exemplify their historical liberal heroes, or to belittle conservatives with whom they disagree. Here’s a deep dive into the MRC’s archives showing how the media have used presidents from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to JFK as talking points in today’s political battles.

New Expose on the Time FDR Messed With Thanksgiving (and Regretted It)

November 25th, 2021 11:00 AM

The holiday of Thanksgiving is under a yearly attack from liberals who find the holiday hateful and a “day of mourning.” But a newly reissued book on the history of the day finds it’s not the first time Thanksgiving has been under fire. Conservatives will find chapter 7 particularly interesting: It reminds readers of Franklin Roosevelt’s botched attempt to mess with the holiday.

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On MSNBC, Beschloss & Meacham Compare Biden to Eisenhower, FDR

November 17th, 2021 11:42 AM

On Monday evening, MSNBC featured the views of two of its longtime presidential historians to lavish praise on President Joe Biden for getting the infrastructure funding bill passed, with comparisons being made to Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

Joe Biden, From Comedy to Tragedy

September 10th, 2021 2:52 PM

Washington -- How could a comic figure from the world of politics such as President Joe Biden suddenly become such a tragic figure on the American scene? One minute he is bringing all civilized observers to laughter by telling Katie Couric that former President Franklin Roosevelt dealt with the 1929 stock market crash by getting "on television" and reassuring his fellow Americans as only FDR…

FDR vs. JFK vs. JRB

September 1st, 2021 1:39 AM

In his address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt said: “… we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With…

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Breaking Institutions: Nets Skip First Meeting of Court Packing Panel

May 19th, 2021 11:19 PM

For four years, the liberal media would scream from the rooftops about how President Trump was “destroying our democratic institutions.” But ABC, CBS, and NBC were nowhere to be seen Wednesday night following the first meeting and swearing-in of President Biden’s commission to reshape the Supreme Court in the way only radical liberals benefitted from (either with court-packing or taking away…

Is COVID Relief Discouraging Work? Lefties Hilariously Say, ‘No Way’

May 13th, 2021 8:27 PM

“Experts” predicted 1 million jobs would be created in April. The actual number fell far short, at 266,000. Republicans warned that overly generous COVID-19 relief benefits create a disincentive to work. The day before this disappointing jobs report, Bloomberg wrote: “In earnings calls and business surveys, executives often blame stimulus checks and generous unemployment benefits for hampering…

CNN Host Fantasizes ‘Biden’s New Deal’ Can ‘Make America Great Again’

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April 2nd, 2021 1:11 PM

CNN host Fareed Zakaria hijacked former President Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” and slapped it on President Joe Biden’s gargantuan federal spending.

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CNN Wonders If America Never Learned From (FDR's) Internment Camps

March 19th, 2021 2:53 PM

Despite the fact that Atlanta police have still refused to say race played a factor in Tuesday's mass shooting -- and the FBI is suggesting race was not a factor -- CNN Newsroom still blamed Republicans like former President Trump for the shooting on Thursday and wondered if the country has moved beyond things such as World War II internment camps. And who was president then…