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CBS: GOP’s ‘Mixed Messages’ on Vaccines ‘Left an Opening' for Hillary
February 3rd, 2015 9:54 PM
On Tuesday’s CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes continued the liberal spin that the only anti-vaxxers are Republicans. In between soundbites from numerous figures in the Republican Party stating their support for vaccinations and only Republican Senator Rand Paul (Ky.) offering a slightly different take during an interview on Monday, Cordes ruled…
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Thomas Roberts: Jeb Will Be Tied To Charlie Hebdo Because Abu Ghraib
January 30th, 2015 8:46 AM
You say "Jeb Bush," Thomas Roberts says "the Kouachi brothers."
It's got to be one of the strangest political Rorschach test results of all time. On today's Morning Joe, Roberts claimed that Jeb Bush would have a "big onus" around his neck if he runs for president "because if we hear 'Bush' we're automatically going to go to people bringing up the Kouachi brothers and their photos of Abu Ghraib…
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HuffPo's Stein: Clintons Need to Win Lotto to Compete With Koch Bros
January 27th, 2015 3:12 PM
Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Tuesday, Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein worried that the Clinton political machine would be unable to compete with funding from Charles and David Koch during the 2016 presidential campaign: "I mean, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton will be scratching lotto tickets, I think, for the next week just trying to catch up with the $889 million that the Koch…
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ABC’s David Muir Continues Network Fawning Over Clinton Baby
January 22nd, 2015 5:44 PM
On Wednesday night, ABC’s World News Tonight and anchor David Muir restarted the media promotion of Chelsea Clinton’s new baby with Bill and Hillary Clinton as grandparents by spending 24 seconds informing viewers of the competition between Bill and Hillary for “who gets to read to Charlotte.”
Muir also took particular interest in how Hillary spends her time with the newest member of the Clinton…
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NBC Boosts Hillary Clinton Trying ‘Her Hand At Comedy’
January 22nd, 2015 11:23 AM
On Thursday, NBC’s Today gave Hillary Clinton some free publicity following a policy speech she gave in Canada on Wednesday. During a news brief in the 7:00 a.m. hour, Natalie Morales gushed how Mrs. Clinton “may try her hand at comedy. During a policy speech in Canada on Wednesday, Clinton described a mock conversation that Vladimir Putin had with himself about becoming Russia’s president again…
The Economist Worries: Democrats Are 'An Army Without Generals'
January 18th, 2015 8:08 AM
While the national media relentlessly focus on all the problems in politics belonging to the Republican Party, even after the 2014 midterms – after which they projected all the same problems with minorities and the “far right” Tea Party faction in 2016 that they’d spent the last two years predicting.
What most journalists fail to do – at least in public – is diagnose anything wrong with the…
Matthews: Hillary Can't Lose Against Socially Conservative GOP Nominee
January 6th, 2015 9:11 PM
Doubling down on his comments on yesterday's Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews held out that even if Hillary Clinton were to wage a dreadfully-run campaign, there's no way she would lose to a GOP nominee who disagrees with same-sex marriage and is pro-life.
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Ezra Klein: Strong Economy Means Hillary Would 'Carry 42 States'
January 6th, 2015 1:11 PM
Journalist Ezra Klein on Monday pronounced that if economic conditions continue, Hillary Clinton will win "42 states" in 2016. The former Washington Post columnist, now the editor at Vox, appeared on MSNBC's All In to make his prognosticate.
WashPost 'Conservatives' Slam Ted Cruz Wing of GOP: 'Too Much Clarity'
December 30th, 2014 11:05 AM
The staff "conservatives" at The Washington Post are throwing the kitchen sink at the Ted Cruz wing of the Republican Party again on the Post editoral page on Tuesday. In his columm, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson dismisses conservatives (like Cruz) who favor so-called “apocalyptic showdowns” with Obama on his executive-power trips.
Gerson concluded by talking 2016: "Those who judge a…
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Year-End Awards: The Pantsuit Patrol Award
December 27th, 2014 11:50 AM
For the last several days, NewsBusters has been showcasing the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2014” as a way to review the worst media bias of 2014. Today’s categories: the Pantsuit Patrol Award for Boosting Hillary Clinton, and the America’s Royal Baby Award.
Bozell & Graham Column on the Worst of 2014: 'Victory for the Haters'
December 23rd, 2014 11:34 PM
Historians will record that 2014 was a terrible year for liberal Democrats, not just at the polls but also in the news. The networks spent most of the fall campaign pretending there wasn’t a fall campaign, and for good reason. Obama’s Hope and Change aura had completely sunk into the muck as Obama’s honesty and competence both took a hit in the hard news of ISIS and Ebola.
But if Team Obama…
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Halperin/Heilemann: MSM Primed to Dig Into Hillary Dealings
December 17th, 2014 8:53 PM
Mark Halperin claims that the MSM has an "anti-Clinton bias." That might send the blood pressure of a Newsbusters reader rocketing. But before downing a diuretic, consider what he and John Heilemann had to say on their Bloomberg TV show today.
Halperin and Heilemann were riffing off the New York Times report that Hillary's State Department permitted a rich Ecuadorian woman to enter the US after…
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Mitchell: Repeat GOP Candidates in 2016 Makes Hillary, Jeb Seem 'New'
December 15th, 2014 9:11 PM
On Monday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell felt that it was appropriate to skewer three possible GOP presidential contenders in 2016 who had each run previously to argue that their presence would make possible fellow candidates Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush “look positively new.”
In addition, Mitchell reported that Bush is showing every sign of running for the…
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CNN Highlights Pro-Hillary Ad With 'Worst Political Song Ever'
December 8th, 2014 6:12 PM
On Monday's CNN Newsroom, Jeanne Moos zeroed in on the largely-negative response to a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC's music video-style ad, which features a country music song about the former First Lady. Moos wasted little time before reporting that "at least one website warns, 'This pro-Hillary cowboy anthem will make your ears bleed.'"