Obama to German Media: Don't 'Overstate What Happened' During Election

November 22nd, 2016 5:58 PM
During Barack Obama's final overseas trip as the president of America, the outgoing Democrat sat down for an interview with German reporters in a discussion that ranged from the victory of Republican President-Elect Donald Trump to the likelihood that many items in the Democrat's legacy will be reversed when he leaves the White House. The first question in the interview by Klaus Brinkbaumer…

WashPost Touts Lefty Tears, Free Acupuncture to Cope with Trump Win

November 21st, 2016 6:39 PM
The liberal meltdown over the 2016 presidential election resurfaced on the front page of the local news section from Sunday’s Washington Post as journalists Michael Alison Chandler and Tara Bahrampour profiled snowflakes upset at Hillary Clinton’s loss who called in sick from work, wore black the day after the election, and even offered free acupuncture and tea for teary-eyed spa patrons.  

Notable Quotables: Special Media Meltdown Edition

November 21st, 2016 8:00 AM
In this November 21 edition of Notable Quotables, The media throw a collective fit over the election of Donald Trump. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews moans: “This is a different Earth today than it was 24 hours ago.” CNN’s Van Jones declares Trump’s victory was a “white-lash” against Barack Obama and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman compares Trump’s victory to 9/11.   

Liberal Strategist: Right Says ‘Jump,’ New York Times Says ‘How High?’

November 20th, 2016 4:53 PM
If you asked a hundred conservatives to name the de facto flagship publication of American liberalism, The New York Times probably would get more mentions than any other. Still, it hasn’t been hard to find lefties upset with the paper about matters such as its supposed longstanding hostility toward Bill and Hillary Clinton. How the Times, especially its coverage of the e-mail story, may have made…

Salon's Amanda Marcotte: Media Got Hillary Same Way They Got Gore

November 19th, 2016 1:55 PM
Major similarities between the 2016 presidential election and that of 2000 don’t end with the Democrat winning the popular vote but losing the electoral vote, claims Marcotte, who contended that the media had it in for Hillary Clinton the same way they did for Al Gore, and that in each case biased campaign coverage was a factor in driving down Democratic voter turnout. Regarding this year’s race…
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Keith Olbermann: President-Elect Donald Trump's Behavior 'Not Normal'

November 18th, 2016 5:01 PM
Just when we thought we'd heard the last from Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC bomb-thrower has created an online video series for GQ magazine entitled The Resistance, in which the former sportscaster and political commentator is lashing out at President-Elect Donald Trump as “the man who was elected by a minority” whose actions are “not normal.” The fire-breathing pundit also targeted former…
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Whoopi Scoffs: 'I've Actually Looked Stuff Up,' Unlike Trump

November 18th, 2016 10:56 AM
The millions of Americans who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because they found her untrustworthy simply didn’t “do their homework,” according to one host on ABC’s The View. That statement was provoked after co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg said that Trump was untrustworthy because of his lack of political experience, whereas Clinton was very trustworthy because of her experience in…
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Dana Loesch Cites the MRC to Slam Media for Their Own 'Fake News'

November 17th, 2016 11:52 PM
The Blaze’s Dana Loesch unleashed on the liberal media Thursday evening, during her appearance on Fox News’ The Kelly File, for creating the atmosphere for “fake news” to flourish. And she cited the Media Research Center to do it. “It was the Media Research Center and they discovered that about 8 percent of voters, they determined that maybe if what they had believed was being said about Hillary…
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Nets Hail ‘Unbroken’ Hillary Delivering ‘Emotional Speech’

November 17th, 2016 3:48 PM
Thursday’s network morning shows applauded a “downhearted but unbroken” Hillary Clinton addressing supporters at a Washington gala Wednesday night with her first “emotional speech” since losing to Donald Trump in the presidential race. On ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts touted Clinton “opening up about that defeat” and sympathetically declared: “Her disappointment and…
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CNN: Hillary's Loss is 'Still Crushing' For 'Millions' of Women

November 17th, 2016 3:28 PM
Thursday's New Day on CNN harped on how supposedly for "millions of American women...the pain runs deep" in the wake of Hillary Clinton's defeat. Kyung Lah touted that "if 2016 was identity politics, women across social media feel theirs is under attack in Clinton's loss." Lah spotlighted three female Clinton supporters at UCLA. One undergraduate revealed, "I've had to wake up to the reality that…
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Media Meme Destroyed: Trump's Turnout Operation Was Groundbreaking

November 16th, 2016 5:40 PM
During the 2016 presidential campaign, the "everybody knows" conventional wisdom in the establishment press which never went away, even as some contrary evidence appeared, was that Donald Trump's campaign, away from his rallies, was a haphazard operation which was doing very little to identify, target and persuade voters. At the New Republic in mid-June, Jeet Heer confidently summed up the media…
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NBC Touts Clinton Campaign ‘Lashing Out’ at Facebook for Loss

November 16th, 2016 5:07 PM
After all three broadcast networks on Monday promoted the liberal excuse that Hillary Clinton lost the presidential race because of “fake news” shared on Facebook, on Wednesday, NBC’s Today continued to push the narrative by highlighting a “feud” within the social media company and parroting Clinton Campaign talking points blaming the social network for Donald Trump’s victory.
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CBS: After Hillary Loss, ‘Electoral College May Be Upended Next’

November 16th, 2016 3:42 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Wednesday touted the effort on the left to abolish the electoral college in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s loss. Reporter Tony Dokoupil insisted that the political process “may be upended next.” The morning show featured the angry, sometimes violent, crowds who chanted “not my president” and “Donald Trump has got to go!”

Post-Election Layoffs at Univision

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November 16th, 2016 2:34 PM
We recently reported on how Univision was the biggest media loser from this election cycle, given all that was at stake for the network. Those ramifications have begun to play out in real time and are now affecting real lives.