Show That Paved Way for Gay Marriage in Talks for NBC Revival
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January 3rd, 2017 4:22 PM
Following the popularity of their election-themed mini-episode (read: Hillary Clinton ad), the cast of Will & Grace is in talks to begin shooting a revival this year.
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Matthews Lets Biden Falsely Claim He's Never Criticized Tea Party
October 26th, 2016 11:00 PM
Joe Biden appeared on MSNBC's Hardball on Tuesday, and claimed that "You never heard me criticize the tea party." Millions of people with decent memories and the ability to hear know that this is not true. Those with longer memories know that Biden's strident criticisms of the Tea Party movement, its members and its political candidates and officeholders go back over six years.
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CBS Touts Attacks on Donald Trump by Joe Biden and Tim Kaine
September 2nd, 2016 12:17 AM
Instead of reporting the findings of a Politico investigation which found that Bill Clinton had abused a federal program to supplement the Clinton Foundation, CBS chose to tout the campaign efforts of Vice President Joe Biden and VP candidate Tim Kaine. “Hillary Clinton left it to a couple of high-ranking surrogates to attack Trump's immigration position today,” reported fill-in anchor Maurice…
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MSNBC Gushes: ‘Classic Joe Biden’ is Hillary’s ‘Best Messenger’
September 1st, 2016 3:32 PM
During her MSNBC show on Thursday, host Andrea Mitchell gleefully cheered Joe Biden campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Ohio: “...this is classic Joe Biden, this is Joe from Scranton, talking about all of those working class blue-collar labor towns that you know well in Pennsylvania and Ohio and this is the heart and soul of the Democratic strategy in the rust belt.”
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Nets Hype ‘Hometown Hero’ Biden Stumping for Clinton in Scranton
August 15th, 2016 10:15 PM
Vice President Joe Biden was on the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Monday and the “Big Three” networks seem to be all about it on their news programs that evening. “It is Biden's first time of the campaign trail, side by side with the woman he publicly pondered running against,” reported ABC’s Cecilia Vega on World News Tonight, “The two now united in their fight…
Media Swoon as Barack Obama Plays 300th Round of Golf as President
August 11th, 2016 7:02 PM
As Barack Obama prepares to leave the White House in January, the press is noting the president's accomplishments over the past seven years and seven months.
According to the fawning mainstream media, one of the heights the 55-year-old Democrat has reached is not boosting the country's economy nor successes in foreign policy, but instead that Obama has played more than 300 rounds of golf since…
Daily Kos Writer: Melania’s Plagiarism Should Sink Trump’s Campaign
July 19th, 2016 5:03 PM
In September 1987, Joe Biden quit the race for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, in large part because he’d been caught plagiarizing a speech by British politician Neil Kinnock. A Tuesday Daily Kos post seemed to suggest that Biden should have dropped out back then even if it’d been his wife, Jill, exposed as a high-profile plagiarist…or maybe David Nir has a different standard for…
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CBS Anchor Demands Executive Action on ‘Armor Piercing Bullets’
July 11th, 2016 11:10 PM
Following the tragic attack on Dallas police officers late last week, CBS anchor Scott Pelley took it upon himself on Monday to pressure Vice President Joe Biden for the Obama administration ban so-called ‘armor piercing rounds.” “Late today we asked Joe Biden about the ready availability of armor-piercing bullets,” he stated on CBS Evening News, “Dallas' mayor has blamed them for penetrating his…
Liberal Pundit Advises Hillary to Keep ‘Uncle Joe’ Biden As VP
July 9th, 2016 10:52 AM
If Hillary Clinton takes Joel Dodge’s advice, one of Washington’s kings of unintentional comedy might be in the spotlight for a while longer. Dodge, a lawyer who also writes for The Week, thinks Clinton should choose current vice president Joe Biden as her running mate. Biden, contended Dodge, “is virtually risk-free and carries more upside…[He] is universally known, vetted, and unquestionably…
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Mitchell Whines Clinton/Lynch Meeting Has ‘Overshadowed’ the Campaign
July 1st, 2016 2:24 PM
MSNBC host and NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell was still at it on Friday afternoon lamenting that the Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch airplane meeting has been “overshadowing” Hillary Clinton’s campaign and surmised that the former President wasn’t looking to “gain some influence” from the Attorney General as her Justice Department and FBI investigate Hillary’s private e-mail server.
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CBS Hosts Applaud Biden Dismissing ‘Outside’ Critics
June 21st, 2016 4:18 PM
In an exclusive interview with Joe Biden on Monday for his PBS program, which was partially re-aired in the 8 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, host Charlie Rose actually questioned the Vice President on State Department officials rebelling against the Obama administration’s failed foreign policy in Syria: “So what did you think of those 51 diplomats in the State Department who said we…
Liberal Writer: Media to Blame For Hillary’s ‘Political PTSD’
June 4th, 2016 3:37 PM
As many NewsBusters readers know, a fairly common talking point on the left is that Hillary (and Bill) Clinton have consistently gotten a raw deal from the national media. Unsurprisingly, New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister raised the issue in an 8,200-word piece on Hillary and her campaign that appears in the magazine’s May 30 issue. “If Clinton suffers from a kind of political PTSD that makes…
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Actor Claims Biden ‘Impartial’ During Clarence Thomas Hearings
April 5th, 2016 12:34 PM
On Tuesday, NBC’s Today promoted the new HBO movie Confirmation, about the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings and the smear campaign waged against him based on false sexual harassment claims from Anita Hill. Actor Greg Kinnear insisted that Senator Joe Biden was nothing but fair throughout the hearings: “...if you watch just the hearings, you certainly get a sense of the – of his trying…
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Fineman: 'Evangelicals Love Conspiracy Theories, Believe in the Devil'
March 22nd, 2016 6:02 PM
After Texas Senator Ted Cruz gave a rousing speech at the American Israel Public Relations Committee Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, MSNBC contributor Howard Fineman tried to slam the GOP presidential candidate by claiming that he and many other evangelicals “love conspiracy theories because they believe in the devil,” whom he asserted is viewed as “the ultimate conspiracist.”…