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FLASHBACK: Media Blamed GOP ‘Hard Right’ After Boehner’s Exit, Too
October 7th, 2023 8:42 AM
Since Tuesday’s ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, journalists have slammed House Republicans as radicals and extremists. If it sounds familiar, it’s because that’s exactly what viewers heard after Republican Speaker John Boehner stepped down eight years ago.
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No Objection on MSNBC as Guest Rants: GOP Wants ‘Americans Murdered'
April 19th, 2021 10:04 AM
The media has decided once again to fall in line with the Democrats’ gun agenda. Demonstrating the media’s parroting of Democratic talking points about guns, on Sunday afternoon’s Alex Witt Reports MSNBC host Alex Witt collaborated with Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) to push for gun control. Witt indulged in some gaslighting by claiming that Democrats are not trying to implement…
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PBS's Woodruff Asks Boehner If GOP 'Demonizing' Pelosi Is 'Sexist'
April 17th, 2021 10:08 AM
On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, host Judy Woodruff pushed the sort of identity politics often employed by liberals as she fretted that it is "sexist" to be sharply critical of a liberal politician if she is a woman, as if men never receive similar scrutiny.
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Colbert Tells Boehner, Far Left Doesn't Have Media on Their Side
April 13th, 2021 10:40 AM
Comedian turned late-night liberal propagandist Stephen Colbert actually said something funny on his show last night, except he was completely serious.
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'View' Loves Boehner Trash-Talking GOP: 'He Doesn't Hold Back!'
April 12th, 2021 2:27 PM
Hey, this Republican's out of office and courageously trashing his own party to sell books? The View producers couldn't book him quickly enough! The hosts egged on Boehner to say nasty things about his former GOP colleagues, while pushing him from the left on the Tea Party and President Obama.
Liberal Pundit: GOP Now a ‘White Ethno-Nationalist Party’
August 12th, 2016 9:06 PM
Donald Trump has, to borrow a phrase from Barack Obama, changed the trajectory of the GOP, contended Talking Points Memo editor and publisher Marshall in a Thursday post. “The white ethno-nationalist party which Trump has brought out of the shadows and mobilized,” wrote Marshall, “is now and will continue to be the Republican party…This seems like a transformative event.” Even if “committed Trump…
Salon Writer: GOP Now Home for Nutty 'Bolshevism of the Right'
May 1st, 2016 8:57 PM
Several decades ago, there were plenty of right-of-center Democrats and left-of-center Republicans. These days, however, almost everyone agrees that the Democrats have become a distinctly liberal party and the GOP a distinctly conservative party. One who disagrees in part is writer Conor Lynch, who in a Saturday article claimed that Republicans have transitioned out of true conservatism and now…
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Meyers Hints Boehner's Lucifer Line Implies Cruz Is Worse Than Hastert
April 30th, 2016 2:00 PM
NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers has a clearly documented record against conservatives, but the show from late Thursday into Friday sunk to a new low as he cracked a joke about John Boehner’s Lucifer comments toward Ted Cruz as an implication that he’s worse than the now-revealed child molester Dennis Hastert.
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Networks Seize on Boehner’s Nasty Slam to Bury Cruz
April 29th, 2016 12:59 PM
All three network morning shows on Friday reveled in John Boehner’s vicious attack on Ted Cruz, hyping the former House Speaker labeling the Texas senator “Lucifer in the flesh.” The NBC, CBS, and ABC broadcasts portrayed the comment as another “challenge” that “really hurts” Cruz’s campaign. On NBC’s Today, correspondent Peter Alexander happily punned his way through a report: “For Ted Cruz,…
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Matthews: Cruz Is Lucifer While ‘John Boehner Is the Angel with Wings'
April 29th, 2016 12:43 PM
Whenever a Republican lawmaker either leaves office, passes away, or trashes a conservative, you can bet that someone in the liberal media will be there to suddenly heap praise on them and MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was there Thursday night to compared former Speaker of the House John Boehner to “Michael the Archangel” “with wings and sword” versus Ted Cruz as “one in the tail and…
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CNN Anchors Amused at Boehner and Trump Lambasting Cruz
April 28th, 2016 9:58 PM
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin and chief political correspondent Dana Bash both seemed amused by the vitriol aimed at GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz by both former House Speaker John Boehner and by fellow candidate Donald Trump. The first sign of amusement occurred while Baldwin was reading a recent quote from Boehner in which he called Senator Cruz "Lucifer in the flesh"…
WashPost to Pastor: How Would You Treat A Demonically-Possessed Cruz?
April 28th, 2016 8:30 PM
The Washington Post's Philip Bump followed the Huffington Post's example on Thursday in semi-seriously pursuing whether Ted Cruz is, in fact, "Lucifer in the flesh," as former House Speaker John Boehner recently put it. But instead of turning to a Satanist, the journalist consulted with a pastor/exorcist, even though he admitted that "of course there was no truth" to the Republican's jab at the…
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Bee Uses Bathroom Jokes to Bemoan GOP for Not Compromising Post-2010
February 29th, 2016 11:50 PM
Instead of going on a tirade against Donald Trump or the horrors of ISIS, TBS’s Full Frontal host Samantha Bee chose to resume her vile attacks on conservatives with her latest show on Monday night featuring video of an elephant pooping to describe Republicans elected in the 2010 midterms. Specifically, Bee dubbed Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy (S.C.) as the “Benghazi queen” and the House…
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Journalists vs. 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' GOP
October 28th, 2015 10:05 AM
Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American political mainstream. From September 25 to October 23, MRC analysts reviewed all 82 ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news stories about John…
