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CNN's Avlon Decries Flood of GOP 'Hyperpartisan Cowards and Cranks'

August 20th, 2022 3:16 PM

On Wednesday's New Day show, CNN's  John Avlon delivered another of his "Realty Check" segments which are often more about promoting liberal spin to attack conservatives than to be factually accurate. The liberal CNN analyst derided the GOP as a party that mostly nominates "hyperpartisan cowards and cranks."

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Give Liz Cheney a Participation Trophy

August 17th, 2022 10:31 PM

Rep. Liz Cheney was clobbered by 37 points in her Wyoming Republican primary, but the media broke out their praises as she compared herself to Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. They asked her if she would run for president in 2024, ignoring all proof that she drove her political car off a cliff. Scott Whitlock joins the show to assess the contrast between today's Glorious Liz and yesterday's Odious…

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NBC Lobbies Cheney: Just Say It's Better for Dems to Keep Congress!

August 17th, 2022 2:45 PM

NBC on Wednesday repeatedly lobbied Liz Cheney to run for president after she lost her renomination bid for Congress. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie also repeated the media-created comparison that Cheney is Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars and Trump is Darth Vader. 

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CNN Admits: Liz Cheney's Base Is 'Democrats and the Beltway Media!'

August 17th, 2022 10:49 AM

Given Liz Cheney's overwhelming defeat in yesterday's Wyoming Republican congressional primary, it would clearly be a very uphill slog to win a national GOP presidential primary, should that be her goal for 2024. On today's New Day, CNN cast Cheney as having two legs to her base of support: Democrats, and the Beltway media!
 

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Media Love Her Now, But Hated ‘Toxic’ ‘Daughter of Dracula’ Then

August 17th, 2022 9:30 AM

Liz Cheney on Tuesday night badly lost her renomination bid in Congress, getting trounced by BLANK points. Journalists have been eagerly cheering Cheney 2.0 as the GOP’s Joan of Arc, willing to be burned at the political stake for principles. But a simple look into history shows that journalistic love for a Republican is entirely dependent on how useful that person is to liberal press.

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NBC Now: Trump Is Darth Vader! NBC in 2011: Dick Cheney Is Vader!

August 16th, 2022 3:15 PM

NBC journalists need to decide who Darth Vader is in their tortured political analogies. On Tuesday’s Today, Hallie Jackson said to an on-screen colleague, “[Let me] raise you a Star Wars analogy.” Talking about the probable loss of Liz Cheney in Wyoming’s congressional primary, she connected, “I'm told by one source that Cheney's staffers are really big fans of a recent editorial that…

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Flashback to When MSNBC Hated 'Odious' and 'Toxic' Liz Cheney

August 13th, 2022 11:13 AM

Now that journalists see Liz Cheney as a heroic Joan of Arc, willing to be burned at the political stake, it’s good to sometimes remind everyone of the seething hatred many in the liberal media had for the daughter of Dick Cheney. One such example is the July 17, 2013 edition of MSNBC’s All In. 

Column: Liz Cheney, the GOP's Joan of Arc?

August 10th, 2022 5:57 AM

As the Wyoming primaries approach, The New York Times is already preparing the post-election spin boosting the post-congressional exploits of Liz Cheney. The August 8 front-page headline was “Cheney Ready to Lose a Race, But Not a Fight.”

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Liberal PBS Pundit Compares His Hero Liz Cheney to... Obi-Wan Kenobi

August 7th, 2022 11:14 PM

On Friday's PBS NewsHour, liberal MSNBC Sunday host and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart made a Star Wars analogy, comparing Liz Cheney to Obi-Wan Kenobi (and Trump to Darth Vader).

NewsBusters Podcast: Al Gore Meets 'Caress from the Press'

July 25th, 2022 10:12 PM

In a maddening round of Sunday interviews, network anchors gushed all over Al Gore and Liz Cheney, and each were asked if they would run for president. Gore compared "climate deniers" to Uvalde cops, and Chuck Todd didn't blink. Instead, he made three false statements, arguing Americans were all on one side on abortion, guns, and climate.

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'They Should Do It' Lemon Supports Dems Voting for Cheney in Primary

June 30th, 2022 11:37 PM

On Thursday night's Don Lemon Tonight, Lemon and two of his guests CNN commentator Nia-Malika Henderson and Republican political strategist Scott Jennings discussed anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney's primary challenge and whether she can survive it, or if she will be ousted on August 16. 

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Morning Joe Trumpets 1/6 Ratings, But Bury Biden's -- And Their Own!

June 13th, 2022 11:09 AM

Morning Joe trumpets the ratings of the first night of the J6 ratings, which attracted, across several networks, a cumulative audience of about 20 million people. Joe and Mika make invidious comparisons with the ratings of Donald Trump's Apprentice shows. But Morning Joe rarely if ever mentions Joe Biden's terrible ratings. Not to mention Morning Joe's own terrible ratings: with a loss over…

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Joe Scarborough Compares Liz Cheney to Churchill and Zelenskyy

June 11th, 2022 10:02 AM

On the Friday edition of Morning Joe, the hosts and guests whined at Republicans for “deflecting and deflecting” the “attack on our democracy” and Joe Scarborough glorified Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the new Winston Churchill of our time.

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CBS Fawns Over ‘Shocking,’ ‘Harrowing’ J6 Hearings to ‘Change History’

June 10th, 2022 4:56 PM

Friday’s CBS Mornings went all out in reaction to Thursday’s primetime hearing of the House Select Committee on January 6, leading all broadcast network morning news shows with 16 minutes and 30 seconds on the liberal extravaganza and boasting the “historic” and “vital” gathering contained “shocking new evidence,” “harrowing testimony,” and a recognition that America’s still in grave…