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Scarborough On DeSantis: GOP Didn't Want Imitation 'Fat Elvis' Trump

January 22nd, 2024 12:02 PM

On Morning Joe, commenting on Ron DeSantis's withdrawal from the race, Joe Scarborough says that DeSantis made the mistake of trying to get into the lane that Donald Trump had already filled, that of the super-MAGA voters. Scarborough depicted Trump as the "Fat Elvis" of 1977, and that people going to see him in Las Vegas weren't going to instead choose a knock-off imitation of Fat Elvis. 

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CNN's Allison Accuses DeSantis of Trying to 'Erase' Black History

January 19th, 2024 4:51 PM

On Wednesday's The Source, CNN host Kaitlan Collins demonstrated that the liberal news network is still showing a double standard in aggressively fact-checking Republicans while still allowing Democrats to peddle misinformation.

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CNN Post-Townhall Show Praises DeSantis, Quickly Moves On

January 17th, 2024 12:55 AM

The Cable News Network, in an apparent desire to torture its viewers, decided that a one-hour candidate town hall required a two-hour post-show analysis. Which, in this case, was about one hour and 40 minutes too many.

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MSNBC Blames 'Developing Technology' For Media's Premature Iowa Calls

January 16th, 2024 2:00 PM

On Tuesday’s installment of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, the eponymous host defended the media’s decision to project Donald Trump as the winner of the Iowa Caucus even before all precincts and started voting by claiming voters couldn’t change what they were going to do. Meanwhile, correspondent Vaughn Hillyard blamed modern technology for the media’s decision as if it was somehow…

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ABC, NBC Ignore Media’s Election Interference in Iowa; CBS Owns Up

January 16th, 2024 12:46 PM

Before many Iowa caucus sites even had attendees cast their ballots, most national news organizations projected former President Trump as the winner, leading to cries of election interference (despite most admitting that was already going to be the outcome). Early Tuesday, CBS Mornings and co-host Tony Dokoupil went against the grain and, unlike ABC’s Good Morning America and…

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CNN Democrat Commentator: Trump A 'Walking, Talking, Middle Finger'

January 16th, 2024 10:01 AM

On CNN This Morning, Jamal Simmons, a CNN commentator and former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris, calls Donald Trump a "walking, talking, middle finger."

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‘Unsettling’; CBS Smears Pro-Border Voters as Racist, Xenophobic Rubes

January 15th, 2024 8:53 PM

Monday’s CBS Mornings went to disgusting lengths to smear Americans who are deeply concerned about the ongoing crisis at the southern border, the unfettered flow of illegal immigrants, and the consequences of inaction, such as crime and drugs. Over nearly 10 minutes, the co-hosts blasted millions of Americans for holding “unsettling” views that don’t object to President Trump’s belief…

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Nets Puff Haley Ahead of Caucus as ‘Reasonable’ GOPer for Biden Voters

January 15th, 2024 4:01 PM

The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning news shows on Monday ahead of the Iowa caucuses to cheer Nikki Haley as their preferred alternative to former President Trump, boasting of her “new momentum” and desire “to work with Democrats” has “resonate[d]” with Republicans, independents, and “even Democrats” who are considering voting for President Biden in…

NewsBusters Podcast: It's Obvious the Nets Want Trump to Face Biden

January 12th, 2024 10:35 PM

A new MRC study by Rich Noyes of all the evening-news coverage of the Republican presidential race on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2023 makes it obvious the networks want Trump to be the nominee. He drew almost all of the coverage -- other candidates could barely get noticed. And most of the Trump coverage obsessed over his legal problems, mostly avoiding any national policy issues. 

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Jimmy Kimmel Speculates About Ron DeSantis's Sex Life

January 12th, 2024 10:04 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel is a strange person. The latest evidence being his Thursday monologue where he pondered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s sex life, specifically his supposed lack of skill in that area of his life.

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NBC LIES: DeSantis, Haley Spent Debate ‘Barely Criticizing’ Trump

January 11th, 2024 4:38 PM

On Thursday morning amid the network recaps of Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate between Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Nikki Haley, NBC’s Today and senior Capitol Hill correspondent Garrett Haake offered a pants-on-fire lie that the two “launch[ed]” repeated attacks on each other’s records and honesty and “barely criticiz[ed]” frontrunner Donald Trump “[d]espite trailing…

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EXCLUSIVE: TV Ignores Issues & Rivals, Fixates on Bashing Trump

January 11th, 2024 8:20 AM

As actual voting is set to begin in the 2024 presidential election, a new study by the Media Research Center finds the three broadcast evening newscasts’ fixation with bashing Donald Trump has meant both his fellow candidates and substantive policy issues have been shunted to the sidelines.

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DeSantis SCHOOLS Anderson Cooper for Boosting LIES About His Campaign

January 11th, 2024 2:40 AM

The fifth Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday (hosted by CNN) between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley was certainly heated; with both candidates taking wild rhetorical swings at each other. And in a post-debate interview, DeSantis showed he still had a lot of fight in him as he schooled CNN’s Anderson Cooper for parroting falsehoods about…

Know-Nothing Media Hit DeSantis’ ‘Pale Pastels’ Reagan Quote As Sexist

January 11th, 2024 1:02 AM

A basic tenet of any sort of media tradecraft, whether in print or on-screen, is that you should have some knowledge of the things of which you speak or write. Revolutionary concept, I know. When that doesn’t happen, we get what we saw tonight- an assortment of drive-bys beclowning themselves over the meaning of a quote used by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as a callback to Ronald Reagan.