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CNN Guest: If Muslims Targeted, GOP Will Have 'Blood on Their Hands'
September 29th, 2015 8:01 PM
During Monday's edition of CNN Tonight With Don Lemon, the host lost control of a discussion about what Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have said about not accepting a Muslim as the nation's commander in chief.
Referring specifically to Carson's comment on the potential for a Muslim president -- which he said he would not support because of Islam’s ties…
Lefty Pundit: GOP Practices Idea-Free ‘Politics of Anger’
September 28th, 2015 8:27 PM
In mid-July, The Huffington Post announced it would cover Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as entertainment news. Waldman might like that policy extended to GOPers in general, since he thinks they’re more about sound-and-fury theatrics than ideas or legislative accomplishments.
“Today's Republicans,” wrote Waldman in a Sunday American Prospect column, “truly have created not just a politics…
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Carl Bernstein: 'Zealots Are Winning the Soul of the Republican Party'
September 25th, 2015 11:44 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's CNN Newsroom, CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein asserted that "zealots are winning the soul of the Republican Party" as he blamed the "zealots of his party" for Republican House Speaker John Boehner's announced resignation from the House of Representatives.
Moments later, as he praised the Pope's speech to Congress, Bernstein took a shot at Texas Senator Ted…
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Pierce Uses Pope’s Congressional Speech to Bash Cruz, Conservatives
September 25th, 2015 12:00 AM
Liberal Esquire political columnist Charles Pierce, formerly with the Boston Globe, joined MSNBC’s All In on Thursday during live coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to New York City and used the occasion of the Pope’s speech hours earlier before Congress to lash out at Ted Cruz and conservatives for not endorsing climate change or other liberal social issues as does the Pontiff.
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Cruz, FNC Hosts Excoriate Media for Pushing Pope's Trip as Bad for GOP
September 23rd, 2015 7:15 AM
At the top of Tuesday’s The Kelly File, host Megyn Kelly joined MediaBuzz host Howard Kurtz and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz in scorching the liberal media for their portrayal of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States as bad for the GOP while ignoring his steadfast support for life and traditional marriage.
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Colbert Lectures Cruz from the Left on Reagan: ‘He Raised Taxes’
September 22nd, 2015 9:05 AM
Proving he’s a liberal first and a comedian second, Stephen Colbert, who had a very friendly session last Friday with socialist Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, was more hostile on Monday night to the political positions of Republican presidential contender Senator Ted Cruz, whom he described as “far right.” Colbert pushed him to match Ronald Reagan by agreeing to raise taxes and…
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ABC and NBC Omit CMP Videos in Coverage of House Vote to Defund PP
September 19th, 2015 2:01 AM
While the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all miraculously acknowledged on Friday evening the House’s passage of a bill defunding Planned Parenthood, ABC and NBC provided no context in mentioning the horrifying videos released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) that exposed gruesome practices by the abortion provider.
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Matthews Attacks Cuban Heritage of Cruz, Rubio; 'Trapped' in the 1950s
September 17th, 2015 4:25 AM
In the late hours of Wednesday night after the Republican debate, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was in his element as he whined about the 2016 GOP candidates being “very ideological tonight” and targeted the Cuban-American heritage of Senators Marco Rubio (Fl.) and Ted Cruz (Tex.) for thinking that “they still are fighting a Cold War” and “treat[ing] Obama like he’s Castro.”
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CNN’s Bash Hounds GOP Candidates on Possible Gov’t Shutdown over PP
September 16th, 2015 10:31 PM
Near the end of the first hour of the CNN Republican Debate, co-moderator Dana Bash fretted to numerous 2016 candidates about the possibility of a federal government shutdown over a conservative effort to defund Planned Parenthood that included her hounding Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) whether or not he would “support the shutdown.”
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ABC Omits Latest Rant from Iran’s Supreme Leader in Nuke Deal Coverage
September 9th, 2015 9:37 PM
On Wednesday night, ABC was the lone network to omit from their coverage of the Iran deal rally that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei offered a new rant hours earlier in which he promised the country will not cooperate with the U.S. on any other issue beyond the deal in addition to predicting that Israel would not exist in 25 years.
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Heilemann: Hillary a 'Commander-in-Chief,' Trump and Cruz 'Clowns'
September 9th, 2015 7:01 PM
John Heilemann has saluted his next President and Commander-in-Chief: Hillary Clinton.
On today's With All Due Respect, commenting on Hillary's remarks on the Iran deal at the Brookings Institution and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz's comments at a rally, Heilemann declared "there is exactly one potential president in that group, and that president is Hillary Rodham Clinton . . . Everything she said…
Vice Writer Trolls Cruz to Raise Money for Planned Parenthood
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September 9th, 2015 9:21 AM
For the past 13 days, comedian and writer for Vice, Josh Androsky has riled up liberals on social media to donate to Planned Parenthood. He’s done it by mocking GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
NY Times Editor Andrew Rosenthal: GOP Candidates 'Idiots...Xenophobic'
September 7th, 2015 9:47 PM
New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal appeared on a nytimes.com podcast and insulted every Republican candidate in nasty, personal terms, throwing around the words "idiot" and "xenophobic" and insulting Justice Clarence Thomas in a racially loaded fashion. Rosenthal then accused the 1988 George H.W. Bush using the Pledge of Allegiance as an issue "deliberately and specifically…
WashPost Writer Flirts with Birtherism...Against Ted Cruz
September 2nd, 2015 8:52 PM
With the battle over the Iran deal heating up, Hillary Clinton’s e-mail troubles growing more severe, and more footage of Planned Parenthood’s callous harvesting of the organs of dead children coming to light, you would think the liberal print media would have their hands full. Rather than dwell on these stories, however, James Hohmann of the Washington Post decided that a much more important…