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CNN Analyst: Trump Is ‘Working with the Japanese After Pearl Harbor'
July 11th, 2017 2:53 PM
On CNN’s Newsroom Monday, political analyst Robert Baer went on a hyperbolic rant about Trump, claiming the President’s behavior towards Russia is akin to “working with the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.”
NY Times Needs 8 Revisions to Fine-Tune Its Trump-Putin Meeting Spin
July 10th, 2017 2:50 PM
The New York Times posted eight revisions over a 23-hour period to its Saturday and then-Sunday story about U.S. President Donald Trump's first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the process, the paper's headline went from an original "Russians Call Trump Meeting Putin a Win, but Doubt Concrete Gains," to a more certain "Russians Call Trump Meeting Putin a Win," to a celebratory "…
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Wallace: ‘Cloud’ of Russia Over Trump ‘No Matter Where He Stands'
July 6th, 2017 12:42 PM
On Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie fretted over how President Trump would handle himself in his upcoming meeting with Russian president and “master manipulator” Vladimir Putin, who “certainly will know how to press the President’s buttons.” MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace had little faith in Trump’s abilities as she ranted: “I think that the White House has successfully lowered the…
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NBC Predicts ‘Tough Trip’ for Trump, ‘Diplomatic Confrontation’
July 5th, 2017 12:41 PM
Reporting live from the site of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday’s NBC Today, correspondent Keir Simmons promised that “President Trump faces a tough trip here with some uncomfortable conversations.” The reporter hyped how Trump “does not see eye-to-eye with the German chancellor” and that “all eyes will be on that meeting with President Putin.”
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ABC: After N. Korea Missile Threat, World Is ‘Worried’... About Trump
July 5th, 2017 11:12 AM
Wednesday on Good Morning America, an ABC journalist casually compared our president to a tyrannical dictator of a totalitarian state, and no one batted an eye. The extreme comment came after ABC reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile this past weekend, that had the capabilities of reaching American soil.
WashPost Promotes New Poll Asserting Trump Unpopular Around the World
June 27th, 2017 6:36 PM
In their never-ending quest to hammer Donald Trump, reporters in the liberal Washington Post referred to an international poll conducted by the Pew Research Center not once, but twice in two days claiming that the Republican president “has alarmed citizens of the nation’s closest allies and others worldwide.” In addition, the article posted on Monday by Post reporters Isaac Stanley-Becker and…
Despite Fascination with Russia, Nets Hardly Mention Chechen Gay Purge
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June 15th, 2017 5:35 PM
It’s mid-way through Pride Month, a celebration of LGBT rights, but broadcast networks -- no strangers to condemning Russia -- are largely ignoring major human rights abuses against Chechnya’s gay community. This, while in 2014, NBC made 26 mentions of Russia’s anti-gay legislation.
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Credulous Oliver Stone on Thug Putin: Why Would ‘Statesman’ Lie to Me?
June 12th, 2017 1:45 PM
It seems that, finally, liberal journalists are challenging the credulous, dictator-coddling filmmaking of lefty Oliver Stone. But maybe that’s because the communist-friendly director avoided tough questions when talking to Vladimir Putin. Appearing on CBS This Morning, Stone fawned over the Russian strong man, praising, “He believes in talk. He believes in peaceful co-existence.”
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Stephanopoulos Tees Up Lying Rice To Smear Trump Administration
June 4th, 2017 1:58 PM
After a couple of whirlwind weeks of the media bashing President Trump on everything from how he “lectured” U.S. allies at the NATO meeting, to his son-in-law Jared Kushner allegedly looking for a Russian back channel, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos sought the opinion of Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice. During her appearance on This Week on Sunday, Stephanopoulos gave Rice free reign to…
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Director Oliver Stone Says Putin Is 'Misunderstood'
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May 30th, 2017 1:42 PM
Oliver Stone wants you to understand that Putin is not a bad person. He’s just misunderstood.
The filmmaker and director of ‘Snowden’ recently filmed a series of interviews with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin. He also told ABC that he believed that “the image the West has of him is wrong.”
Stone argued that Putin is only trying to defend what Russia stands for, which is “not about…
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‘Match Game:’ Putin, Trump and Penis Jokes
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May 15th, 2017 12:31 AM
Wasting no time to ask a question that would potentially turn President Trump into the punch line, the May 14 episode of ABC’s Match Game began with this prompt from liberal host Alec Baldwin: "By popular request, Axe Body Spray has released a cologne inspired by Vladimir Putin. The scent is strong and unapologetic, and it comes in a bottle shaped like a 'BLANK.”
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CNN Guest: Is Donald Trump Turning Liberals Into Conspiracy Theorists?
May 9th, 2017 7:50 PM
During an interview by Cable News Network anchor Brianna Keilar on Tuesday morning, May 9, CNN Politics Reporter and Editor-at-Large Chris Cillizza addressed the question of whether Republican President Donald Trump is causing liberal Democrats to embrace many bizarre "conspiracy theories."
Cillizza asserted that he's seen a rise in people mistakenly accepting the concepts that the House of…
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Rice Smacks Down The View For Claiming Hacking Delegitimized Election
May 9th, 2017 2:55 PM
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared on Tuesday’s The View, where she was pummelled with partisan questions aimed to bait her into admitting that Hillary Clinton should’ve won the 2016 election and attack Donald Trump. Rice didn’t fall for any of the liberal hosts’ traps though and held her own, even earning the panel’s listening ear, something most Republicans don’t get when…
Nets Quiet: Sources Say Chechen Gov Seeks to Eliminate Gay Community
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May 3rd, 2017 10:07 AM
Although the networks have given ample airtime to “marriage equality,” “anti-gay” religious freedom bills and transgender bathroom policies, they’re hardly covering the truly grave oppression of the LGBT community in Chechnya. In this predominantly Muslim Russian province, gay and bisexual men are living on borrowed time. According to one report, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has vowed to…