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New York Magazine Posts Horribly Timed Defense of Lying Fani Willis
February 25th, 2024 6:03 AM
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PBS Priorities:Fretting Over Phony ‘Islamophobia,’ Not Actual Jew-Hate
November 5th, 2023 8:50 PM
Thursday’s PBS NewsHour indulged in offensive moral equivalence, pretending Islamophobia in the United States was as big a threat to public safety than the current wave of violent anti-Semitism hitting progressive cities and college campuses, while also sliming Fox News hosts as endangering Muslims. Host Geoff Bennett’s segment led with “Islamophobia,” even while Jews are under attack…
Texas Pro-Life Victory Scares Desperate Blue-Check Abortion Fans
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May 19th, 2021 4:05 PM
Governor Greg Abbot (R-TX) just signed into law one of the nation’s most important abortion bans in history in the state of Texas and boy, are abortion lovers not happy about it. On Wednesday, the Texas governor signed a bill that would ban abortions in the state after a heartbeat had been detected in the womb. Of course that means that unborn babies as young as six weeks old are going to be…
Matthews: Harassment Allegation Against Me Was ‘Highly Justified'
April 28th, 2020 10:12 AM
It’s been almost two months since former Hardball host Chris Matthews stepped down from his weeknight post, but the MSNBC veteran demonstrated in an interview late last week that his views are just as liberal now as they were during his decades-long television tenure. After stating that the sexual harassment charge made against him by GQ columnist Laura Bassett was “highly justified,” Matthews…
Journalist Accuses ‘Unfit’ Matthews of Sexually Suggestive Comments
February 29th, 2020 12:38 PM
In a Friday night column for GQ, former Huffington Post reporter Laura Bassett revealed that MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was the cable news host she referenced in an October 2017 item alleging repeated inappropriate and sexually suggestive comments. She argued that, based on his “downright irresponsible” behavior that’s been an “open secret,” Matthews is “unfit for his job.”
Fake! Planned Parenthood Honors Its Favorite Reporters...and Comedian
June 30th, 2019 9:30 AM
Planned Parenthood handed out their annual Media Excellence Awards last week. They used to be called "Maggie Awards," after their founder Margaret Sanger. They proclaimed "We are so thankful for their fearless and honest reporting about what is at risk when people are denied one of their most fundamental human rights — their access to health care." But some of these don't award "excellence" --…
Media Mislead About Bills Jailing Women for Abortion
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May 17th, 2019 6:00 AM
The passage of abortion laws in Georgia and Alabama have caused a flurry of media reactions, including many misleading ones. At least 16 articles claimed or suggested women would be jailed for having abortions, even though the laws’ text is available for all to read, and specifies women will not face prosecution.
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Media Compare Alleged Serial Rapist R. Kelly to Kavanaugh, Trump
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March 7th, 2019 8:00 AM
Not content to just drag Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s name through the mud in that ridiculous witch hunt during his confirmation hearing in the fall, liberals are still determined to sully his name at every possible opportunity. The latest example is comparing the Supreme Court Justice to R. Kelly, a Grammy Award winning singer who was arrested for sexually abusing multiple underage girls and women.
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All-Female CNN Panel Defends, Praises AOC as ‘The Ideal Anti-Trump’
January 27th, 2019 4:21 PM
While all but ignoring the liberal media’s massive screw-up with the smearing of the Covington Kids, CNN media reporter and “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter took time out of the show to tout how Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez utilized social media to spread her falsehoods and socialist propaganda. And, of course, the all-female liberal panel was happy to oblige by singing…
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CNN, MSNBC Throw Three-Day Temper Tantrum As GOP Call Protests 'A Mob'
October 10th, 2018 3:42 PM
Liberal cable news outlets were outraged over the weekend when Republicans condemned the thuggish behavior of leftwing protesters and political groups repeatedly attempting to disrupt the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh. CNN and MSNBC hosts urgently rushed to defend the throngs of activists, in a melodramatic panic over the newest addition to the GOP leadership’s lexicon: “mob.”
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MSNBC Panel: Trump Women Are 'Dead Inside,' 'Paid Off'
June 7th, 2018 6:41 PM
Tensions were high on Thursday’s Deadline: White House as host Nicolle Wallace and her outraged panel fumed over Rudy Giuliani’s recent remarks about porn star Stormy Daniels. As the MSNBC host's frustration boiled over, she speculated whether the women in the Trump family were, “numb,” “dead inside,” or “paid off.”
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CNN's Latest Weird Obsession: 25 Stories on 'Where's Melania?'
June 6th, 2018 2:59 PM
Over the past week, CNN has aired more than two dozen stories inviting speculation and gossip about the supposedly mysterious "disappearance" of First Lady Melania Trump, who has been recuperating from kidney surgery.
Media Flips Lid After Trump Reinstates Reagan Abortion Policy
January 23rd, 2017 3:49 PM
To start off his first week in office, Donald Trump spent the morning signing executive orders, one of which was reversing a pro-abortion policy from the Obama Administration. The “Mexico City” policy, more commonly called the “Global Gag” policy by the left, bans federal funds from being given to organizations who pay for or promote abortions overseas. It was originally enacted by Ronald Reagan…
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Matthews Is Still ‘Wondering What’ Hillary Did Wrong in Benghazi
August 9th, 2016 10:00 PM
Reacting to Huffington Post reporter Laura Bassett highlighting during Tuesday’s Hardball that a Donald Trump advisor recently “called for Hillary to face a firing squad” for her handling of Benghazi in light of Trump’s new gun comments, MSNBC host Chris Matthews used the occasion to bloviate about how he “keep[s] wondering what she did in Benghazi” that has people so upset.
