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‘Sinful!’ CNN Hypes Senate Dems Bashing House GOP Over Budget Battle
February 27th, 2024 8:32 PM
Amidst the scare of a government shutdown, CNN News Central provided its viewers Tuesday morning with only the dramatic “expressions of heartburn” of Senate Democrats rather than the concerns and explanations from Senate Republicans or from the accused House Republicans. One would think that the opinions of the House Republicans would be considered far more crucial information to…
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CNN, MSNBC: ‘Far-Right’ ‘Hardliners’ Are Shutting Down the Goverment
January 12th, 2024 4:19 PM
Left-wing cable networks CNN and MSNBC are desperate to blame any potential hiccups in the government funding fight on the conservative wing of the Republican Party. As the deadline for Congress to pass a spending bill approaches, reporters on both networks have been stewing over “hardliners” and their “far-right” demands during budget negotiations.
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FLASHBACK: The Media’s Long History of One-Sided Shutdown Coverage
September 30th, 2023 8:50 AM
Journalists’ shutdown playbook is straightforward: single out Republicans for blame; highlight “victims” of the shutdown to build public anger; and then claim Democrats won because they were the “grown-up” party.
NY Times 'News Analysis' RIPS 'Hard Right' GOP 'Wrecking-Ball Caucus'
September 26th, 2023 12:55 PM
New York Times chief Washington correspondent Carl Hulse’s coverage of the fight in Congress over a government shutdown versus conservative insistence that federal spending must be reduced given the national debt has now surpassed $33 trillion. Hulse ignored that in favor of several stories painting Republicans as nihilistic extremists. (Hulse reliably sides with Democrats in Capitol…
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Nets Wail Federal Bureaucrats Won't Get Paid During Govt Shutdown
September 25th, 2023 8:21 PM
With the deadline to avert a government shutdown just days away, all three evening news broadcasts went back to a familiar playbook they've used since at least the Reagan administration where they find government bureaucrats who will cry poor due to not receiving a paycheck during a potential shutdown. This isn't even the case most times since most government employees get paid on a bi-weekly…
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Chuck Todd: GOP Are Being 'Absurd' in Trying to 'Punish' Our 'Economy'
September 29th, 2021 7:18 PM
On Tuesday's MTP Daily on MSNBC, host Chuck Todd battled Indiana Sen. Mike Braun over the GOP's refusal to assist the Democrats in passing their agenda by raising the debt ceiling. According to Todd, the GOP have been playing "Russian Roulette" and threatening to "punish the American economy" with an "absurd" "game of chicken."
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Eager ABC: Will Republicans 'Embarrass,' 'Rebuke' Trump on Border?
March 11th, 2019 10:45 AM
Monday, the networks were eager to bash President Trump for holding firm to his campaign promise of a border wall, as he includes it again in a budget proposal before Congress this morning. ABC’s reporters at Good Morning America were the most effusive in their disgust for Trump, admitting that they were hoping that Republicans would “stand up” and “embarrass” the president with a “rebuke” over…
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TV's Shutdown News Blamed Trump, Touted Victims Over Border Debate
February 4th, 2019 8:00 AM
In just 35 days, the partial government shutdown generated nearly five hours of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts. By a six-to-one margin, network reporters framed the shutdown as the fault of President Trump, not the Democrats. Out of 297 minutes of total shutdown coverage, just 27% was devoted to the debate over the border wall — far less time than was given to TSA workers…
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Joe Scarborough Sides with Nancy Pelosi: Wall 'Immoral'
February 1st, 2019 7:46 AM
When it comes to having a spokesman for Trump-Hater Nation, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the rest of the loony left must be thrilled. In Joe Scarborough, they have someone who gets three hours of TV time every weekday morning to beam Trump hatred to the masses. Doing his bit on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough sided with Pelosi in proclaiming the wall "immoral."
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CNN's Cupp: Trump Pandering to Ann Coulter's 'Wall Porn' 'Fetish'
January 28th, 2019 3:31 PM
During Saturday’s edition of S.E. Cupp Unfiltered, the eponymous host gloated about President Trump’s decision to “cave” to the Democrats as she opened her show. She later had some unusual analysis when it came to the border wall, arguing that a handful of President Trump’s supporters have a “sexual fetish” for a wall on the southern border with Mexico.
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Morning Joe Excited By Pelosi Continuing To Block SOTU
January 28th, 2019 1:19 PM
MSNBC's Morning Joe has spent the better part of the last few weeks lamenting the government shutdown, framing the the budget impass as a 35-day exercise in futility based around a concocted crises. On Monday, the morning show cheered the end of the "petty" stalemate while also applauding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for having "schooled" the President by still refusing to schedule the State of…
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NBC's Chuck Todd: Trump 'Helped Solidify' Pelosi's Power over Dems
January 27th, 2019 10:22 AM
With the partial government shutdown over, at least for now, NBC News diverted some time from bashing President Trump to mocking how he was helping Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-D). During Sunday Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd quipped about how “the only difference between the deal that he rejected on day one and the deal he took now was February 8th to February 15th.” On top of that, Todd…
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MSNBC's Katy Tur Compares Trump to a Four-Year-Old
January 26th, 2019 2:51 PM
During Friday afternoon’s MSNBC Live, host Katy Tur compared President Trump to a four-year-old. Here was Tur laying out her analogy: “We generally sometimes talk about the President in saying that the best way to get him not to do something, or to do something, is to tell him not to do something. That’s how you talk...that’s what happens with your four-year-old.” Behaving like a faithful MSNBC…
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MSNBC Declares ‘Ginormous Win’ for Pelosi, Trump’s ‘Formidable Foe'
January 26th, 2019 11:44 AM
Minutes before President Trump announced a deal to end the partial government shutdown Friday afternoon, the anchors and correspondents on MSNBC were beside themselves with glee over the development, cheering it as a “ginormous win” for Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
