Joy’s Week of Hate: Fox Is al-Qaeda, GOPers Like Death, TX Loves Rape

September 4th, 2021 3:21 PM

MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid had a pretty interesting time this week as her days and days of being Jalalabad Joy for the Biden administration on Afghanistan were rewarded with the end of the 20-year war and Texas’s new abortion law went into affect, so he had plenty of material to spew hatred and incite her viewers. Among the takes Reid offered, she compared Fox News…

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Dowd Cheers Biden, Claims U.S. is 'Safe Haven for Terrorists'

September 2nd, 2021 10:00 AM

On Monday's Deadline: White House on MSNBC, frequent guest Matthew Dowd was again oozing praise for Joe Biden over the President's Afghanistan failures as the former ABC analyst also hyperbolically claimed that, like Afghanistan, America is also a "safe haven for terrorists."

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Tag-Team: Heinrich, Ramos Grill Psaki Over Biden’s Afghan Call

September 1st, 2021 10:07 PM

The continued decline of substantive Afghanistan questions continued on Wednesday’s edition of The Psaki Show with a shift towards the coronavirus and Texas’s abortion law, but ABC’s Stephanie Ramos and Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich kept up the heat with questions for Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the embarrassing collapse of the country following a two-decade war. Specifically, they honed in on a…

NewsBusters Podcast: Media Hang Tough on Afghanistan, But Can It Last?

September 1st, 2021 6:57 PM

With a torrent of news to discuss about the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, weekday evening/Sunday morning analyst Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I had plenty to talk about on Wednesday’s episode of the NewsBusters podcast. We first dove into litany of liberal journalists that have provided admirable and stinging coverage holding the Biden administration to account on…

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CensorTrack With TR: Big Tech SILENCES Congressman, Mourning Mother

September 1st, 2021 2:30 PM

It’s Week One of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about Shana Chappell whose heroic son was killed in Afghanistan on August 26th. Her heartfelt lament on Instagram regarding her son’s death granted her a disabled account. We also discussed Congressman Thomas Massie R-KY who posted what Twitter called a  “misleading” tweet regarding vaccine vs natural COVID-…

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Psaki Runs into Buzzsaw of Journos After Biden Ducks Afghan Questions

September 1st, 2021 10:13 AM

President Biden stuck to form Tuesday by refusing to take questions after his speech on the end of the war in Afghanistan, so they fell to Press Secretary Jen Psaki and she found a cadre of reporters who were loaded with queries on topics such as Biden’s “angry” tone, Biden checking his watch during Sunday’s dignified transfer or remains, blaming Americans for not getting out in time, and…

FDR vs. JFK vs. JRB

September 1st, 2021 1:39 AM

In his address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt said: “… we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With…

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Mixed: ABC, NBC Journos Slam Biden While Others on CBS, NBC Go Soft

August 31st, 2021 10:20 PM

On Tuesday afternoon following President Biden’s address about the end of the war in Afghanistan, some broadcast network journalists slammed President Biden’s speech as an angry, defiant, and misleading while others fawned over his claims about the withdrawal as “largely a success” and said his firm deadline will be “reward[ed]” by voters.

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MSNBC Grills Kirby: You Left People Behind to Taliban ‘Medieval Cult'

August 31st, 2021 3:48 PM

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Tuesday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby actually faced a grilling over the Biden administration’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan that abandoned as many as 200 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghan allies. The usually friendly broadcast for Democrats hammered the Defense Department spokesman over how so many could have left behind to…

The Crisis of Our Third Century

August 31st, 2021 2:31 PM

As a global pandemic raged and governments began locking down and sheltering citizens in place, the United States Congress allocated $46.5 billion in rental assistance. With a moratorium in place to prevent evictions, Congress was mindful landlords would need help paying the mortgages on their rental properties. Renters would need help paying rent. Over the last year, only $1.7 billion of the…

Instagram Backtracks on Removal of Gold Star Mother's Account

August 31st, 2021 9:02 AM

Facebook has reportedly backtracked after it deleted the account of Shana Chappell, the grieving mother of Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, who was killed in Afghanistan last week. Like so many other censorship instances before, the Big Tech platform claimed the removal was a mistake, according to the New York Post.

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NBC Buries Biden WH Over ‘Humbling’ End to War, Warns of New Bin Laden

August 30th, 2021 9:56 PM

NBC didn’t pull any punches Monday when it came to slamming the Biden administration following the announcement that the final U.S. plane had left Afghanistan, officially ending the war. Over the course of Special Report and NBC Nightly News, foreign correspondent Richard Engel and fellow NBC liberals gave a remarkable amount of historical context, criticism of the Biden…

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No Doocy, No Problem: WH Journos Step Up, Hammer Psaki on Afghanistan

August 30th, 2021 6:39 PM

Hours before the U.S. military announced the official end of the war in Afghanistan, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took heavy fire on Monday afternoon from a litany of establishment liberal media outlets, Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich, and usual cast member Philip Wegmann over the administration’s handling of the withdrawal, what to say to those being left behind, and whether America is now…

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Doocy BATTLES Biden Over Whether He’s Responsible for Afghan Terror

August 26th, 2021 9:15 PM

After hiding for hours since word came in that there had been a string of deadly bombings at the Kabul airport, President Biden addressed the nation early Thursday night and, thankfully, he not only took questions, but he went off script to call on the perspicacious Fox News’s Peter Doocy and RCP's Philip Wegmann. In Doocy’s case, he found himself in a back-and-forth with Biden that, at one…