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ABC, NBC Push Smear: Trump Helped Cause Syrian Gas Attack of Civilians
April 9th, 2018 9:12 PM
A top story Monday evening was the anticipation President Trump would announce a plan to strike back at Syria in retaliation for apparently using chemical weapons on civilian populations. While the President himself came out strong against the Assad regime by condemning them and their Russian and Iranian backers, both ABC and NBC pushed a smear by Senator John McCain (R-Ari.) blaming Trump for…
This Week in Media Bias History: Useful Idiots for Soviets Propaganda
April 7th, 2018 12:15 PM
The New York Times doesn’t change. The paper is atrociously biased today and it was 85 years ago when columnist Walter Duranty proved himself to be a useful idiot for Soviet propaganda. Talking about a famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, he insisted: “There is no actual starvation... There is no famine.”
Jeff Greenfield: 'Magical Cable News Thinking' May Harm Democrats
April 6th, 2018 11:30 AM
Long-time network political analyst Jeff Greenfield has a column at Politico provocatively titled “ The Left’s Year of Magical Thinking: Fantasies about the Second Amendment, the Mueller investigation and Stormy Daniels threaten to sabotage the Democrats in November.”
it’s most intriguing when he slams liberal cable news for obsessing over the Russia probe when there are other juicy liberal…
Networks Obsessed With Russia, Except for Its Energy/Eco Meddling
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April 4th, 2018 10:20 AM
The broadcast news shows have been obsessed with all things Russia — well, almost all things. Russian social media agitation and propagandizing over energy sources, pipeline projects and climate change was ignored.
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Soviet Agent, on FX’s The Americans, Calls Robert Bork a Nazi
March 29th, 2018 10:04 AM
A badge of honor for the late Robert Bork and his supporters? He drew the ire of an undercover Soviet KGB operative in an imaginary scene, set in early October 1987, on FX’s The Americans. At a dinner at a neighbor’s house, college student “Paige Jennings,” played by Holly Taylor, matched American Left hostility at the time toward President Reagan’s Supreme Court nominee: “He opposed anti-…
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Final Season of FX’s The Americans Tonight: Video Highlights
March 28th, 2018 5:28 PM
The sixth and final season of The Americans, a drama about Soviet agents working undercover in suburban Washington, DC in the 1980s, begins tonight (Wednesday) on the FX cable channel. While the FX series humanizes undercover KGB operatives working in the U.S. on behalf of the Soviet Union, the show also illustrates the ruthlessness of Soviet communism and how the American Left in the 1980s…
NBC Pushes Bogus Claim That House Prematurely Ended Trump-Russia Probe
March 27th, 2018 7:34 PM
On Thursday, both online and on MSNBC, NBC News unskeptically relayed bogus claims by the liberal Center for American Progress that the House Intelligence Committee's decision to end its Trump-Russia collusion investigation was negligently premature.
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CNN: Chappaquiddick Was 'One of Ted Kennedy's Darkest Hours'
March 27th, 2018 5:30 PM
Both in its related tweet and the story's headline, CNN has promoted Sandra Gonzalez's Tuesday column about the movie Chappaquiddick as being about "one of Sen. Ted Kennedy's darkest hours." This begs two questions: "Wasn't Chappaquiddick far worse for Mary Jo Kopechne?" and "Did Ted Kennedy have other darker hours?"
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Maddow: Trump Congratulating Putin Poses 'National Security Problem'
March 22nd, 2018 8:21 PM
Well into the second year of his presidency, Donald Trump continues to display a remarkable ability to compel liberal critics to sound even more ridiculous than they usually do. Such was the case last night on MSNBC when Rachel Maddow spent a considerable amount of time ruminating over news that Trump had disregarded the advice of aides and congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin for…
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ABC Tries to Blame McCabe’s Firing on ‘Feud’ Between Him and Sessions
March 22nd, 2018 12:14 PM
Revealing the network’s desperate desire to find a nefarious motivation behind the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, in reports for Wednesday’s World News Tonight and Thursday’s Good Morning America, ABC Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas suggested that the termination may have resulted from McCabe having opened and closed an investigation into Attorney General Jeff Sessions a year…
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MSNBC Repeatedly Alleges Trump is Being Blackmailed by Russia
March 21st, 2018 5:14 PM
Throughout the day on Wednesday, journalists and pundits on MSNBC could only think of one explanation for why President Trump would call to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his re-election – Russia must be blackmailing Trump. Without any evidence, show after show engaged in wild speculation that the Russians “have something” on the President.
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Nets Hammer Trump for Putin Call, Only NBC Mentions Obama Did the Same
March 21st, 2018 12:35 PM
On Wednesday, all three network morning shows touted criticism of President Trump’s Tuesday phone call with Russian President Vladimir in which Trump congratulated Putin on his recent re-election victory – results widely considered to be illegitimate. However, only NBC’s Today show briefly mentioned that President Obama did the same thing in 2012.
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Left-Leaning Sen. King Shockingly Calls Out Cuomo's Anti-Trump Bias
March 15th, 2018 5:00 PM
As Chris Cuomo, co-host of CNN's New Day, complained about President Trump's response to Russia's involvement in the poisoning of a former Russian spy residing in the UK, his guest, left-leaning Independent Senator Angus King told him "I think you're being a little hard." King, who caucuses with the Democrats and supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, is not normally known for defending President…
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NBC: ‘Outraged' Dems Blast GOP’s ‘Purely Political’ Russia Finding
March 13th, 2018 12:50 PM
After initially ignoring the finding Monday evening, on Tuesday morning, NBC’s Today show touted Democrats trashing Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee for the “controversial conclusion” that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.
