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NBC's Guthrie Hammers Ryan: ‘Are You Living in a Fantasy World?’
December 20th, 2017 10:13 AM
In a particularly hostile interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie interrogated the Republican leader over newly-passed tax reform legislation and suggested that he was “living in a fantasy world” for predicting the bill would spur economic growth.
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S.E. Cupp Battles Dem Congressman for ‘Scaring’ Voters on Tax Reform
December 19th, 2017 11:47 PM
With Congressional Republicans and President Trump set to score a massive win before Christmas with their tax reform bill, Democrats and their liberal media lapdogs were letting loose with their smear and fear campaign. But During HLN’s Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp called out California Democrat Ted Lieu for trying to recklessly scare voters into thinking the bill was going to hurt them when, in…
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CNN Touts Anti-Tax Cut Public Sentiment It Helped Foment
December 19th, 2017 9:36 PM
In the lead-up to Congress passing the Republican tax cut plan, various CNN shows on Tuesday played up a CNN poll finding that 55 percent of Americans oppose the proposal. Such public opposition is hardly shocking given that dominant left-leaning media outlets like CNN have pushed negative spin against the tax cut proposal -- a fact noted by Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy just this…
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Get Your Popcorn: Tur Gets Annihilated by Brat in Tax Policy Debate
December 19th, 2017 6:51 PM
On Tuesday afternoon, MSNBC Live host Katy Tur reinforced the notion held by some that, quite simply, she’s not ready for primetime when it comes to being a substantive host. The latest example came when her far-left economic views ran into a buzzsaw against Republican Congressman and former economics professor Dave Brat.
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NBC, ABC: ‘Major Risks’ in Tax Bill, ‘Dangerous Political Territory'
December 19th, 2017 2:04 PM
Ahead of congressional votes on Republican tax legislation on Tuesday, the NBC and ABC morning shows both predicted political doom for the GOP with passage of the bill. The network broadcasts painted the plan as one that would benefit the wealthy and veer into “dangerous political territory.”
NYT Condescends to Trump Voters: He’s No Friend of the ‘Little Guy'
December 19th, 2017 2:00 PM
The New York Times put a condescending, left-wing populist screed disguised as “news analysis” on Monday’s front-page. Reporters Michael Tackett and Jim Tankersley misleadingly assume the tax-cut bill moving through Congress is a sop to the wealthy, then use that false fact to portray Trump as a hypocrite for pushing it, in the would-be expose “Ally of the ‘Little Guy’ In Words, Not Actions.” To…
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Boom: GOP Senator Calls Out CNN's 'Negative' Bias Against Tax Cut
December 19th, 2017 10:06 AM
On Tuesday's New Day on CNN, as Senator John Kennedy appeared as a guest to discuss the Republican tax cut plan, the Louisiana Republican implicated the "negative" media coverage of the proposal after host Chris Cuomo brought up a CNN poll finding that most Americans oppose the plan.
Wait, What? Columnist: Tax Bill ‘the Worst Since Fugitive Slave Act'
December 18th, 2017 5:19 PM
Liberal columnist aren’t good at subtlety when objecting to conservative and Republican goals. Philly.com journalist Will Bunch on Monday argued that the GOP tax cut bill is the worst since... the Fugitive Slave Act. Yep. Cutting taxes across the board is the same as requiring states return fleeing slaves to the horror they escaped from.
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Ruhle: 'Income Inequality Is the Biggest Issue That Plagues' U.S.
December 18th, 2017 1:41 PM
On Monday's MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle -- also a business correspondent for NBC -- was inserting a left-leaning view of economics into the discussion of the Republican tax cut plan as she proclaimed that "income inequality is the biggest issue that plagues this nation -- one of the biggest issues." Right-leaning MSNBC contributor Bret Stephens had a mixed view of the plan as liberal…
Top 10 Ways Media Distorted Business, Economic News in 2017
Business
December 18th, 2017 10:27 AM
Liberal media bias has existed for years, but in 2017, it appeared to reach unprecedented levels given the media’s hostility to President Donald Trump. The media distorted many stories in 2017, in many different ways. They ranged from lies such as Al Gore’s claim that “Superstorm Sandy” proved a global warming prediction from An Inconvenient Truth was true, to using Big Bird to mislead about…
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ABC Goes All-In on Trying to Sink GOP’s ‘Nightmare’ Tax Reform
December 17th, 2017 2:16 PM
After making completely false claims about the GOP tax reform bill on ABC’s Good Morning America earlier on Sunday, Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos spent most of This Week leading the discussion tearing it down. After spending a couple minutes smearing the bill in his opening monologue, Stephanopoulos interviewed Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn where one of his first questions involved…
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Stephanopoulos Lies, Says SALT Deductions Being ‘Eliminated’ By GOP
December 17th, 2017 10:25 AM
Listening to the concerns of the average American, Congressional Republicans announced on Thursday that they planned to keep popular tax deductions for student loans and medical expenses while adding a $10,000 cap to state and local tax deductions (SALT) in their tax bill. But ABC’s prominent Clinton lackey, George Stephanopoulos either didn’t get the memo or was out to mislead the public during…
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MSNBC's Steele Blames Republicans When Dems 'Have to Raise' Taxes
December 16th, 2017 8:07 PM
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's MSNBC Live, frequent Republican guest and MSNBC contributor Michael Steele was critical of Republicans pushing to cut taxes and blamed GOP tax cuts for making Democrats "have to raise" taxes later. He also declared that, while congressional Republicans present the tax cut plan as a "Christmas present," it actually amounts to "coal." Host Alex Witt was also…
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Fineman: 'Drunk' GOPers in 'War' on Middle Class, Tax Cuts Hurt Them
December 16th, 2017 2:03 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's The Beat with Ari Melber, Huffington Post global editorial director Howard Fineman -- also an MSNBC contributor -- went negative on Republicans planning to cut taxes as he described them as "getting drunk on egg nog," and claimed that cutting taxes "periodically gets them into trouble." He went on to suggest that the internet deregulation plan would amount to "an…