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VIDEO: TV Journalists Defend, Excuse Five Nights of Riots
June 2nd, 2020 9:09 AM
From the start, TV news media have done their darnedest to paint the riots happening across the country in a positive light. While many journalists have glossed over the widespread violence by relying on misleading characterizations like “mostly peaceful,” others have outright defended and justified the rioting.
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MSNBC's Velshi Lets Dem Guest Overstate Police Shootings of Blacks
May 31st, 2020 4:49 PM
Over the weekend on MSNBC's Velshi show, as anchor Ali Velshi covered the riots and protests that have spread across the U.S., he not only allowed Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson to misinform viewers by overstating how many black suspects are killed by police officers each year compared to other racial groups, but he also flirted with rationalizing the violence of rioters by…
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In Front of Burning Building, Velshi Refuses to Label Riots 'Unruly'
May 29th, 2020 1:00 PM
As he reported from an out-of-control protest in Minneapolis that had morphed into a full-blown riot Thursday night, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi stood in front of a burning building. In spite of the dramatic scene unfolding behind him, Velshi rejected the description of the riot as “unruly.”
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CNN Brands President Trump a Hypocrite for Not Attending Church
May 25th, 2020 9:07 AM
A president can be an ardent defender of religious freedom without being overtly devout himself. But that didn't stop CNN from branding President Trump a hypocrite for having not attended church this weekend while having recently promoted the re-opening of houses of worship.
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MSNBC: Trump Calling Churches Essential Could Violate 'Church/State'
May 23rd, 2020 2:41 PM
On his MSNBC show, Ali Velshi suggests that by deeming houses of worship "essential," thus qualifying them to reopen, President Trump could be in violation of "the separation of church and state."
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Velshi Cues Up Laurence Tribe to Fearmonger Over Trump Judges
May 3rd, 2020 9:28 PM
On Saturday's Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi provided a forum to liberal constitutional attorney Laurence Tribe to bash the conservative judges that President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are putting on the courts, and to fearmonger about how they might effect the country's future, calling it a "terrifying" and a "really scary prospect for anyone who cares about the…
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MSNBC Gives Moore a Forum to Connect Climate to Corona 'Warning'
April 26th, 2020 10:28 PM
On Sunday's Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi provided liberal film makers Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs a forum to plug their new film, Planet of the Humans, which promotes an alarmist view that humans are damaging the planet, and actually hits environmental groups from the left, charging that they do not go far enough. Moore suggested that the coronavirus pandemic is a "warning from Mother…
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Velshi Cues Up Sanders to Push Socialized Medicine
April 25th, 2020 2:15 PM
On Saturday's Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi again used the pandemic as a rationale for advocating socialized medicine as he defended Canadian-style single-payer health care, and cued up Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to advocate such a system in the U.S.
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No Crisis Wasted: MSNBC Uses Corona to Push Universal Basic Income
April 20th, 2020 12:00 PM
Liberal MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Sunday used the COVID-19 pandemic to push for Universal Basic Income (UBI) for all Americans. Touting it as a “big idea,” Velshi largely dismissed the critics and glossed over cost. The MSNBC host, who has a history of promoting far-left economic ideas, began, “UBI is a big deal. It's a big idea. There's lots of versions. Every citizen regardless of employment…
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Ali Velshi Uses Pandemic to Politicize Easter
April 11th, 2020 6:10 PM
Easter weekend is always a meaningful time of the year and it may mean even more for people this year as the COVID-19 pandemic forces us to confront our physical mortality. If you are MSNBC's Ali Velshi, however, this holy week means more than previous years' because it helps serve as a reminder that President Trump is bad at his job.
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MSNBC's Velshi Frets Wealthy Taxed Too Little, Dismisses Charity Work
April 5th, 2020 7:29 PM
On Sunday's Velshi show, MSNBC host Ali Velshi joined left-wing activist Reverend William Barber in complaining that taxes on the wealthy aren't higher, and dismissed the benefits to society contributed by the wealthy. He also invoked Marie Antoinette against the Trump administration over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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MSNBC Wrongly Hints UK's NHS Handling COVID-19 Better Than U.S.
April 4th, 2020 5:00 PM
On Saturday's AM Joy on MSNBC, host Joy Reid and fellow MSNBC host Ali Velshi pushed for a British-style national health care system during the coronavirus pandemic even though there are reports that the country's National Health Service (NHS) has fared poorly during the current crisis. In fact, if one crunches the numbers, the overall per capita death rate from COVID-19 has been substantially…
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MSNBC Host Ali Velshi Exploits Pandemic To Pitch Single-Payer System
April 4th, 2020 1:44 PM
MSNBC host Ali Velshi once again used the current pandemic to urge the U.S. to adopt single payer health care on Saturday. Unfortunately, for Velshi and his guests, their critiques of the current system and their praises of single payer turned out to be less than accurate. His co-worker in socialism education was Mehdi Hasan of the far-left Intercept website.
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Media Rush to Reject That Impeachment Slowed COVID-19 Response
April 2nd, 2020 1:47 PM
Since Tuesday, liberal journalists on CNN and MSNBC have been teaming up with elected Democrats to shoot down the notion that their collective obsession with impeaching President Trump slowed the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The biased coverage argued the “talking point” was “dangerous” and predicted that it would not “pick up much traction.”
