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CNN Hosts, Guests Demand GOP Surrender on Raising the Debt Limit
September 17th, 2021 3:58 PM
The deadline is fast approaching for Congress to approve raising the debt ceiling, and the liberal media is astonished that Republicans will not simply go along with it. The increase, which needs Republican support to pass, is one requirement for the passage of the Biden administration’s exorbitant $3.5 trillion budget plan. Without increasing the debt ceiling, the US government cannot go into…
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CNN Doesn't Air Trump Economic Briefing, Attacks Jobs Numbers
July 3rd, 2020 11:39 AM
On Thursday morning’s CNN Newsroom, host Jim Sciutto refused to air any live coverage of President Trump’s White House press briefing about surging employment, despite MSNBC even airing the address. Instead, the partisan hack brought on Washington Post Opinion Columnist Catherine Rampell to downplay the jobs report while the briefing was happening and blunt any information that could benefit…
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'Reliable Sources'? Trump's America 'Echoes' Soviet Union, Hitler
December 23rd, 2019 11:36 PM
Sunday’s Reliable Sources featured a ten-minute segment painting Republicans and President Trump as liars and trashing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It did not take long for members of the panel to begin comparing Trump’s America to the Soviet Union and the Third Reich.
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CNN's Rampell: 'Huge Conspiracy' That Media Pushing Recession Fears
August 20th, 2019 11:11 AM
CNN host Don Lemon joined his liberal panelists in ganging up on his one conservative guest on Monday night’s CNN Tonight over the idea that the economy was doing well. Rob Astorino of President Trump’s re-election campaign argued that the media was pushing a false narrative put out by Democrats that a recession was near, but the economy was actually stable. But the liberals at CNN insisted he…
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CNN Gets Excited at Prospect of a Recession Hurting Trump in 2020
August 15th, 2019 10:22 AM
Look at the bright side! Sure, a recession could throw millions of Americans out of work, and shrink retirement portfolios. But an economic downturn would also hurt President Trump in 2020! That was CNN's theme this morning. The 6 am New Day hour led with co-host John Berman trumpeting yesterday's stock market drop. CNN economic analyst Rana Foroohar then said of a recession: "it's here."John…
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'Reliable Sources' Panel Thinks the People Are Too Dumb to Stop Trump
May 13th, 2019 9:34 PM
A weekly theme of CNN’s Reliable Sources is that “democracy is dying in darkness” under Trump. So naturally, host Brian Stelter turned to Washington Post columnist and CNN analyst Catherine Rampell to discuss the so-called “Constitutional crisis.” Host Brian Stelter opened the segment by declaring that “democracy in the United States is being tested” and Stelter asked Rampell to sum up the past…
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Cuomo Claims Trump 'Treating Kids Like Crap,' Links Advisor to Racists
June 23rd, 2018 3:35 PM
On Friday's Cuomo Prime Time, CNN host Chris Cuomo again devoted most of his show to pushing hard from the left on the issue of the Trump administration increasing prosecutions of illegal border crossings. Cuomo and liberal CNN commentator Catherine Rampell again misleadingly claimed legal asylum seekers are also separated from their children even though they usually are not unless there are…
CBS Hypes Tiny 'Backlash' Against College Student's Gun-Toting Photo
April 13th, 2018 10:26 PM
A one-sided Wednesday report at CBS News tried to convince readers that University of Tennessee-Chattanooga student Brenna Spencer's "I don't take normal graduation photos" tweet picturing her with a firearm generated significant "backlash." To create a false impression, the network cited critical tweets from two users with a combined eight Twitter followers, ignoring far more significant support…
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After Belittling $1,000 Bonuses, Katy Tur Tries Changing the Subject
February 8th, 2018 11:51 AM
On Monday, shortly after President Trump asked two employees at a suburban Cincinnati manufacturer to describe their plans for the $1,000 bonuses they had received, MSNBC's Katy Tur ridiculed them on Twitter. Tur considered $1,000 a pittance, and contended that the bonus money wouldn't genuinely help the employees involved achieve their stated goals. On Wednesday, Tur responded poorly to the…
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‘Hardball’ Lumps GOP in with Neo-Nazis, Shocked Wilson Loved KKK
August 15th, 2017 5:19 PM
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was back and firing on all cylinders Monday night, overseeing a show devoid of reason as it linked conservatives, Republicans, and anyone in the “right-wing” to the KKK, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists associated with Saturday’s Charlottesville terrorism. Matthews also showed ineptitude in not knowing that progressive heartthrob and President Woodrow Wilson…
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Matthews Worries Trump Will Use Nuke Codes on Inauguration Day
January 19th, 2017 8:32 PM
Less than a day after CNN wondered what would happen if President-elect Trump were assassinated, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews tried to instill fear in viewers late Thursday, floating the idea that Trump might need to use the nuclear launch codes on Inauguration Day.
WashPost Columnist: Let's Take Trump Tower By Eminent Domain
December 13th, 2016 2:21 PM
At the Washington Post, Catherine Rampell, alarmed by an alleged "police state" on Fifth Avenue in New York City and alleged "costs to commerce and property values," wants to have the city to "use eminent domain to seize Trump Tower." Unfortunately, the President-Elect does have a blind spot when it comes to the government taking someone's property and conveying it to someone else for supposed "…
WashPost Rampell Angrily Condemns 'Right-Wing Media...Bigoted Garbage'
October 27th, 2016 10:47 AM
Catherine Rampell, Washington Post columnist and former New York Times business reporter, had some no-doubt well-meant advice for the Republican Party in her Monday column: “Want to save the Republican Party? Drain the right-wing media swamp.” After consigning Donald Trump’s campaign to doom, and foreseeing the inevitable debriefing by Republican leaders, Rampell angrily blamed the media.…
WP: Far-Right Shift Drove Out 'Conservative' Chafee from GOP Tent
June 5th, 2015 11:55 AM
Catherine Rampell, a Washington Post opinion columnist and previously a New York Times business reporter, rehashed the tired old cliché that the Republican Party has shifted so far right that not even Ronald Reagan would be welcome in "today's shrunken GOP tent." We also learn that liberal, anti-war, pro-partial birth abortion Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee was actually a conservative. Who knew?
