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CNN Calls Trump Nero 'While the West Burns', MSNBC Calls Him Stalinist
August 4th, 2018 6:04 PM
During two different cable news broadcasts on Friday morning, personalities compared President Trump to two different “strong men” dictators, apparently growing tired of the Hitler comparison. CNN senior political commentator and former Obama aide David Axelrod compared Trump to the Roman Emperor Nero while MSNBC’s Jon Meacham described him as “Stalinist.”
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Jon Meacham Suggests Trump Committed Treason at Helsinki Summit
July 17th, 2018 6:16 PM
Impeachment seems to be on the mind of liberal historian Jon Meacham lately. In May Meacham predicted that a newly elected Democrat House will impeach President Donald Trump as a "season finale." Meacham's I-word obsession returned to Meacham on Tuesday's Morning Joe when he suggested that Trump somehow committed treason at the Helsinki Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Meacham: Misogyny Explains Trump's Tense Relations With May & Merkel
July 12th, 2018 4:19 PM
During Wednesday’s edition of Morning Joe, historian Jon Meacham felt he had come up with the perfect explanation for President Trump’s tense relationships with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May. Meacham asked “What’s the role of misogyny here?” He continued spouting talking points, asking “Does Merkel remind him of Hillary? Does that help explain the Theresa…
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Jon Meacham: Trump Rules on White 'Grievance, Nostalgia' for the Klan
June 26th, 2018 2:29 PM
Liberal presidential historian and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham was the guest at the end of Tuesday’s The View, where he fulfilled his duty in bashing President Trump in hyperbolic terms, something the anti-Trump hosts could appreciate.
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MSNBC Contributors Awkwardly Defend Rep. Waters's Call for Harassment
June 25th, 2018 9:37 PM
While many in both the Democratic Party and the media have agreed that Congresswoman Maxine Waters hurt her party’s image on Sunday when she encouraged her supporters to aggressively confront members of the Trump administration, MSNBC’s contributors appeared not to have gotten the memo. Numerous guests on the cable network were reluctant on Monday to condemn Waters for her comments, with some,…
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Meacham Fears Media Locked in ‘Abusive Relationship' With Trump
June 21st, 2018 5:14 PM
Appearing on MSNBC Live With Craig Melvin Thursday afternoon, journalist and presidential historian Jon Meacham lamented that Donald Trump’s presidency was “nasty, brutish, and longer than we would like.” He went on to wail that press was giving the president too much attention and becoming a victim of “the longest abusive relationship in American history.”
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Jon Meacham on Trump: 'As If George Wallace Had Won in 1968'
June 20th, 2018 5:10 PM
Liberal historian and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham compares Donald Trump to former Democrat governor of Alabama George Wallace on Wednesday's Morning Joe show.
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MSNBC: Just Because It Hadn’t Happened, ‘Doesn’t Mean It’s Historic'
June 12th, 2018 8:51 AM
Glum is a word that described the reaction on MSNBC to the North Korean summit. With an annoyed tone, the Morning Joe hosts of Tuesday mocked the chances for success in the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. MSNBC guest Jon Meacham even denied that the summit was “historic.”
NYT's Lead Story: Trump's Corrosive 'Paranoia' Harming Faith in Media
May 31st, 2018 5:01 PM
Tuesday’s New York Times led with Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman rushing to tar President Trump’s criticism of the “deep state” and the mainstream press as corrosive, paranoid, and conspiratorial (while unwittingly strengthening his case) in “Trump’s Embrace Of ‘Spygate” Plot Sows Suspicions -- Eroding Public Trust -- Conspiracy Theories Are Brought From Fringes to the Oval Office.”…
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Sanctimonious 'Morning Joe' Crew Goes Full Religion to Blast Trump
May 27th, 2018 6:18 AM
You could almost hear the strains of "Give Me that Old Time Religion" in the background as the Morning Joe crew used religion to blast Trump on Thursday. In addition to Holy Joe Scarborough leading the charge was guest Eddie Glaude who recently went on an anti-Israel tirade as well as sanctimonious Jon Meacham who declared that anyone who supports Trump is committing idolatry.
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Jon Meacham Predicts a Democrat House Will Impeach Trump
May 21st, 2018 2:36 PM
Jon Meacham apparently isn't paying attention to the liberal message (for now) to NOT mention that if the Democrats win back the House this November, they will impeach President Trump. Perhaps historian and failed Newsweek editor Meacham is so eager for that impeachment that he just couldn't hold back on Monday's Morning Joe.
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Hypocrite Scarborough Demands GOP Apologize to U.S. for Enabling Trump
May 7th, 2018 4:11 PM
Monday’s Morning Joe was firing on all cylinders, full of liberal hot takes and hypocrisy from their faux conservatives and Republicans. Chief among them was co-host Joe Scarborough, who demanded that Republicans defending and enabling President Trump “not only owe an apology to this nation, they owe an apology to their children,” which is amusing considering Scarborough’s personal history with…
Panic in the Newsroom: CNN, MSNBC Spend 211 Minutes Trashing Sinclair
April 3rd, 2018 6:00 PM
Since Sunday night, the liberal media have been haranguing network affiliate owner Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) for a new “must-run” promo that warned against “biased and false news.” The two have slammed it as Trump-backed “state-run TV” on par with the former Soviet outlet Pravda that's “chilling,” frightening” and “a really embarrassing moment for journalism.” A NewsBusters study examined…
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Oh Please: ‘Morning Joe’ Suffers Meltdown Over ‘Frightening’ Sinclair
April 2nd, 2018 3:01 PM
At the top of Monday’s Morning Joe, the MSNBC show ripped a new promo on network affiliates owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group denouncing “false news” as a “chilling,” “frightening,” and “Pravda”-like “propaganda clip” doing President Trump’s bidding. Of course, it was without any sense of irony in how they licked the Obama administration’s boots and serve as home for the Resistance.