Jonathan Lemire Michael Tomasky MSNBC Morning Joe 12-20-24
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On Morning Joe, Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity

December 20th, 2024 11:19 AM

On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition.  He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.

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Google Turns Up Heat on Trump Nominees, Continues to Rig Results

December 19th, 2024 2:34 PM

Google’s relentless PR campaign against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees is still ongoing. The Media Research Center has caught the search giant rigging the results for a fifth consecutive week.

Column: Laughing at Brian Stelter's MAGA-Fascist Fiction

May 24th, 2024 6:02 AM

Is The New Republic still an opinion journal, or has it turned into a science-fiction magazine? For their June issue, the magazine put Donald Trump on the cover with a Hitler moustache over the headline “American Fascism: What It Would Look Like.” Brian Stelter penned a fictional article titled “Revenge and Freedom From Fact: On the media in a fascist America."

Media Freak When Scott Perry Accurately Ties KKK History To Democrats

May 11th, 2024 4:00 PM

Amazing. As my NewsBusters colleague Curtis Houck headlined, "Election Interference: CNN Uses Audio of Private Briefing to Falsely Smear GOP’s Scott Perry."

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Lib Mag: Speaker Johnson Talk of Wife Praying on Knees a 'Gross Gaffe'

October 26th, 2023 12:58 PM

What kind of article would make the liberal New Republic magazine look absolutely clueless about Christianity? Writer Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling suggesting new House Speaker Mike Johnson was making some sort of oral-sex joke when he mentioned his wife,,,,praying to Jesus.

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'Morning Joe' Joins With Those Calling Israel An 'Apartheid State'

July 6th, 2023 5:50 AM

On Morning Joe, liberal columnist Peter Beinart approvingly cites sources calling Israel an "apartheid state." Beinart calls on the US to pressure Israel by threatening to withhold funding, and ceasing to protect it from condemnation at the UN and prosecution at the International Criminal Court.

30 Years Ago: The Media’s Shameless Coverage of the ’92 Campaign

October 29th, 2022 12:15 PM

Decades before the media’s embarrassing love affair with Barack Obama, or their open warfare against Donald Trump, there was the 1992 presidential campaign, when liberal journalists shamelessly promoted Bill Clinton’s candidacy and showed their contempt for George H. W. Bush.

Lib Media-Led Union Votes to Request ‘Public Financing for Journalism’

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May 4th, 2020 6:17 PM
One of the premier national unions for liberal outlets such as NBC News Digital, The Washington Post and The New York Times actually voted to request the government finance the news industry with taxpayer dollars. Surprisingly, it was The Times that released the story Sunday May 3. The article noted how the president of the “most prominent journalists’ union in the country, the NewsGuild, crossed…
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New Republic Writer Triggered by Melania Trump's Christmas Video

December 22nd, 2019 3:32 PM
Once upon a time, the New Republic was a respected journal of political thought. The latest hilarious example of how absurd that magazine has become was in the December 19 article in which writer David Roth indulged in his extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome by going into uncontrollable fits of outrage over a video of less than a minute in which Melania Trump displayed this year's White House…

New Republic Discovers Flaws of Presidential Polling

June 25th, 2019 12:31 PM
The New Republic, which in the past few years has faded from obscurity to invisibility, has discovered what is all too obvious to even the casual observer of politics. Namely that polls are, get this, inaccurate. The one who went on this voyage of discovery to tell us what we already knew is staff writer of long political experience, Walter Shapiro. And since Shapiro has worked as a standup…

Liberal Media's SCOTUS Rationalization: Kennedy Was a Conservative

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June 28th, 2018 1:03 PM
The announced retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy has thrown the left even further into angry confusion. Amid all the doomsaying and rending of garments, some in the media are attempting to label Anthony Kennedy as a “traditional conservative.”

The Passing of a Giant

June 14th, 2018 7:32 PM
WASHINGTON — On Friday, Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative journalist and writer, released a noble statement to the public. Its final words were: “I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life -- full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the…

Even New Republic Calls Out CNN's Jim Acosta on War of 1812 Pedantry

June 7th, 2018 9:16 PM
When President Donald Trump spoke to Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the phone recently he jokingly told him that "Didn't you guys burn down the White House during the War of 1812?" This triggered CNN's Jim Acosta to  tweet a "correction" on Wednesday.The problem is Acosta's correction was wrong as even the liberal New Republic pointed out shortly afterwards.  

New Republic to MSM: Trump Probably Won't Be Leaving Office Early

April 17th, 2018 11:10 AM
If the "Trump is doomed" narrative sounds familiar, it is because we have been hearing some version of this on an almost daily basis from the mainstream media since even before President Donald Trump entered the White House. Jeet Heer's  We Are (Probably) Not in the “End Stages” of Trump’s Presidency in the New Republic should be mandatory reading for anybody in the MSM who want to discover how…