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Top 14: Celebrating the ‘Silver Linings’ of the Pandemic
May 20th, 2020 9:00 AM
The following are the Top 14 worst examples of liberal media types discovering the “bright spot” of the coronavirus crisis:
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PBS Interviews 74 Biden Aides: Reade's Tale 'Increasingly Unlikely'
May 15th, 2020 11:03 PM
The PBS NewsHour on Friday night reported on 74 interviews they did with Biden staffers about Tara Reade’s accusations and her short career in Biden’s office in 1993. It added up to helping Biden weather the accusation. Pundits David Brooks and Mark Shields said the idea Biden assaulted Reade looks "increasingly unlikely."
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Amanpour and Goodwin Cheer Higher Taxes and Increased 'Welfare State'
May 14th, 2020 5:30 PM
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour and former NBC presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke favorably of higher taxes on the wealthy in the U.S. and the increased welfare state in Britain that came about post-World War II.
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NY Times Scribe Gets Admonished by His Own Paper for Too Much Opinion
May 14th, 2020 12:22 PM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil insisted Centers for Disease Control boss James Redfield should just resign. Even the Times issued a statement saying that was too much opinion.
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WH Reporters Peddle Fear, Impugn Trump’s Motives on Reopening, Testing
May 11th, 2020 7:45 PM
The White House press corps must have consumed plenty of Wheaties ahead of Monday’s presidential press conference as, by and large, reporters came at President Trump with an emphasis on fear to keep Americans in their homes and impugn the motives of Trump on both death tolls and testing. And when CBS’s Weijia Jiang made her latest scene a la Jim Acosta and sought to have Trump ensnared in a…
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Amanpour Pushes Goodall to Charge 'We Brought' Pandemic 'on Ourselves'
May 11th, 2020 3:30 PM
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour was again trying to find a "silver lining" in the coronavirus pandemic as she spoke with primatologist Jane Goodall about her reaction to the crisis. Goodall declared that "we brought this on ourselves" as she complained about deforestation and factory farms, and fretted that governments like the Trump…
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Shields Slams Barr for Ruining Himself, Becoming 'Trump's Roy Cohn'
May 9th, 2020 9:45 PM
On Friday's PBS NewsHour, liberal pundit Mark Shields ripped Attorney General William Barr for ruining his own legacy by being the president's "in-house lawyer," but he wanted a more stinging insult. He suggested he was "Donald Trump's Roy Cohn," a lawyer hated by liberals for prosecuting Soviet agents like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the Cold War years. Shields pretended the whole time that…
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NPR's Michel Martin Cues Journalist to Hint Trump Voters Are Racist
May 8th, 2020 10:27 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin prodded The New Yorker's Evan Osnos to suggest that Donald Trump supporters are racists even if they don't like to admit it. He also hinted that they vote racist because they support a President whose actions "explicitly, demonstrably, measurably harm people of color."
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Smackdown: Citing the MRC, McEnany Embarrasses the Liberal Media
May 8th, 2020 3:27 PM
Along with reporters donning masks (which led to muffled questions), Friday’s abbreviated White House Press Briefing was tough sledding for the liberal media. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany began her third briefing highlighting the Justice Department dropping the Michael Flynn case and citing NewsBusters before ending later with a zing to a perturbed Paula Reid from CBS.
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Amanpour Tries to Have EU Official Bash Trump Over Disinfectants Line
May 5th, 2020 10:22 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour tried to prod her guest -- the European Commission's president, Doctor Ursula von der Leyen -- to bash President Donald Trump over his confused suggestion that doctors might treat coronavirus patients with disinfectants. Doctor Leyen, who was appearing on the show to discuss a fundraising effort to help fight…
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PBS Highlights Missteps by NY Democrats in Pandemic Response
May 1st, 2020 6:19 PM
On Thursday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the show devoted a segment to the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, and gave a surprising amount of criticism toward Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Amanpour: Is Trump a 'Danger' to the U.S. and to the World?
May 1st, 2020 4:10 PM
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour asked if President Donald Trump is a "danger to the people of the United States and to the world" as she spoke with former Senator Heidi Heitkamp and gave the North Dakota Democrat a forum to be critical of the Trump administration.
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Here Are the BEST Trump Smackdowns of Journalists at COVID Briefings
May 1st, 2020 10:30 AM
News reports percolated last week that formal White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings could go away or see a dramatic overhaul. Instead of showing seriousness and sobriety during this pandemic, camera-hawking, far-left egotists picked fights with President Donald Trump only to cry foul afterward to sympathetic colleagues. MRC analysts combed through our archives of the briefings to resurrect…
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Bill Frist Calls Out NPR's Michel Martin for Loaded Abortion Questions
April 29th, 2020 4:12 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, the program showed a pre-recorded interview between NPR weekend anchor Michel Martin and former Republican Senator Bill Frist in which Martin tried to suggest hypocrisy on the part of pro-life Republicans who have pushed to reopen some states during the pandemic. Frist bristled at her attempt to link the pandemic to abortion and scolded…