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Politico Reporter Admits He's a 'Hack' for Clinton In Leaked E-mails
October 18th, 2016 4:25 PM
In a leaked e-mail from Wikileaks late last week, Politico’s chief political correspondent Glenn Thrush was caught groveling before Hillary Clinton chairman John Podesta, trying to gain his “approval” before publishing a story on the Clinton campaign. In the e-mail, Thrush admits he’s a “hack” that needs Podesta’s approval on the part of the story that pertains to him.
Politico Writer Tweets Trump's Jewish Son-in-Law Is Catering to Nazis
October 17th, 2016 3:48 PM
Providing an example of how vocal reporters are on Twitter than in their natural habitats (e.g. on-screen or in print), Politico’s senior White House correspondent Edward-Isaac Dovere lashed out at Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on Monday for assisting Trump in “look[ing] into a new TV network that would cater in part to Nazis” despite having Holocaust survivors for grandparents.
Trump Right, Hillary Wrong on When She Left Govt.; NBC Covers For Her
October 13th, 2016 3:17 PM
This latest edition of "Stupid Fact Checks" by Hillary Clinton lapdogs in the press comes from NBC, with follow-up help from the Politico, and is an entry in two categories: "False Equivalency" and "Subsequent Goalpost Moving." In Sunday's second presidential debate, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump correctly stated that Mrs. Clinton "was there as Secretary of State with the so-called…
Clinton Campaign Held Off-the-Record Party for Reporters
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October 11th, 2016 4:13 PM
The Hillary Clinton Campaign threw an off the record party and only liberal media were invited, recently leaked emails revealed. A source identifying himself as Guccifer 2.0 provided The Intercept with emails revealing “friendly and highly useful relationships” between the Clinton campaign and the U.S. media.
Press Minimizes Exposure of Hillary Ridiculing Sanders Supporters
October 3rd, 2016 9:29 PM
The press is going to extraordinary lengths to minimize the visibility of Hillary Clinton's damaging and disparaging February remarks at a fundraiser about how Bernie Sanders' supporters "are living in their parents’ basement," and how half of them don't know what ('just like Scandinavia') means" — stereotyping digs which don't survive even the most rudimentary efforts at fact-checking.
Politico Mangles Giuliani Quote Into Trump 'Better...Than a Woman'
October 3rd, 2016 4:30 PM
Politico mangled a quote from Rudy Giuliani’s Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week. Their headline was “Giuliani: Trump 'better for the United States than a woman'.” That misleading headline that leaves out half of Giuliani's sentence -- the half about Hillary's email scandal -- is also on top of the accompanying video, and in Politico tweets.
Politico: 'Will SNL Take Down Trump?'
September 29th, 2016 1:49 PM
Do you know what the real purpose of NBC's Saturday Night Live is? If you thought comedy, you would be wrong according to Politico. No, the main purpose of SNL is to act in a completely partisan manner in order to TAKE DOWN TRUMP. Got that? As Politico makes clear, Saturday Night Live will be going after Donald Trump leading into the election starting with this weekend's episode. To make sure of…
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‘False’? Media Deny Fact Clinton Camp Pushed Birtherism in 2008
September 16th, 2016 12:47 PM
On Friday, both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning blasted Donald Trump for refusing to respond to a question about whether President Obama was born in the United States and “fact-checked” his assertion that Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign actually first pushed the conspiracy theory. On Today, correspondent Peter Alexander noted: “The Trump team issuing a reversal, saying, quote, ‘Mr. Trump…
Politico's 'Inside Story' of Hillary's 'Near Swoon' Worthy of Pravda
September 14th, 2016 4:38 PM
Politico reporters Glenn Thrush and Brianna Ehley wasted little time demonstrating bias and their willingness to mislead readers in a story with the more-revealing-than-intended headline, "The Inside story of Clinton's sick day." Both were on display right out of the gate, in the first paragraph of the story.
Here's their lede -- "Hillary Clinton never lost consciousness, and never stopped…
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Politico's Grunwald Denies Jonathan Gruber was Obamacare Architect
September 13th, 2016 9:08 PM
If Donald Trump said it, then it must be false. That seems to be the philosophy of many liberals, including Politico senior staff writer Michael Grunwald. In this case, Trump correctly described Jonathan Gruber as the architect of ObamaCare in a speech today in Des Moines, Iowa. Gruber was once embraced by liberals and was praised by them many times over and over and over again as the "architect…
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NY Times Howler: Bill Clinton Has Had a 'Year of Restraint'
September 11th, 2016 5:30 PM
Apparently just arriving after over a year spent in a virtually news-free, hermetically sealed cave, New York Times reporter Matt Flegenheimer pretended that former President Bill Clinton has, until he recently began complaining about the treatment of the Clinton Foundation, had "more than a year of uncharacteristic restraint." In the real world the rest of us inhabit, Clinton has benefited from…
Politico Gives Five Reasons Clinton Could Be Blowing Election
September 6th, 2016 5:40 PM
With two months left before the presidential election on November 8, a major poll released Tuesday morning by the Cable News Network and Opinion Research Corporation “revealed that the 'prohibitive favorite' -- Hillary Clinton -- is down by two points nationally to one of the worst presidential candidates since the advent of the indoor flush toilet: Donald J. Trump,” according to an article…
Press Left Seething for Being Left Behind on Trump’s Trip to Mexico
September 2nd, 2016 8:02 PM
According to Politico, the media were given no advance notice regarding Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s trip to meet with Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto and were instead left “seething” because they didn’t have enough time to prepare for the trip across the border to Mexico City.
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Nets Ignore 'Politico' Report Exposing Clinton Abuse of Fed Program
September 1st, 2016 10:25 PM
A huge story broke by Politico early Thursday morning exposes how Bill Clinton exploited a federal program for former president to grease the wheels of the Clinton Foundation. “Bill Clinton's staff used a decades-old federal government program … to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server,” Politico reported. As shocking as the…