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CBS Anchor O’Donnell Rolls Over for Schiff to Spew Talking Points

Nicholas Fondacaro
October 31st, 2019 10:56 PM
There’s a reason CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell was absolutely failing to boost ratings for CBS’s flagship evening newscast. Following the partisan passage of the House’s impeachment procedures on Thursday, O’Donnell sat down with, or rather rolled over for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). She lobbed marshmallow-like questions at him so he could effectively…
 
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NBC Dismisses Push to Censure Schiff as ‘Symbolic’; ABC & CBS Ignore

Kyle Drennen
October 21st, 2019 11:08 AM
On Monday, the network morning shows devoted a total of 15 seconds of air time to congressional Republicans moving to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his handling of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Only NBC actually covered the news – in a dismissive tone – while ABC and CBS completely skipped the story.
 
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VIDEO: Journalists, Dems Use Identical Talking Points on Impeachment

Bill D'Agostino
October 17th, 2019 8:15 AM
Television journalists these days sound so similar to Democrats on impeachment that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. Weeks before the impeachment inquiry was even announced, talking heads were passing off Democratic talking points as objective information about the President's alleged wrongdoing.
 

Bozell & Graham Column: The Incredible, Vanishing 'Whistleblower'

Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
October 16th, 2019 7:12 AM
The partisans at The Washington Post pretended in a front-page “news” article on Sunday that somehow President Trump was losing his marbles in “rage,” going “beyond his often-untethered bounds.” Post readers were supposed to be highly disturbed about his mental state when he held a raucous rally in Minneapolis and said supposedly crazy things like the Democrats are carrying out “a brazen attempt…
 

Nets Punt on News CIA Whistleblower Worked with Joe Biden

Curtis Houck
October 11th, 2019 8:05 PM

Thursday night, Washington Examiner’s Rob Crilly, Steven Nelson, and David Drucker reported that alleged CIA whistleblower at the center of the congressional inquiry seeking to impeach and remove President Donald Trump “had a ‘professional’ tie” to “Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.” But on the Friday morning and evening flagship broadcast network…

 

GOP Rep. Jim Banks Bonks NPR for Wrongly Insisting Schiff Didn't Lie

Tim Graham
October 11th, 2019 2:33 PM
Earlier, we noted NPR Public Editor Elizabeth Jensen slammed Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) for allegedly misleading NPR listeners by noting Adam Schiff wrongly claimed "we" (he and his staff) had no contact with the "whistleblower" at the center of the Democrat impeachment inquiry. Shelby Talcott at the Daily Caller reports that on Thursday, Banks formally protested this accusation in a letter to NPR…
 
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CNN Host Jim Sciutto Bungles Fact Check of Jim Jordan's Schiff Remarks

Alex Christy
October 8th, 2019 5:17 PM
With the news that the State Department had blocked Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from testifying to Congress on Tuesday, CNN Newsroom went live to Capitol Hill for reaction. After showing remarks from Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, co-host Jim Sciutto continued the media's new favorite hobby of pretentious fact-checking when he charged Jordan with not telling…
 

NPR Ombud Upset a Republican Said On NPR Adam Schiff 'Lied' (He Did)

Tim Graham
October 7th, 2019 7:40 AM
Lyndsey Fifield of Heritage pointed out on Sunday that NPR Public Editor (or Ombudsman) Elizabeth Jensen proclaimed on Friday night that NPR allowed misinformation on their airwaves. The culprit was Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana), who said Adam Schiff lied about he and his staff's contacts with the vaunted "whistleblower" that's central to the Democrat impeachment effort. But wait, The Washington…
 

WashPost 'Fact Checker' Tags Schiff with 4 Pinocchios on Whistleblower

Tim Graham
October 5th, 2019 6:39 PM
On Thursday, we noted the "fact checkers" weren't exactly hounding liberal Rep. Adam Schiff for his false statements about the impeachment attempt and the whistleblower. On Friday, Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler tagged Schiff with his worst rating -- the "Four Pinocchios" -- after The New York Times reported he and his staff were in contact with  the vaunted anonymous whistleblower…
 

Black Conservative Warns Twitter ‘Coming After Trump Supporters'

Alexa Moutevelis
October 5th, 2019 8:25 AM
Comedian Terrence K. Williams of “The Deplorables” comedy troupe, pleaded for help Friday amidst fears Twitter was targeting his account for his support of President Trump. A popular blue check conservative with over 600,000 followers, Williams received a legal warning from Twitter right before he was to go to the White House’s “Young Black Leadership Summit.”
 
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MSNBC's Jackson: Republicans 'Seizing' on Schiff's Whistleblower Lie

Alex Christy
October 4th, 2019 10:06 AM
Wednesday brought the revelation that House Intel Committee Chair Adam Schiff lied to Sam Stein on MSNBC's Morning Joe on September 17. Naturally enough, Thursday on another MSNBC show, MSNBC Live, host Hallie Jackson decided to play up the "Republicans Seize" angle with NBC's Ken Dilanian. At least they didn't pounce.  
 
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NBC & CBS Dismiss Whistleblower Heads Up to Schiff, ABC Still Censors

Kyle Drennen
October 3rd, 2019 12:43 PM
After NBC Nightly News was the only evening newscast on Wednesday to even acknowledge that the CIA whistleblower consulted with a staffer for House Democrat Adam Schiff before filing a formal complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General, on Thursday, NBC’s Today show and CBS This Morning worked to downplay the bombshell revelation. Meanwhile, ABC’s Good Morning America maintained…
 
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Morning Joe: Schiff in Trouble for Lying about Whistleblower Contact

Mark Finkelstein
October 3rd, 2019 10:32 AM
On the Morning Joe of September 17th, Adam Schiff told Sam Stein that his committee: "have not spoken directly with the whistleblower." If fact, the whistleblower had contacted the committee and they spoke. On today's Morning Joe, Stein said of Schiff's misrepresentation,  "I will say, this puts him in some trouble. He clearly wasn't being forthright in that interview with us a couple weeks ago.…
 
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Most 'Fact Checkers' Act Shifty with Schiff's Lying About Ukraine-Gate

Tim Graham
October 3rd, 2019 9:03 AM

Congressman Adam Schiff was caught in a lie by The New York Times on Wednesday, although they didn’t make that point. The newspaper reported the whistleblower contacted Schiff’s committee and discussed his complaint in vague terms, and those terms were passed along to Schiff. He told MSNBC "we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower." Will the "fact checkers" notice? Most of them…