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Andrea Mitchell Wonders If Scalia Debate Could Help Dems Retake Senate
February 15th, 2016 9:34 PM
As the debate over who should replace late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia continued into Monday, NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell took to NBC Nightly News to tout claims that the discussion could hurt Republicans and lead to Democratic Senatorial candidates winning elections in November to help their party retake control.
NY Times Uses Scalia’s Passing for Lefty Labeling, Loaded Language
February 15th, 2016 8:40 PM
The New York Times news coverage upon the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was mostly respectful (which is more than can be said about the paper’s nasty editorial thrust). But the paper’s liberal bias shone through in pondering how Scalia’s death would resonate during the election year. Emily Bazelon’s Monday “news analysis" portrayed conservative rulings as “limiting” and “…
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Chris Matthews Compares GOP to Grave Robbers After Scalia’s Death
February 15th, 2016 3:26 PM
Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Hardball host Chris Matthews blasted Republican opposition to President Obama nominating a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “...this almost indecent march to rejection here within minutes of the announcement of Judge Scalia's death....it was like a Dickensian scene in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge or somebody’s died – dead…
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CBS: ‘History Could Be’ on Obama’s Side for Scalia Replacement
February 15th, 2016 3:17 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday came to the President’s aid, insisting that “history could be” on Barack Obama’s side as he fights to replace Antonin Scalia with a liberal on the Supreme Court. Without highlighting opposing interpretations, reporter Margaret Brennan told her audience: “But history could be on the administration's side here. Since 1900, six Supreme Court justices…
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MSNBC's Carmon: Scalia 'Left Out in the Cold' the 'Oppressed'
February 15th, 2016 1:49 PM
During Sunday morning's MSNBC live coverage of the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, host Ari Melber and correspondent Irin Carmon waded into going negative against the conservative justice as the two brought up those who viewed him as "cold" toward people who have been "historically oppressed" in spite of his pleasant personality.
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MSNBC: Don’t Worry, Obama Doesn’t Pick ‘Bomb Throwers' for Court
February 15th, 2016 1:23 PM
Sunday’s coverage of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia included attacks on the judge as a “homophobe” who “coarsened” the dialogue. The network also offered the analysis that Republican’s shouldn’t be worried because Barack Obama doesn’t choose “bomb throwers” for the Supreme Court. Regarding the last two picks, Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate, parroted, “The qualities [Obama] was…
Twelve Tweets of Liberal Journalists Celebrating Scalia's Death
February 15th, 2016 12:58 PM
The news of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death this past Saturday shocked the country. A Reagan appointee, Scalia was also Catholic, socially conservative, and brilliant; a combination that made him the left’s most-hated member of the Supreme Court. While his passing was respectfully treated by many in the media, there were still many far-left journalists who refused to show the late…
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George Stephanopoulos Badgers Lindsey Graham on Scalia Replacement
February 15th, 2016 11:39 AM
Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos, Monday, badgered Senator Lindsey Graham on the need to get a quick replacement for Antonin Scalia. An incredulous Stephanopoulos wondered, “Your leader, Mitch McConnell, said flatly, President Obama should not have a chance to fill this vacancy. Does that mean the President's choice won't even get a hearing?”
NY Times Editorialist: Give Obama His Court Nominee Because of Slavery
February 15th, 2016 11:00 AM
Yesterday, New York Times editorial board member Brent Staples tweeted what was and apparently still is his best argument for why the Republican-controlled Senate should roll over and approve whoever President Obama wishes to nominate to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Antonin Scalia's death on Saturday: "In a nation built on slavery, white men propose denying the first black…
The Onion Runs Obnoxious Anti-Scalia Headline on Day of His Passing
February 15th, 2016 10:25 AM
The satirical website The Onion wasted little time in delivering an obnoxious take on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing. Over a photo of Scalia The Onion ran the following headline: “Justice Scalia Dead Following 30-Year Battle With Social Progress.”
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Stephanopoulos, Todd Gang Up on Cruz, Rubio over SCOTUS Nomination
February 14th, 2016 3:56 PM
In separate Sunday morning interviews of Republican presidential candidates and Senators Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Marco Rubio (Fl.), ABC’s This Week host George Stephanopoulos and NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd urged them to consider whomever President Obama nominates to replace the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia since “the people elected President Obama” and he…
Wash Post Headline: ‘Supreme Court Conservative Dismayed Liberals’
February 14th, 2016 12:57 PM
What was the most important thing for readers of Washington Post to see on the front-page of the paper Sunday morning? A headline focusing directly on the death of Antonin Scalia? No. In bold, large font, the Post declared, “Supreme Court Conservative Dismayed Liberals.”
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NBC Goes to Clinton Operative to Blast GOP on Scalia Replacement
February 14th, 2016 12:07 PM
According to the journalists at NBC’s Today, a Hillary Clinton operative is the perfect person to weigh in on replacing conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Co-host Craig Melvin brought on Ron Klain to blast Republicans for declaring that a new president would pick the next judge, not Obama.
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Surprise: ABC, NBC Honor Scalia as a ‘Legendary’ ‘American Original’
February 14th, 2016 10:52 AM
The morning after the shock news that Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia died, ABC and NBC actually opened their Sunday shows with nice tributes to the “legendary” “American original,” seeing the conservative as a “giant” who was “funny and sarcastic.” That didn’t stop Good Morning America and Today from constantly referring to Scalia as “controversial.”
