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'View' Fights Over Obama's Advice to Drop 'Defund' the Police
President Obama is taking heat from the progressive wing of his party for saying in a Tuesday interview that younger progressives need to drop terms like “defund the police” to get their agenda accomplished. This mild constructive criticism also drew the ire of far-left The View co-host Sunny Hostin, who bitterly battled her liberal co-hosts for agreeing with Obama’s assessment.
Obama’s Slam Of Hispanic Conservatives, Explained
President Barack Obama’s interview with The Breakfast Club, released the day before Thanksgiving, garnered significant news and reaction due to a simple line about Hispanic evangelicals who vote their conscience. But by narrowly focusing on what Obama said, most (if not all) subsequent analyses miss the broader point about which is why that remark is offensive.
CNN's Berman Pushes for McConnell to Show 'Human Decency'
On Tuesday's New Day show, CNN co-host John Berman called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to show "human decency" and do "a human thing" in congratulating Democrat Joe Biden even while President Donald Trump is still contesting the election.
MSNBC's Velshi & Witt Spread Misinformation About Illegal immigration
On Sunday, MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Alex Witt both did their part to spread misinformation to their viewers about illegal immigration and border security, with Velshi wrongly claiming that it is not illegal for asylum seekers to cross the border illegally, and Witt letting her guest understate the amount of new border wall built by the Donald Trump administration.
GAG: Colbert Practically Worships Obama on 'Late Show'
Late Show host Stephen Colbert practically bowed down before Barack Obama during a sit-down interview with the former President on his Tuesday night CBS show. The “comedian” started off the show completely mesmerized by Obama, admitting he needed to “drink in” his presence:
Don Lemon: Can't Have Unity with GOP Opposed to 'Science' and 'Facts'
Is there anything funnier than the idea of CNN suggesting it might be time now to come together as Americans? On Friday’s CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon chatted up CNN weekend host Fareed Zakaria to bash Republicans for daring to disagree with CNN. Lemon attacked Trump voters and Republicans as “people who don’t believe in science,” “facts,” and “reality.”
On Friday’s CNN…
Amanpour and Guest Blame Fox News for 'Monstrous' Climate 'Denial'
Journalists despise government efforts to "investigate media power" -- unless it's Rupert Murdoch. On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour provided an unchallenged forum to former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd to complain about Rupert Murdoch's influence on issues like global warming, and to talk up an effort he is pushing to…
Slimy CNN Defends Left's 2016 Hypocrisy by Denying Basic Reality
After White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany enraged reporters (and their liberal friends) by calling out their hypocrisy in refusing to accept election results, CNN huffed hours later that McEnany was wrong.
MSNBC's Capehart Praises Obama: He 'Wouldn't Get Down in the Mud'
The media fawning over former President Obama and his new memoir continued on MSNBC Live on Friday as Jonathan Capehart joined host Craig Melvin to talk about his interview with Obama. Capehart effectively re-wrote the history of the Obama era as he was amazed at the former president's unwillingness to "get down in the mud."
GROSS: Kimmel Asks Barack If He Had Sex With Michelle After Bin Laden
Just how much do liberal media types think and obsess over Barack Obama? Jimmy Kimmel talked to the former President on Thursday and, in between all the gushing about ObamaCare, offered a gross new low. He asked this: “So on the night you did kill bin Laden, did you and Michelle make love?”
NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Hugs and Flowers for Obama's New Book Tour
In the latest enlightening edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, Executive Editor Tim Graham breaks down the gushy interview tour for Barack Obama's latest memoir that reminds America again that the same press that tortures Trump can turn around and spread love all over Obama. Tim is joined by Jorge Bonilla, Director of MRC Latino, to discuss the dramatic leftist tilt of the Spanish-language "…
Obama's Echo Chamber at MSNBC Worries About Trump Echo Chambers
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor joined MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Monday to long for the days of Barack Obama because those were the days when the president cared about the truth.
Oprah and Obama Boast Over Obama's 'Scandal Free' Presidency
Barack Obama took his book tour with Democrat donors and family friends to Apple TV+ this week in a lengthy virtual interview with Oprah Winfrey. After getting a cushy interview on CBS with his vacation pal Gayle King, the former president turned to long-time Democrat donor Winfrey for another softball interview over his latest memoir
‘MY ADMINISTRATION’: Obama Reveals True Intentions to Univision
Anything and everything can be said on paper, and now, on air, as an exclusive Univision interview with Barack Obama to promote his latest book – A Promised Land - proves. From avowing that he couldn’t do anything about immigration and DACA because he “inherited ICE and Border Patrols and the various laws that were already in place”-, to openly admitting his plans to be the…
