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Check Out Six Unhinged Moments from Aspen's Liberal Media Lovefest

Curtis Houck
July 5th, 2018 9:27 PM
The Aspen Ideas Festival has a reputation of being an elitist conclave of liberal academics, journalists, and pundits (with rare exceptions) to pat themselves on the back and how they could work together to advance their left-of-center worldviews. So it was no surprise when the late June gathering held a June 27 panel called “How We Survive Attacks on Journalism” and featured a who’s who from the…
 
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Lemon and Panelist Brawl Over Who’s to Blame for GOP SCOTUS Success

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 28th, 2018 1:47 AM
In the wake of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement on Wednesday, and realization that President Trump would get a second conservative nomination, the liberals were torn between organizing a feeble resistance and eating their own. This was obvious in the massive flare up on CNN Tonight where host Don Lemon and Democratic strategist Symone Sanders blow up at each other over who was to…
 
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Chuck Todd: Andrea Mitchell is ‘LeBron James' of Reporters

Kyle Drennen
June 26th, 2018 11:25 AM
In a fawning profile for NBC News Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell for the latest issue of InStyle magazine, colleague and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd gushed that the veteran liberal reporter was “like the LeBron James of foreign correspondents.” He added: “It’s the same awe that I have watching him play after all these years. Why are you still this good? Aren’t you tired?”
 

Author Compares Christian Trump Supporters to Salem Witch Hunters

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Isaac Cross
June 25th, 2018 4:19 PM
While some of the most notable commands from God are “you shall have no other gods before me” and “you shall not murder,” it seems that evangelical historian John Fea has discovered another divine decree: “thou shalt not vote for Donald Trump.”
 
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Reiner: Unhinged Resistance Is Fine, Just Don't Be Profane About It

Tom Blumer
June 19th, 2018 3:53 AM
In an interview posted on Wednesday, Hollywood Director Rob Reiner criticized Robert De Niro's profane, F-bomb Tony Awards speech aimed at President Donald Trump because such antics end up "helping Trump." (He didn't mention that the crowd's gleeful applause and Hollywood elitists' support on social media for De Niro's rant contributed mightily to "helping Trump.") On Howard Kurtz's Sunday Media…
 
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Johnson: Trump Admin 'Terrorists,' Comey 'Pissed' at His 'Black' Boss

Brad Wilmouth
June 17th, 2018 5:51 PM
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's AM Joy, race-obsessed MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson accused former FBI director James Comey of resenting Attorney General Loretta Lynch for being a "black woman boss," and then went on to accuse Trump administration members of being "terrorists" who "terrorize people into leaving the country" to promote "white nationalism."
 

At NY Times, Leonhardt Stretches IG's Conclusions to Breaking Point

Tom Blumer
June 15th, 2018 7:49 PM
David Leonhardt's Friday New York Times column about President Donald Trump's reactions to the Inspector General's report on the FBI's and Department of Justice's pre-2016 general election actions is treating it as a blanket exoneration. Therefore, everything Presidential Donald Trump has said about it is a lie.
 
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Press Ignores Obama's Lie About Emails to Hillary's Private Server

Tom Blumer
June 15th, 2018 4:49 PM
Thursday's Inspector General's report reviewing FBI and Department of Justice actions before the 2016 election effectively concluded that former President Barack Obama lied to the American people and committed illegal acts in emailing then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private-server email addresses. The IG also found that former FBI Director James Comey scrubbed all hints of Obama's prior…
 
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Mark Levin: FBI Interference ‘Worse Than Russians Could Have Dreamed’

Randy Hall
June 15th, 2018 4:21 PM

Hours after the U.S. Inspector General office released a report on Thursday regarding liberal media bias in the Department of Justice and the FBI, radio host Mark Levin used an appearance on that day’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Hannity program to address the fact that “those people had as their purpose to interfere” with the 2016 presidential election. As if that wasn’t shocking enough,…

 
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Podesta to CNN's Cuomo: Scrutiny Into Hillary Was Unwarranted

Alec Sears
June 15th, 2018 2:01 PM
Thursday on CNN's Cuomo Prime Time, former Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta was invited by host Chris Cuomo to talk about the Inspector General’s Report released earlier that day. Podesta took the opportunity to argue that Hillary Clinton was the real victim.
 
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Gagliano Unloads: Comey Brought in ‘Callow,’ ‘Inexperienced’ People

Curtis Houck
June 15th, 2018 1:59 PM

Appearing on CNN shows Thursday night and Friday morning, law enforcement analyst and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent James Gagliano slammed former FBI Director James Comey in context of the Justice Department’s IG report for having been “the least equipped lifeguard” to lead the FBI who “created a culture around him of young, callow, inexperienced agents.”

 
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ABC Skips Rogue FBI Agent’s Texts, NBC Thinks Hillary Is Real Victim

Scott Whitlock
June 15th, 2018 12:38 PM

ABC on Friday breathlessly reported on the “bombshell” Inspector General report, but the network skipped the revelation that an FBI agent vowed to “stop” Donald Trump’s 2016 victory. Over on NBC, Chuck Todd insisted that the real victim of all of this was Hillary Clinton. 

 
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CNN Frets WH Will ‘Seize’ Upon I.G. Report, ‘Take’ a ‘Victory Lap’

Curtis Houck
June 14th, 2018 3:51 PM

Moments after Thursday’s long-awaited release of the Department of Justice Inspector General report on the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation, a CNN Newsroom panel dismissed it as a “mild” report in which “[t]he other shoe didn’t drop” and will provide “[p]lenty of ammunition for both sides.” However, they fretted that the White House will “seize” on its findings and “…

 

This Week in Media Bias History: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’

Scott Whitlock
June 9th, 2018 12:15 PM
Some of the examples we use at This Week in Media Bias History are so oblivious and bizarre that they stand on their own for sheer insanity. Such is the case for Newsweek editor Evan Thomas on June 5, 2009. While talking about Barack Obama, he rhapsodized: “Obama’s standing above the country... above the world. He’s sort of God.” There you go. “Sort of God.” You knew some journalist would say it…