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On Morning Joe, Tomasky Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Trump Popularity
December 20th, 2024 11:19 AM
On Morning Joe, New Republic editor Michael Tomasky blames tne "right-wing media" for the public's approval of Trump's transition. He singles out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium. Tomasky is nostalgic for the days when there was "common civic agreement about basic morality in public life." Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.
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CNN Nudges John Dean on GA Indictments: 'Much Bigger than Watergate'
August 16th, 2023 6:50 AM
John Dean appeared on CNN to perform his utterly predictable "bigger than Watergate" shtick in reference to Donald Trump's indictment in Fulton County, Georgia.
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CNN Frets Trump Promising 'Law and Order' Like Nixon
August 31st, 2020 11:05 PM
On Sunday's The Situation Room on CNN, host Wolf Blitzer gave a forum to CNN contributor John Dean to trash President Donald Trump over his reaction to recent protests and riots by left-wing activists. The former aide to President Richard Nixon who has been a perennial critic of Republicans in the decades since he left the White House invoked complaints by liberals about Nixon…
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CNN Suffers MELTDOWN After Alexander Says He'll Oppose Witnesses
January 31st, 2020 12:47 AM
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander was the last of four moderate Republicans the liberal media had held out hope for voting to hear more witnesses in the impeachment trial. But shortly after the Senate trial ended the question and answer portion, the Senator made it known he was finished hearing the evidence and was ready to vote. Upon hearing this development, CNNers (particularly those with a…
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CNN Swoons for 'Very Emotional' Schiff, Knows 'What's Right' for Us
January 24th, 2020 12:17 AM
That’s it! Stop the impeachment trial and remove President Trump now because Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) was on the verge of tears! That was essentially the reaction CNN had to Schiff’s final words in Thursday’s session. CNN Tonight host Don Lemon touted how the proceedings adjourned with “A very emotional closing there from the lead impeachment manager, Adam Schiff saying, ‘Right matters.…
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Liberal Loons: CNN Entertains WILD Conspiracy Theory About Impeachment
December 16th, 2019 5:12 PM
Seeing as how CNN’s existence can be boiled down to gaslighting Americans by deeming most everything President Trump and those not in the Resistance utter as conspiracy theories, perhaps CNN should look itself in the mirror. On Monday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin entertained a wild conspiracy theory about not holding a Senate impeachment trial.
NYTimes Getting Excited, Invoking John Dean and ‘an Echo of Watergate'
November 22nd, 2019 11:52 AM
New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker got really excited over impeachment, making comparisons to John Dean and Watergate in his front-page “news analysis” of the hearings into “quid pro quo” allegations involving President Trump and Ukraine: “Democrats Detect Watergate Echo.” The headline to the “jump” page betrayed the same giddiness: “An Echo of Watergate As Sondland Remarks…
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CNN Airs Hatefest on ‘Offensive’ GOP Criticizing Vindman
November 19th, 2019 5:11 PM
In between the two impeachment hearings on Tuesday, the CNN panelists almost universally (with the exception of Scott Jennings) tore into Republicans as offering “ineffective,” “offensive,” and “unconvincing” arguments amounting to a “cherry picking...side show” that dared to criticize Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
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Media Mimic Pelosi: Trump Made Watergate 'Look Almost Small'
November 15th, 2019 6:16 PM
As NewsBusters has previously reported, the evening newscasts gleefully reported on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s use of the word “bribery” to describe President Trump’s actions during his phone call with the President of Ukraine. Throughout the day on Thursday, cable news personalities also parroted Pelosi's talking point suggesting that the President’s actions “make what Nixon did look almost…
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CNN Hails Yovanovitch's ‘Devastating’ Testimony About ‘Sexist’ Trump
November 15th, 2019 1:44 PM
During the first break in Friday’s impeachment hearing featuring longtime U.S. Foreign Service official Marie Yovanovitch, CNN rolled out Obama-like fluff and praise for “credible,” “devastating,” and “truly powerful” testimony by someone with “ice in her veins” and “a spine of steel” fighting a “sexist” President.
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Blundering John Dean to CNN: Mueller Found 'There Was Collusion'
July 24th, 2019 11:07 AM
On CNN this morning, in the pre-game of Robert Mueller's testimony today, John Dean, Mr. Cancer-on-the-Presidency, told John Berman: "The [Mueller] report indicates there was collusion, contrary to Mr. Trump's statement." Of course, the single most noteworthy finding emerging from the Mueller report, as even NPR had to admit, was that there was not any collusion between Russia and the Trump…
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Lemon Hypes 'Uncanny Parallels' Between Mueller Report and Watergate
June 12th, 2019 7:30 AM
CNN’s Don Lemon was hardly an outlier among his colleagues in the media when he rejoiced in former White House Counsel John Dean’s comparisons of the Watergate scandal to the Mueller report during an appearance on Capitol Hill. However, Lemon differentiated himself from the others in the media by complaining that media coverage of a helicopter crash in New York City eclipsed coverage of Dean’s…
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Matthews Slams Dems for Letting Dean Speak, Not Impeaching Trump Yet
June 11th, 2019 10:48 PM
Even though he was coming from the rabidly pro-impeachment camp, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was apoplectic Tuesday night with Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and his colleagues on the left for their lack of progress in trying to rid America of Donald Trump. In the span of over three minutes, Matthews blasted them for “never get[ting] anything done” on impeachment, calling witnesses…
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MSNBC’s 'Last Word' Mocks Fox News Viewers as Ignorant of Facts
June 11th, 2019 4:27 PM
Ever fervent in their Trump impeachment agenda, the liberal media decided to attack Fox News on MSNBC’s The Last Word, Monday night. Host, Lawrence O’Donnell, set the stage for Jill Wine-banks, a former Watergate prosecutor, asking: “Jill Wine-Banks, this must have been odd for you to watch having worked on the Watergate case where in fact, Republicans did cooperate in the House Judiciary…
