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MSNBC's Biden Backers Demand Voters End Trump's 'Reign of Terror'

July 26th, 2020 8:23 PM

On Sunday afternoon's MSNBC Live with Alex Witt, MSNBC contributor and liberal historian Jon Meacham conflated segregationist Democrat George Wallace with non-segregationist Republican conservatives like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. After Meacham encouraged viewers to vote against President Trump's "reign of terror" in November, MSNBC Republican Michael Steele…

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OF COURSE! CNN Hack Blames Reagan for High Corona Death Toll in U.S.

July 12th, 2020 8:05 PM

On his Sunday morning show, CNN host Fareed Zakaria opened with a commentary in which he blamed President Ronald Reagan for the U.S. government's failure to minimize the COVID-19 death toll as he argued that giving more funding to government agencies would have led to fewer deaths.

Teen Vogue Tears Down Gipper: ‘Ronald Reagan Sucked, Actually’

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July 9th, 2020 4:30 PM

With the woke cancel mob trying to topple statues of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and even Abraham Lincoln, it would only make sense that they’d come after President Ronald Reagan, too. Writer Lucy Diavolo did just that in a July 9 article published in Teen Vogue.

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PBS Links GOP to Racism, Wrongly Implies George Wallace Was Republican

July 5th, 2020 6:02 AM

On Thursday evening, PBS NewsHour displayed the latest example of journalists and other liberals suggesting that segregationist former Alabama Governor George Wallace was a Republican when he, in fact, was a lifelong Democrat.

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MSNBC Likens Trump in Tulsa to Reagan 'Dog Whistle' Speech

June 22nd, 2020 4:41 PM

Over the past week, as journalists and liberal commentators have been fixated on the timing and location of President Donald Trump's campaign rally on Juneteenth weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, they have again been peddling the debunked myth that President Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in Neshoba County, in an effort to appeal to Southern white…

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CNN's King: 'Trump Sometimes Sounds Like a Wallace or Nixon'

June 16th, 2020 3:36 PM

On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, host John King discussed with Princeton Professor Julian Zelizer how President Trump and current protest movements fit into the idea that politics is like a pendulum. According to King, President Trump could be compared to the former segregationist George Wallace, who himself was once a beneficiary of the pendulum effect, "This president sometimes sounds …

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MSNBC's Glaude: Trump 'Playing Fast and Loose' with Black Deaths

June 15th, 2020 10:45 AM

Appearing as a guest on Saturday's Velshi show on MSNBC, contributor Eddie Glaude accused President Donald Trump of planning to put on a "white political theater" that "plays fast and loose" with the deaths of blacks as he complained about the upcoming rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- a city known for a horrific massacre against black residents in 1921.

NYT: Virus Crisis 'Outgrowth of Exploitative' Capitalism, Reaganism

April 30th, 2020 3:27 PM
In “Reconciling the Pandemic With the Nation’s Self-Image,” her left-wing essay disguised as news in Wednesday’s New York Times, culture reporter Jennifer Schuessler used an ill-concealed gloating tone, as if the pandemic, which caught the whole world (except China) off guard, is the final blow to naive Reaganesque pride in American uniqueness: ....others see the crisis as the outgrowth of an…
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'Mixed-ish' Misinformation: 'Reagan Planted Crack in Black Community'

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April 28th, 2020 11:13 PM
Mixed-ish, ABC's prequel to Black-ish, is well known for being a politically charged, anti-conservative show based in the 1980s. On Tuesday's episode, "Every Little Step," they continued this trend when Paul (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) accused Reagan of planting crack in the black community. 
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Scarborough: Buckley's 'Rolling Over In His Grave' at Attacks on Press

April 27th, 2020 12:04 PM
Stung by criticism of their on-air TDS meltdowns, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski lash out at the conservative media, calling them "despicable, disgusting" Trump "pawns" who are betraying the legacy of William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan.

Gross Michelle Wolf: Trump Gets ‘Sweet Oral Satisfaction’ From Media

April 24th, 2020 9:12 AM
Profane comedienne and failed Netflix talk show host Michelle Wolf has been out of the spotlight recently, but it’s obvious she is still REALLY angry at Donald Trump for remaining in the White House. In case anyone doubted her hostility toward the President, she wrote an article for the liberal Daily Beast website, where she bizarrely accused the “mainstream media” of giving him “sweet, sweet…
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NPR Host Dwells on Race as the 'Original Sin' of the Modern GOP

April 2nd, 2020 8:51 AM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS, NPR hoste Michel Martin did an interview with Stuart Stevens, one of those GOP strategists who became red-hot Never Trumpers. Stevens insisted "the original sin of the modern Republican party is race," and Martin used that to rip into Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush....inaccurately.
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MSNBC Uses Pandemic to Trash Reagan: 'Demonized' the Poor

March 28th, 2020 5:10 PM
On Saturday's Velshi show, as MSNBC host Ali Velshi again used the coronavirus pandemic to promote an increase in welfare and socialism in the U.S., MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude made time to go all the way back to the Ronald Reagan administration as he complained about an "ideology" "that has demonized poor people" for decades.
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Colbert’s Cartoon Show Blasts Reagan as 'Dementia-Ridden President'

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March 22nd, 2020 10:33 PM
President Ronald Reagan left office in January 1989 yet liberals in Hollywood still love nothing better than to randomly insert crude caricatures of him into television storylines. America’s 40th president is credited with inspiring a generation of young people to join the Republican Party but to the left, he’s a joke of a human being.