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King: GOP Want U.S. to ‘Dramatically Lower the Bar’ for Presidency
June 8th, 2017 5:27 PM
After the much hyped James Comey Senate hearing Thursday, CNN’s John King took a shot at Republicans later that afternoon. He argued that they wanted to “dramatically lower the standard for being President of the United States.”
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WashPost: Comey ‘Laid Out Case’ for Obstruction; He Didn’t Say That
June 8th, 2017 5:19 PM
The Washington Post and journalists at ABC hear what they want to hear. The Post in a headline on Thursday declared that James Comey “laid out the case that President Trump obstructed justice.” After the hearings, ABC suggested that Comey intended “to lay out the facts and hope there is a prosecution for obstruction of justice.”
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Stelter Frets, Is Putin the ‘Winner’ After Today’s Comey Hearing?
June 8th, 2017 4:10 PM
During CNN’s live post-Comey hearing coverage Thursday afternoon, CNN’s Reliable Sources host and resident conservative media basher Brian Stelter accused the right of creating a “side show” out of the day's hearing. Instead of taking aim at Comey’s troubling admission that he purposefully leaked his private conversations with the president to The New York Times, Stelter adamantly defended that…
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CNN’s King Admits Media Will Bury Comey’s ‘Damning Account’ of Lynch
June 8th, 2017 3:52 PM
While the Comey hearing into Russia was and remains a big story, CNN’s John King admitted Thursday afternoon that the media will not give much (if any) attention to Jim Comey stating that he was disturbed by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch telling him in the midst of the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal that he should refer to it as “a matter,” not “an investigation.”
Hollywood Transfixed by Comey Hearing
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June 8th, 2017 3:32 PM
Ever since former FBI director James Comey became inextricably linked with the 2016 election, celebrities have been spellbound by him. They’ve loved, hated, sympathized with and berated him. But during the congressional hearings that took place Thursday morning, nearly all were on Comey’s side.
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Matthews’s Comey Freak Out: Trump Is Worse Than Nixon!
June 8th, 2017 3:11 PM
Chris Matthews freaked out over James Comey’s testimony in front on Congress on Thursday, assailing Donald Trump as worse than Richard Nixon and sneering that the current President isn’t “used to the fact that he’s constrained by the Constitution.”
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NBC: No ‘Smoking Gun’ From Comey, But ‘Horrendous Day’ for Trump
June 8th, 2017 3:11 PM
During an NBC News special report immediately following James Comey’s congressional testimony on Thursday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd admitted that there was no “smoking gun” in any of the statements from the former FBI director, but still insisted that it was a “horrendous day” for the Trump administration.
CNN Claims Comey Would 'Refute' Trump, Issues Weaselly 'Correction'
June 8th, 2017 2:53 PM
CNN apparently sees part of its mission as putting out weakly sourced, anonymous and likely untrue information when it makes President Donald Trump look bad, and then weakly "correcting" it with no apologies when the truth becomes known. A particularly egregious example of this occurred Tuesday when the network published a story and broadcast video segments declaring that former FBI Director…
Excited CBS on Comey: ‘Historic’ ‘History’ Could Shape U.S. ‘History!’
June 8th, 2017 11:18 AM
In case you didn’t realize just how excited liberal journalists were about James Comey’s testimony in front of Congress on Thursday, CBS This Morning reporters described it as “historic” or “history” six times. Of course, they even looked back at Watergate for a comparison.
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ABC: Comey Will State ‘Just the Facts' Because Trump 'Isn't Trusted'
June 8th, 2017 10:48 AM
Hours before former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate on the FBI Investigation into Russia, ABC was already predicting how the hearing was going to play out. On Thursday’s Good Morning America, ABC set up Comey as a man who could be trusted, no question, conveniently forgetting how much he was criticized by both sides for his handling of the Russia investigation and Hillary…
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Mitchell Fondly Recalls Anti-GOP Hearings, Skips Clinton Impeachment
June 8th, 2017 10:45 AM
Eagerly awaiting testimony from former FBI Director James Comey Thursday morning, correspondent Andrea Mitchell took to NBC’s Today to remind viewers of past “must-see” congressional hearings. The liberal reporter fondly remembered Capitol Hill proceedings that went after Republicans over the years, but conveniently skipped over the 1998 impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton.
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Supposedly Relevant Rather: Comey Hearing Is 'Code Red' for America
June 7th, 2017 11:50 PM
On Tuesday, disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor and fake news connoisseur Dan Rather was somehow a relevant voice on MSNBC’s Hardball, raging at former FBI Director Jim Comey for admitting in prepared remarks for Thursday’s hearing that he told President Trump that he wasn’t under FBI investigation.
CNN Goes Bonkers: Spends 10 Hours on Comey Before Testimony
June 7th, 2017 1:06 PM
Former FBI Director James Comey has not said a single word in public, but the liberal media have been salivating for days over his upcoming testimony on Thursday. Case in point: from noon on Thursday (June 1) when the date for the testimony was set, until noon today (June 7), CNN has already devoted more than 10 hours of coverage to testimony that has yet to even occur. Their "Comey Countdown”…
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Lauer: Trump Guilty of ‘Emotional Definition’ of Obstruction?
June 7th, 2017 11:52 AM
Matt Lauer is not a legal scholar, but apparently the morning show host likes to play one on TV. On Wednesday’s NBC Today, while lamenting reports that former FBI Director James Comey would not accuse President Trump of obstruction of justice during his congressional testimony on Thursday, Lauer still tried find a crime by absurdly claiming that Trump’s actions surrounding the Russia…