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WH Reporters Peddle Fear, Impugn Trump’s Motives on Reopening, Testing
May 11th, 2020 7:45 PM
The White House press corps must have consumed plenty of Wheaties ahead of Monday’s presidential press conference as, by and large, reporters came at President Trump with an emphasis on fear to keep Americans in their homes and impugn the motives of Trump on both death tolls and testing. And when CBS’s Weijia Jiang made her latest scene a la Jim Acosta and sought to have Trump ensnared in a…
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Smackdown: Citing the MRC, McEnany Embarrasses the Liberal Media
May 8th, 2020 3:27 PM
Along with reporters donning masks (which led to muffled questions), Friday’s abbreviated White House Press Briefing was tough sledding for the liberal media. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany began her third briefing highlighting the Justice Department dropping the Michael Flynn case and citing NewsBusters before ending later with a zing to a perturbed Paula Reid from CBS.
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MIC DROP: Kayleigh McEnany BURNS Media for Early Coronavirus Stories
May 6th, 2020 7:11 PM
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany ended Wednesday's press briefing with a bruising takedown of the liberal media after Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason wondered if she’d retract comments about the coronavirus from a February 25 Fox Business appearance. Instead of offer a mea culpa that wouldn’t assuage the liberal media’s disdain for her or anyone else in the administration…
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Here Are the BEST Trump Smackdowns of Journalists at COVID Briefings
May 1st, 2020 10:30 AM
News reports percolated last week that formal White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings could go away or see a dramatic overhaul. Instead of showing seriousness and sobriety during this pandemic, camera-hawking, far-left egotists picked fights with President Donald Trump only to cry foul afterward to sympathetic colleagues. MRC analysts combed through our archives of the briefings to resurrect…
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Reporter to Trump: Do You Deserve Reelection Since Over 55k Are Dead?
April 27th, 2020 10:21 PM
After some uncertainty about the future of White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings, Monday’s episode went off without a hitch in the Rose Garden and the questions were relatively fair and uncontroversial. That was until New York magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi was granted the final question and, despite the adorations from fellow liberal journalists afterward, she stood on the graves of Americans…
Fact-Checker: Trump ‘Did NOT Urge People to Inject Disinfectants'
April 27th, 2020 12:25 PM
A Facebook fact-checking partner determined that President Donald Trump did not tell people to inject themselves with disinfectants to cure the coronavirus. Lead Stories, a fact-checking outlet run by former CNN employees, took a video from popular Facebook page March for Science and found it to be a “false accusation.”
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CNN RAGES at ‘Lying’ Trump’s ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Idiotic,’ ‘Soviet’ Comment
April 24th, 2020 10:29 PM
Friday afternoon, CNN melted down into a panel of juvenile performance artists, spending over 15 minutes screeching President Trump’s remarks Thursday and a Friday follow-up about disinfectants and sunlight as a “dangerous,” “double speak,” “idiotic,” “ludicrous,” “Soviet fashion,” and “a waste of time” (even though CNN was harping on it hourly).
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Trump LEVELS Phil Rucker; ‘I’m the President and You’re Fake News’
April 23rd, 2020 9:37 PM
Ahead of Thursday’s NFL Draft, there was a rhetorical pummeling at the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing as the horribly biased Washington Post White House bureau chief Philip Rucker found himself flattened by President Trump as “total faker” after he insisted that it was “dangerous for you to” encourage people to go outside as the temperatures warm up despite the presence coronavirus.…
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Trump, CDC Director Spar with Karl Over ‘Fake News,’ WashPost Quote
April 22nd, 2020 11:02 PM
Wednesday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing saw fireworks after Tuesday’s episode was a welcome change with a calm, civil, and sober tone among the cast of reporters. But on Wednesday, CDC Director Robert Redfield was in the spotlight to clarify comments that sent the wildly (and eagerly) apocalyptic media into a tizzy. Of course, Redfield’s appearance didn’t satisfy reporters.
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CNN Attacks Birx for Not Trashing Kemp, Trump for ‘Gaslighting’
April 21st, 2020 10:15 PM
Try as they might to memory hole their disdain on Thursday for the Trump administration’s reopening guidelines, CNN rallied around them on Tuesday after leaving the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing in order to spend over 12 minutes engaging in their usual bomb-throwing, partisan gibberish. With Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer at the helm, panelists attacked Dr. Deborah Birx for not…
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Trump Trashes CBS’s Jiang, ‘Pathetic’ Jeremy Diamond of ‘Terrible’ CNN
April 20th, 2020 1:59 AM
During Sunday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Trump clashed with two usual suspects in CBS’s Weijia Jiang and CNN’s Jeremy Diamond after loaded, snarky questions on behalf of their fellow liberal media firefighters, acting with supposed bravery and perseverance. Things ended poorly for both with the former being told to be “relax” and stop shouting and the latter being…
Howard Dean Refuses MSNBC Appearances Until Trump Briefings Stopped
April 17th, 2020 5:26 PM
Failed presidential candidate Howard Dean has a new mission in life as an MSNBC contributor. It is to be what he sees as a pricipled censor. Dean has announced that he refuses to make any more appearances on that network until it stops broadcasting Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings. Even if MSNBC only shows a portion of those briefings, that still won't meet Deans strict…
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STUDY: CNN & MSNBC Blast Trump’s Briefings, Don’t Show 13 Hours
April 16th, 2020 10:05 AM
A Media Research Center study found that CNN has carried just 69 percent of the White House's coronavirus briefings’ runtime of those conducted March 30 through April 14. That’s 999 of 1,435 minutes, leaving seven hours and 16 minutes unaired. MSNBC has aired live 1,088 minutes, or 76 percent, not running five hours and forty-seven minutes. Thus, CNN and MSNBC viewers missed more than 13 hours of…
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Trump Body Slams ‘Loudmouth,’ ‘Showboat’ Brian Karem in Briefing Bout
April 14th, 2020 11:04 PM
Having seen Yamiche Alcindor, Jim Acosta, Peter Alexander, and even Paula Reid make scenes during White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings, CNN political analyst and Playboy writer Brian Karem reasserted himself Tuesday over the press corps and sought to remind Americans of his nonsense. Naturally, it ended with President Trump calling him a “loudmouth” and “showboat” and threatening to end…
