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How dare anyone criticize female Democrats running for President! That was the theme on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin on Thursday. The CNN anchor was unhappy that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz praised an article that mocked Kamala Harris ("quasi-socialist") and Elizabeth Warren ("Fauxcahontas"). CNN's Kirsten Powers denounced PJ Media (and writer Roger L. Simon) as "pretty outside the…
On the July 17, 2016 Meet the Press, former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw responded to violent events by lamenting the "climate of fear" in America, but couldn't locate any role the media played in that political climate.
CNN stinks at describing hard-left Democrat candidates as leftist, or even as liberal. Instead, they're just "unapologetically populist," according to CNN reporter Kyung Lah at a Harris event in Oakland.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is facing a series of interviewers pressing her to account for being "too conservative" on immigration when she was in the House of Representatives. It happened on ABC Sunday, and it happened on CNN's State of the Union. Jake Tapper pressed her from the Left, but at least put a Trump needle in there: if Trump's view is "racist," were you once racist?
On January 11, PunditFact ruled it "HALF TRUE" when Sean Hannity proclaimed on his show on January 10 that "17,000 individuals with criminal records were apprehended trying to cross the border" in 2018. Hannity repeated that number on January 17. But they also admitted this "emotional rebuttal" of the media was "basically correct."
On Saturday night, the taxpayer-funded network PBS devoted 14 minutes of its NewsHour to transgender advocacy. Not one second was granted to people who oppose the trans agenda. Instead, Chase Strangio of the ACLU laid out why all debate must be suppressed to preserve the "core humanity" of gender deniers.
On Sunday's Reliable Sources, CNN host Brian Stelter ripped into Fox News host Laura Ingraham for insisting the networks were engaging in "rank emotional manipulation" with shutdown "sob stories" from federal workers, even before the first paycheck was missed.
CNN often responds to Trump speeches with bipartisan panels of Trump bashers. On Wednesday's New Day, CNN contributor Marc Short -- a former congressional liaison for President Trump -- launched into an attack on CNN's primetime coverage after the speech for inaccurately painting the Democrats as offering concessions on immigration.
Parents complained about how it became too racy on NBC's New Year's Eve show about 15 minutes before midnight. NBC's Carson Daily asked supermodel (and co-host) Chrissy Teigen about her controversial Instagram posts, including one of her breast-feeding her baby son and a doll, and another taken while she received a "vaginal steaming."
Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz reported Wednesday that former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson offers an "extraordinary rebuke" of her former newspaper in a new book titled Merchants of Truth: The Business of New and the Fight for Facts.