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On the 1 August 2016 edition of CNN Newsroom, Patricia Smith hammered the media over their clear double standard between the often-negative way they treated her anti-Hillary Clinton speech at the Republican National Convention versus their hyping of Khizr Khan's anti-Donald Trump speech at the Democratic National Convention: "I was treated…
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The 29 July 2016 edition of ABC's World News Tonight revisited the health care scandal at the Veterans Administration and pointed out the recent revelation that the federal agency spent millions of taxpayer money on abstract art. Correspondent Mary Bruce spotlighted how the V.A. defending the spending by claiming that the art pieces foster…
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CBS and NBC's evening newscasts on 28 July 2016 hyped Chelsea Clinton's planned speech introducing her mother, Hillary Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention. CBS's Vinitia Nair played up that Clinton "uses her mother's smarts and her father's flare." After labeling the younger Clinton "one of the campaign's most valuable assets,"…
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On 27 July 2016, ABC's World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News both played up President Obama's planned speech to the Democratic National Convention as a key moment to promote Hillary Clinton. ABC's Cecilia Vega underlined Obama's "urgent goal: to make the case" for Mrs. Clinton, and touted the President as "her most powerful ally." NBC's…
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On the 27 July 2016 edition of Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends, the Republican nominee's son, Eric Trump, unleashed on the Democrats' gaffe at their national convention:
ERIC TRUMP: Of all the speakers, of the 61 speakers, there wasn't a single mention of ISIS. Yesterday there was a priest in France, in a church, and a radical Islamic…
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On the 26 July 2016 edition of NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell trumpeted the "almost universal praise" for Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention — almost a full day after the first lady delivered it. Mitchell played up how Mrs. Obama's words brought "people to tears about her husband's place in American history,"…
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Michelle Miller gushed over Michelle Obama and her seven and a half years as first lady on the 25 July 2016 edition of CBS Evening News. Miller trumpeted Mrs. Obama as "her husband's biggest advocate; a mother fiercely protective of her daughter's privacy; champion for healthy eating and staying fit — using her bare arms to redefine fashion…
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CNN didn't disappoint on the 23 July 2016 edition of Anderson Cooper 360, when it broke the news about Hillary Clinton choosing Senator Tim Kaine to be her running mate. Jeff Zeleny stuck to liberal media's talking points about the vice presidential pick, labeling Kaine "more moderate than the liberal strain driving today's Democratic Party…
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Lester Holt pressed Donald Trump, Jr. on the 21 July 2016 edition of NBC Nightly News on whether his billionaire father can show his emotional side: "We...sometimes look for our leaders to be compassionate — to console us during national tragedy. We saw President Obama in Dallas a week or so ago. We haven't seen that Donald Trump. Is this a…
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On the 21 July 2016 of The Situation Room, CNN's Scottie Nell Hughes claimed that Ted Cruz's controversial speech at the Republican National Convention "killed conservatism" or "severely damaged it, at the very least." She outlined that "those that were on the outskirts of conservatism...[who] were, sort of, in the Cruz movement" caused an…