Brad Wilmouth
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On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. show on PBS and CNN International, as host Christiane Amanpour spoke with Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project about racial disparities in Covid-19 deaths in the U.S., Amanpour surprisingly admitted that the UK's National Health Service has not prevented a similar disparity there after Hannah-Jones claimed that…
AMANPOUR: Former government ethics chief Walter Shaub also had this blunt advice for journalists covering this President and this administration. He said: "Cover it like you're a foreign correspondent in a collapsing republic. Because you are."
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: I think it's important to reiterate that the result of all this is one and a half million infections and 90,000 deaths, and, sadly, one of the great diplomats of the United States -- the veteran Bill Burns of the State Department -- said:
"America is first in the world in deaths -- first in the world in infections -- and we stand out as an emblem of global incompetence. The…
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On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour's hyperbole button was on as she essentially mocked President Donald Trump's "America First" policy by touting misleading claims that America is "first" in coronavirus infections and deaths, and also highlighted quotes calling the U.S. a "collapsing republic" and…
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So do you believe -- do you agree with what Walter Shaub -- the former ethics official said -- that this is late-stage corruption -- that firing these removes the last bulwark before authoritarianism sets in. I mean, those are pretty dramatic accusations. Do you agree with that?
SENATOR BOB MENENDEZ (D-NJ): Well, they are dramatic accusations, and, particularly within this…
SCHMIDT: Our country, Chris, the most powerful country in the world supposedly economically and militarily, we are a basket case -- we're at the center of this. You have more likelihood of dying of this virus in the United States than anyplace else. You have more likelihood of catching it in the United States than anyplace else. You have more likelihood of not being able to get a test for it […
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On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC contributor and disgruntled former Republican Steve Schmidt was full of hyperbole as he decried Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Janeane Pirro as "spectacularly nuts," and incorrectly claimed claimed that one is more likely to die of coronavirus in the U.S. than in any other country.
Additionally, when Schmidt also…
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On the late Monday/early Tuesday Late Night show on NBC, liberal comedian Seth Meyers devoted his regular commentary to attacking President Donald Trump and "sociopaths on the right" who defend him, and specifically deriding Fox News as contributor Karl Rove as a "gross a**hole."
After beginning his regular "A Closer Look " segment to mocking…
SETH MEYERS: Look at that goon grinning from ear to ear. He hasn't looked that happy since Prime had a two for one deal on gold toilets. I mean, compare that to the face he made the night he found out he was going to be President. I'd say he looks like he saw a ghost, but it's probably the one he brought with him. (shows picture of Vice President Mike Pence)
So, amid all of this, former…
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On Saturday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC contributor Zerlina Maxwell made her latest foray into throwing around accusations of racism as she claimed that President Donald Trump's use of the word "Obamagate" is "the new birtherism " and suggested that the word is code for "He's black."
After conservative contributor Hugh Hewitt explained that the…