The Thursday Supreme Court ruling, upholding two provisions of Arizona’s voting rules which required people to vote at their own precinct and barred ballot harvesting, really upset two prominent journalists on ABC’s This Week who cited anecdotes about difficulties encountered by poor and minority voters.
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New voting rules enacted by Republicans around the nation are “an existential crisis in America,” PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor declared on Meet the Press. Alcindor, the new host of PBS’s Washington Week and the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, asserted that “Republicans in state legislatures are saying” that “if we don’t like the way that you voted, we will take away your vote.”
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The backlash from parents, disturbed by Critical Race Theory is being taught in public schools, is artificial and fueled by political operatives Meet the Press host Chuck Todd and NBC/MSNBC political analyst Cornell Belcher insisted on Sunday. When a guest asserted “This is a parent-led backlash at the grassroots level,” Todd shot back: “It’s manufactured.”
Belcher elaborated on the claim,…
The United States and President Biden have no standing to take on Putin, from a view of moral superiority, given “voter suppression” and police “constantly” killing black people. So charged a guest on Monday’s Morning Joe where freelance journalist Julia Ioffe maintained “it is a lot harder talk to Vladimir Putin about human rights when we still haven’t cleaned up our mess at home.”
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ABC’s Terry Moran seemed to blame President Trump for the media long dismissing and trying to silence suggestions the Wuhan Institute of Virology was a possible source for the COVID-19 virus. In a clip aired on Sunday’s This Week, of a Nightline story to air Monday night, Moran asserted: “President Trump weaponized this subject and made the very questioning of the origins of the virus radioactive…
After four years of hostility to Trump’s press secretaries, treating them as enemies of democracy, CNN’s Brian Stelter held upf Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, as an oracle of truth and wisdom.
His first inquiry: “What do you think we get wrong?” He followed up with wondering “what’s your advice” for journalists “to stay close to the truth in this world of lies?” Turning personal, he cited…
After four years of hostility to Trump’s press secretaries, treating them as enemies of democracy, CNN’s Brian Stelter held up Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, as an oracle of truth and wisdom.
His first inquiry: “What do you think we get wrong?” He followed up with wondering “what’s your advice” for journalists “to stay close to the truth in this world of lies?” Turning personal, he cited…
Jonathan Karl on Sunday grudgingly conceded former President Donald Trump may have been correct in pointing to a lab in Wuhan, China as the source of COVID-19, allowing that “some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them.”
ABC’s chief Washington correspondent then proceeded to blame Trump, not journalists, for ignoring the lab as the source because of how Trump supposedly used “racist…
After Meet the Press host Chuck Todd posed his fifth question in a row about the House Republicans removing Liz Cheney from a leadership position, an exacerbated Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) called out Todd: “You guys in the press love doing this” and “I get it, right? The press is largely liberal. They’re largely pro-Democrat.” An incensed Todd jumped in: “No, no, no, don’t start that...There…
After Meet the Press host Chuck Todd posed his fifth question in a row about the House Republicans removing Liz Cheney from a leadership position, an exacerbated Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) called out Todd: “You guys in the press love doing this” and “I get it, right? The press is largely liberal. They’re largely pro-Democrat.” An incensed Todd jumped in: “No, no, no, don’t start that...There…
