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Esquire's Charles Pierce unleashed on Paul Ryan on MSNBC's All In on 11 April 2016 during a panel discussion on a possible presidential bid by the House speaker: "I think he's as ambitious as Satan. I think he doesn't want to go out in the country where he was already deemed not worthy of the vice presidency, and try to run for president.…
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On 8 April 2016, the Big Three networks' evening newscasts gave a collective yawn at the latest development in the Obama administration's Fast and Furious scandal: the White House "turning over to lawmakers thousands of pages of records" related to the gunrunning debacle to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. ABC's World…
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On the 8 April 2016 edition of The Lead, CNN's Tom Foreman hyped how Hillary Clinton had a "bumpy ride" and a "rough start," as she "opened the door for a lot of first ladies to do a lot of different things." Foreman only vaguely referenced the Whitewater scandal and Vince Foster's suicide as he noted that her role in Bill Clinton's win in…
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CNN's Alisyn Camerota repeatedly touted the New York Daily News's lowbrow anti-Ted Cruz headline on the 7 April 2016 edition of New Day. The anchor first cracked, "Look at how helpful the Daily News is being, though, for Ted Cruz. They're giving him helpful subway directions about how to get out of the Bronx. They're suggesting that he '…
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On the 6 April 2016 edition of Legal View, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield deplored part of Mississippi's new religious liberty law. Banfield played up that "there was one other piece of language...it's odd....The law in Mississippi protects from discrimination claims from anyone who believes....that sexual relations are reserved solely for…
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CNN's Michaela Pereira drifted into the realm of the politically incorrect on the 5 April 2016 edition of New Day during a panel discussion on the Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels. Pereira noted that one of her guests spotlighted how "this base of the [terrorist] network dates back some 15 years — back to 9/11." She wondered…
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CNN's Don Lemon acted more like a socially-left activist than a journalist on the 1 April 2016 edition of New Day, as he moderated a panel discussion on a proposed religious liberty law in Mississippi. Lemon twice misrepresented what the law actually says, and asked a LGBT activist, "Religious liberty — is that just a code for…
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CNN's Don Lemon refreshingly went after Hillary Clinton on the 31 March 2016 edition of New Day over her smear of Republicans/conservatives on AC360 the previous evening. Clinton used Donald Trump's stumble on the abortion to attack pro-lifers in general, along with Ted Cruz and John Kasich specifically: "They all want to dictate a women's…
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CNN's The Wonder List with Bill Weir devoted a large portion of its latest episode on 27 March 2016 to Iceland's high rate of unwed mothers and "unique sexual politics" that include a significant decline in marriage.
"Everywhere you turn, there are couples like Bryndis and Siggie. Together, they have four kids from three other partners,…
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On the 29 March 2016 edition of CNN Tonight, Tom Foreman failed to tell the whole story about the Muslim Brotherhood as he targeted Senator Ted Cruz for a statement that he made about the Islamist group. Foreman noted that Cruz attacked the Brotherhood as a "terrorist organization," and cited how "the U.S. State Department has an official…