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Doing a lame version of The Daily Show from home, Trevor Noah launches into the "joke" that Donald Trump will let people die unless they're nice and polite to him.
After Wednesday's coronavirus press briefing, CNN analyst Gloria Borger disparaged the president's critique of the press, that "we'd like to see them do poorly in the election, so we're rooting against him in this crisis, and it's so ridiculous."
CNN host Brianna Keilar brought on Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter to thrash Fox News Channel for a no-"pushback" town hall meeting with President Trump on Tuesday. As if CNN never airs unchallenging town-hall meetings? With about 22 Democratic presidential wannabes?
Former newspaper reporter Kara Swisher, now with the Vox.com spinoff Recode, appeared in Brian Stelter's HBO documentary After Truth, and lashed out at Congress for not pressing Facebook founder Jeff Zuckerberg about his platform being a patsy for "nefarious" Russian disinformation during the 2016 campaign. Swisher launched the metaphor that Facebook is like a gun that someone's gonna shoot. It's…
Former newspaper reporter Kara Swisher, now with the Vox.com spinoff Recode, appeared in Brian Stelter's HBO documentary After Truth, trashing Facebook for allowing "absolutely provable false information" to be left on the internet.
CNN's Reliable Sources was reliably liberal again on Sunday. After the show came out of airing a live press conference by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, host Brian Stelter and his guests, the "legendary news men" Carl Bernstein and Dan Rather, all sang Cuomo's praises. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was surely smiling.
In Brian Stelter's HBO documentary After Truth, New York Times reporter Adam Goldman rants about fake-news purveyors Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl smearing Robert Mueller as a rapist, and then manages to compare that to reporting on....Brett Kavanaugh? As if the Times waited to report anything until they could prove a rape??
The "fact checkers" picked up on Joe Biden claiming the Trump administration "refused" coronavirus testing kits from the World Health Organization. PolitiFact tagged Biden as "Mostly False," since the WHO never offered the tests to the US. CNN tried to claim "Biden is correct"!
On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC host Joy Reid mocked HUD secretary Ben Carson for wasting everyone's time as a White House coronavirus briefing by discussing the president proclaiming a National Day of Prayer for coronavirus victims and responders.