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With the economy officially in a recession, and over 75 percent of Democrats wanting somebody other than Joe Biden to run for President in 2024, CBS Mornings on Thursday decided now was a good time to highlight California Governor Gavin Newsom while hitting Biden from the left for his insufficiently shrilly climate change measures.
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With MSNBC host Joy Reid away on Monday night, it was up to Dr. Jason Johnson to pick up the slack on The Reidout, as his panel transformed into a D.C. cocktail discussion of the “malicious, muscular Christianity” that Republicans are supposedly threatening to impose on America.
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As the January 6 Committee nears its season finale tonight, TV news has been abuzz with pre-game coverage and speculation, especially about whether or not Donald Trump would be indicted by the Justice Department. Not so for CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp on Thursday, whose fellow panelists on New Day looked on with concern as she ranted in disgust about…
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One of the stranger stories of late has been the apparent snubbing of two black children by someone dressed as the Sesame Street character Rosita at the children's theme park Sesame Place, which has turned into a controversy with allegations of racist behavior. An odd enough story on its own, MSNBC host Joy Reid made the story surrounding the incident even…
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The more details that have emerged about the botched police response to the Uvalde school shooting, the more awful and tragic the story has become. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell decided now was a good time to score political points, vilely claiming on The Last Word that Republicans were directly responsible for this terrible tragedy.
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This weekend, Texas Senator Ted Cruz said (unsurprisingly) that he thought Obergefell v. Hodges — the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide — was wrongly decided. Predictably, the panel of CNN’s New Day on Monday morning took Cruz’s remarks out of context to bash the Texas Senator and the “right extreme of the base” that is…
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Recently, CNN’s New Day has been on a streak of providing fairly objective reporting. Alas, it was a streak that Don Lemon decided to end this Thursday morning, ambling over from his nightly slots for what seemed to be a monthly Festivus tradition of his: complaining that the media isn’t doing enough to attack Republicans. Essentially openly opposing new CNN…
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It’s old news that the media has tried to use the January 6 hearings to tar the entire Republican Party as fascist insurrectionists. What is new is CNN airing a segment on Tuesday evening’s Erin Burnett OutFront trying to link the riot to a broader worldwide “attack on democracy” by authoritarians of all stripes. Their evidence? Conservative Hungarian PM…
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With the resignation of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of the U.K., the media has consistently wondered why something similar has not occurred with Donald Trump and the GOP, the most common answer being that the U.K.’s parliamentary system means government leaders are much more susceptible to pressure from their own party members instead of voters. But MSNBC…
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As if mourning that abortion is no longer the law of the land wasn’t grisly enough, many in the media have spread outlandish and false claims that women will now be jailed for suffering miscarriages and stillbirths. MSNBC’s Joy Reid proudly took up the standard on Wednesday night’s episode of The ReidOut, where she used a trio of exceptional cases to…