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Poor CNN: Kayleigh McEnany Calls Out Fredo, Lemon for Defending Riots

8th June 2020

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During Monday’s White House Press Briefing, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany dished out another liberal media smackdown with CNN being at the forefront for their actions over the past week and a half not only defending, but condoning looting, rioting, and violence done in the name of the late George Floyd.

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#WokeMittRomney Marches With Black Lives Matter; Leftwingers, NeverTrumpers Sing His Praises

8th June 2020

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No surprises here.

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CBS Cheers Biden VP Hopeful for ‘Very Well Done’ Evasion of Question

8th June 2020

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Bias? What bias?

On the subject of running with Biden, the co-host managed the most basic of inquiries: “I can’t let you go without asking have you spoken to former Vice President Joe Biden lately? And what has he said?” After Demings declined to talk about “personal conversations,” Dokoupil hailed the evasion by the Democrat: “All right. Neither confirming nor denying conversations under way. Very well done. Thank you very much.”

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George W. Bush Spox Says NYT Article Claiming He Won’t Be Voting for Trump ‘Is Completely Made Up’

8th June 2020

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As they do.

Former President George W. Bush’s spokesman vehemently denied an article from the New York Times that alleged he would not be voting for President Donald Trump in 2020.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

7th June 2020

“Trump Derangement Syndrome”: Is It Real?

Trump’s soulless nature has done the nation incalculable harm  Washington Post.

Trump just showed us what he’ll be like after the election — no matter what happens  CNN, so you know they got it wrong.

To Trumpers, the Shared Space of the Street Is an Unprivatized Threat  The psychics at New York magazine bring their mind-reading powers to bear.

Zuckerberg-Funded Scientists Want Facebook to Censor Trump  Biting the hand that pays them.

ABC Claims Trump Wanted ‘Combat Troops’ in D.C., Ignored Ambush of Cops  Well, if Trump doesn’t, I certainly do. With machine guns. And grenades.

George W. Bush Not Voting For Trump In 2020: Report  That doesn’t surprise me a bit.

A Smug And Haughty Anti-Trumper Who Is Actually Doing The Right Thing! (Yes, That Pig Is Flying)

White House Denies Widely-Repeated Story That Trump Wanted 10,000 ‘Active-Duty’ Troops To End DC Protests  Actually, some Warthogs would have done it.

‘Get Over It’: Mike Huckabee Erupts On Romney, Bush, And Other Republicans Who Aren’t Supporting Trump

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

6th June 2020

Washington Post Dismayed By Great Economic News

Ivanka Trump Blasts ‘Cancel Culture’ After WSU Disinvites Her From Commencement Over ‘Social Justice Issues’

PBS Pseudoconservative: ‘We’re Moving Left,’ Away from Trump’s ‘Dangerous Contagion’

CNN Guest Claims Facebook is Letting Trump Get Away With Voter Suppression  Yeah, Facebook is such a tool of Trump.

Mitchell Takes Trump Out of Context on Floyd, Job Numbers

NY Times Begs Twitter to Censor Trump: ‘Hey @jack, Here Are More Questionable Tweets…’

Clifford A. Brown: Trump Triumphant

Don Jr. Calls Into Newsmax TV Thanking Elderly Trump Supporter Who Got Beat Up

Protester Appears To Threaten To Burn Down NYC’s Diamond District On Live TV: ‘Gasoline, Thanks To Trump, Is Awfully Cheap’

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

5th June 2020

New York Times Stands Up for Violent Antifa Rioters Vs Trump

Searching Twitter For “Racist” Returns Donald Trump As Top Result

Shut Out! Trump Campaign Builds App as Back-Up for Twitter Censorship

Protesters And Black Lives Matter Suing Trump Over Eviction From Lafayette Park  Of course they are.

Twitter Censors Trump Campaign’s George Floyd Tribute Video Calling for ‘Healing, Not Hatred’  Who cares what it actually says? ORANGE MAN BAD!

‘You Are Something Else’: Trump Chastises PBS Reporter After She Interrupts Him With Questions During Bill Signing

Krugman Conspiracy: It’s Possible Trump Admin Got BLS to Fudge GREAT Jobs Report

Washington DC Renames Part Of Street Near White House ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’

The Media Take Trump’s George Floyd Comments Completely out of Context  You know, as they do.

Joe Biden Says Trump Deserves ‘No Credit’ For Job Increases  Sure. Tail-end of the Obama recovery. Obvious as the nose on your face.

Media, Publications Use Out Of Context Trump Quote About George Floyd To Push Fake News

Singer P!nk Makes Bigoted Attack on ‘Confederate Flag’ Worshipping, ‘Hypocrite’ Trump Voters

MSNBC Delighted By D.C. Mayor’s ‘Middle Finger to the White House’

Rasmussen: Black Approval For Trump Surges To Over 40%  Not all Africans are stupid.

Biden: Trump’s Comment Invoking George Floyd ‘Despicable’  I doubt he could spell that.

Dem Facebook Employee Resigns Because Platform Won’t Censor Trump

NBC Hires… Russiagate Hoaxer Lisa Page

NY Times Reporter Flegenheimer Panics Over Trump’s ‘Anti-Democratic Streak’

Biden Slams Trump for Economic ‘Crowing’ With 13.3% Joblessness

 

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The New York Times’ New Standard for Acceptable Op-Eds

5th June 2020

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After initially defending publication, the Times now claims the op-ed “did not meet our standards.” The op-ed was the result of a “rushed editorial process,” the paper adds.

But James Dao, the Times’ deputy editorial page editor, says that several editors saw the op-ed before it was published — “including one on the masthead: me.” Dao also says the op-ed was fact-checked. Thus, claims about a “rushed editorial process” and failure to “meet standards” are rubbish.

Dao gets to the heart of the matter when he states he is “sorry” that the op-ed had “this kind of impact on my colleagues.” This, then, is the Times’ new standard for op-eds: They must not offend lefty staff members.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Paul Krugman Caught in Hilarious Self-Own After Furiously Spinning Conspiracy Theories About Good Jobs Report

5th June 2020

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Democrats and media outlets like the Washington Post were among the hardest hit by the news, with the WaPo having to rewrite their pre-canned headline once the news broke.

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Nets Ignore Lauded Anti-Hydroxychloroquine Study Getting Shot Down

5th June 2020

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Junk science has a lot of friends in the Lamestream Media.

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CNN Gave Over 90 Minutes in One Day to Now-Retracted Hydroxychloroquine Study

4th June 2020

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When Jeffrey Zucker’s CNN settles on a narrative, they flood the zone with employees singing from the same sheet music; seeing as how they have a President to hate.

Such was the case on May 22 when CNN shows spent 90 minutes and 54 seconds heralding a now-debunked study that originally claimed taking hydroxychloroquine while battling COVID-19 could be fatal. Over on MSNBC, the total clocked out at a smaller but still sizable total of 19 minutes and 19 seconds.

For this count, the MRC looked at every hour of live programming from CNN and MSNBC May 22, and, in the case of CNN shows and MSNBC primetime, backed up by Nexis transcripts. Since the study went live just before 9:00 a.m. Eastern, each of the 10 subsequent CNN shows covered the study. On MSNBC, nine shows featured it.

How about coverage of the retraction? As of this study’s publication, MSNBC has ignored it while CNN has only given it one minute and 45 seconds during The Lead with Jake Tapper. So much for Jim Acosta’s claim last week that journalists correct their mistakes.

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Liberal Media Suddenly Love Republican-Loathing George Will

4th June 2020

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George Will is just another pseudo-conservative pundit at The Washington Post. He’s Jennifer Rubin with shorter hair. His latest column seals this image, explicitly calling for a rout of congressional Republicans, much to the delight of the liberal media.

Joe Biden isn’t the only senile duffer in Washington.

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ABC, CBS Turn Their Backs on U.S. Sailor Trump Freed from Iran

4th June 2020

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U.S. Navy veteran Michael White stepped out of a Swiss government plane in Zurich, Switzerland, and back into American freedom, Thursday, after spending two years in an Iranian prison on charges of allegedly insulting the supreme leader. In an interview with Fox News, White thanked President Trump for his release and for making America great again. But neither his release nor his thanks were covered by ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

4th June 2020

Snapchat Pulls Trump From Promoted Page  More ‘woke’ lies about Trump.

GMA Skips Over Disney Star Trying to Get Natl. Guard to March Against Trump’s ‘Race War’

Talkspace Pulls Out Of Facebook Partnership, Says The Platform “Incites Racism, Violence And Lies”  By not censoring Trump, of course.

ABC Lauds Former Military Leaders Denouncing Their President

Shaw Calls Trump ‘Aberration,’ Claims CNN Is Balanced ’24/7, Seven Days a Week’

‘Where Is Our Leader?’: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Seems To Tear Into Lack Of Leadership From Donald Trump During Mass Civil Unrest  Trying to keep a lid on what YOUR PEOPLE are doing to the country.

Dennis Rodman to Trump: ‘Make America Safe for Minorities’  Trump to Rodman: When minorities make America safe for non-‘minorities’.

Trump To Sign Executive Order That Attempts To Speed Up Infrastructure Projects By Suspending Environmental Regulations  Sure sounds like a dictator and tyrant to me.

Researchers Retract Botched Anti- Hydroxychloroquine Study Which Was Used To Attack Trump

A Trio of Terrified Trump Haters Warns of Fascism, Election-Stealing  Cutting government regulations and cutting taxes sure sounds like fascism to me, right enough. Good call.

George Floyd protests: Civil rights groups sue Donald Trump over church photo op  Guess these people don’t have anything better to do with their time.

Fake Trump Campaign Website Redirects Visitors To A Left Wing Group’s Donation Page

 

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Associated Press Photographer Attacked During Philadelphia Press Conference

4th June 2020

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The biter bit.

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Tim Cook Says Apple Must Do More to Combat Racism

4th June 2020

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Oh? Like what? Go around hating on white people? That’s not ‘combatting racism’.

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How Crazy Are the Democrats? This Crazy.

4th June 2020

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There is a movement going on now, believe it or not, to abolish the police. That phrase is ubiquitous in social media and is being taken seriously by many Democratic politicians. What would the world look like without law enforcement? I suppose the Wild West before sheriffs got hired, only way more crowded, with vastly more criminals and a more depraved culture. And of course the same people who want to abolish the local police department don’t want you to be able to defend yourself, either.

The benefit of ‘no police’ is that there won’t be anyone to arrest me when I shoot a looter. So it’s not all bad.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

3rd June 2020

Immature: CNN’s Cooper Rages at ‘Little Big Man,’ ‘Thug’ Trump Going to Church  I doubt that Anderson Cooper has been within a hundred yards of a church in his life.

Spurs Coach Popovich Tears ‘Deranged Idiot’ Trump Apart in Call to The Nation Mag

One of America’s most prominent conservative columnists wants Republicans to lose in 2020  George Will is a poster child for the way modern American ‘conservatism’ has been captured by the Washington D.C. Establishment. Trump has accomplished more ‘conservative’ things than even the sainted Ronald Reagen, but Will can’t see beyond his own amour propre.

Snapchat Will No Longer Promote Trump’s Account For Inciting ‘Racial Violence And Injustice’

A Times Reporter Gets the Facts Dead Wrong

In Bold Anti-Trump Statement, Pelosi Rips Up Bible  Babylon Bee.

‘The Verge’ Executive Editor Calls for Censoring Trump and His Allies: ‘BAN THEM ALL’

Demi Lovato Takes Veiled Swipe At Melania While Calling On Trump To ‘Be The Leader We Need’ Perhaps by forgetting who he is and what he’s doing, like Biden.

 

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How to Protect Yourself From Rubber Bullets—and Why These ‘Nonlethal’ Weapons Are So Dangerous

3rd June 2020

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This is from ‘Popular Science’, and demonstrates how far the supposedly technical press has  been captured by proglodyte radicals.

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Nets Tout Biden’s ‘Stark Contrast’ With Trump, ‘Promise’ to End Racism

2nd June 2020

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I thought Obama was supposed to End Racism? If he couldn’t do it, what chance is there for Biden?

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd June 2020

Episcopal bishop on President Trump: ‘Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence’  Washington Post,

‘Teetering on Dictatorship’; Lemon Claims Trump Is ‘Declaring War on Americans’

CNN Decries Bolstering White House Defenses, Like ‘Authoritarian Countries’

Hulu Show ‘Ramy’ Calls Trump ‘Piece of Sh**,’ ‘F**k-Man’

NYT: It’s Outrageous That Trump Is Acting as if There Is a Riot Going on

Unbelievable: Networks Invite Bishop to Bash Trump for Visiting Historic Church, But Give Antifa a Pass

Iran, Which Regularly Disappears And Tortures Its Own Citizens, Is Now Blaming Trump For Violence

Nets More ‘Outraged’ by Trump Church Visit Than Rioters Setting it Ablaze

Episcopalians Confused By Strange Book Trump Brought To Church  Babylon Bee.

DC Archbishop Blasts Trump for Visit to Saint John Paul II National Shrine  He’s black, of course.

Celebs Blame Trump For Start of ‘2nd Civil War,’ Say Nothing Of Riots, Looting, Murders  It doesn’t matter. ORANGE MAN BAD!

Facebook’s Zuckerberg accused of setting dangerous precedent over Trump  Yeah, you open the door to Free Speech and who knows what will happen?

 

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Tiger Woods: Protests Can Make Points ‘Without Burning Neighborhoods We Live In’

2nd June 2020

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Yeah, I’m sure Tiger Woods lives in a neighborhood with a Target and a police precinct office. Oh, and a lot of black people.

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Kendall Jenner Acknowledges Her ‘White Privilege’ and Says She’s ‘Angry’ In Lengthy Post Following George Floyd’s Death

2nd June 2020

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And I have no doubt that she’s really cute when she’s angry. Ka-ching!

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We Are the Governed. We No Longer Consent to Let the Police Kill Us.

2nd June 2020

Washington  Post.

Although rioters and looters are apparently OK.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

1st June 2020

Fire, pestilence and a country at war with itself: the Trump presidency is over  The Guardian. This will guarantee Trump’s re-election, as it did for Nixon in 1968.

In a sad week for America, Trump has fled from his duty  CNN.

David Deeble: One Week from Now: Law and Order Polling at All-time High

‘He Is My President’: Donna Brazile Calls On Trump To Step Up And ‘Lead Us Into This Tomorrow’

Lady Gaga Goes After Trump For Being ‘Racist,’ Says He Has ‘Failed’ Americans  I’m sure Trump really cares about Lady Gaga’s opinion.

Gregg Popovich Shreds Trump For Lack Of Leadership During Mass Civil Unrest After George Floyd’s Death  The President isn’t responsible for suppressing local riots.

MSNBC’s Mitchell Defends Antifa: ‘Cherry Picking’ Trump Just Going After His ‘Political Enemies’  As is Andrea Mitchell.

Night of Lies: Fredo Excuses Riots, Defends Media, Blames Trump for Division

PBS Reporter, or Advocate? Slams Trump for Focus on Antifa, Not ‘Overwhelmingly Peaceful People’

Maher Compares Trump to Murderous Nigerian Dictator, Admits Liberals ‘Lionize’ Anyone Who Appears to Be the ‘Anti-Trump’

Lady Gaga Blames Trump For Death of George Floyd in Tweet, Ignores Policeman Charged With Murder

 

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CNN’s Harwood Says GOP Opposed, Dems Supported Civil Rights Movement

1st June 2020

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Which is a barefaced lie, although fully in line with the proglodyte Narrative.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

31st May 2020

MSNBC Host Hints Rioters No Worse Than Pro-Trump Protesters

MSNBC, CNN Compare Trump to George Wallace  The Democrat Governor?

Repugnant: CNN’s Don Lemon Repeatedly LIES, Says Trump Has Been Silent on Riots

George Floyd’s brother says Trump ‘didn’t give me an opportunity to even speak’ during phone call CNN.

Trump, White Supremacists And Russia: Here’s Who Democrats Have Blamed For Riots So Far

Stelter Blames Trump for Press Being Targeted By Police, Rioters  Of course. Both the police and the rioters take their marching orders from Trump, probably through a clever system of dog-whistles. Obvious once you think about it.

The psychopath in chief. [Tony Schwartz, ghost author, The Art of the Deal]  Biting the hand that fed him — as all such people do.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th May 2020

‘Trump Supporters Targeted’ – Gunshot Fired Into Arizona RNC Field Office 

DC Mayor Accuses Trump Of ‘Hiding Behind His Fence’ From ‘Peaceful Protesters’

Director of Female Ghostbusters Suggests Racist, Sexist Trump Fans Killed His Movie

Trump-bashing Couples Will Host ESPN’s Annual ESPY Awards This Summer

WATCH: These Cable Hosts Savage Each Other Over ‘Your Friend’ Trump

 

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We Know Twitter’s Been Busy Fact-Checking Trump — Here Are Some of the Biden Whoppers They Missed

30th May 2020

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I suspect that the reason for the imbalance is that even Twitter realizes that nobody is paying any attention to what Biden says.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

29th May 2020

No, Donald Trump Is Not a Working-Class Hero  And, of course, the Crustians at New York Magazine are the experts on who is or is not a working class hero.

CBS Claims Trump’s Twitter Feud Just a Distraction from Virus Death Toll  Their real complaint is that it works.

Actress McGowan Praises Trump for Call to Probe Floyd Death as MIsreporting Ties Officers to Political Right

Lemon FLIPS OUT: ‘God’s Honest Truth’ Trump to Blame for Racism

Twitter Tags Trump Tweet On Minneapolis Riots With “Glorifying Violence” Warning

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he’s doing something about those Twitter twerps

Trump’s Flagged Tweet Contained 1960s Cop Phrase That Started Race Riot

Keith Ellison Says Trump’s Tweets ‘Stems From The Same Sort Of Attitude’ That Killed George Floyd  And his is the same sort of attitude that prompts the riots.

CNN’s John King Assigns Blame: ‘100,000 Is a Devastating Piece of the Trump Legacy’  In a country of 330 million, it’s a rounding error. We lose more than that every year to the flu. (Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year)

CNN Analyst Bakari Sellers Blames ‘Trump’s America’ In Part For CNN Reporter’s Arrest

Twitter Censors Trump, Won’t Remove Iranian Threats of Violence

Taylor Swift Goes After President Trump Over George Floyd Tweets

Trump Warns Rioters: When the Looting Starts, the Shooting Starts; Twitter Censors Tweet — Again! Demented Suburban Empathy Mom Nancy French Reports Trump For “Threatening My Nation”

Warren: Trump Is Advocating For ‘Illegal, State-Sponsored Killing’  Democrats: Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death.

Dem Gov. Newsom Gets Only One Critical Question on ‘View,’ But Is Repeatedly Invited to Trash Trump  No surprises here.

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th May 2020

CBS, NBC Scoff at Trump’s Feud with Twitter, Ignore Anti-Trump Bias of Fact-Checker

Gym Sues New Jersey Gov. Murphy for ‘Unconstitutional’ Shutdown

CNN’s Lemon Blames Trump for Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Twitter CEO Dorsey Defends Trump Fact-Checking, Integrity Chief

MSNBC: ‘Fool and Bully’ Trump Has a ‘Disregard for Human Life’

WaPo Reporters Accuse White House of Covering Up Recession  It is, of course, impossible to ‘cover up’ a recession, since the criteria for recession and the data by which it is determined is publicly accessible.

CNN Analyst: End Every Tweet by Blaming Trump for 100,000 Dead Americans

Medicare Chief Says Cuomo Is Wrong To Blame Trump Administration For His Nursing Home Order

Rep. Maxine Waters: Trump ‘Dog-Whistling’ Deaths of Blacks  Funny how only Maxine Waters (and other race pimps) can hear these ‘dog-whistles’. Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

 

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‘If Anybody Needs to Be Fact-Checked, It’s the Media’: Kayleigh McEnany Unloads on Jim Acosta

28th May 2020

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Who so richly deserves it.

UPDATE: Kayleigh McEnany Makes Fake News Jim Look Like a Fool on Liberal Media Screw-Ups

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

27th May 2020

‘I SURE DID, F**CKER’: Kathy Griffin Doubles Down On Hoping Trump Gets Stabbed With Potentially Fatal Air-Filled Syringe  You want hate speech, Dems have got it.

Scarborough: Trump Using Conspiracy to Distract From Virus Death Toll  This has a grain of truth in it: While Trump is yanking his chain, Scarborough has to talk about what Trump wants him to talk about rather than what Joe wants to talk about. Don’t think that’s an accident.

‘Wretched Orange Man’: Twitter Official Overseeing Misinformation Efforts Is Anti-Trump Partisan Who Donated To Planned Parenthood

Trump-bashing Couples Will Host ESPN’s Annual ESPY Awards This Summer

Oh Donny Boy: Star Trek Actress Moving to Ireland if Trump Wins  They say that, but they never do it.

Grenell Denies ‘Fake News’ Politico Report Claiming He Will Be Joining Trump Campaign  Nothing is too obscure for them to lie about it.

EXCLUSIVE: Kayleigh McEnany Responds To Tampa Bay Times Piece On Her Absentee Voting Record

Twitter exec in charge of effort to fact-check Trump has history of anti-Trump posts, called McConnell a ‘bag of farts’ | Fox News

Joy Behar: Trump Knows That ‘Unless They Fix This Election,’ Republicans ‘Will Lose’  Bringing their psychic mind-reading powers to your living room.

CNN Parrots Andrew Cuomo Distortions to Blame Trump for Nursing Home Deaths

 

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The Nature of the Virus

27th May 2020

Steve Sailer does a scan of modern journalism.

Opinion journalism in the respectable outlets has increasingly come to be dominated during the Great Awokening of the past half-dozen years by young Women of Color with soft major degrees who take whatever topic is in the news—global pandemic, Ukrainegate impeachment, a tribal elder being smirked at—and relate it to how society must learn to idolize more the beauty of women such as, to take a random example, themselves. Also, they tend to be extreme antiquarians who don’t seem to be cognizant of any history since the end of Jim Crow or even of slavery.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

26th May 2020

Joy Reid Claims Trump Promised to ‘Get Rid of These Brown Immigrants’

Can we stop pretending Trump is fit to be president?  Washington Post. I doubt that they’re pretending.

Trump spends weekend golfing amid coronavirus pandemic  CNN. I guess this is somehow an indicator of moral turpitude, or something.

Trump’s struggles to stand still didn’t go unnoticed during Memorial Day visit to Arlington  New York Daily News, although what this is supposed to suggest is beyond me.

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Contrasts Trump’s ‘Awful’ Record on Race Relations With Biden’s  That ‘awful’ record consists mostly of media jerkoffs complaining about his ‘awful’ record, although they never actually get around to specifics.

NY Times Spreads Election Conspiracies: ‘How Far Would Trump Go to Keep Job?’  Mostly this is projection — they know what they’d do in Trump’s situation, and so he obviously must be motivated to do the same. Narcissism and cluelessness to the ultimate degree.

In Unprecedented Move, Twitter Tags Trump Tweets As ‘Misinformation’

Without Evidence, Joe Biden Blames Nearly Half Of US COVID Deaths On Trump’s ‘Ego,’ ‘Folly’ And ‘False Masculinity’

 

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The Doctrine of Media Untruth

26th May 2020

Victor Davis Hanson.

As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.

Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a good guide to what is abjectly false. Perhaps we can call the lesson of this valuable service, the media’s inadvertent ability to convey truth by disguising it with transparent bias and falsehood, the “Doctrine of Media Untruth.”

That’s been my rule for a decade.

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‘Journalists Are Not Above Being Questioned’: Kayleigh McEnany Fires Back At Chris Wallace

26th May 2020

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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany fired back at “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace over his criticism of her confrontational style.

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Republicans’ Latest Proposed Tax Cut for the Rich Could Permanently Hobble Future Presidents

26th May 2020

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I guess that’s supposed to be a bad thing, at least in the eyes of the Washington Post.

(Has the Post ever used the phrase ‘tax cuts’ without adding ‘for the rich’?)

What they really mean, I suspect, is future Democrat Presidents.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

25th May 2020

On Memorial Day weekend, Trump shows his true self  The mind-readeres at CNN display their psychic powers so you don’t have to.

Twitter remains silent about Trump’s appalling attack against Joe Scarborough  CNN, of course, has no problem with Joe’s appalling attacks against Trump.

CNN Brands President Trump a Hypocrite for Not Attending Church on Sunday  As if any of them ever do.

Trump Fires Back After Biden Rolls Out Ad Hitting POTUS For Golfing During A Pandemic As if Joe Biden could even find a golf ball, much less hit one.

Whitmer Says She Censors Herself So Trump Won’t Cancel Aid To Michigan  The biter bit.

FLASHBACK: Media Using Memorial Day to Trash Trump and Worry About ‘Heroes’

MSNBC Analyst Warns: Second Wave of Virus Is Coming, But Just for ‘Red America’ ‘Trump Voters’  Not only do they read minds, they can see the future.

Andrea Mitchell Fawns Over ‘Touching’ Biden Memorial Day Visit, While Bashing Trump, ‘Endangering Troops’

 

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Survey: One in Five English People Think Coronavirus Is a Jewish Conspiracy

25th May 2020

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A new survey done by a group of researchers at the University of Oxford found that one in five English people think coronavirus was constructed by Jews to topple the economy for financial benefits.

I think this is more likely handwaving by this ‘group of researchers’ in a bid to attain notoriety than any pernicious tendency in British public opinion. A look at their methodology (which few writers of headlines bother to do) reveals why.

The study surveyed 2,500 adults that were “representative of the English population according to age, gender, region and income, on their attitudes toward the government narrative on coronavirus and related conspiracy theories between May 4 and May 11,” according to the Jerusalem Post.

I don’t believe that such a small sample size is in any meaningful respect ‘representative of the English population’ any more than I believe the predictive power of climate change models. That the Jerusalem Post might have a vested interest in raising the alarm about anti-Jewish sentiment rather detracts from its persuasiveness as well.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th May 2020

Yahoo! Spreads Liberal Think Tank Claiming Virus ‘Spiking’ in Counties That Voted for Trump

Wallace, Goldberg Bash ‘Twitter Troll’ Press Secretary McEnany

‘Indefensible And Grotesque’: Jonah Goldberg Slams Kayleigh McEnany, And Chris Wallace Joins In  Jonah Goldberg takes his role as shill for the Crust very seriously.

 

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David Brooks Gets U.S. History and the Cultural Effect of the Pandemic Wrong

24th May 2020

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline does a little fisking.

David Brooks, the pet pseudo-conservative at the New York Times, gets a lot of unearned respect from the Usual Suspects in the National Review/think-tank crowd, and I’ve never understood why. When he is right, it’s when he writes a thumb-sucker full of tedious platitudes, and when he addresses current affairs, he is invariably wrong.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd May 2020

WH Did Not Give ‘Adequate Response’ to Probe of Watchdog’s Firing: Congressional Aide  Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

MSNBC Claims Trump Is Endangering Lives in Brazil

Trump’s Genocidal Decision, by Audacious Epigone

MSNBC’s Brian Williams, Nicolle Wallace Hate-Bomb Trump Church-Opening Orders

‘Bullhorn From The BS Bully Pulpit’: Chris Cuomo Calls Trump A ‘Demagogue’ For Church Reopening Position

Washington Post’s Milbank: ‘If Trump Likes Hydroxychloroquine, He’ll Love Camel Urine’  Dana Milbank is a poster child for how educational standards at Yale have degenerated.

MSNBC’s Velshi: Trump Deeming Churches ‘Essential’ Could Violate ‘Church and State’  And, of course, Velshi has demonstrated a deep understanding of the Constitution and its history….

Hypocritical Mika Brzezinski Desperately Tries to Censor Trump

Moore Fantasizes About Forcibly Removing Defeated Trump From Office: ‘Best Eviction Ever’

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

22nd May 2020

Nets Skip Church Burned for Opening, Whine Trump Didn’t Wear Mask

‘Here’s Your Mask, A**Hole’: Hollywood Nags Rage at Trump’s Choice to Forgo Mask

The Trump effect: Why conservatives are downplaying the coronavirus  The mind-readers at Vox give you the benefit of their psychic powers.

Michigan AG: Trump was ‘incredibly disrespectful’ to our state  No, just to your tyranny.

Republican anti-Trump group releases new ad trolling president and his campaign manager  RINOs on parade.

Brainy Reporters Play Dumb on ‘Obamagate’

Scarborough Rips Zuckerberg for Allowing ‘Vile, Despicable Lies’ About Fauci on Facebook  But vile despicable lies about Trump are okay.

Mavericks Owner Cuban Slams President Trump as Weak, Ineffective Leader  I guess he’s thinking of running for something as a Democrat.

ADL Chief Slams Trump for Praising ‘Anti-Semite’ Henry Ford  He probably praised slave-owners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, too. The swine.

Obama’s Ambassador To Beijing Compares Trump To Hitler On Chinese TV

NY Times Praises Pelosi’s Politicized Mask Wear, But Ivanka Looked Like ‘Movie Bank Robber’

Colbert Blasts Trump ‘Disaster,’ Asks Biden: ‘Are You Gonna Beat This Guy?’  Hint: No.

The antimalarial drug Trump took for covid might actually be dangerous  No. If it were dangerous, it couldn’t be used for malaria. This is just scare-mongering on the part of a supposedly ‘technical’ web site.

Trump’s favorite COVID-19 drug might actually increase risk of death  No. If it did, it wouldn’t be allowed for use against malaria. This is just scare-mongering on the part of a supposedly ‘technical’ web site.

CNN Cries ‘Danger’ at Trump Calling Church ‘Essential’: ‘Political Opportunity’ During Pandemic!

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

21st May 2020

Anderson Cooper reacts to ‘utterly heartless’ Trump tweet  CNN.

Trump just said the corrupt part out loud  Washington Post.

Trump Is Failing at Governing But Winning at Authoritarianism  New York Magazine.

Biden Warns of ‘Abuse of Power’ in a Measured Trump Critique  Although not as bad as Blue State governors, of course. Or the FBI under Obama. Or the CIA under Obama. Or the DOJ under Obama.

Kayleigh McEnany Rips CNN’s Chris Cuomo For Taking ‘Less Safe Version’ Of Hydroxychloroquine

McCaskill: There’s ‘No HINT of Corruption’ in Obama-Biden Days, Trump Will ‘Lie’

Is Trump more left-wing than Biden?  A proglodyte hopes so.

MSNBC Analyst Calls Trump a ‘Personal Public Health Hazard to the Citizens of This Country’

Mark Cuban: Trump ‘Always Plays the Victim Card’  Perhaps because he has so many people trying to beat up on him. Just perhaps.

Amanpour Mocks Trump’s ‘America First’ as ‘First’ in Corona-Deaths and Infections

Some Intel Officials Say Trump Is Impatient, Difficult to Brief  I guess we just have to impeach him, then.

Al Sharpton: Trump Attacks Obama Because He’s ‘Everything Would Have Wanted To Be In Life’  A slacker who never held a real job? I suspect not. (Twenty Questions for Barack Obama)

Chuck Schumer Floats Theory Trump Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine Because ‘Maybe A Friend Owns Stock’  Perhaps because that’s what Schumer would do.

Michigan Attorney General Says Trump Will Be Asked ‘Not To Return’ If He Does Not Wear A Mask  And Trump will tell him to stick it where the sun don’t shine.

The Nation Columnist Defends Joe Biden From Tara Reade: ‘I Would Vote For Joe Biden If He Boiled Babies And Ate Them’

Mika Brzezinski Demands Twitter Censor Trump, Gets Torched by Ted Cruz  Funny how Republicans never demand that Democrats be censored, it’s always the other way around.

Blowhard Paul Krugman Babbles that ‘Trump and Company’ Want ‘Thousands of Americans’ to ‘Die for the Dow’

‘View’ Gives Schumer Nearly Half the Show to Attack Trump, GOP on Coronavirus, Election

Mark Cuban’s mindless critique of President Trump

Michigan AG Bans Trump For Not Wearing A Mask, Calls POTUS A ‘Petulant Child Who Refuses To Follow The Rules’  I’d love to see the Michigan AG try to stop Trump from coming to Michigan.

NY Times Says Vote Fraud ‘Debunked,’ Worried Trump Will Reject Election Results

 

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NY Times Reporter Admits ‘Red-Pill’ Ignorance, Lets Colleague Rant About Incel Neo-Nazis

21st May 2020

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It’s embarrassing enough for New York Times reporter Lisa Lerer, who covers “campaigns, elections and political power,” to publicly admit she has no idea what “red-pill” signifies. A reference was recently tweeted by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is fighting California’s coronavirus restrictions on business, and Lerer was on it, in her political rundown in Tuesday’s edition.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

20th May 2020

Biden says it’s ‘totally irresponsible’ for Trump to take hydroxychloroquine CNN. The White House Doctor signed off on it. Biden must be a Science Denier.

Joe Biden finally makes up nickname for Trump: ‘President Tweety’  Pretty lame.

Reporter: Here’s why Trump’s officials won’t contradict him  From the mind-readers at CNN.

Judge allows fraud suit against Trump, family and company to proceed

Pelosi goes full Trump

James Woods: Pelosi ‘Morbidly Corrupt’

ABC, NBC Fume Over Trump’s Medication, Boost Pelosi Calling Him Fat  If his doctor is okay with it, who are they to complain?

Tucker Carlson Chides Pelosi For Trump Weight-Shaming: ‘People With Glass Faces Should Not Throw Stones’

Playing DNC Defense, Scarborough Overstates Trump Age, Accuses HIM of Mental Decline

UFC’s Dana White Blasts NY Times; Guardian Says He’s Only Following Trump’s Lead

GOP Senators ‘Increasingly Concerned’ Surveillance Of Trump Associates Began Earlier Than Previously Known

Mika Brzezinski Criticizes ‘Cruel, Sick, Disgusting’ Trump, Calls For POTUS To Be Banned From Twitter

Trump Hate Is Making It Harder to Study Hydroxychloroquine

CDC staffers say White House putting politics ahead of science

Nancy Pelosi: Trump Is Like A Child With ‘Doggy Doo On His Shoes’  Specifically Democrat doggy doo.

Trump Retweeted Video of Michelle Malkin on Saturday…And It’s Gone

MSNBC’s Schmidt Slams Fox News Hosts as ‘Spectacularly Nuts’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

 

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Chris Cuomo Has Yet to Ask Andrew Cuomo About New York Nursing Home Deaths. Here Are 9 Questions He Asked Instead

20th May 2020

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Fredo fumbles the ball.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

19th May 2020

Dems Alert Supreme Court Mueller Docs Are for ‘Ongoing’ Impeachment

The Revenge Of “Bobo The Clown”? How The Media Is Inadvertently Reelecting Donald Trump

Pelosi Calls Trump ‘Morbidly Obese’ On CNN

Nets Have a Meltdown After Trump Says He Takes Hydroxychloroquine

Journalists Attack Trump Campaign For Satire ‘Truth Over Facts’ Website, Forgetting That It’s A Biden Gaffe

Top Dem Plans Law to Keep Trump From Firing IGs  Which will go nowhere. Menendez is lucky that he himself is not in jail.

Obama’s Treasury Department Spied on Trump Associates

Cuomo Blames Trump for Terrorist Attack, Whines About Reopening

Trump baselessly accused Tapper of breaking law. See his response.  CNN.

Joe Scarborough: ‘Let Me Assure You’—Trump Not Taking Hydroxychloroquine  Apparently Joe feels entitled to his own facts.

Rep. Stefanik: Impeachment Obsession Continues With SCOTUS Demand

Obama Will Reportedly Skip His White House Presidential Portrait Ceremony As Long As Trump Is In Office  Win-win!

House Dems Tell Supreme Court That They Are Preparing For A New Impeachment

CNN Worries: Trump’s ‘Simple Message’ of Reopening the Country Might Resonate

‘Chloroquine Washed Down With Bleach’: Celebs Heckle Trump’s Personal Virus Regimen

Mark Ruffalo Blames ‘Toxic Trumpism’ For Coronavirus Deaths

‘View’ Mocks Trump, GOP Rep. For Taking Hydroxychloroquine: ‘Anybody With a Brain’ Wouldn’t Take  Note that they don’t have any ‘science’ to cite, they’re just trash-talking. That’s convincing.

NY Times Enthuses Over ‘Occupy Democrats’: ‘Immigrant Twin Brothers Battle Trump Machine’

CNN’s Cuomo Mocks Trump Over Hydroxychloroquine — A Version Of It Was Included In His Own COVID-19 Treatment

‘Heil Trump!’ Former WWE Star Bautista Mocks Trump in Deranged Twitter Video

Megan Rapinoe Says She Might Run For President, Takes Swipe At Trump  So we can say ‘Purple Dyke Bad’, I guess.

Delighted MSNBC Cheers Pelosi’s Attacks on Trump as Fat: ‘New Straight Talker!’

‘You Just Got Blown Out Of The Water!’: Greg Gutfeld Uses Video To Fact-Check Juan Williams On Hydroxychloroquine

 

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Obama Staffer Scrambles to Salvage Reputation After Trump-Russia Lies Exposed, Implies Zero Hedge a “Disinformation Clearinghouse”

18th May 2020

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In March of 2017, Farkas confidently told MSNBC‘s Mika Brzezinski: “The Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would not longer have access to that intelligence.”

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