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TV’s Trump Coverage: 75% Impeachment and 93% Negative

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In the first 100 days since House Democrats began their impeachment push on September 24, ABC, CBS and NBC have aggressively aided the effort. A Media Research Center analysis finds the Big Three evening newscasts have battered the President with 93% negative coverage and promoted impeachment at the expense of nearly all other Trump news.

AP Blamed US and Trump for Iran Shooting Down Civilian Jet

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In a Thursday night article originally titled “An Iranian general dies in a U.S. attack, and Canada suffers,” the Associated Press made it abundantly clear who they blamed for the deaths of 176 people in the skies over Tehran. (Hint, it wasn’t the country that shot two surface-to-air missiles at a passenger jet.) (The headline has since been amended.)

Trump/Iran Standoff Shakes Hollywood

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Anyone watching celebrity Twitter Tuesday night might have gone to bed wondering which side Hollywood’s finest were on; Iran’s or America’s?…For instance, It author Stephen King couldn’t provide any support to US troops or our country’s interest or defense in the region — just another unhinged condemnation of Trump. 

Embarrassing “NBC Nightly News” Turns Itself into Infomercial for Iranian Regime

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Friday’s NBC Nightly News capped an ugly 24 hours for the liberal media after U.S. airstrikes killed Iranian terrorist Qasem Soleimani by doubling down on its bias, flashing outrageous chyrons, and fluffing pillows for the Iranians over the course of nearly 12 minutes of coverage.  With help from anchor Lester Holt’s August visit to Tehran, this kowtow came at the expense of the President and supporters of the strike as that side only fetched about two minutes of either direct soundbites or attributions.

The Most Obnoxious Liberal Bias of the Last Decade

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The decade began with liberal journalists and celebrities praising Barack Obama as a savior and the “Second Coming,” while depicting his political foes like the Tea Party as “racist” “terrorists” who wanted “a lot of people to die.” As the decade came to a close the lefty media hailed Hillary Clinton as “the smartest woman in the room” but compared Donald Trump and his conservative supporters to Nazis. 

Today’s Impeachment Cheerleaders Hated It Back in 1998

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The news media are enthusiastically champions of the Democrats’ impeachment push against President Donald Trump, donating dozens of hours of free airtime to the cause…But 21 years ago, the same news media was enraged by the House vote to impeach a Democratic President, casting it as a “legislative coup d’etat” and a hateful act from “infuriated” Republicans who wished only to “torture” President Bill Clinton.

Joy Behar Blames NJ Shooting on White Nationalists and Trump

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What a bad week for Joy Behar and her hot takes. Wednesday on The View, the co-host rushed to judgement after two people entered a kosher market in Jersey City and began shooting Tuesday, killing three civilians and one police officer. Before the suspects were identified, Behar immediately pinned the blame on the right and “anti-Semitic” President Trump.