&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host Mika Brzezinski did not mince words in her frustration and confusion over CNN&#8217;s bias in favor of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential debate on Tuesday night.
&#8220;I&#8217;m completely confused  as to why it turned from Bernie Sanders saying, &#8216;I didn&#8217;t say it,&#8217; to Elizabeth Warren being asked, &#8216;what did you think when he said it?&#8217; He says he didn&#8217;t say it. So you turn to Elizabeth Warren and say, &#8216;did he say it?&#8217; That&#8217;s the issue. I mean, it&#8217;s bizarre,&#8221; Brzezinski told the panel.
&#8220;It was,&#8221; responded a fellow panelist.
Brzezinski was referring to the moment when CNN’s Abby Phillips asked Bernie Sanders to clarify the veracity of the bombshell report this week alleging that he told Warren in 2018 a woman could not win the presidency against Donald Trump.
“So, Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?” Phillips asked the Vermont senator.
“That is correct,” Sanders replied.
Phillips then proceeded to ask Warren how she felt during her conversation with Bernie as if the story were clearly true.
“Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?” asked Phillips, tacitly painting Sanders as a liar.
“I disagreed,” Warren replied. “Bernie is my friend, and I am not here to try to fight with Bernie. But, look, this question about whether or not a woman can be president has been raised, and it’s time for us to attack it head-on.”
Brzezinski could not believe CNN framed the question that way and got away with it.
&#8220;What the heck happened there? Are they listening?&#8221; Brzezinski asked out loud. &#8220;Because you&#8217;ve got to listen when you do a debate and then take the question to the next candidate.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a miss,&#8221; said another panelist.
Mika Brzezinski went on to say that the conversation between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren could easily have been manipulated in her benefit, arguing that it deserved some level of scrutiny by CNN.
&#8220;By the way, I&#8217;ve had conversations, private conversations taken to the press and totally manipulated for the benefit of the person that was sharing the story,&#8221; said Brzezinski. &#8220;This happens all the time. It&#8217;s clear there is a misunderstanding and Elizabeth Warren is focused on something that was said in Bernie Sanders is not going to be someone that says I don&#8217;t think a woman can win. That&#8217;s just stupid.&#8221;
&#8220;Right. It would not be smart,&#8221; responded a panelist.
&#8220;Also, Bernie went to her in 2015 and said I think you can win. I think you should run for president. This is such a small ball,&#8221; added Joe Scarborough.
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Mika gets it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNisTrash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNisTrash</a> <a href="https://t.co/M3SlVFzwOI">pic.twitter.com/M3SlVFzwOI</a>
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As reported by The Daily Wire&#8217;s James Barrett, the hashtag #NeverWarren has since been trending in response to CNN&#8217;s blatant media malpractice, with some Bernie fans alleging that another fix is in.
“Lie or mischaracterize your ‘friend’s’ comments, double down, refuse to shake his hand,” <a href="https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1217301852389367808" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted Kyle Kulinski,</a> a prominent liberal and YouTube host.
“Are you watching America?” <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1217279450116775937" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted</a> liberal activist and Sanders supporter Shaun King. “When [Bernie Sanders] beat a Republican to win his congressional seat 29 years ago, Elizabeth Warren was still a Republican. One reason she never lost to a Republican is that she was a Republican for the first 47 years of her life.”

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WATCH: MSNBC&#8217;s Mika Brzezinski Trashes CNN For Biased Question Against Bernie During The Debate: &#8216;What The Heck Happened?&#8217;

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According to one prominent MSNBC host, anyone who would dare to defend President Donald Trump is a liar.
Lawrence O’Donnell, host of “The Last Word” on the network, recently appeared on former Sen. Al Franken’s podcast. Franken (who was forced to resign from the senate because of how he treated women in comedy bits a decade ago) said CNN’s coverage of the Trump administration amounted to “playing it down the middle, except we hate Trump,” O’Donnell interjected, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-host-lawrence-odonnell-accuses-cnn-of-helping-trump-spread-lies">reported</a> The Daily Beast.
“No, they don’t,” O’Donnell said. “One third of the people on their payroll love Trump. So, you’re guaranteed on any hour of CNN to, minimum one third of the programming will be supportive of Trump—someone on their payroll saying, ‘Here’s why Trump’s right.’”
“That’s one of the reasons why Trump kind of wants you to watch CNN instead of MSNBC,” O’Donnell said, according to the Beast. “Because he knows on MSNBC there will be no one defending him. Because we don’t bring on liars. I don’t bring on a liar. I won’t do that.”
Franken then asked O’Donnell the obvious question: “Are you saying that to defend Trump you have to lie?”
O’Donnell gave the predictable response.
“Yes, absolutely you do,” O’Donnell said. “How else do you defend a liar—a pathological liar who lies about everything? You have to lie.”
“So CNN has people on the payroll who they pay to tell their lies to the CNN audience in the middle of a CNN hour for some number of minutes,” O’Donnell continued “And so Trump knows that if you watch CNN ‘at least you’ll hear someone lying in my favor.’”
The Beast gently pushed back against O’Donnell’s “one third” comment, saying it “may be somewhat of an exaggeration,” but went on to knock CNN for “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-urban-why-is-cnn-paying-a-trump-campaign-adviser">paying Trump-defending pundits</a> who <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-cnn-hired-ex-trump-aides-bound-by-ndas-thats-journalistic-malpractice-experts-say">in some cases cannot even publicly criticize him</a> without violating non-disclosure agreements.”
The network also had a habit of paying Obama-defending pundits who didn’t even need a non-disclosure agreement to keep them from publicly criticizing their messiah. CNN also has a habit of paying people who actively tried to bring down Trump, such as former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (who is paid by the network despite being found to have lied to federal investigators). Naturally, these points didn’t make it into the Beast article.
The outlet had previously spoken to two of O’Donnel’s NBC colleagues – “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd and Chris Hayes. Todd told the Beast in early 2019 that he would keep bringing on people to present Trump’s side of the argument, like White House advisor Kellyanne Conway (whom the Beast said had a “proven propensity to mislead,” as if no left-leaning guests ever mislead viewers) because he didn’t “have a hard and fast rule about who I put on and who I don’t.”
“I don’t think you ban anybody. She works for the president of the United States. If she is relevant to a story we’re doing, I do think it’s important for the country to hear from a senior aide to the president,” Todd said.
Hayes said he was more concerned with “good faith” versus “bad faith” arguments.
“To me, the distinction between good faith and bad faith is an elemental one, and I just can’t deal with bad faith hackish spinning,” he told the outlet in September. “I hate running around in circles with people who are just gaslighting you, like Corey Lewandowski. Life’s too short to argue with Corey Lewandowski.”

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MSNBC Host Claims No One Defends Trump On His Network Because ‘We Don’t Bring On Liars’

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On Tuesday night, MSNBC shared unverified Iranian propaganda with their viewers on American casualties in the midst of Iran firing more than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi military bases at Al-Assad and Irbil, which host U.S. military and coalition personnel.
Joining MSNBC host Chris Matthews, NBC News&#8217; Tehran bureau chief and correspondent Ali Arouzi said 30 Americans were killed in the missile strikes, citing Iranian state media.
&#8220;Iran state media is claiming that 30 U.S. soldiers have been killed in this attack,&#8221; Arouzi told MSNBC viewers in the midst of the attacks.
&#8220;This is not confirmed, this is just coming from Iranian media, but we have just stepped over the precipice, Chris. We have entered a very unpredictable time,&#8221; the reporter said. &#8220;We have to see what the response is going to be from the United States, but this is undoubtedly the most serious moment between Iran and America in the last 40 years. It&#8217;s very, very tense here.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re just getting reports here that Iran has deployed its entire air force,&#8221; Arouzi continued. &#8220;They are saying that if they are retaliated against (for) these attacks, they will launch attacks against the Emirates and Dubai.&#8221;
MSNBC was quickly hit with backlash from politicos for sharing the unverified Iranian propaganda with their viewers. (Currently, the Pentagon has said there are zero casualties from the Iranian strikes.)
&#8220;MSNBC just touted from their NBC News Tehran bureau chief a totally unverified claim from Iranian State TV about a death toll of U.S. soldiers,&#8221; said NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck. &#8220;Totally irresponsible.&#8221;
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MSNBC just touted from their NBC News Tehran bureau chief a totally unverified claim from Iranian State TV about a death toll of U.S. soldiers.
Totally irresponsible.
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1214711405158514690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Sharing totally random supposed casualty figures is not only bad in terms of spreading misinformation,&#8221; commented popular political Twitter account @Neontaster. &#8220;Think of the relatives of soldiers stationed there reading tweets about dozens of deaths. Are their hours of terror now worth your Twitter engagement?&#8221;
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Sharing totally random supposed casualty figures is not only bad in terms of spreading misinformation. Think of the relatives of soldiers stationed there reading tweets about dozens of deaths. Are their hours of terror now worth your Twitter engagement?
&mdash; neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1214711821212553219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MSNBC is literally doing the work of the Iranians by airing completely unverified, untrustworthy Intel about US casualties,&#8221; said TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. &#8220;The Pentagon has not reported on any lives lost. Why would the Media air what is so blatantly Iranian propaganda? Absolutely disgusting reporting.&#8221;
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MSNBC is literally doing the work of the Iranians by airing completely unverified, untrustworthy Intel about US casualties
The Pentagon has not reported on any lives lost
Why would the Media air what is so blatantly Iranian propaganda?
Absolutely disgusting reporting <a href="https://t.co/UvzBwWF2cX">pic.twitter.com/UvzBwWF2cX</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1214741217801465856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MSNBC brought us far closer to the brink of war with this stunt than anything President Trump has done,&#8221; Human Events Editor-in-Chief Will Chamberlain posted.
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MSNBC brought us far closer to the brink of war with this stunt than anything President Trump has done <a href="https://t.co/0A1kZTmhRd">https://t.co/0A1kZTmhRd</a>
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&#8220;MSNBC helped Iran push the false claim that 30 U.S. soldiers were killed tonight in their attack,&#8221; conservative Jason Howerton wrote. &#8220;Zero were killed. This isn&#8217;t just fake news, this is so damn disrespectful to the family members of those deployed. Do better or delete your network.&#8221;
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MSNBC helped Iran push the false claim that 30 U.S. soldiers were killed tonight in their attack. Zero were killed.
This isn&#39;t just fake news, this is so damn disrespectful to the family members of those deployed.
Do better or delete your network.<a href="https://t.co/2l9KzsNPc5">pic.twitter.com/2l9KzsNPc5</a>
&mdash; Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1214757820790296576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr. posted: &#8220;They sound like they were actually hoping for that outcome. I guess they too were really upset about their loss this weekend too.&#8221;
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They sound like they were actually hoping for that outcome. I guess they too were really upset about their loss this weekend too. <a href="https://t.co/AcdJjwQUvk">https://t.co/AcdJjwQUvk</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1214910114634850305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Iranian ballistic missile strikes come in the wake of a Trump-ordered kill of terrorist and Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-foreign-minister-we-do-not-seek-escalation-or-war-irans-supreme-leader-military-actions-not-enough">The Daily Wire</a> on Wednesday morning, &#8220;American officials say there were no reported casualties and the damage to the bases was minimal. Now Iran’s foreign minister is signaling that the country hopes for de-escalation, though Iran’s supreme leader is sending another message: the missile strikes are &#8216;not enough.'&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-foreign-minister-we-do-not-seek-escalation-or-war-irans-supreme-leader-military-actions-not-enough">Iran’s Foreign Minister: ‘We Do Not Seek Escalation Or War’; Iran’s Supreme Leader: Military Actions ‘Not Enough’</a>

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‘DELETE YOUR NETWORK’: MSNBC Shares Iranian Propaganda On American Casualties, Gets Ripped

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It wasn&#8217;t hard to predict who would finish the year the winner of the cable news ratings race, but predicting just how hard CNN would faceplant is another matter.
The increasingly openly left-leaning network, which has suffered a loss in viewership in recent years, saw another 9% decline in total viewers, according to Live+7 Nielsen ratings for 2019. Its primary left-leaning competitor, MSNBC, also saw a decline in total viewers, but at a third of the rate of CNN. MSNBC&#8217;s total viewers nearly doubled that of CNN.
Meanwhile, Fox News notched a new record high in total viewers and average primetime viewers.
Nielsen&#8217;s full-year ratings for 2019 found Fox News, ESPN, and MSNBC atop the cable news networks, in that order, while CNN finished far below, at 22nd overall.
&#8220;Fox News averaged 2.5 million viewers per night in 2019, the most in its 23-year history, making the network the most-watched channel on basic cable,&#8221; <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/476220-fox-news-hits-record-high-viewership-in-networks-23-year-history">The Hill</a> reports. &#8220;According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News beat out ESPN, with its 1.78 million viewers, and third-place MSNBC, which drew an average of 1.75 million viewers in prime time.&#8221;
Fox&#8217;s dominant performance in 2019 makes four years in a row that the right-leaning network has beat out the cable competition.
Fox&#8217;s highest rated primetime show was &#8220;Hannity,&#8221; drawing 3.3 million viewers by average. &#8220;Hannity&#8221; has now been Fox&#8217;s highest performing show for three years running, <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-ratings-2019-list-fox-news-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/">Deadline</a> notes.
&#8220;Hannity&#8221; also topped the list of the most-watched shows in cable, helping Fox secure four of the top five spots: 1) &#8220;Hannity&#8221; (3.3 million), 2) &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; (3.1 million), 3) &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; (2.78 million), the lone non-Fox show, 4) &#8220;Ingraham Angle&#8221; (2.57 million), and 5) &#8220;The Five&#8221; (2.55 million).
As noted by The Hill, Carlson and Maddow &#8220;switched places&#8221; this year, as Maddow&#8217;s MSNBC show earned second place, edging out Carlson at third, in 2018.
None of CNN&#8217;s shows made the top five list. In fact, it&#8217;s top-rated show, &#8220;Cuomo Prime Time,&#8221; brought in about a third of the viewers Fox&#8217;s top show drew and less than half that of MSNBC&#8217;s most-watched show. &#8220;Cuomo&#8221; averaged just 1.13 million total viewers, and pulled in about 290,000 in the target news demo, adults 25-54.
In total viewers for 2019, CNN was down in 22nd place, averaging just 972,000 viewers per night &#8212; only a little better than half that of MSNBC and a third of Fox&#8217;s average viewership.
According to Nielsen&#8217;s data, CNN is down 9 percent over the previous year. MSNBC also lost viewers, but at a much lower percentage, its total viewership dropping 3 percent over 2018. Fox News, on the other hand, increased its total viewers by 3 percent.
Deadline tries to highlight some positives for both MSNBC and CNN amid the grim overall numbers, but ends up acknowledging that Trump&#8217;s preferred network still beats out both in head-to-head competition:
<blockquote>Even as they were far behind Fox News in total viewers, MSNBC and CNN talked up program highlights. MSNBC’s Deadline: White House with Nicole Wallace topped the 4 PM time slot in total viewers, while The 11th Hour with Brian Williams ranked first in that category for a third year in a row. Morning Joe, a frequent President Donald Trump target, averaged 1.1 million total viewers for what the network said was a record for the fourth year in a row, albeit it still trails Fox News’ Fox &amp; Friends.</blockquote>
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While the embassy attack in Baghdad, Iraq, was unfolding on Tuesday, MSNBC host Joy Reid prematurely celebrated President Donald Trump having his own &#8220;Benghazi&#8221; — thereby referencing an Obama administration scandal that resulted in four dead Americans, including former U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
Reid, a fierce Trump critic, took a shot at the president for commenting Tuesday that the American people should &#8220;read the transcripts,&#8221; referring to a July call with his Ukrainian counterpart, which is the premise for Democrats&#8217; current partisan impeachment effort.
&#8220;As Trump&#8217;s Benghazi unfolds in Iraq&#8230;&#8221; the MSNBC host posted to Twitter.
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As Trump&#39;s Benghazi unfolds in Iraq&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/X8FsJpt6Au">https://t.co/X8FsJpt6Au</a>
&mdash; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1212088051037614081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed Reid: &#8220;What’s wrong with you? Is partisan hatred really that deep? We root for American soldiers, not against them.&#8221;
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What’s wrong with you? Is partisan hatred really that deep? We root for American soldiers, not against them. <a href="https://t.co/VOKsxWtS5f">https://t.co/VOKsxWtS5f</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1212419867254636544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;Trump’s Benghazi&#8217; was handled with decisive action, like an actual leader would respond. The response (since they actually bothered to respond, unlike Obama/Crooked) was really the anti-Benghazi response! You’re welcome,&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. responded.
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“Trump’s Benghazi” was handled with decisive action, like an actual leader would respond. The response (since they actually bothered to respond, unlike Obama/Crooked) was really the anti-Benghazi response! 
You’re welcome. <a href="https://t.co/pih1s9PfHl">https://t.co/pih1s9PfHl</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1212425992150691840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Reid also promoted a statement from the anti-Trump group VoteVets, which called the president a &#8220;scared, insecure, fragile, petty, small&#8221; man and blamed the embassy attack on Trump for reneging upon the controversial Iran nuclear deal.
&#8220;[A]t the end of the day, this all traces back to a scared, insecure, fragile, petty, small president who simply could not stand the thought of allowing a major achievement of Barack Obama&#8217;s to continue to succeed,&#8221; a statement reads from Will Goodwin, Army veteran and Director of Government Relations for VoteVets.
&#8220;It is our men and women in uniform who will now pay the price for his brittle feelings, unless Congress steps in,&#8221; he added.
Reid captioned the statement with, &#8220;All of this.&#8221;
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All of this: <a href="https://t.co/WNJK1YhO6G">https://t.co/WNJK1YhO6G</a>
&mdash; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1212066796276211713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-u-s-forces-arrive-at-embassy-in-baghdad-to-stop-attack-trump-drops-big-statement?itm_source=parsely-api">The Daily Wire</a> on Tuesday, however, President Trump did not have a &#8220;Benghazi&#8221; on his hands, thankfully. Instead, American military forces arrived at the embassy on Tuesday to stop the terrorist attack and no Americans were killed.
“The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is, &amp; has been for hours, SAFE! Many of our great Warfighters, together with the most lethal military equipment in the world, was immediately rushed to the site,&#8221; Trump said via Twitter. &#8220;Thank you to the President &amp; Prime Minister of Iraq for their rapid response upon request Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!”
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&#8230;.Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212121026072592384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy started early on Tuesday morning when thousands of supporters of the Kataeb Hezbollah terrorist organization attacked the facility in response to U.S. forces killing dozens of terrorists from the organization just a few days ago,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-u-s-forces-arrive-at-embassy-in-baghdad-to-stop-attack-trump-drops-big-statement">The Daily Wire</a> reported on Tuesday. &#8220;The terrorist supporters shouted &#8216;Down, down USA!&#8217; and &#8216;Death to America&#8217; and &#8216;Death to Israel&#8217; as they attacked the facility.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s swift and transparent response was far different than the devastating and fatal handling of the terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi, Libya during the Obama administration.
As previously reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10-devastating-facts-benghazi-report-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a>, the House Benghazi Committee released a damning 800-page report following a two-year investigation &#8220;detailing the deadly incompetence and blatant deceptiveness of the Obama administration that resulted in four Americans murdered and the pushing of a false narrative to the American people to cover for the failures of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama. &#8230; [T]he report shows that the Benghazi attack was not only an avoidable tragedy, but the administration’s response to it involved &#8216;intentional and coordinated&#8217; deception.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10-devastating-facts-benghazi-report-james-barrett">8 Devastating Facts From The Benghazi Report</a>

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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Celebrates: ‘Trump’s Benghazi Unfolds In Iraq’

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Michael Avenatti — the former lawyer of Donald Trump-accuser Stormy Daniels and Brett Kavanaugh-accuser Julie Swetnick who reportedly appeared on CNN and MSNBC <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-msnbc-have-given-stormy-daniels-lawyer-michael-avenatti-175-million-in-earned-media/">over a hundred times</a> over a period of just two months — has gone from &#8220;Trump slayer&#8221; to defendant in a federal investigation involving an alleged attempt to extort one of the most powerful companies in the world.
According to a legal filing submitted to the Manhattan Federal Court Tuesday, Avenatti was at least $15 million in debt when he allegedly attempted to wring over $20 million from Nike, the trial over which is set to begin next month.
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&#8220;The Government does not intend to argue that the defendant was wealthy (and the evidence shows that he was not),&#8221; reads the filing, as reported by the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-avenatti-debt-nike-20191225-nle7nes7tfb3nbcmaflf2dgth4-story.html">New York Daily News</a>.
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&#8220;The Government expects that the evidence at trial will show that, at the time of his charged conduct, the defendant was in significant debt,&#8221; Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolksy explained in the filing. &#8220;Specifically, the Government presently estimates that the defendant’s debts at that time were, conservatively, in excess of $15 million.&#8221;
Prosecutors say Avenatti was significantly in debt to his fellow celebrity attorney, Mark Geragos — who once <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/26/hes-defended-michael-jackson-colin-kaepernick-now-mark-geragos-is-tangled-up-with-avenatti-case/">represented</a> anthem protester Colin Kaepernick and was also involved in the alleged Nike &#8220;shakedown&#8221; — as well as two of Avenatti&#8217;s ex-wives and his former law partner, the NY Daily News notes.
Avenatti responded via email to the filings in a statement to the outlet. &#8220;Any claim that I was $15 million in debt is ludicrous and absurd,&#8221; the embattled lawyer insisted. &#8220;I am looking forward to the trial in this case at which time I will be fully exonerated and the truth will be known.&#8221;
Avenatti&#8217;s lawyer, Scott Srebnick, has presented what he says is evidence of Nike making secret payments to amateur athletes, a potential federal crime. Avenatti allegedly attempted to use this evidence to extort millions from the shoe giant.
“The evidence would show that, as Coach Franklin told Mr. Avenatti in their very first meeting, Nike executives had engaged in a systematic, widespread scheme to funnel money, often in cash, to amateur basketball players and their families and handlers,” Srebnick alleges in a separate legal filing.
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In a <a href="http://www.espn.com/pdf/2019/0325/avenattinikecomplaint_r.pdf">complaint</a> submitted to the Southern District of New York in March 2019, FBI Special Agent Christopher Harper accuses Avenatti of attempting to coerce Nike into paying him tens of millions. The alleged &#8220;shakedown&#8221; fell apart due to Nike tipping off the FBI in advance. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-details-emerge-about-avenattis-alleged-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> reported some of the details from the filing back in March:
<blockquote>The complaint states that on March 19, Avenatti and his co-conspirator [Geragos] met with attorneys for Nike Inc. and threatened to release their damaging allegations about Nike employees if they didn’t agree to pay them to “‘retain’ Avenatti and CC-1 to conduct an ‘internal investigation’ — an investigation that Nike did not request, for which Avenatti and CC-1 demanded to be paid, at a minimum, between $15 and $25 million.” Avenatti and his partner then spoke again with Nike’s attorney the next day by phone, Avenatti threatening, “I’ll take ten billion dollars off your client’s market cap…I’m not f***ing around.” &#8230;
On a secretly recorded March 20 call, Avenatti told Nike’s attorneys that he expected to “get a million five for our [first client],” threatening, “if you don’t wanna do that, we’re done here.” After reiterating that he wanted at least $10 million not to hold the press conference, the complaint quotes Avenatti as declaring: “I’m not f***ing around with this, and I’m not continuing to play games …You guys know enough now to know you’ve got a serious problem. And it’s worth more in exposure to me to just blow the lid on this thing. A few million dollars doesn’t move the needle for me. I’m just being really frank with you. So if that’s what, if that’s what’s being contemplated, then let’s just say it was good to meet you, and we’re done. And I’ll proceed with my press conference tomorrow … I’m not f***ing around with this thing anymore. So if you guys think that you know, we’re gonna negotiate a million five, and you’re gonna hire us to do an internal investigation, but it’s gonna be capped at 3 or 5 or 7 million dollars, like let’s just be done. … And I’ll go, and I’ll go take 10 billion dollars off your client’s market cap. But I’m not f***ing around.”
The next in-person meeting was videotaped. Harper quotes the transcript as documenting Avenatti telling Nike’s attorneys: “I just wanna share with you what’s going to happen if we don’t reach a resolution … As soon as this becomes public, I am going to receive calls from all over the country from parents and coaches and friends and all kinds of people. This is always what happens. And they are all going to say, ‘I’ve got an email or a text message.’ Now, 90 percent of that is going to be bullsh** because it’s always bullsh** 90 percent of the time, always, whether it’s R. Kelly or Trump. The list goes on and on. But 10 percent of it is actually going to be true, and then what’s going to happen is that this is going to snowball. That’s going to be the Washington Post, the New York Times, ESPN, a press conference, and the company will die — not die, but they are going to incur cut after cut after cut after cut, and that’s what’s going to happen as soon as this thing becomes public.”</blockquote>
At the height of his &#8220;Trump slayer&#8221; hype in 2018, Avenatti appeared on MSNBC and CNN 108 times over a 64-day period (March 7 though May 10), according to a study by the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnn-msnbc-have-given-stormy-daniels-lawyer-michael-avenatti-175-million-in-earned-media/">Washington Free Beacon</a>, which the outlet calculated amounted to nearly $175 million in earned media time.
&#8220;To calculate his earned media time, the Free Beacon multiplied the length of his appearances on a program by its &#8220;National Publicity Value&#8221; determination from media monitoring site TVEyes.com,&#8221; the Free Beacon reported in May 2018. &#8220;The total came out to $174,631,598.07 from <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2018/05/02/one-day-cnn-hosts-porn-stars-lawyer-michael-avenatti-59-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">at least 65 CNN appearances</a> and 43 MSNBC appearances. Avenatti&#8217;s favorite shows include CNN&#8217;s &#8216;Anderson Cooper 360&#8217; (at least 20 interviews), MSNBC&#8217;s &#8216;The Last Word with Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell&#8217; (14), CNN&#8217;s &#8216;New Day&#8217; (12), CNN&#8217;s &#8216;Tonight with Don Lemon&#8217; (eight), and MSNBC&#8217;s &#8216;Deadline White House&#8217; (seven).&#8221;
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Prosecutors: Here’s Why Michael Avenatti Was Desperate Enough To Extort Nike; Avenatti: ‘Ludicrous’

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While 2019 isn’t technically over, it’s close enough to the end of the year that we can look back and create a bunch of “best of” lists.
The Washington Free Beacon has done just that, with the latest of the outlet’s supercuts from senior writer David Rutz. Rutz put together a hilarious video of left-wing media outlet MSNBC’s worst takes in 2019.
He starts off, naturally, with Fartgate, the moment Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) appeared to pass gas during an interview with MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews. Shortly after the appearance, people questioned whether if it was actually Matthews who was the culprit, prompting MSNBC to claim that neither man made the noise, it was due to a mug being scraped along the desk in studio. The explanation seemed implausible.
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The video continues with MSNBC worrying that – gasp – the 2020 Trump campaign was “mining data from merchandise sales,” as if this were somehow unethical and had never been done by any campaign ever before.
Another clip showed a guest claiming there wasn’t “a strain of racism” on the Left with a straight face. This is the party that claims people who don’t vote for a person of color is racist, yet Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) recently dropped out of the Democrat presidential primary. Another clip saw a guest continuously claiming “people will die” if Congress didn’t implement the Green New Deal, which, like nearly all climate change proposals, would have crippled the economy without reducing greenhouse gasses one iota.
Chris Hayes makes the video for claiming “it really seems like the bad guys won here” after Democratic Rep. Katie Hill resigned once news broke that she slept with members of her staff. The relationships were consensual, though one of the staffers seemed hurt afterwards, but the Left has spent years telling us that subordinates simply cannot consent to sexual relationships from their superiors – at least that’s the case when a male superior sleeps with a female employee. For Katie Hill, the was portrayed as the victim, because to the Left, all women are victims.
MSNBC had on a guest this year who told Democrats to impeach Vice President Mike Pence first (for what, we don’t know), and strike a deal where if Trump then didn’t appoint a new vice president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would become president.
Another guest claimed the Trump administration was to blame for Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, saying the convicted sex offender was in their “custody.”
And of course, who could forget the network’s breathless coverage of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s hate crime hoax. Smollett claimed that random Trump supporters in Chicago were roaming the street late last night, randomly, we’re to assume, with a bottle of bleach and a noose just looking for him. He claimed they beat him, said “This is [Make America Great Again] country,” poured bleach on him, wrapped the noose around his neck, and shouted racial and homophobic slurs at him. The city of Chicago investigated the allegations and found evidence that Smollett had paid two Nigerian brothers to attack him.

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WATCH: Video Highlights MSNBC’s Worst Takes Of 2019

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On Wednesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about Jerry Nadler’s long-held beliefs on impeachment, and an MSNBC segment in which Donny Deutsch channels AOC’s disregard for facts. Video and partial transcript below: 
Now the impeachment hearings, which failed in the Intelligence Committee, where they could have been researching things like the fact that China&#8217;s stealing everybody&#8217;s face like those assassins in Game of Thrones — China is now making everybody who uses a phone in China record their face. [The Intelligence Committee] could have been studying that, but instead they were doing this impeachment thing. 
They released the report and then they passed it to the Judiciary Committee, headed by the great and powerful Jerrold Nadler. So let&#8217;s go and look at Jerrold Nadler&#8217;s opening statement, this is cut number one: 
<blockquote>NADLER: The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters. We must not overturn an election and remove a president from office except to defend our system of government or our constitutional liberties against the dire threat, and we must not do so without an overwhelming consensus of the American people. There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment, or an impeachment supported by one of our major political parties and opposed by the other. Such an impeachment will produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come and will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions. </blockquote>
Wait a minute — that blows up the whole narrative! Oh, that was Jerry Nadler in 1998, when they were trying to impeach Clinton. He said you can&#8217;t do it without a consensus, without both sides, a bipartisan consensus. Right now, not only are no Republicans crossing the line, Republicans have dug in. They know this is a clown show, they know this is the Acme impeachment machine that&#8217;s going to blow up the Democrats&#8217; faces. Democrats may start to lose some votes over here. 
I still think they can get the votes, and everybody, all the experts keep saying they&#8217;re going to do it — I think they&#8217;re walking into Cocaine Mitch&#8217;s House of Horrors if they take this to the Senate. Obviously, it&#8217;s John Roberts who will preside over that trial in the Senate, but they can call just as many witnesses as they want. 
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So [Wednesday,] they&#8217;ve got these lawyers — they&#8217;ve got three liberal lawyers saying, “Yes, a crime was committed” — but they got nothing, they got nothing. You know, Donny Deutsch, he&#8217;s like the Id of the Left. He&#8217;s like a lunatic, he&#8217;s out of his mind, and he&#8217;s living in this narrative where Trump is Hitler without ever checking the fact that nobody arrested him for saying Trump is Hitler, because Trump isn&#8217;t Hitler. If Trump were Hitler, he&#8217;d be carried off for saying that Trump is Hitler. Donny Deutsch put it perfectly, I think. He was on that Nicolle Wallace show on MSNBC, and here&#8217;s what he said:
<blockquote>DEUTSCH: Which tells you —
ANCHOR:  And that tells you why we are where we are. 
DEUTCH: We need — that simply facts and the laws are not going to protect us right now. And the point being for the Democrats, we need to twist and meld and work. We are fighting against an enemy, the Republicans, with machine guns and we can&#8217;t bring a knife to it. And I&#8217;m not saying do anything dishonest, but we have to find a way to take what is happening there and make it so compelling to the voter, because otherwise we&#8217;re going to get four more years of Donald Trump, and we cannot survive that. 
WALLACE: Four? I mean if we run your thread, it can be fourteen —</blockquote>
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<blockquote>AOC: There’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct, than about being morally right. 
COOPER: But being factually correct is important —</blockquote>
The facts and the law won&#8217;t save us here, says Donny Deutsch. If the facts and the law won&#8217;t save you, it must be because the facts and the law aren&#8217;t on your side. But you heard Nicolle Wallace at the end of that clip, she says, [paraphrasing] “Well, he won’t just be here for another four years, it will be fourteen years if we stick to your scenario.” In other words, Trump is going to barricade himself in White House. 
You know what? I&#8217;ve talked about this story before, famous lithographer Leo Frobenius, a German writer on Myth, tells a story in which a professor is writing at his desk and his little daughter is bothering him, so he gives her three burnt matches to play with and says, “go play.” She starts to play [as if] the three matches are Hansel and Gretel and the Witch, and after a while she starts screaming and she says, “Daddy, daddy, take the witch away,” giving him the match, because she&#8217;s gotten herself so involved in the story that she&#8217;s become emotionally connected to it. That is what has happened to Donny Deutsch, and the Left, and Adam Schiff, and all of these people.
They’ve become connected to this emotional narrative they tell about Donald Trump being evil. And they keep using these words, “Trump has violated this,” and “he&#8217;s done this,” and “he&#8217;s destroyed the Constitution,” but ask them — What has he done? What crime has he committed? How has he destroyed the Constitution? They&#8217;ve got no answer, they got nothing. 
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KLAVAN: MSNBC Impeachment Panic: ‘Facts And The Laws’ Won’t ‘Protect Us’

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On Sunday, Fox News’ Ed Henry and Howard Kurtz discussed MSNBC host Joy Reid’s suggestion that some Republican Trump support is like a “racial and religious cult of personality.”
First, Kurtz played a clip of Reid talking about a recent Economist/YouGov poll in which a majority of Republicans said that Donald Trump is a “better” president than Abraham Lincoln.
Reid stated in part: “There’s a lot of evidence that is a racial and religious cult of personality in which his base is solidly among the white evangelicals that almost worship him and say that he’s the chosen one of God.”
Kurtz then asked Henry why Reid would use the term “racial &#8230; especially from somebody who often accuses, like many of her fellow liberal pundits, the president of being racially divisive?” 
Henry replied:
<blockquote>I don’t understand why she injected race. I don’t think race applies. Certainly, the vast majority of the president’s supporters are white, but I think we’ve seen in recent weeks and months he’s making a strong play for more and more black voters. We’ll see if he’s successful – but when you have black unemployment at historic lows right now and you have a president who’s trying to reach out to people of all backgrounds and say, “I want your vote, I need your vote,” I just don’t understand why race is part of the conversation.
It just doesn’t apply, and I think some people like to project themselves, their own anger at the president, their own criticism, and read into what he’s doing or saying rather than just focusing on what he’s actually doing instead of projecting, “This is what he really means! We’re gonna divine it!”</blockquote>
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On Saturday, MSNBC host Joy Reid had author and Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts on her show to discuss a new Economist/YouGov poll in which Republicans were asked to choose a “better” president – Donald Trump or Abraham Lincoln. 53% of Republicans selected Trump, while 47% selected Lincoln.
When asked for his comment, Pitts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-drags-republicans-who-chose-trump-over-lincoln-dems-did-the-same-with-obama">said</a>:
<blockquote>I think I need a brick wall before I can answer that. I hadn’t seen, I hadn’t heard of that poll, but it sort of speaks further to the delusionary aspect of the Republican Party right now. This is not a party. This is a cult, and it has been a cult for a long time. And it wasn’t just this Abraham Lincoln quote. I mean, what was it a week or so ago – maybe not even that – that Rick Perry said that Trump was a chosen one, and he wasn’t even the first person to say that … it’s amazing.</blockquote>
The two then had an exchange during which Reid claimed there is “a lot of evidence” that the president’s base is behaving like a “racial and religious cult of personality.”
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-drags-republicans-who-chose-trump-over-lincoln-dems-did-the-same-with-obama">reported</a>, a February 2018 poll from Economist/YouGov showed that, when asked to rank the best presidents, 33% of Democratic voters chose former President Barack Obama, whereas only 15% chose Abraham Lincoln.
Third, fourth, and fifth places went to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (14%), John. F. Kennedy (10%), and Bill Clinton (7%).

Ed Henry.

Fox News Host Drags MSNBC’s Joy Reid Over Her Comparing Some Trump Support To A ‘Racial And Religious Cult Of Personality’

Ed Henry

On Saturday, MSNBC’s Joy Reid brought on author and Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts to talk about a <a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/a10nw9wbas/econTabReport.pdf#page267">new poll</a> in which Republicans rated President Donald Trump as “better” than the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
Republicans who were surveyed preferred Trump to Lincoln 53% to 47%.
“Republicans are asked: Who is a better President: Donald Trump or Abraham Lincoln?” Reid stated, quoting the survey, which was conducted between November 24 &#8211; 26 by Economist/YouGov.
“They&#8217;re the only group. Only Republicans said Trump was a better president than Lincoln,” Reid continued. “What do make of that?”
Pitts replied, “Is there a brick wall I can bang my head against a few times?”
Reid shot back, “I can get you one.”
Pitts continued:
<blockquote>I think I need a brick wall before I can answer that. I hadn’t seen, I hadn&#8217;t heard of that poll, but it sort of speaks further to the delusionary aspect of the Republican Party right now. This is not a party. This is a cult, and it has been a cult for a long time. And it wasn&#8217;t just this Abraham Lincoln quote. I mean, what was it a week or so ago – maybe not even that – that Rick Perry said that Trump was a chosen one, and he wasn&#8217;t even the first person to say that &#8230; it’s amazing.</blockquote>
Reid went on to claim that “white evangelicals” in Trump’s base seem to “almost worship” the president. Pitts agreed, saying that there is “a very cult-like aspect” surrounding Trump and his supporters.
Reid added that she “felt this same kind of vibe during George W. Bush’s presidency.”
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If this poll speaks to the “delusionary aspect of the Republican Party,” as Pitts claims, what would he say about a similar Economist/YouGov poll in which Democrats ranked former President Barack Obama higher than Lincoln by a factor of two-to-one?
In February 2018, <a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/bs88nyx7rs/econTabReport.pdf#page69">Economist/YouGov</a> asked respondents: “Who was the best President in U.S. history?”
33% of Democrats surveyed selected Obama, while 15% selected Lincoln. Franklin Delano Roosevelt came in third place with 14%, John F. Kennedy landed in fourth place with 10%, and rounding out the top five was Bill Clinton with 7%. George Washington came in sixth with 6% of the vote, followed by “other” with 5%.
Among African American respondents, Obama ranked even higher, commanding 47% support to Lincoln’s 10%.
In 2017, approximately 100 “historians and biographers” <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-20-presidents-in-us-history-according-to-historians-2017-2#18-andrew-jackson-seventh-president-had-strong-public-persuasion-during-his-tenure-according-to-historians-3">ranked</a> all 44 presidents (excluding Trump) based on a variety of factors, including “public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with Congress, vision, pursued equal justice for all, and performance within the context of his times.”
While Abraham Lincoln came in first, and George Washington second, Barack Obama ranked 12th, three spaces below Ronald Reagan, who placed ninth. Bill Clinton came in 15th, James Madison in 17th, Andrew Jackson in 18th, John Adams in 19th, and George H.W. Bush in 20th.
President Trump wasn’t listed, as the survey is reportedly only conducted following “a sitting president’s term,” according to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-20-presidents-in-us-history-according-to-historians-2017-2#18-andrew-jackson-seventh-president-had-strong-public-persuasion-during-his-tenure-according-to-historians-3">Business Insider</a>.

Joy Reid.

MSNBC Host Drags Republicans Who Chose Trump Over Lincoln. Dems Did The Same With Obama

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Actor and left-wing activist John Cusack urged his more than 1.5 million Twitter followers on Saturday to boycott MSNBC over what he suggests is the network&#8217;s unfair coverage of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
&#8220;To be clear MSNBC, you did this to yourself, no one made you parade neocons [and] neoliberal pundits to slander [and] smear a people&#8217;s movement that you KNOW is not radical but a return to FDR politics,&#8221; Cusack wrote on social media along with the hashtag #BoycottMSNBC.
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Be clear MSNBC You did this to yourself no one made you parade neocons &amp; neoliberal pundits to slander &amp; smear a people’s movement that you KNOW is not radical but a return to FDR politics <a href="https://twitter.com/BobSmith4152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BobSmith4152</a>: I&#39;ll just leave this here. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoycottMSNBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BoycottMSNBC</a> <a href="https://t.co/NsIdnbfthT">pic.twitter.com/NsIdnbfthT</a>”
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Cusack&#8217;s post included a video that featured a message reading &#8220;MSNBC Has a Problem With Bernie Sanders&#8221; and a montage of clips from prominent MSNBC news anchors, including Chris Matthews, Stephanie Ruhle, and Chuck Todd, mocking the Democratic socialist lawmaker and his bid for the presidency.
Interestingly, Cusack&#8217;s call for an MSNBC boycott comes the same day that Democratic presidential hopeful and entrepreneur Andrew Yang also called for a boycott over the network&#8217;s seemingly unfair treatment of his own candidacy.
&#8220;Was asked to appear on [MSNBC] this weekend — and told them that I&#8217;d be happy to after they apologize on-air, discuss and include our campaign consistent with our polling, and allow surrogates from our campaign as they do other candidates,&#8221; Yang wrote on Twitter. &#8220;They think we need them. We don&#8217;t.&#8221;
Yang doubled down on his demand for an apology days later and explained during an appearance on rival network CNN that MSNBC has treated him unfairly both during the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s presidential debates and in their continuous campaign coverage throughout the primary season.
&#8220;Americans tuned in the debate earlier this week and they saw I got called on less than any other candidate including candidates that I am polling higher than and the questions I did get had virtually nothing to do with the core ideas of my campaign,&#8221; Yang said. &#8220;And if this were an isolated incident that would be one thing, but if you go back over the last number of months, MSNBC has literally omitted me from over a dozen fundraising and polling graphics.&#8221;
While Sanders and his campaign have not specifically singled out MSNBC in the past, they have been critical of how the media as a whole has been treating his presidential run.
In August, the Bernie campaign railed against supposed media bias, contending that the corporate media is writing them off.
&#8220;The undiscriminating coverage of polls that fit existing narratives is certainly an issue that all of us need to be aware of,&#8221; Jeff Weaver, one of Sanders&#8217;s top aides, told reporters. &#8220;Headline after headline declaring that the Sanders campaign is over.&#8221;
Accordingly, Sanders created his campaign&#8217;s own in-house livestream show, aptly titled &#8220;The 99,&#8221; as an outlet to get his unfiltered message to supporters.
&#8220;We are doing these livestreams, we are talking to you directly,&#8221; Sanders&#8217; campaign manager Faiz Shakir said at the time. &#8220;One of the reasons is while we appreciate our friends in the elite media, they don&#8217;t often cover the issues that truly matter to working Americans.&#8221;

Senator Bernie Sanders Joins The Chicago Teachers Union Strike

Leading Actor Calls For MSNBC Boycott Over Bernie Sanders Coverage

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang continued to slam MSNBC on Sunday for treating him unfairly both during the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) presidential debates, as well as in their campaign coverage throughout the primary season.
&#8220;Americans tuned in the debate earlier this week and they saw I got called on less than any other candidate including candidates that I am polling higher than and the questions I did get had virtually nothing to do with the core ideas of my campaign,&#8221; Yang told news anchor Ana Cabrera during an appearance on &#8220;CNN Newsroom.&#8221; &#8220;And if this were an isolated incident that would be one thing, but if you go back over the last number of months, MSNBC has literally omitted me from over a dozen fundraising and polling graphics.&#8221;
Yang was the candidate who spoke the single least amount during the DNC&#8217;s fifth primary debate that was presented jointly by MSNBC and The Washington Post on Wednesday. Yang only spoke 1,301 words during the entire debate, per data compiled by <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-fifth-democratic-debate-in-6-charts/">FiveThirtyEight</a>. Accordingly, he spoke 10% less than financier Tom Steyer, who received the second lowest amount of speaking time, and nearly 50% less than frontrunners former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
He also spoke for less amount of time than the other candidates, clocking in at only six minutes and 48 seconds. By contrast, Steyer spoke for eight minutes and 24 seconds, while Warren received 13 minutes and 29 seconds of speaking time, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/20/us/elections/debate-speaking-time.html">The New York Times</a>.
&#8220;[It] is not about me. It&#8217;s about the 300,000 plus Americans who donated to and support my campaign and the millions of Americans who know we need to rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy to work for us,&#8221; Yang continued. &#8220;Think about those people donating $10, $20 of their hard earned money to put a candidate on the stage and then have MSNBC virtually ignore me for 32 minutes or when they tune in to MSNBC to see how we&#8217;re doing in the polls it’s like I don&#8217;t exist.&#8221;
&#8220;You can go through the records, you can see they&#8217;ve done it to me over and over again,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I&#8217;m not the kind of guy who takes offense easily but at this point you have to call it like you see it.&#8221;
Prior to that debate, MSNBC notably excluded Yang from a graphic on where candidates were polling and another graphic previewing the debate. On Saturday, Yang went after the network for treating him unfairly.
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Was asked to appear on <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@msnbc</a> this weekend &#8211; and told them that I’d be happy to after they apologize on-air, discuss and include our campaign consistent with our polling, and allow surrogates from our campaign as they do other candidates’. They think we need them. We don’t.
&mdash; Andrew Yang🧢 (@AndrewYang) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1198258580996214784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Was asked to appear on [MSNBC] this weekend &#8212; and told them that I&#8217;d be happy to after they apologize on-air, discuss and include our campaign consistent with our polling, and allow surrogates from our campaign as they do other candidates,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They think we need them. We don&#8217;t.&#8221;
Cabrera, however, pressed Yang on what he believed the reason was for a left-wing network to treat him differently than other Democratic candidates.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a bit of a mystery to me,&#8221; Yang replied. &#8220;I hope that when they come clean and acknowledge that they have been suppressing and ignoring me and my campaign for months maybe they&#8217;ll actually share with us what the rationale is.&#8221;
&#8220;All I know is I&#8217;m fighting for the American people,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m here in Iowa. There are &#8212; I&#8217;m going to say hundreds. I lost track &#8212; hundreds of Iowans right behind me, as you can see, who know we need to actually work on solving the problems that got [President] Donald Trump elected. I have no idea why MSNBC does not want to have this conversation.&#8221;

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Andrew Yang Doubles Down On Demanding MSNBC To Apologize For &#8216;Suppressing&#8217; Him

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On Tuesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about Eric Swalwell pushing impeachment nonsense on MSNBC and CNN. Video and partial transcript below: 
Some people are just catching wind of Eric Swalwell’s appearance on MSNBC last night, but a whistleblower showed that Eric Swalwell passed gas on live television. Swalwell himself has been gaslighting on the subject, and insisting that it never happened. But something about his denial just doesn&#8217;t smell right. Listen for yourself: 
<blockquote>Chris, so far the evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help them cheat an election. </blockquote>
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I know it’s sometimes hard to figure out when it&#8217;s just Eric Swalwell talking and when he literally passed gas on television. Sometimes it&#8217;s very confusing. It would appear to me that he did, in fact, break wind on national television. 
This is trending on Twitter as #FartGate. I&#8217;m sorry that I even have to say that publicly, but it was the top trend on Twitter for many hours yesterday. I love Eric Swalwell, I just love him so much. I don&#8217;t really have very much to say about the incident itself. It&#8217;s very, very, very unfortunate — it&#8217;s probably the worst thing I could possibly imagine having happen if you&#8217;re on national television. But one of the keys to Eric Swalwell is that he feels no shame. 
One of the key defining characteristics of Eric Swalwell is he is just completely oblivious to his own absurdity. So he does this and you could all hear it, and then Eric Swalwell comes back and says, “No, that wasn&#8217;t me. I don&#8217;t know who it was.” 
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It obviously was, by the way. If you just look at the clip, he becomes physically uncomfortable during it so it would appear that it was Eric Swalwell. But, you know, he just keeps trucking on, trucking on end. What is really incredible is that that clip literally breaking wind was not the most absurd thing that Eric Swalwell did on television all day. 
Eric Swalwell then goes back on television, he&#8217;s on CNN, and he insists with a straight face that President Trump needs to be thrown out of office because he conspired with a foreign power to steal the 2016 election. Here he is:
<blockquote>WOLF BLITZER: The House speaker seems to have already made up her mind about impeaching the president. What say you? 
SWALWELL: I have not and I don&#8217;t think she has either, but the evidence points in one direction: That this president leveraged our taxpayer dollars to have the Ukrainians help him cheat an election. And he has had every opportunity to send in witnesses that would show his innocence, and he has blocked those witnesses from coming forward, and so we can only conclude that that&#8217;s where the evidence is going. Too early to reach an ultimate conclusion, Wolf. But the president has an opportunity to send over the witnesses we&#8217;ve asked for. </blockquote>
Is that so, Eric Swalwell? You, Eric Swalwell, a Democrat — a member of a party that purchased foreign intelligence from an operative team, Fusion GPS, during the 2016 election. You went in, paid off former journalists to work with a foreign intelligence officer to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. You then used the power of the state illegally to spy on the opponent&#8217;s campaign. You actually colluded to try to steal the 2016 election. You are going to accuse President Trump of doing that very same thing? That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing. The Left always does this, by the way. 
The Left always accuses the Right of doing what the Left is doing. And Swalwell can say that with a straight face. Frankly, I feel it’s less absurd to break wind on television with a straight face than it is to expel that ridiculous hot air from his mouth. 
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Eric Swalwell

He failed to get much attention during his brief run in the Democratic presidential primary, but Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA) is now making some noise on the internet.  A moment during his interview with MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Hardball With Chris Matthews&#8221; Monday has gone viral for what appears to be Swalwell pausing briefly to loudly rip one on air. After the clip exploded online, Swalwell was asked about it by BuzzFeed and denied it adamantly. Now &#8220;Hardball&#8221; has even felt compelled to address &#8220;Fartgate,&#8221; issuing a statement to &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; explaining what they say really happened.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-eric-swalwell-appears-to-drop-massive-fart-on-live-television-gets-mocked-online">The Daily Wire</a> reported, during an interview with &#8220;Hardball&#8221; Monday, Swalwell appeared to have an embarrassing moment while answering a question about the Democrats&#8217; favorite topic, Ukraine:
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<blockquote>&#8220;The president used taxpayer dollars to help the Ukrainians cheat–,&#8221; Swalwell said as he paused for a brief moment and then appeared to fart, which was loud. “–an election…&#8221;</blockquote>
Here&#8217;s video of the moment that went viral:
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Eric Swalwell appears to drop a massive fart during live on television
Turn the sound on, this is real <a href="https://t.co/DyElNSwYog">pic.twitter.com/DyElNSwYog</a>
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Even far-left Media Matters circulated a clip of the moment. #Fartgate had caused enough of a stir online that BuzzFeed reporter Addy Baird felt compelled to ask Swalwell about it, though apologetically.
After sending a clip by Media Matters to the failed presidential candidate, Baird had the following exchange with Swalwell:
<blockquote>Baird: I’m really sorry about this but I have to ask if this was you or someone in the studio.
Swalwell: It was not me!!!!! Ha. And I didn’t hear it when I was speaking.
Baird: You look like you heard it and are stifling a laugh.
Swalwell: I def did not hear it.</blockquote>
Swalwell&#8217;s denial wasn&#8217;t enough to blow away #Fartgate, so &#8220;Hardball&#8221; went to bat for their embattled guest — and managed to work in some promotional material at the same time.
&#8220;Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists — it was the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hardball</a> mug scraping across the desk,&#8221; the show tweeted. &#8220;Get yours today and let’s get back to the news!&#8221;
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Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists &#8211; it was the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hardball</a> mug scraping across the desk. Get yours today and let’s get back to the news! <a href="https://t.co/SG8Owm2IBw">https://t.co/SG8Owm2IBw</a>
— Hardball (@hardball) <a href="https://twitter.com/hardball/status/1196639020056494081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In response, Swalwell channeled his inner-President Trump after Special Counsel Robert Mueller finally submitted his report dealing the death blow to the Russia collusion conspiracy theory, declaring &#8220;TOTAL EXONERATION&#8221;:
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TOTAL EXONERATION! <a href="https://t.co/JAuTsnCjAC">https://t.co/JAuTsnCjAC</a>
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1196641189476421632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-eric-swalwell-appears-to-drop-massive-fart-on-live-television-gets-mocked-online">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted, Swalwell&#8217;s critics have had fun with his unfortunate moment in the spotlight.
“He who denied it supplied it. Everyone knows this,&#8221; tweeted Federalist co-founder Sean Davis in response to Swalwell&#8217;s denial.
“My sources affirm that Swalwell smelt it. It stands to reason, therefore, that Swalwell dealt it. #IMPEACH,&#8221; wrote Ricochet Editor-in-Chief Jon Gabriel.
The show&#8217;s explanation inspired the perfect &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; response from Federal Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway. &#8220;First you gas your viewers, then you gaslight them. No one believes this,&#8221; she tweeted.
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He who denied it supplied it. Everyone knows this. <a href="https://t.co/u4TanKLvPh">https://t.co/u4TanKLvPh</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1196603470473773056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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My sources affirm that Swalwell smelt it. It stands to reason, therefore, that Swalwell dealt it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IMPEACH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IMPEACH</a> <a href="https://t.co/UcqC5O6z6W">https://t.co/UcqC5O6z6W</a>
&mdash; jon gabriel (@exjon) <a href="https://twitter.com/exjon/status/1196604917953126401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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First you gas your viewers, then you gaslight them. No one believes this. <a href="https://t.co/T2amY79hZO">https://t.co/T2amY79hZO</a>
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1196641988499648512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Eric Swalwell’s ‘Fartgate’ Continues: MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ Issues Statement To ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

MSNBC news anchor Katy Tur pressed a guest during her show on Thursday about whether Republican lawmakers should be held responsible for gun deaths amid news of a school shooting that was happening at the time in Santa Clarita, California.
&#8220;You were just speaking about senators not showing the courage to put their seats at risk to pass common-sense gun reform, background checks, etc.,&#8221; Tur asked Ret. Special Agent Jim Cavanaugh with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. &#8220;Would you go so far as to hold them responsible for the deaths that are continuing, the lives that are continuing to be lost with gun violence?&#8221;
&#8220;I clearly do. All leaders have a responsibility to act responsibly to help the citizens and it is not responsible to block a debate or to block a vote and that is what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Cavanaugh replied. &#8220;That is totally irresponsible, that&#8217;s not leadership, it shows no leadership integrity, it is done to protect their seats. They don&#8217;t want to have to vote on the bill because they are afraid in their state or district, their constituents won&#8217;t like the way the vote may turn out.&#8221;
Earlier in the interview, Cavanaugh accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of being too scared to bring a variety of Democrat-backed bills that would enact strict gun control legislation onto the Senate floor for a vote, claiming that Republicans&#8217; seemingly unpopular positions would put them in jeopardy of losing their seats.
&#8220;I would say to Mitch McConnell &#8216;ok boomer, put the bills on the floor — why are you afraid to let the bills be voted on and debated on the floor of the Senate?'&#8221; Cavanaugh said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the most un-American thing that I can think of.&#8221;
&#8220;Soldiers will risk their lives to save children, policemen will, firemen will, but senators won&#8217;t risk their seat to save the children&#8217;s lives,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That is really disgraceful.&#8221;
McConnell, conversely, has put forth that he would hold a vote on the legislation if any of the bills would ultimately be signed by President Donald Trump.
&#8220;If the president is in favor of a number of things that he has discussed openly and publicly, and I know that if we pass it, it will become law, I&#8217;ll put it on the floor,&#8221; McConnell said in September.
However, the overwhelming majority of the rank-and-file Republicans in the Senate are staunch advocates of the Second Amendment, and, accordingly, many of the anti-gun bills that Democrats have passed in the House are unlikely to gain much traction and advance through the upper legislative chamber.
As Cavanaugh talked to Tur, the active shooter situation at Saugus High School was still occurring and little in the way of details had thus far been released by authorities — including who the gunman was, the motivation behind the spree, or how the firearm in question was obtained. Accordingly, it is not clear whether any of the pending legislation would have had any direct impact on the Santa Clarita school shooting.
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Katy Tur

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) fired back on Wednesday morning after MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace accused the New York congresswoman of being a &#8220;shill&#8221; for President Donald Trump.
&#8220;It would appear [Stefanik] is drinking the same loony tune juice with her breakfast as [former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley],&#8221; Wallace tweeted. &#8220;Going from occasionally reasonable Republicans to Trump shills.&#8221;
Wallace&#8217;s remarks were seemingly in reference to Stefanik&#8217;s parliamentary inquiry prior to hearing testimony from the witnesses at Trump&#8217;s impeachment proceedings. Stefanik, who has been critical of House Democrats&#8217; impeachment procedure, questioned House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) on when he would respond to Republicans&#8217; request to call certain witnesses.
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Hi 👋 <a href="https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NicolleDWallace</a> ! I am flattered that you are comparing me to <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NikkiHaley</a> ! HUGE compliment! Instead of ever standing in front of voters as a candidate or putting your name on the ballot, you just keep attacking <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gop</a> women who have. Sad. Get outside of the <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> bubble! <a href="https://t.co/aBOn3lLuju">https://t.co/aBOn3lLuju</a>
&mdash; Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1194647314952011776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Accordingly, House Republicans sent Schiff a letter on November 9th that listed the witnesses they would like to bring to testify in front of Congress. The list included, among others, former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s son Hunter and the whistleblower who initially launched the impeachment investigation into the president. Schiff has still not formally responded to the letter.
The New York congresswoman then stated a point of order, inquiring whether Schiff will continue prohibiting witnesses from answering questions like he did during the closed-door depositions that he has been conducting over the past few weeks. The House Intelligence Committee chair subsequently denied blocking answers except to protect the identity of the whistleblower.
Only days earlier, Haley ignited a media firestorm after she provided an unequivocal defense of the president while promoting her recently released book, &#8220;With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit And Grace.&#8221;
&#8220;I never had any concern on whether he could handle the job, ever … In every instance that I dealt with him he was truthful, he listened, and he was great to work with,&#8221; Haley replied when questioned about Trump&#8217;s capacity for the presidency during a live appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today Show.&#8221; She further noted that she believes he is a &#8220;truthful&#8221; leader.
Haley was immediately met with accusations of auditioning to replace Vice President Mike Pence at the top of the ticket in 2020, or even positioning herself for her own presidential run the following election in 2024. She has repeatedly denied the accusations. Haley has not only been a vocal supporter of the vice president, but she has also endorsed a Trump-Pence ticket in the upcoming election cycle.
Also the former governor of South Carolina, Haley is largely seen as a leading conservative woman in the Republican Party. Although she has at times been critical of Trump, she has also become a generally close ally of the president&#8217;s over time. Stefanik, who became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress when she assumed office in 2015, applauded the comparison of herself to Haley.
&#8220;Hi [Nicole Wallace]! I am flattered that you are comparing me to [Haley]! HUGE compliment!,&#8221; Stefanik replied to Wallace. &#8220;Instead of ever standing in front of voters as a candidate or putting your name on the ballot, you just keep attacking GOP women who have. Sad. Get outside of the MSNBC bubble!&#8221;

Rep. Elise Stefanik

Congresswoman Fires Back At MSNBC Host For Attacking Her As A Trump Shill

Nicolle Wallace

On Tuesday, an MSNBC analyst ranted that President Trump is a Russian asset who had been compromised &#8220;as early as 1977&#8221; because his first wife, Ivana Trump, who hailed from Czechoslovakia, was under surveillance from the Czech intelligence agency, the STB.
As Joseph Wulfsohn reported for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-malcolm-nance-trump-russia-agent">Fox News</a>, retired U.S. naval intelligence operator Malcolm Nance, appearing on “Morning Joe” to push his book “The Plot to Betray America,” boasted that he could &#8220;predict&#8221; events that others could not see.
Nance breathed that Trump &#8220;had been under Russia intelligence surveillance for a very long time, as early as 1977, with his first wife, Ivana,” adding:
<blockquote>Ivana was from the Czech Republic, which at that time was Czechoslovakia. Their intelligence agency, the STB, had her communications between the United States and the Czech Republic under surveillance and they knew an enormous amount of information about Donald Trump between 1977 and the mid-&#8217;80s.
And then, in the mid-&#8217;80s, Donald was starting to express interest in building Trump Tower Moscow, but more importantly, there was word from her family that he was trying to consider running for president against George Herbert Walker Bush, who was, of course, the former director of the CIA and the vice president of the United States. So, Russia became very interested in him.</blockquote>
Nance called Trump a &#8220;useful idiot” who had been exploited by Russia President Vladimir Putin, continuing that Putin&#8217;s &#8220;job was to manipulate people. It was to turn people into traitors … By 2014, [Trump] was making enormous quantities of money from the Russian oligarchy, but that is when he came to Russia and it became very clear to the Russians, this man can go from a useful idiot&#8230; to an unwitting asset where he&#8217;s being used and he doesn&#8217;t know it.&#8221;
More from Nance: “They put a set of rose-colored glasses on his face. Donald Trump sees the world only through Moscow&#8217;s point of view because he knows that is where an enormous quantity of money that he cannot access exists and would be made available to him. Is he is a next step, a Russian asset, where he is aware of those activities? [Former Special Counsel] Robert Mueller said yes, that he was well aware that he was going to benefit from Russia.&#8221;
Wulfsohn noted, “According to journalist Yashar Ali, the network (MSNBC) <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://yashar.substack.com/p/scoops-oprahmalcolm-nance-and-msnbc">notified</a> show bookers that they had to seek the approval of a higher-ranking booker in order to have Nance on their shows and was later ‘unbooked’ on several MSNBC programs by the top brass during the week the Mueller report was released.”
After the tragic shooting in El Paso, Texas in August, Nance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-msnbcs-4-craziest-claims-about-trump-ryan-saavedra">ranted</a> that President Trump was to blame.  He <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/07/msnbcs_malcolm_nance_trump_giving_subliminal_orders_to_white_supremacist_foot_soldiers.html">said</a>:
<blockquote>These people feel that they are the foot soldiers and executors of what the disenfranchisement that the white race is feeling and Donald Trump is giving them subliminal orders in their head. They are no different than the mobilized, self-starting, self-radicalized terrorists of ISIS here in the United States and Europe, who take cars and drive down streets.</blockquote>
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WATCH: MSNBC Analyst Rants Trump Is A Russian Asset Under Surveillance Since 1977

Russia

The annual leftist Thanksgiving-bashing began this year with MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid trashing the &#8220;food holiday&#8221; for its &#8220;problematic&#8221; history while advising her viewers on ways to debate their Trump-supporting family members at the dinner table.
&#8220;We are just over two weeks away from one of the most beloved American food holidays,&#8221; Reid began, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-joy-reid-thanksgiving-food-holiday-trump">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Thanksgiving, where problematic actual history meets delicious cuisine, and many will be heading home to spend time with family and friends, eat a little too much and perhaps engage in a dreaded, contentious political debate with your cranky Uncle Roscoe when he starts yelling, &#8216;Read the transcript!&#8217; at the dinner table between bites of turkey and pumpkin pie.&#8221;
Reid then went on to instruct viewers that they should not be concerned with minute details or terms like &#8220;quid pro quo,&#8221; advising them to instead focus on terms like &#8220;bribery&#8221; and &#8220;extortion.&#8221;
&#8220;Here’s a hint: Do not worry about trying to explain the cast of characters &#8230; or the very overused term, &#8216;quid pro quo,'&#8221; Reid continued. &#8220;Most people can’t say it, spell it or understand it. What we’re actually talking about here is not a pithy Latin phrase. It’s something a lot simpler: Bribery and extortion. Beyond the whistleblower and over 100 hours of testimony backing up that fact, Donald Trump admitted to it, and even released edited notes from his call with the Ukrainian president — which, by the way, is not a transcript — that actually proved he did it! Even Uncle Roscoe and Auntie Carol ought to understand that.&#8221;
Reid&#8217;s instruction for leftists to use the Thanksgiving holiday as a venue to school their conservative family members has been a sensation among Trump haters ever since he won the White House in 2016. Last year, The New York Times <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38568/nyt-gives-you-advice-how-argue-your-ben-shapiro">profiled</a> ways for liberals to argue with their conservative family members at the dinner table, which was quickly outdone by Eater <a href="https://www.eater.com/2018/11/20/18099157/thanksgiving-family-politics-argument?fbclid=IwAR0YsQ1lgTdCAFJySsW-PMnTgGYL9sTGJPB0RLRWScdM-1OS1QQthuO_570">asserting that people are morally obligated</a> to debate racist Trump supporters before asking them to pass the gravy.
&#8220;Moderates everywhere still insist that being nice to your racist, Trump-supporting relatives at the Thanksgiving table is somehow going to be the balm that prevents us from ending up in Margaret Atwood’s Gilead,&#8221; Eater&#8217;s Amy McCarthy argued. &#8220;That assessment is, frankly, a steaming pile of bulls***.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no amount of civility that can balance the harm of xenophobic nationalism, and no amount of sitting silently while listening to someone spew racial epithets that will repair what Trump and his ilk have broken,&#8221; continued McCarthy. &#8220;Being progressive doesn’t just mean clicking &#8216;like&#8217; on left-leaning Facebook statuses. It requires a commitment to pursuing justice, even when it’s your weird uncle, even when it’s uncomfortable, and especially when there are other people in the room who you care about.&#8221;
Dr. Karin Tamerius, a former psychiatrist and founder of Smart Politics, outlined in the Times a &#8220;five-step method to help people have difficult conversations&#8221; over the Thanksgiving table.
&#8220;The civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the anti-war movement, the gay rights movement, the struggle for marriage equality — all gained acceptance through difficult conversations among family members who initially disagreed vehemently with one another&#8221; argued Tamerius.

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Media pundits seem to be discovering the hidden charms of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Ever since President Donald Trump arranged for the erasure of the ISIS leader, press anti-Trumpers seem to be asking themselves: If Trump ordered him killed, can he really have been so bad?
The Washington Post, where Democracy dies strangling on hatred after taking a heavy dose of mindless venom, called the terrorist leader an “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/58280">austere religious scholar</a>,” and blamed the United States invasion of Iraq for distracting this “academic” from his intention to live a “quiet life as a professor of Islamic law.”
Never Trumper Max Boot, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/28/al-baghdadis-death-could-have-been-trumps-finest-hour-he-messed-it-up-anyway/">objected</a> to President Trump calling the austere scholar a coward saying, after all, the terrorist had been brave enough to blow himself and three children to smithereens.
I’ve prayed God would allow me to wake up in a world where I’m making all that up, but so far no dice. I haven’t even gotten to the satire part yet.
We can now look forward to articles from, say, The New York Times, a former newspaper, praising al-Baghdadi for his wistful appreciation of female beauty, and maybe Chuck Todd will chime in on al-Baghdadi’s artistic camera work as he made videos of innocent people being beheaded in order to recruit more austere scholars to his cause of slaughtering everybody in sight.
There was, of course, also al-Baghdadi’s fabulous fashion sense which led MSNBC to offer him a hosting spot on their new show &#8220;Muslim Eye for the Christian Guy,&#8221; which has now unfortunately been canceled due to Trump’s brutal indifference to fostering really good TV.
Meanwhile, McCarthyite Congressman Adam Schiff is whining because Trump didn’t inform him of the operation ahead of time. Trump said he worried Schiff would leak the mission to the press. But Schiff said that was absurd, according to anonymous sources on the Intelligence Committee who spoke with the Times.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/58280">Washington Post Changes Headline About Terrorist Leader’s Death, Calling Him An ‘Austere Religious Scholar’</a>

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Media Asks: If Trump Had Al-Baghdadi Killed, Can He Really Have Been So Bad? [Satire]

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On Friday, Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes and former Obama administration adviser Steven Rattner slammed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), calling her economic proposals &#8220;extreme&#8221; and suggesting that they would devastate the U.S. economy.
&#8220;Many of the things that she&#8217;s trying to address are real problems in the U.S. economy – the scale of inequality, the increasingly concentrated nature of the U.S. economy – but on balance, when you look at it, I actually think that many of her specific proposals, there are some that make a lot of sense, but many of them, when taken together, it would give a shock to the U.S. economy that on balance would be not good for the U.S. economy,&#8221; Beddoes said on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221;
&#8220;About 50% of the stock market and private equity companies would be affected by her re-regulation, by break up, by some of, one of her many very big, ambitious proposals, and I think it&#8217;s not just that there are individual policies that one can disagree with, and there are many,&#8221; Beddoes continued.
&#8220;The broader philosophy underpinning it, I think, has two elements: one is that she has an enormous faith in government and government regulation, and as we all know, government regulation has its downsides, and we may be in a situation where we need [a] different kind of regulation of some industries, but she is driven by a faith in government,&#8221; Beddoes added. &#8220;And the converse of that is that I think she&#8217;s driven by a real punitive dislike of much of business, and that is actually some of the underpinning of American prosperity – much of that underpinning. American capitalism is strong because of its business.&#8221;
Beddoes said that there was &#8220;quite a lot to be worried&#8221; about in regard to Warren&#8217;s policies, noting that while they may sound attractive to some, they would end up hurting the people that they are supposed to help.
&#8220;Well, there&#8217;s certainly a question about how she pays for some of her policies, but I think it&#8217;s not just how she pays for it, it&#8217;s the consequences, the unintended consequences of all of this re-regulation that she&#8217;s planning,&#8221; Beddoes said. &#8220;They sound attractive, you&#8217;re helping workers, you&#8217;re shifting the balance of power back to workers. That’s a great idea, but the way she&#8217;s going about doing it will have knock-on consequences.&#8221;
Beddoes noted that Warren&#8217;s wealth tax proposal, which would confiscate large amounts of wealth from America&#8217;s richest individuals, is an antiquated idea that many European countries abandoned a long time ago.
Rattner jumped in, saying, &#8220;I would say it&#8217;d be disastrous for the American economy.&#8221;
&#8220;The fundamental different view she has of what capitalism is – she says she&#8217;s a capitalist, but she&#8217;s not a capitalist,&#8221; Rattner said. &#8220;She&#8217;s really a democratic socialist in some ways, and she wants to fundamentally change the role of an American company, how an American company is governed, what it&#8217;s supposed to do, in ways that I think at least would be disastrous for the American economy.&#8221;
Rattner concluded, &#8220;I think you could make an argument that her plans and policies are far more extreme than Bernie Sanders’ in terms of its impact on the American economy and the fundamental way in which we do our business here.&#8221;
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