Month: April 2018

Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video: Gutfeld takes on
    the Correspondents' Dinner.
  • Friday’s numbers: Laura-Tucker Carlson-Judge Jeanine 1-2-3.
  • Bill O’Reilly: Why is Brokaw surprised media ‘perp walked’ him?
  • Carter: CNN hiring leaker James Clapper raises ethical issues.
  • F&F video: Prof Turley on
    'a serious problem'
    for CNN’s Clapper.
  • Video: Judge Nap on Clapper’s
    'history of lying'
    without penalty.
  • Navarette: Cable news should inform viewers, not push agendas.
  • Concha: Don’t blame Wolf, blame correspondents who chose her.
  • Tapper tome trashed: shoddy, absurd, a mess from start to finish.
  • HuffPo: Joy’s defenders praise her ‘apology’, ignore her cover-up.
  • Poppy returns. Trump’s for Greg.  Q&A: Kamau Bell, Ronan Farrow.
  • Greg Gutfeld videos: Was this Trump’s
    best week ever?
    Trump’s
    rally.
  • CNN: Trump skipped gig honoring 1st amendment.  Will Carr to ABC.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • MediaBuzz videos: Cabinet
    chaos?
    Trump
    speaks.
    Tom
    Brokaw.
  • Reliable Sources: WHCA President. ‘Theatrical‘ outrage. Brokaw.
  • F&F video: Why
    Mercedes Schlapp walked out
    of the WHCD.
  • #MeWho? Maddow, Mitchell etc side with Brokaw. Flashback.
  • Tom Brokaw responds to Linda Vester by playing the Fox card.
  • Maddow paraphrase exact opposite of what Trump really said.
  • Today’s Tapper Q&A.   Profile: Bourdain.   Judge Nap honored.
  • Reid: ‘I genuniely don’t believe‘ I wrote that stuff, but I’m sorry.
  • Joy Reid ‘experts’ back-pedal on internet archive hacking claim.
  • Liz MacDonald to host Evening Edit on Fox Biz.  Sunday talkers.
  • Video: Kim Strassel recommends a
    new legal strategy
    for Trump.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • Wednesday numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-Comey/Coop 1-2-3.
  • F&F video: Uninhibited 30-min
    Trump interview.
    Wemple weacts.
  • Shannon Bream on faith and journalism.  Tamron Hall resurfaces.
  • CNN skips Macron’s speech.  Comcast, Fox in bidding war for Sky.
  • Wemple: MSNBC’s position on Reid isn’t cutting it.  Joy backs out.
  • More anti-gay skeletons in Joy Reid’s closet, and not from hackers.
  • Navarrete: The rules to the ‘conflict of interest’ game have changed.
  • Tucker videos: Joy Reid’s
    childish lie;
    sexism, homophobia
    on the left.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video: Kanye cites ‘dragon energy’,
    defends Trump.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • Rachel Maddow ‘totally misrepresents‘ report on VA nominee.
  • Tucker video:
    Student interrogated
    for visiting a gun range.
  • CNN awarded.  Another way Fox is #1.  Interviews get eyeballs.
  • Experts doubt Joy Reid hack claim; LGBT group rescinds award.
  • Conan videos: Nicolle Wallace
    pt one,
    pt two.
     Greg in Oklahoma.
  • NBC’s $69M bet on Megyn hasn’t paid off. Today’s lawsuit update.
  • Ellen video:
    Jake Tapper.
     The Hellfire Club sizzles.  Tapper honored.

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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  • Monday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • Out# video: Panel debates
    'stupid' question
    asked of Trump.
  • CNN’s next target: plastics!  Jake picks three favorite books.
  • Wemple says over the line but Dana Bash defends Dana Bash.
  • MSNBC airs ‘creepy’ segment promoting their corporate bosses.
  • Greenwald: Media ignore bizarre Reid claim. Joy: Sorry, not sorry.
  • Q&A: Ainsley Earhardt talks faith and more.   Gretchen finds work.
  • Videos:
    Joe and Seb
    on Russia; Huck explains the
    Alfie Evans
    case.
  • Avenatti erupts at MacCallum, Cupp weighs in.  Weekend numbers.

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Monday Links and Open Thread

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  • Friday’s numbers: Maddow-Hannity-Laura Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • F&F videos:
    Prof Turley
    on Comey; Anna’s a
    Mom on the move.
  • Jake dabbles in fiction.  Van Jones in Phoenix.  Target: Hannity.
  • Reid adopts Weiner defense over anti-gay posts: ‘I was hacked.’
  • Slate recants ‘theory’ of Fox misreporting. O’Reilly makes book.
  • Police ambushed, killed in Florida get short shrift on MSNBCNN.
  • Gutfeld videos: Media ping-pong
    Comey & Stormy;
    the
    book tour.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

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  • MediaBuzz videos:
    Comey;
    the
    narrative;
    Hannity
    flap;
    Spicer.
  • Reliable Sources: Hannity; Hannity specularama; Trump’s a bully.
  • Mullaney: Why viewers can’t get enough of Ainsley Earhardt.
  • Dylan Ratigan resurfaces.  Thomas Roberts makes a donation.
  • Chuck Todd: That’s my wife, not me.  Cooking with Megyn Kelly.
  • Keller: DNC certifies it trusts the truth and accuracy of Fox News.
  • Anthony Bourdain has three words for Alec Baldwin: Just shut up!
  • Today’s Hitler comparison. Today’s lawsuit update.  Sunday talkers.
  • Videos: Hemingway and Tarlov, plus
    Prof Turley,
    on latest Comey info.

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Friday Links and Open Thread

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  • Thursday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • Where are they now?  Very fake news.  CBS wants to buy CNN.
  • Ex-employee sounds off to CNN’s Jeff Zucker.  Today’s lawsuit.
  • CNN pressure led to dossier briefing…that was leaked to CNN!
  • Hemingway: The role of CNN, and CNN’s Clapper, in RussiaGate.
  • Video: Concha on
    Comey media tour.
     Todd attacks Hannity, Fox.
  • CNN’s 1968 doc features Dan Rather, Gloria Steinem, RFK Jr et al.
  • Profile: Jake Tapper, ‘staunch defender of facts in the Trump era’.
  • Videos:
    Dershowitz and Jarrett,
    Mark Levin
    analyze Comey memos.

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Thursday Links and Open Thread

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  • Wednesday numbers: Sean Hannity-Maddow-Ingraham 1-2-3.
  • Outnumbered video: Dems’
    2018 message.
     Erica’s round trip.
  • Video: Harris Faulkner moonlighting.  Hannity among The 100.
  • Coop, Hannity in verbal slugfest.  The View video:
    Dana Perino.
  • Very fake news.  It’s the Trump bump.  Alex Wagner finds work.
  • Levine: Tucker can’t best O’Reilly at 8pm but is holding his own.
  • Laura Ingraham ratings are going Hogg wild.  Fair and balanced.
  • Comcast outbid Disney by 16% but Rupert went with the mouse.
  • Videos:
    Prof Turley
    on Comey;
    William Friedkin
    on real exorcisms.

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Wednesday Links and Open Thread

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  • While MSNBCNN go ‘Stormy’, Fox is covering the Syria crisis.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Rachel Maddow-Laura 1-2-3.
  • Hyland: Joy Reid ‘quietly changing the game‘ for women on tv.
  • Videos: Hannity,
    the newest target;
    Concha talks
    CNN and pee.
  • Kurtz: Some who mock Hannity are themselves fierce partisans.
  • The outing of Hannity violated long-standing judicial standards.
  • CNN lawyer urged unmasking of Hannity.  Tapper smears Libby.
  • Trump regards Sean Hannity as ‘incredibly smart and articulate‘.
  • Ingraham video:
    Sharyl Attkisson
    on ‘fake news’ and free speech.
  • Lindsay Czarniak resurfaces.   CNN manages to insult Ghana again.

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Tuesday Links and Open Thread

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  • The Five video: Restraining orders
    just a joke
    to clueless comic.
  • Monday’s numbers: Maddow-Hannity-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Sarah Westwood to CNN.  No crawl at all.  CNBC in Abu Dhabi.
  • Pig out: Activist’s boycott backfires as Laura’s ratings soar 20%.
  • Athey: CNN airs mythical ‘pee tape’ claim 77 times over five days.
  • Is the Hannity/Cohen flap baaaaad…or less than meets the eye?
  • The Five video: The
    Cohen/Hannity flap.
     Dershowitz chides Sean.
  • Ed Schultz resurfaces.  Lemon impugns honesty of pro-Trumpers.
  • Friday’s numbers: Laura-Lemon-Hannity 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.
  • Somerby: When an attorney sent Brian Stelter ‘to the fainting couch‘.

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Weekend Links and Open Thread

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Friday Links and Open Thread

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  • Thursday’s numbers: Maddow-Sean Hannity-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • The Five video: Comey/Trump
    battle royale.
    Laura books Libby.
  • Video: Judy Miller on the ‘long overdue’
    Scooter Libby pardon.
  • Q&A:  Maria Bartiromo on tech, glass ceilings.  Ace is the place.
  • Brian Stelter at Molloy; Katy Tur at Tufts. Q&A: Brooke Baldwin.
  • Cable newsers named to distinguished list.  Disney deal: by 2019.
  • Deténte? CNN commentator pens an opinion piece for Fox News.
  • Adams: Tucker’s shameful Rothman interview a waste of his talent.
  • John Walsh finds work at ID;  Adam Housley moonlighting at HGTV.
  • Ingraham video: Ari Fleischer, Philip Reines on
    the Comey chronicle.

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