MSNBC Host Scolds McCain for Calling Anti-War Protesters ‘Scum’
Even as his fellow Morning Joe co-hosts praised John McCain on Friday for denouncing Code Pink anti-war protesters who attempted to disrupt a Senate hearing as “low-life sum,” MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts lectured the Republican Senator for shutting down the intruders: “If people want to show up and protest, right? They should be allowed to hear their voices. And instead of calling Capitol Hill police and then calling them ‘low-life scum.'” Bloomberg’s John Heilemann was incredulous: “Really? You think you should be allowed to show up at a Senate hearing and just like disrupt a Senate hearing? I mean, I’m all for peaceful protests and everything, but like, you know, you’re in a Capitol Hill hearing room, you think people should just be able to like go in there and scream?”
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Chuck Todd Scolds Boehner’s Decision to ‘Antagonize’ Israel-U.S. Relations
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd took House Speaker John Boehner to task for inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress without notifying the White House ahead of time. During an interview with Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Todd accused Boehner of trying to “antagonize the relationship between the two sides” and wondered “is that worth doing?” Todd began his questioning of Ryan by suggesting Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu was extremely inappropriate and would cause further problems between the two allies: “Is it appropriate for Congress to invite a world leader to address them without telling the president…Do you think that the Netanyahu thing — do you to think that this was sort of getting involved in foreign policy in a way that maybe the legislative branch shouldn’t have done that to the executive?”
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Networks Continue to Show No Interest in Covering Senate’s Passage of Keystone Pipeline
The nation’s major broadcast networks continued their blackout on Friday morning of not covering the U.S. Senate’s passage of the Keystone XL oil pipeline with zero mentions on their morning newscasts. Following the Senate’s passage of the bill on Thursday by a bipartisan margin of 62-to-36, the networks passed on even devoting a news brief to the topic during their Thursday evening news programs. When it came to their no coverage on Friday, plenty of other things seemed to capture their attention.
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Nets Skip Sheriff’s Congressional Slam of Eric Holder and His ‘Ugly’ Comments
The same networks that have repeatedly defended Eric Holder in the past are now quietly ignoring the congressional testimony of a Milwaukee sheriff who has slammed the Attorney General. Despite a combined eight hours of air time, CBS This Morning, Today and Good Morning America avoided covering David Clarke’s outrage: “The incendiary rhetoric used by Eric Holder created a pathway for a false narrative that then became the rallying cry for cop haters across America.”
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Ashley Judd Goes ‘Cuckoo’ for Hillary: ‘Most Overqualified Candidate We’ve Had Since…Jefferson’
Left-wing actress Ashley Judd likened Hillary Clinton to two Founding Fathers during a Friday interview with Larry King for online channel Ora. Judd gushed, “Obviously, I love Hillary Rodham Clinton,” and hyped that Mrs. Clinton “might be the most overqualified candidate we’ve had since – you know, Thomas Jefferson or George Washington.” |