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UPDATE 4-13-24 5:10 ET The NY Times reports Iran has launched drone attacks on Israeli territory. ...Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement broadcast on state television that it had launched missiles as well as drones toward Israel from...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 07:46 AM PDT
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Guests: 'Driftglass' and Frances Langum of 'The Pro Left' podcast on (almost) everything we missed last week, and why it matters this week... It may be April Fools Day, but its no joke that we are back on today's BradCast after a half-planned,...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 06:03 PM PDT
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Talk about a grilling on Raw Story. As “NBC Host Under Fire...” reports, singer/songwriter/activist/fact-finder Bill Madden makes bold to belie the networks’ misinfo-as-usual (this time, as hawked by Kristen Welker). Where she soft pedals the...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 11:54 AM PDT
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On “Meet the Press” this Sunday, NBC host Kristen Welker characterized Trump’s attacks on America’s 237-year-old judicial system, a bulwark of America’s equally venerable democracy, as just the way politics is today. Here is what she said (video...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 05:29 PM PDT
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As might have been expected, Saturday Night Live’s Cold Open tackled the story of the rapist/con man/business fraud/criminal defendant/national security risk/stochastic terrrorist/Republican nominee and his latest scam: slapping his brand on a Bible. I...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 12:07 PM PDT
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I was trying to see if there was any more tea being spilt from NBC/MSNBC staff over the Ronna McDaniel debacle.� Sadly, most of the staff is leaking to Puck, and I cannot afford to be a subscriber.� ...
by Merlin196360
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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GO FOR IT, BABY! The RNC is Considering Barring NBC From Covering the Republican National Convention The recent kerfuffle over NBC's hiring - and firing - of former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair, Ronna McDaniel, is continuing to make waves in the partisan political pool. While McDaniel's dumping had more to do with her being an...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 01:39 PM PDT
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I’ve never worked in television news, and I don’t know the players involved in hiring Ronna McDaniel. But I have worked on the entertainment side of television for over 30 years, and have been in countless meetings with high-level tv executives,...
by Philvarn
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 09:01 PM PDT
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Today more details have emerged about the process undertaken by NBC News to make the disastrous decision to hire the traitor Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor, and if anything these details are stirring up more outrage inside and outside of NBC News...
by davidkc
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 01:14 PM PDT
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Episode 148 has been uploaded. iHeartRadio this podcast all podcasts Omny.FM this podcast all podcasts ivoox this podcast all podcasts Apple this podcast all podcasts Preview: YouTube: A-Block SPECIAL COMMENT: The head of the POLITICAL unit at NBC News...
by Proginoskes
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 09:52 PM PDT
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For the consumer, call it a mixed bag. On one hand, we can savor the speediness of Fox-in-henhouse Ronna Romney McDaniel’s departure from 30 Rock. (Hopefully, on a sharp, splintery rail.) On the other hand, the NBC top brass who had the gall to foist...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 12:22 PM PDT
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Just three days after her first on-air appearance, NBCUniversal announced that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel “will not be an NBC News contributor.”
It’s a rare ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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I read somewhere Tuesday that the hiring of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel by NBC as a paid contributor last week may have been a strategic hedge by the network in the unfortunate event that Donald Trump manages to ride...
by Christopher Nerney
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 09:02 AM PDT
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Trump demands Todd to be fired in retaliation for the firing of Ronna McDaniels: Meet the Fake Press www.rawstory.com/… Donald Trump gave a preview of how his second presidency might look by demanding the firing of NBC News host Chuck Todd as retribution for the dismissal of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel. ... "What boss or...
by ca cokz
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 06:05 AM PDT
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It’s been over two decades since my family and I moved from a once embattled swing state where candidates and voters had to consistently live up to its Show Me attitude. My family moved to a small town in Northern Arizona, where most of the charm if...
by StraightOuttaGosarsHellHole
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 07:25 AM PDT
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...people like you and me who stopped our day and wrote to NBC, by the millions. Yesterday I watched something I have never seen in our modern media. Almost every highly rated host at MSNBC, one after the other, looked the camera in the eye and told...
by StellaRay
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 06:54 PM PDT
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It’s from The Hollywood Reporter: “After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor,” NBC News Group chairman Cesar Conde wrote in a memo to staff Tuesday afternoon. “No...
by Elwood Dowd
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 03:15 PM PDT
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After all the pushback from, well, everyone, NBC has apparently been looking for the right crow recipe before serving up their “Ronna will be spending more time with her family” entree. This just in from Sky Palma through Raw Story. Leadership at NBC...
by randallt
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 11:26 AM PDT
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Six months ago, Mount Donald blew MAGA magma at “lamestream’ (i.e. non-Foxified) media in general, and especially at NBC and MSNBC. For no stated reason, the prolifically indicted Former Lout smeared them as “corrupted and dishonest” (as if he were a...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 12:20 PM PDT
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- If the Supreme Court thinks former presidents have, or do not have, some or absolute immunity against criminal prosecution, why not just say so now? Why would it take months? Do they have something better to do? Are there other priorities on their...296 comments 608 Recs
- All our fears to the contrary, Trump actually has little real chance of winning the upcoming election. The key is demographics. There are, of course, a number of factors that influence which voters vote for which candidates, and these factors can...10 comments 32 Recs
- A new digital ad will run in the swing states during the NFL draft. The draft festivities were held in Detroit, attended by 300,000, and broadcast to millions across the country. The ad targets Trump's lack of interest in football, comparing it to...60 comments 157 Recs
- Reposted from Substack This week MAGA Media outlets have breathlessly declared that they’ve found “smoking gun” evidence that proves that the Biden Administration was in communication with ...14 comments 104 Recs
- Expect the Senate race to be close this fall—unless Wisconsinites find out what Eric Hovde thinks of them. Are you a farmer? Eric Hovde thinks your retirement age should be pushed up to 72 because after all, “you’re largely driving around on a tractor”...19 comments 110 Recs
- I am channeling my inner Andy Rooney for this VERY short diary, and am delighted that the Image Library is here to help yet again. Did ya ever notice how, right after the Democrats pull off something absolutely remarkable, this strange thing happens...404 comments 783 Recs
- Never in my long life have I been as enraged and sickened about American politics as I am now. I am close to utter despair at what I’m seeing. My beloved country is becoming an insane asylum, filled with people who want to see the American experiment...128 comments 271 Recs
- Happy Freidai, Peeps! Some of us donât have to sweat out a workweek, but even so, sometimes Freidai makes us want to dance. But what KIND of dance? But FIRST: A gentle reminder of how we do ...50 comments 52 Recs
- When a justice is nominated to the Supreme Court they are first confirmed by the Senate. During the confirmation process they frequently answer a Senator’s question on how they would rule on specific kinds of cases with “I can’t answer that because it...12 comments 20 Recs
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- Ironically, those who fail to learn from past mistakes are destined to repeat them—this overused and self-explanatory old saying has been repeated in various ways over the years. The Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago from August...14 comments 5 Recs
- All our fears to the contrary, Trump actually has little real chance of winning the upcoming election. The key is demographics. There are, of course, a number of factors that influence which voters vote for which candidates, and these factors can...10 comments 32 Recs
- We can be sure of this well documented thing our “founding fathers” absolutely didn’t want to have a king It’s clear from their conversations and what they wrote they wanted a democracy and the people’s right to vote. But Trump sees things differently,...2 comments 9 Recs
- Yesterday the Supreme Court was hearing oral arguments on the Immunity case. Hypothetically? Theoretically! Really? lawyers and even SCOTUS judges along with my hero Rachael Maddow used these words today in reference to what giving Donald Trump...1 comments 2 Recs
- When a justice is nominated to the Supreme Court they are first confirmed by the Senate. During the confirmation process they frequently answer a Senator’s question on how they would rule on specific kinds of cases with “I can’t answer that because it...12 comments 20 Recs
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- The Justice Department reports that a Duval County Florida man was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for committing two federal hate crimes by attacking two black women with a firearm. Frederick...11 comments 15 Recs
- I have been troubled over the past few weeks by some events happening on our nation’s college campuses, particularly the Ivy League. At one campus, I believe it was Columbia, the police were even called in to break up the protests with force by the...17 comments 13 Recs
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