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Mediaite Caught Lying in Blatant Distortion of Transcript of J.D. Vance Interview in Effort to Interfere in Donald Trump's Veepstakes

2024-07-12

[BREITBART] Mediaite, a leftist publication, has been caught lying in a blatant distortion of a transcript of an interview that now-Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) did years ago on MSNBC in an obvious attempt to interfere in former President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s vice presidential selection process.

The left-leaning anti-Trump publication ran a headline on Wednesday as part of the globalists’ last-ditch effort to stop Vance from getting selected as Trump’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election that, if true, would certainly make heads in Trump world turn: "JD Vance Said He Believes Trump’s Sexual Assault Accuser in Unearthed Interview."

Donald Trump

The problem with Mediaite’s headline — and its story — is that this is not an accurate reflection of what Vance said in a 2016 interview with then-MSNBC host Chris My Thigh is Tingling! Matthews
... the late Tip O'Neill's former gopher who has magazines with centerfolds of Barack Obama in his bathroom...
The actual transcript of the MSNBC interview from the October 12, 2016, Hardball show — which has hardly been "unearthed," for what it is worth, as it is literally on the MSNBC website for anyone to find, but that is beside the point — shows Matthews playing a clip of Jessica Leeds, a woman who accused Trump of groping her, and then asking Vance for reaction.

Here is Matthews’s exact question: "What do you think of this? This is something, it’s sort of interesting evocative of the time because of the time because we used to say stewardess first of all. That was a flight attendant. It just gives us a sense of history. But this woman is not a showoff. She’s just telling what happened so we can know it."

Here is Vance’s exact response: "Yes, yes. And it’s sort of — — it makes me think that at fundamental, this is sort of he said/she said, right? And at the end of the day, do you believe Donald Trump who always tells the truth? Just kidding, or do you believe that woman on the tape? And I —"

That is the end of the exchange. Vance literally said in his response that this was a "he said/she said" disagreement and questioned which person between the two people — Trump or Leeds — someone should believe.

Vance’s argument, for whatever it is worth, was far more pro-Trump than most MSNBC guests at the time, even though he was still a Trump critic back then. His conversion from critic to strong supporter of Trump is a widely known story, but the notion he was saying, as Mediaite claimed in this headline, that he believed the accuser is just not true because that is not what he said.

Where things get particularly interesting is that the author of the piece, Colby Hall, first off, did not, per multiple sources familiar with the matter, reach out to Vance’s team for comment ahead of time on the story. While it is a publicly available transcript on MSNBC’s website, Hall did not even include the video of the interview for the story, and mischaracterizing Vance’s comments like this is a significant development. What is more, in non-off-record conversations with Vance’s staff after the publication of the story, Hall admitted that headlines are not the full story — he literally told, per communications reviewed by Breitbart News, a Vance staffer that he "surmised" what he thought Vance meant to write the headline on this piece rather than accurately letting Vance’s word speak for themselves.

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MSNBC's Joy Reid praises Biden's handling of Afghanistan

2021-08-28

[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] MSNBC’s Joy Reid
...Harvard-educated lefty MSDNC (If you're white you ain't right!)
commentator, given to fits of hyperbole, bad arithmetic, and faux sophistication...
praised President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
for his Afghanistan exit this week. "Despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the right, the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
has accomplished something that’s actually truly remarkable in Afghanistan."

Reid has been a vocal supporter of the President's military exit out of Afghanistan, despite wide criticism and plummeting polls for Biden. Prior to praising the President, Reid attacked former President Trump and blamed any shortcoming in relation to Afghanistan on him.

"It was Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
who wrote America’s exit strategy," Reid said. "Trump’s ’peace plan’ set fall of Afghanistan in motion" and the "GOP tried to blame Biden for Trump admin policy."

On another segment of her program, Reid attacked Trump again, alleging he would not have attempted to rescue Afghans.

"I think it’s magical thinking that’s the problem, thinking somehow Donald Trump would have evacuated those Afghans," Reid said. "No he wouldn’t have."

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-Great Cultural Revolution

Chris Matthews Returns to MSNBC

2021-06-02

Did it take that long to fix the 'thrill up his leg'?
[Newsbusters / Curtis Houck] - After almost a year and a half away from television, former longtime-MSNBC host Chris Matthews made his return to his old network and time slot on Tuesday’s ReidOut to promote his new book, and sound off on everything from the 2020 election to January 6 to his departure from MSNBC to infrastructure to the Peace Corps to even South African politics.

For much of the nearly 14-minute segment, Matthews seemed to have such a laundry list of things to opine on since he lost his show (over inappropriate comments to women) that it felt like he had retaken command, as if he were the host of Hardball and Joy Reid was a guest.

But for all of Matthews’s creepy, cringeworthy, far-left, and insane takes, the appearance served as a reminder of one undeniable fact about the contrast between Matthews and the hateful and more vengeful Reid: Not only did he deeply care about and love America, but he possessed a respect for the Founders.
Compared to a flat-out racist lunatic like Joy Reid, you could make Charles Manson look like Ernie Fucking Pyle.

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Montage: The 20 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2020

2021-01-02

[Grabien] In the year everything went to sh*t, America's media was already positioned for action. Rather than riding athwart the troubled waters of America in 2020, offering a beacon of accurate, intrepidly researched reporting to help guide the country, the biggest names in media time and again chose instead to abuse their positions, advancing narrow political interests in lieu of valuable, fact-checked information.

If there’s a theme to this year’s edition, it’s the mainstreaming of gaslighting. Time and again news consumers were told that what they were seeing meant the opposite of what it clearly did (see, for example, #s 15 and 14).

Our normal custom with the Most Mortifying Media Moments series is to summarize the 10 worst moments of the year. But 2020 being 2020, this year we’re doubling it up so that we can hereby present … 2020’s 20 Most Mortifying Media Moments.

The explanations can be seen at the link, but here are the headings:

20 - Media Mourn Death of Iranian Terror Leader
19 - Media Pretend Impeachment Is Historically Historic History
18 - Mara Gay & Brian Williams Can’t Math
17 - Media Downplay Covid
16 - Media Overhype Covid
15 - Peaceful Protests = Violent
14 - Violent Protests = Peaceful
13 - Bubba’s ‘Noose’
12 - The Worst Broadcasting Blooper Ever
11 - Media: Trump Will Use the Military to Steal the Election
10 - Media: Let's Topple Mt. Rushmore
9 - Chris Matthews: All Blacks Look Alike
8 - Chris Cuomo
7 - Mika Meltdown
6 - A USPS Conspiracy So Vast …
5 - Media: Why Do We Need this So Called Constitution Anyway?
4 - Biden Bus B.S.
3 - Media Drag Biden Across the Finish Line
2 - Media Issue Blockade on Damning Hunter Biden Scoop
1. Media Weep in Ecstasy After Their Man Wins

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Sen. Graham's Unhinged Challenger Hints That Judge Barrett Could Bring Back Racial Segregation

2020-10-10

[Townhall] South Carolina Democrat and Senate candidate Jaime Harrison, who is challenging incumbent GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, weighed in on the confirmation battle for Judge Amy Coney Barrett and the idea of "court packing."

Harrison initially said that he opposed the radical left’s idea of expanding the size of the Supreme Court. He clarified that he would be open to it if a justice said that Plessy v. Ferguson should be established law again, throwing a not-so-subtle dig at Judge Barrett:
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Trump to announce executive, legislative actions on police reform

2020-06-11

[FOXNEWS] President Trump will soon have a list of police reform proposals that can be accomplished through a combination of executive and legislative action -- and that effort could have some crossover with Democratic proposals, multiple sources told Fox News on Tuesday.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is taking the lead on the legislative side, Fox News is told. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, senior adviser Jared Kushner, and domestic policy adviser Ja'Ron Smith are on Capitol Hill meeting with Scott.

The potential executive actions would be taken at the Justice Department, and would be executed in conjunction with law enforcement and community leaders.

The priority of the proposals will be on putting in place protections for communities, but not tying the hands of the police, Fox News is told.

Trump met with law enforcement leaders who gave him some proposals for possible reforms on Monday, in the wake of the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Four ex-officers have been charged in Floyd's death, which touched off nationwide protests, looting, and violence, including the burning of the St. John's Church just steps from the White House.

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Republican Sen. Tim Scott has lots to say about Biden’s ‘you ain’t black’ comment, but Atlantic writer Jemele Hill sez he’s right, while Biden apologises

2020-05-23

[BIZPACREVIEW] U.S. Senator Tim Scott joined a chorus of voices condemning presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
for "arrogant" comments he made during a radio interview.

The Republican senator from South Carolina slammed the former vice president on the "condescending" declaration he made in an interview with Charlamagne tha God, co-host of "The Breakfast Club" radio show. Scott spoke on Fox Business Network’s "Varney & Co." on Friday about Biden’s latest controversial statement.

Biden came under heavy fire Friday for saying members of the black community who have a "problem figuring out" whether to vote for him or President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
in November "ain’t black." The Democrat faced immediate backlash as his surrogates and members of his campaign scrambled to put out the fire.

Joe Biden told black radio show host Charlamagne tha God that he "ain't black" if he's still mulling over whether to vote for him or Trump.

"Wow," Scott said in reaction.

"That is the most condescending, arrogant comment I’ve heard for a very long time. And that’s saying something," the politician told Fox Business host Stuart Varney, pointing out Biden’s history.

"The man who sponsored and led the charge on the 1990’s crime bill that locked up more African-American males than any other piece of legislation," he said.

"And President Trump comes along, and through his criminal justice reform, corrects the absolute mistakes made by Joe Biden, for him to make such an arrogant, ridiculous comment," he added.

"If you think about the numbers, 1.3 million African-Americans voted for Trump. He’s saying to 1.3 million African-Americans that you’re not black?" Scott asked. "Who in the heck does he think he is? That is the most arrogant, outrageous comment that I’ve heard in a very long time and I take offense to that."

In a tweet about Biden’s interview, Scott said it was "par for the course for Democrats to take the black community for granted."

Jemele Hill: What Joe Biden Said About Black Voters 'Was Accurate'
[BREITBART] Former ESPN sports commentator and current Atlantic writer Jemele Hill, jumped to Twitter Friday to defend Democrat presidential candidate Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
’s contention that if you’re confused about who to vote for, "you ain’t black."

Hill was incensed over the shock many whites experienced when they heard Biden say that black people are not black unless they intend to vote for him in November. The former vice president made the comments on Friday on the Breakfast Club radio broadcast cohosted by rapper Charlamagne tha God.

"If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black," Biden told Charlamagne after the radio host said, "It’s a long way until November; we’ve got more questions."

After the Internet erupted with condemnation for Biden’s comments, Hill jumped into the controversy to defend Biden.

Initially, Hill insisted that white people have no place to condemn Biden’s comments.

"Me watching white folks act outraged on behalf of black folks because Biden said, ’if you vote for Trump, you ain’t black’ ... as if these same white folks are in any position to speak about black identity or the black experience," she wrote.

Joe Biden Regrets 'You Ain't Black' Comment: 'I Shouldn't Have Been Such a Wise Guy'
[BREITBART] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
expressed regret Friday for decreeing that African-Americans aren’t really black if they have trouble deciding to support him over President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, saying he’s "never" taken the black community’s vote for granted and "shouldn’t have been such a wise guy."

"I should not have been so cavalier. I’ve never, never, ever taken the African American community for granted," Biden said during a call with black business leaders, according to CBS News news hound Ed O’Keefe.

"I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy," he added."I shouldn’t have been so cavalier. No one should have to vote for any party based on their race, their religion, their background."

Earlier Friday, Biden declared Friday that if black Americans cannot decide whether to back him over President Trump, "then you ain’t black."

Biden made the ridiculous unsolicited racially-charged comment as he wrapped his virtual interview with The Breakfast Club.

"If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black," Biden said to Charlamagne, not in response to a question, but after the radio host’s remark: "It’s a long way until November, we’ve got more questions."

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Soros Spends Big to Help Prosecutor Who Dropped Jussie Smollett Charges

2020-03-08

[FREEBEACON] George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
and other liberal billionaires are pushing large sums of cash into reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
to back the far-left prosecutor whose office dropped charges against Jussie Smollett

...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...
, the actor who staged a "hate crime" he attributed to Trump supporters.

The reelection efforts of Kim Foxx, state's attorney for Cook County, Ill., received a boost from the Illinois Justice & Public Safety PAC. The committee, founded to support Foxx, has spent six figures on media productions and direct mail backing Foxx's candidacy, state records show, making it Foxx's largest backer so far. The PAC received its entire $2 million budget from a group created and funded by Soros.

Soros has for years poured millions into district attorney and prosecutor races across the country backing candidates who want to radically overhaul the criminal justice system. The candidates often campaign on reducing incarceration rates by bringing lower-level charges for higher-level offenses. One such Soros-backed district attorney, Larry Krasner of Philadelphia, purged dozens of prosecutors primarily from the homicide division, drug enforcement, and civil asset forfeiture units within days of taking office.

Foxx, who received $408,000 from Soros during her first election in 2016, set off widespread criticism for her office's handling of the Smollett case. The actor claimed he was attacked by two white masked individuals in the streets of Chicago who yelled "This is MAGA country," tied a rope around his neck, and doused him in bleach. The story quickly unraveled after evidence emerged that Smollett hired two men to fake the attack. Foxx's office dropped the charges against him. Following a special prosecutor's probe into Foxx's handling of the Smollett case, a grand jury indicted Smollett on six counts of disorderly conduct in relation to making false reports to the Chicago Police Department.

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Ilhan Omar's endorsement of Bernie Sanders flops in Minnesota

2020-03-05

[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Since last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders

...The ~~only~~ first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
has held deafening rallies with surrogate Rep. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
in tow, bringing her to St. Paul the night before the state primary in a bid to win Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Senatrix from Minnesota, candidate for the Dem presidential 2020 nomination. You can tell the kind of husband a boy will make by the way he treats his mother. You can tell the kind of leader a politician will make by the way he treats his staff. Klobuchar is reportedly overbearing, snide, and dictatorial with her people. She sees this as merely getting the best from them. Her name spelled backward in the Russian alphabet would be "Rachubolk," which sounds pretty daggone suspicious...
's home state of Minnesota.

But months of campaigning with the bombastic Minneapolis representative not only couldn't lock down the state, but it didn't even help deliver Omar's congressional district. Instead, Sanders lost by more than 60,000 votes in a state he won in 2016. What's more, he didn't lose to native Klobuchar (which could have been expected), but to Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
, who didn't contest the stIlhan Omar's endorsement of Bernie Sanders flops in Minnesotaate but surged overnight after Klobuchar bowed out of the race and backed him.

Since getting elected to the Minnesota statehouse in 2016, Omar has been lionized by the media, and after winning her snap bid for Keith Ellison's congressional seat in 2018, she's been nothing short of revered. After suffering a heart attack in October of last year, Sanders relied on the endorsement of Omar and fellow socialist superstar Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
, with much of the political press attributing his rebound in the polls to their support.

Despite months of campaigning, Omar couldn't put him over the top in the state or in her home turf. Biden beat Sanders in Hennepin County, which houses Minneapolis and Omar's district. He also won Ramsey County, which includes the other Twin City of St. Paul, where the Monday night rally with Omar was held.

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Chris Matthews announces retirement, mutually parts ways with MSNBC

2020-03-03

[NBCNews] Chris Matthews, one of the longest-tenured voices at MSNBC, announced his retirement during Monday’s night’s airing of his talk show, "Hardball."
The thrill ~~up the leg~~ is gone
Matthews, 74, said he and MSNBC had mutually agreed to part ways. The decision followed a series of events that resulted in criticism of the host’s statements about Bernie Sanders, African-American lawmakers, and comments he had made to female journalists and coworkers.

"I’m retiring," Matthews said. "This is the last ’Hardball’ on MSNBC."

Matthews was due to retire in the near future with the events of the past week playing a factor in the timing of the move, an MSNBC spokesperson said.

Matthews, a former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, has hosted "Hardball" on MSNBC since 1999 and remained a centrist voice

...y’all forgot the scare quotes around centrist, O NBC journalist...

on the cable news channel’s prime-time programming, which often features commentary that is further to the left.

NBCUniversal is the parent company of MSNBC and NBC News.

We had three submissions for this story. Charger commented:

The party line is an ever-moving target, comrades.

Guess he'll be spending more time with his pool boy, I mean gerbil.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

BREAKING: Chris Matthews says he's retiring from MSNBC, apologizes for comments he's made about women. https://t.co/43P3LDNpeK
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 3, 2020

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HOLY S***: Chris Matthews confused GOP Sen. Tim Scott with Dem Senate candidate Jaime Harrison

2020-02-29

Chris Matthews confused GOP Sen. Tim Scott, who was at President Trump’s rally in SC sitting next to Sen. Lindsey Graham with Dem Jaime Harrison, who is running against Graham in November. Even worse for Matthews? Harrison was his guest at the time he made the error.

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Liberal Tears Flow At MSNBC After Bernie Win

2020-02-24

Victory Girls via Instapundit
Who saw this coming? Far left MSNBC pundits shed liberal tears after Bernie Sanders took the Nevada caucus. This seems counter-intuitive, I know, but apparently Bernie was not the droid they were looking for.

There has been bad blood between Sanders and MSNBC before, with Sanders accusing the network of unfair coverage. In fact, Bernie supposedly complained about it to network president Phil Griffin. So when Bernie won the caucus and took the top of the Democratic heap, liberal tears flowed copiously on the floors of the station.

Chris Matthews went Godwin Lite and compared Bernie’s victory to the Nazis overrunning the Maginot Line in 1940. Whereupon David Harsanyi of The Federalist offered a more accurate analogy:

". . . a far better analogy is to say Sanders has stormed the Democratic Party like the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace."
Matthews went on to wonder if it would be better for Democrats if Sanders lost the upcoming election.

"I mean, he takes it over, he sets the direction of the future of the party ‐ maybe they’d rather wait four years and put in a Democrat that they like."
Plus, Joy Reid sounded desperate and really shed those liberal tears, because she fears not only losing the Presidency but down ballot races as well.

It’s like the lightbulb went off in her head, and she just discovered that a lot of Democrats don’t like their party elite, either. Just like many disaffected Republican voters in 2016, right?

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