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The lead segment in the 3:00 p.m. Eastern hour of Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom
featured quite the display of verbal fireworks as conservative writer
Kurt Schlichter angered fill-in host Don Lemon when he invoked the
Clinton sex scandals of the 1990's with former President Clinton turning
“his intern into a humidor” while discussing vulgar comments made by
Donald Trump.
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Just
over two weeks after the major network evening newscasts spent 24
minutes obsessing on December 8 over Donald Trump’s proposed ban on
Muslims entering the U.S., the three programs returned on Tuesday night
to devote ten and a half minutes to Trump’s declaration that Hillary
Clinton was “schlonged” in 2008 by losing to then-Senator Barack Obama.
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Commenting on Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s daughters appearing in a campaign ad, Washington Post cartoonist
Ann Telnaes created a GIF early Tuesday evening depicting Cruz’s young
daughters as toy monkeys being played with and arguing that “[t]hey are
fair game.” In attempting to explain her arguably racist GIF, Telnaes
argued that because daughters Caroline and Catherine appeared in a
humorous Christmas-themed ad, they have decided “to indulge in grown-up
activities” and allowed their father to play them “as political props.”
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There was surprising consensus on today's Morning Joe concerning the Washington Post cartoon
that depicted Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his youngs girls as
monkeys. Willie Geist: "People look for moments of bias in the media.
Here's one right here. You can't be selectively offended by cartoons. If
that had been a Democrat, or God forbid the President of the United
States, they would have lit the house on fire. There would have been
wall-to-wall coverage on it."
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Appearing in the 3 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC Live on Tuesday, Hardball
host Chris Matthews revealed how terrified he is at the prospect of
Texas Senator Ted Cruz becoming president: “...Cruz is scarier than
Trump and that will be a frightening prospect to realize....if we
weren't talking about Trump, we’d be talking about the horror of this
country possibly being led by Cruz.”
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NPR’s
Steve Inskeep continued his media tour on Monday promoting his fawning
sit-down interview with President by appearing with CNN Tonight host
Don Lemon and, when asked about the President attacking the media for
supposedly overhyping threats posed by ISIS, Inskeep stood up for the
President by suggesting that it was “not a very outlandish idea that
he's putting out there.”
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Headline atop the page two “Voices” column in Tuesday's USA Today by
Trevor Hughes, the Denver-based correspondent for the newspaper: “How I
came to decide to buy a gun.” “After months of soul-searching, I’ve
decided to buy a handgun,” Hughes began, later making an obvious point
so many journalists would prefer to avoid: “You don’t see terror attacks
in this country on areas where there’s lots of armed men and women.
Instead, it’s those soft targets that get hit.”
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On Tuesday, NBC’s Today devoted two full reports to President Obama appearing on Jerry Seinfeld’s web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
The first report came late in the 7 a.m. ET hour, with co-host Carson
Daly proclaiming: “President Obama and Jerry Seinfeld take a little spin
on the South Lawn in a 1963 Corvette before they sit down for a candid
conversation about life in the White House....[which] focuses more on
the ‘lighter side of the presidency’...an opportunity to ‘pull back the
curtain.’”
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