{"id":496609,"date":"2021-05-11T14:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496609"},"modified":"2021-05-11T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T18:20:55","slug":"everything-you-missed-from-cable-news-experts-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everything-you-missed-from-cable-news-experts-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Missed From Cable News \u2018Experts\u2019 This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feverything-you-missed-from-cable-news-experts-this-weekend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496609&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1070860958-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Here\u2019s a critical review of some of the most newsworthy moments of this past weekend:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d with Chuck Todd<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The impending vote to strip Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) of her House leadership position formed the focus of Todd\u2019s interview with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who holds down the liberal-wing of the Republican Party. The current Cheney vote represents \u201ca battle for the soul of the Republican Party,\u201d Hogan said. The GOP has become \u201csort of a circular firing squad where we\u2019re just attacking members of our own party\u201d and \u201cyou have to swear fealty to the Dear Leader,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hogan, who plans to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, presented himself as a hope for moderates. \u201cI ran 45 points ahead of the president\u201d in deep blue Maryland, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><i><span>I\u2019m ahead of him among Republicans, among conservatives, and among Democrats and independents. \u2026 I think that most voters in both parties are kind of fed up with the crazy things that are coming out of both parties. And they, they really want to elect elected officials that are willing to work together, that are willing to get things done and come up with bipartisan, common-sense solutions. And I\u2019ve proven that in two elections in a row by winning overwhelmingly with Republicans, Democrats, and independents.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The last two moderate Republican governors of a Democratic state to argue that they could appeal to voters across the political spectrum were Chris Christie in 2016 and Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chuck Todd elevated the importance of the GOP split when he implied the Republican Party was becoming a party of \u201ctraitors.\u201d Todd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chuck-todd-agrees-democrats-and-republicans-becoming-patriots-and-traitors\">seconded<\/a> a statement by Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher that \u201cUlysses S. Grant at the start of the Civil War said, \u2018There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots.\u2019 I\u2019m afraid, Chuck, that we\u2019re, we\u2019re increasingly coming back to that time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Anthony Fauci also made news on Sunday\u2019s Meet the Press by asserting that the American people may be wearing masks every year for the foreseeable future. \u201cIs the mask going to be something we have with us in a seasonal aspect?\u201d Todd asked. \u201cYou know, that\u2019s quite possible,\u201d Dr. Fauci replied. \u201cI think people have gotten used to the fact that wearing masks, clearly, if you look at the data, diminishes respiratory diseases.\u201d Fauci noted that \u201cwe\u2019ve had practically a non-existent flu season this year.\u201d Todd added that \u201cat this point, anybody that trusts you, trusts the government, trusts us in the media has gotten a vaccine. I think it\u2019s safe to assume those that haven\u2019t have some trust issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week with George Stephanopoulos\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>ABC also focused on the GOP divide. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he believed Liz Cheney wanted to lose her leadership position, as she continued \u201cantagonizing\u201d the pro-Trump majority in the House Republican caucus after surviving a leadership vote in February. Christie noted that the voting record and ideological background of Cheney\u2019s likely successor, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), is to Cheney\u2019s Left, making Stefanik \u201cmore likely to bring a moderating voice on policy.\u201d For instance, Stefanik <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-voting-results-are-tax-reform-bill-vote-ryan-saavedra\"><span>opposed<\/span><\/a><span> President Trump\u2019s 2017 tax cut and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2019\/05\/17\/these-8-republicans-voted-for-the-equality-act\/\"><span>voted<\/span><\/a><span> for the Equality Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel encouraged Republicans to look to John Boehner and George W. Bush for guidance about the future of their party. The Republican Party, he said, \u201cis not a conservative party. Look at John Boehner\u2019s book; look at former President Bush\u2019s book. That\u2019s conservative. This is a reactionary party built on both resentment and racism.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Emanuel also erroneously claimed that former President Donald Trump had been a uniquely unsuccessful candidate in 2020. Emanuel said, \u201cIt took 90 years to find a president who could lose the White House, the House, and the Senate.\u201d However, his former boss, Barack Obama, did that, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2020\/jun\/25\/control-house-and-senate-1900\/\"><span>losing<\/span><\/a><span> 63 seats in the House of Representatives, nine Senate seats in 2014, and the White House in what Obama\u2019s circle believed to be a slam-dunk election in 2016 (when Republicans also retained the House and Senate). In total, the Democratic Party lost more than 1,030 seats nationwide during Obama\u2019s two terms in office, according to t<\/span><span>he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-many-seats-did-democrats-lose-under-obama-over-james-barrett?amp\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gov. Hogan made a similar claim about Trump on \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d saying, \u201cWe had the worst four years we\u2019ve had ever in the Republican Party, losing the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate.\u201d But voters rejected President George W. Bush\u2019s unpopular second term agenda of bailouts for corporate executives and amnesty for illegal immigrants, with Republicans losing 30 seats in the House in 2006, followed by seven Senate seats and the White House in 2008.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>CNN\u2019s \u201cReliable Sources\u201d with Brian Stelter<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Brian Stelter\u2019s main focus seems to be slamming his more successful rival, Fox News. Stelter criticized Fox\u2019s coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine, before accusing Fox and Newsmax of trying to downplay the importance of the January 6 Capitol riots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter stated that Fox News hosts \u201chave popularized some dark, damaging, disturbing\u201d ideas about the COVID-19 vaccine, a process they allegedly now continue \u201cby sowing confusion. When I\u2019ve tuned in lately, I\u2019ve heard complaints about triple-masking \u2014 three masks! \u2014 even though that\u2019s not a real thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>NPR also endorsed the idea of wearing three masks. \u201cMasks block contagious droplets that an infected person breathes out. They also offer a measure of protection for a wearer who\u2019s not infected,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2020\/11\/03\/929555568\/coronavirus-faqs-are-3-masks-better-than-1-will-mouthwash-keep-you-safe\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span> NPR\u2019s Rosemary Misdary last November. \u201cSo yes, in theory, two is better than one and three is even better, says biosecurity expert <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research.unsw.edu.au\/people\/professor-raina-macintyre\"><span>Raina MacIntyre<\/span><\/a><span>, who researches mask effectiveness at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.\u201d Public health officials in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ucsdnews.ucsd.edu\/pressrelease\/three-layered-masks-most-effective-against-large-respiratory-droplets\"><span>U.S.<\/span><\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/coronavirus\/another-layer-of-protection-feds-now-recommend-three-layer-masks-with-filters-1.5172995\"><span>Canada<\/span><\/a><span> now advocate for a three-layer mask.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Still, Stelter took a swipe at the top-rated host in cable news, Tucker Carlson, over accuracy. Stelter claimed Carlson is \u201cscaring his viewers so recklessly\u201d about the COVID-19 vaccine that \u201cmaybe he should be writing some junk movie for Netflix or Tubi. Maybe he should go write horror novels for a living. Because he\u2019s clearly not responsible enough to have a show that purports, or pretends, to be news.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stelter helped viewers visualize the difference in the cable networks\u2019 competing emphases. A graphic summarizing a report from the service TVEyes.com showed that the term \u201criot\u201d appeared in CNN transcripts 67 times between May 3-7, while MSNBC used the term 29 times, Fox News used it 28 times, and Newsmax used it 13 times. He did not provide statistics on other potentially partisan terms, such as \u201cinsurrection.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stelter rendered his viewers a service by noting that both Republican and Democratic administrations attempt to stonewall or spy on the press. He asked Washington Post national security reporter Devlin Barrett about a report that the Justice Department tried to obtain three of his colleagues\u2019 phone records last year. \u201cDoes it strike you that it\u2019s the Biden DOJ defending what the Trump DOJ did, and before it was the Trump administration, the Obama DOJ was engaging in this kind of subpoenaing of reporter phone records?\u201d Stelter asked. \u201cIn other words, whether it\u2019s Democrat or Republican, when you\u2019re in power, you use that power?\u201d Barrett replied:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><i><span>One of the things that I think that\u2019s difficult for people to wrap their heads around is, like, while it is true that the Trump did decided [sic] to do this in 2020, this is a thing that happens regardless of who is in power. And it happens \u2013 it\u2019s rare. It happens, you know, almost one case a year \u2013 sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. But it does happen. And the practice is obviously as big a concern as any particular case.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">\u00a0<i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a critical review of some of the most newsworthy moments of this past weekend:NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d with Chuck ToddThe impending vote to strip Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277812,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1070860958-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Everything You Missed From Cable News \u2018Experts\u2019 This Weekend","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1070860958-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Everything You Missed From Cable News \u2018Experts\u2019 This Weekend","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}