Becket Adams

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‘Who’s the funniest black guy?’: Chris Matthews’ awkward interview

Becket Adams · July 21, 2016 5:27 pm

Networks spent only 14 minutes and 11 seconds in 2008 covering reports that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had plagiarized lines from Deval Patrick. (AP Photo)

Melania speech scandal gets four times the coverage as Obama’s lifted lines in 2008

Becket Adams · July 21, 2016 1:26 am

Carl Bernstein: Drudge helped Trump more than Fox

Becket Adams · July 20, 2016 10:16 pm

Donald Trump's arrival by helicopter in Cleveland Wednesday afternoon earned him breathless, wall-to-wall coverage from the major cable news networks. (Ariel Cohen/Washington Examiner)

Cable news mocked for breathless coverage of Trump’s chopper

Becket Adams · July 20, 2016 7:33 pm

CNN host to Manafort: ‘You keep lying about it’

Becket Adams · July 20, 2016 5:20 pm

What has newsrooms most upset is the general direction that the Republican Party has taken with the unprecedented political ascendancy of Donald Trump. (AP Photo)

‘Regressive,’ ‘extremist’: Press savages GOP platform

Becket Adams · July 20, 2016 1:23 am

Wasserman Schultz: Clinton ‘did not lie to Congress’ on emails

Becket Adams · July 19, 2016 8:49 pm

Scott Baio grilled on MSNBC about his anti-Clinton tweets

Becket Adams · July 19, 2016 6:41 pm

Paul Krugman has some theories about that election. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

Krugman to media: Stop treating Clinton and Trump like they’re equals

Becket Adams · July 18, 2016 11:56 pm

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is one of the most "fervid ideologues" of his party, the board wrote. (AP Photo/Nicholas Clayton)

NY Times decides pro-voter ID lawmaker is a ‘zealot’

Becket Adams · July 18, 2016 9:37 pm

‘Total lie’: Trump rips media reports on his VP process

Becket Adams · July 18, 2016 6:05 pm

Fox contributor: Obama partially to blame for cop shootings

Becket Adams · July 18, 2016 4:00 pm