Media came down firmly for Sen. Warren after Senate silencing
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The major networks came down firmly on the side of Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren after she was prevented from waging continued personal attacks against Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions.
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a Senate rule to end Sen. Warren’s stream of personal attacks, the liberal media immediately jumped to the defense of the far-left Senator from Massachusetts.
Instead of discussing the unprecedented obstructionism of Democrats in delaying confirmation of President Trump’s Cabinet, ABC’s Mary Bruce whined that Republicans told Warren to “knock it off and zip it.”
Over on CBS, Nancy Cordes referred to the Warren/McConnell showdown as “an all-nighter that got ugly,” while Nora O’Donnell said that Sen. Warren was “silenced” by McConnell.
None of the networks called out Warren for falsely claiming that Republicans silenced Coretta Scott King’s voice on the Senate floor.
And the folks on MSNBC went a step further, by trying to spin the whole exchange as evidence of racism and sexism on the part of the GOP.
The media also downplayed the general obstructionist behavior by Senate Democrats, who have confirmed only six of President Trump’s 21 Cabinet nominees, almost three full weeks into his administration.
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