CNN and MSNBC collectively used the word “impeach” nearly 200 times on Friday before the Special Counsel’s office disputed a bombshell report by BuzzFeed News.

According to a Daily Caller review of TV clipping service Grabien, personalities on CNN and MSNBC used the words “Impeach,” “Impeachment,” or “Impeachable,” 179 times.

The review included only original Friday programming and ran up until each network learned that BuzzFeed’s report was in dispute — shortly before 8 pm.

CNN mentioned impeachment 82 times while MSNBC mentioned it a whopping 97 times.

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How Twitter could be the death of liberal democracy

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n 1984, George Orwell famously described a totalitarian political order in which people were kept as docile subjects in part by a daily ritual called "Two Minutes Hate" in which the population directs all of its pent up fury at "Goldstein," a possibly fictional enemy of the state.

Thanks to Twitter, we now know that the same dynamic can arise spontaneously, with fresh ire directed at a new manifestation of the partisan enemy nearly every day. It shows us that under certain circumstances — our circumstances — people can and will fasten onto an endless succession of real-life Goldsteins for the sheer, addictive joy of it — for the pure, delirious pleasure of denouncing manifestations of evil in our midst. Nothing, it seems, is quite as satisfying as singling out our fellow citizens for their moral failings and indulging in fantasies of their fully justified punishment.

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DEAR CONSERVATIVE MEDIA: MOST OF YOU BELONG IN JAIL TODAY

The Covington scandal proves that American journalists are unhinged, dishonest, disreputable and cruel. Most unforgivable of all, though, are the Republican phonies and collaborators.

Apparently, the few remaining non-pedophile Democrats have been feeling left out and needed a way that they, too, could ruin children’s lives. This weekend they found it. A Native American hate crime hoax targeted children from a Christian school, Covington Catholic, wrongly claiming that its students were hateful bigots taunting a defenseless old Native American elder. The truth? They’d been called “------s” by black Hebrew protesters and were deliberately provoked by the indigenous rights activist, a longtime Democrat political operative called Nathan Phillips whose “Vietnam vet” credentials are now being called into question. Far from being smug bullies as reported, Covington students were smiling so as not to get angry at being provoked by black protesters and then by a Native American elder who approached them to taunt them—in other words, they were remaining good-natured out of Christian charity.

This is what the progressive Left in America does now: Destroy children’s lives for political gain. Am I the only one thinking I’d happily swap Hillary Clinton’s prison sentence for a few Buzzfeed and L.A. Times reporters condemned to a life of nervously passing the soap? And yet the likes of Buzzfeed were merely doing what they do. Complaining about the media telling lies to damage conservatives is like being surprised about getting stung by the proverbial scorpion. The people I can’t forgive are the conservative media figures who hurled themselves onto the bandwagon to wrongly condemn these children—and who now refuse to apologize.

We’re told Nathan Phillips, the elder in question, is a Vietnam veteran, and though it’s true that he leads services for fallen Native American troops at Arlington, other Native vets say they’ve never heard of him—and that his name doesn’t exist on lists of personnel at the time he claims he was on the front lines. Most alarmingly, the job he says he performed—“Marine recon ranger”—doesn’t exist, unless he’s just bragging about getting a Ranger badge, which anyone can do. Then there’s Phillips’s long, long, long history of political activism, his connection to big money Democrats, his side job appearing in blockbuster music videos and the oh-so-polished quotes he had already in the chamber when journalists came calling. In other words, the whole thing was a set-up and a lie—one that reporters were delighted to help spread.


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