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Craig Harrington
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Research Director @mmfa. Just trying to make the world safe for democracy. Views are my own. Book Learnin' @KingsCollegeLon @Georgetown @OhioState
Jun 2, 2023 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
I’m relaxing on the beach and grab my phone long enough to see that CNN is dying… excellent start to the weekend. 🏖️ This remains hilarious. Chris Licht learned literally the opposite of reality from the Trump presidency. What sort of bubble must a guy live in to think that Trump won because the media didn’t pay enough attention to him? Did he only get his news from Colbert and National Review? Licht had not wanted this. ...
May 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Reporting from 5 of the nation’s leading newspapers earlier this month left out crucial context informing their millions of collective readers about the dire stakes of Republican debt ceiling brinkmanship
mediamatters.org/new-york-times… .@mmfa found that a majority of reporting on the debt ceiling crisis failed to demonstrate the extent to which Republicans in Congress have exploited the debt ceiling crisis in service of their selfish and irresponsible political ambitions. Just 6 articles (8%) mentio...
May 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hi Mercedes, while you’re making big public statements could you answer why you and your husband aren’t appearing on Fox News anymore? What happened last year that got you canned? Fox hid the Schlapps from its airwaves after a GOP staffer told The Daily Beast that Matt Schlapp groped him mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-h…
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I didn’t realize how few people knew about Kaitlan Collins’ pre-CNN lowlights.

We all did the whole “she ranked Syrian refugees by their hotness for Tucker’s white supremacist website” debate when CNN first hired her! Before she jumped to CNN when the network was openly trying to put more conservative “reporters” on air, she was a replacement level right-wing activist reporter. Here she is pushing a misleading attack on the CFPB in 2017.

mediamatters.org/donald-trump/d…
May 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Well, at least the CNN post-game panel is all reporters and none of their on-staff GOP spokespeople.

They all seem kind of shell-shocked from what they just witnessed, which literally everyone was warning them about over the past week. They spent a few minutes talking about how Trump didn't use this forum to reach out to undecided voters in the suburbs who he needs to regain the White House in 2024.... uh, maybe you're not familiar with CNN's ratings but Trump wasn't trying to reach voters tonight.
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This article from FoxNews .com is a perfect example of how the Fox Cinematic Universe works. Published March 20, 2023 4:39pm EDT Manhattan DA gets pumme The editorial board (not the news reporters, the opinion columnists) of The Wall Street Journal (Fox's corporate cousin) published an op-ed attacking Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

Then Fox runs a "news" article about that opinion piece, promoting it's claims as if they were factual.
Jan 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Because proxy voting is good. Why is proxy voting good, they ask...
Jan 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Despite modest negative revisions in the prior two months (-28k), the December #jobsreport beat expectations on job growth for the past month at +223,000 new jobs create as the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. bls.gov/news.release/a… It's a strong jobs report but closely aligned with expectations, which were for +200k last month. The unemployment rate was expected to move from 3.6 to 3.7 and instead moved to 3.5. Basically, it's in line with what was expected, which is why the Fed is still mad.
Dec 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I just don't understand this. Democratic voters *hate* her. If Dems stand back and let her go up against the GOP, she loses. Whereas, if they run their own candidate, she comes in a distant third. What logic prevents the Democrats from running their own candidate? Campaigns are bigger than just the outcome. Who is going to train Democratic volunteers and organize activists in a key swing state over the next 2 years? Who is going to motivate grassroots donors to sustain the state party? A person who isn't a Democrat?
Nov 16, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Here's how American news outlets framed the announcement from disgraced ex-president Donald Trump that he would once again seek elected office 🧵 1/ The Washington Post highlights that Trump faces "multiple criminal investigations" and notes that he refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, which he lost. 2/ Image
Nov 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On Election Night, CNN’s political panel was literally calling for Joe Biden to retire.

Tonight, they’ve finally caught up to the news that Democrats won. When on November 9, a full 24 hours after it became clear that Democrats had the best midterm in generations… the CNN panel thought Biden was toast. More than that, they were angry that he wasn’t more conciliatory to the fascists.
Nov 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I have to thank @chrislhayes for broadcasting the most satisfying 2-minutes of television I've watched today. A perfect encapsulation of what Fox News has looked like over the past several months. I was commenting with my colleagues in the past few days how Fox News was *really* out over their skiis on their midterm coverage. They were palpably celebratory on air in their "straight news" a week ago. Fox News all day Monday was doing Democratic midterm post mortem analysis.
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Elon Musk clearly has no idea how Twitter works. It's kind of amazing how little he understands. He keeps restating that charging $8 for verification will discourage creating bot accounts. Dude, there aren't any verified bot accounts right now! Unless he starts charging for *all* accounts, the free users will still exist and the free bots will still exist.
Oct 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This is a pretty desperate opposition research dump from Elise Stefanik in the final days of her campaign, accusing her opponent of moving to the district simply to run for Congress and not having a real job there. 1/ Democrat candidate who reportedly moved to district for empl There's just one problem with this accusation: It's also true of Elise Stefanik.

Stefanik was a high-level political staffer in DC before relocating to Upstate New York to run for Congress and had a $1.3 million investment property on Capitol Hill. 2/ thehill.com/blogs/ballot-b…
Feb 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Up until just *seconds* before the release of the January jobs report, Fox News was giddy with anticipation of massive job loss... h/t @JohnnyHeatWave for the video