Meacham: Trump 'Coddles' His Fact-Challenged 'Base at Dangerous Level'

Appearing as a guest on Saturday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham took many swipes at President Donald Trump and conservatives as he invoked Charles Lindbergh's Nazi sympathizer movement of the World War II era, and declared that conservative activists are in an "alternate reality" while liberals are "taking the science seriously." He also complained that China is being "scapegoated" and…
Brad Wilmouth
April 19th, 2020 9:46 PM

Dan Crenshaw Schools Maher on Dems Opposing China Travel Ban

On Friday's Real Time show on HBO, as liberal host Bill Maher debated Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw over the Donald Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Republican Congressman argued against the myth that everyone but President Trump took the virus seriously early on as he recalled that Democrats actually opposed some of the President's early actions to keep the virus…
Brad Wilmouth
April 19th, 2020 7:23 PM

NYT: 'Far-Right' Conservatives Protest Corona as Blacks Suffer

New states’ rights fans at The New York Times? Reporters Trip Gabriel and Jonathan Martin praised Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer after her gross bureaucratic overreach in fighting the spread of the coronavirus led to protests. The online headline to the story that led Sunday’s National section: “Gretchen Whitmer Isn’t Backing Down -- Right-wing protesters, Republican lawmakers and President…
Clay Waters
April 19th, 2020 7:00 PM

Political Pandemic: Todd Whines Trump Not Taking Hit in the Polls

After completely ignoring previous polls that showed President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis getting majority support, NBC political director Chuck Todd used a portion of Sunday’s Meet the Press to whine that a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll had found the President’s approval rating was unmoved from a year ago, despite his impeachment and the pandemic.
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 19th, 2020 4:54 PM

New Yorker Snob on MSNBC Mocks White Male 'Lower-Educated' Trump Base

Joy Reid's show on MSNBC provides a virtual parody of liberal-elite condescension to Trump supporters. Reid found it "confusing" that Trump's populist base supports him despite supposedly not "getting anything economically out of this plutocracy." The New Yorker's Jane Mayer explained to Reid that Trump's "racist and anger-laced" rhetoric "excites the lower-educated part of his base, the white-…
Mark Finkelstein
April 19th, 2020 3:01 PM

ABC Invites Pelosi to Spread Her Doomsday Fears of Trump’s Leadership

The final question ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos directed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in his softball This Week interview was intended to tee her up to fear-monger about President Trump’s leadership during the coronavirus crisis, and repeat the debunked claim the President called the virus a “hoax.” In stark contrast, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had grilled her on how she had…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 19th, 2020 1:38 PM

NBC Sports Blog: NFL Star Who Tweeted Trump Risks ‘Very Real Backlash’

Mike Florio at NBC’s Profootballtalk blog doesn’t want to sing Kumbaya, national pandemic crisis or no. And that’s cool. What isn’t cool is his nasty dishonesty in using his blog to go after NFL stars who don’t show enough contempt for Florio’s political enemies.
Matt Philbin
April 19th, 2020 1:01 PM

ABC, NBC Chide Unemployed Protesters as ‘AstroTurf,’ Not The Majority

As media elitists, their jobs were safe and they could easily work from home. But during their Sunday morning newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today, chided and cast aside the unemployed Americans taking to the streets as state stay-at-home orders left them in financial ruin. ABC even suggested their angry protests could be “AstroTurf” movements designed to embarrass…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 19th, 2020 11:02 AM

WashPost Sports Blisters Trump's Recovery Plan

Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins let fly Saturday morning with a thunderous literary salvo on President Trump over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her assault was highly personal and dismissive of the White House's Thursday announcement of a cautious, three-stage recovery plan.
Jay Maxson
April 19th, 2020 10:00 AM

NY Times Often Sends Jeremy Peters to Wage War on Conservative Media

There was absolutely nothing surprising in New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters using Michael Savage to attack Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Peters regularly wages war on the conservative media. He even blamed anti-Semitic violence on Fox News and conservative radio.
Tim Graham
April 19th, 2020 7:37 AM

PBS's Woodruff: 'How Many Lives Were Lost' Because of Trump's 'Delay'?

There's a reason why Donald Trump hasn't granted an interview to PBS since he announced his run for president in 2015. That reason came out in a contentious PBS NewsHour interview on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence. It's nothing like the softness Woodruff has offered Hilllary Clinton. She asked Pence "How many lives do you believe were lost as a result of the delay by this administration…

Brad Wilmouth
April 18th, 2020 10:58 PM

‘Ellen’ Crew ‘Distressed and Outraged’ at Treatment by Star, Producers

In another example of liberals following their unspoken motto of “Do as I Say, Not as I Do,” members of the crew for The Ellen DeGeneres Show are “distressed and outraged” over poor treatment from the weekday talk show’s star and her top producers. The long-running show has had a crew of more than 30 employees, and they had not received any written communication about the status of their working…
Randy Hall
April 18th, 2020 10:20 PM

Protest Platform: China Cracks Down on 'Animal Crossing' Video Game

Communist China is now trying to take the fun out of the new game Animal Crossing: New Horizons by banning sales of it there, and it's all thinaks to the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong using the game as a platform to get their dissident message across.
Matt Norcross
April 18th, 2020 5:46 PM

San Francisco Chronicle Spins for Pelosi’s Corona Chinatown Invite

On January 31st, President Trump announced a travel ban from China. And was promptly denounced as a racist and xenophobe by both Democrats and the media. There, for example, was former Vice President Joe Biden tweeting this:
Jeffrey Lord
April 18th, 2020 4:00 PM