News That Trial Might Skip Witnesses Sends Celebs on Obscene Rants

Thursday’s news that the Senate Impeachment trial of president Trump might conclude without testimony from any new witnesses had the Hollywood left convulsing. The left has been clamoring to hear new evidence of Trump’s corruption during the Senate trial, hoping that testimony from witnesses like ambassador John Bolton would reveal the guilt of the president, that they’re so adamant exists.
Gabriel Hays
January 30th, 2020 2:36 PM

Life Lesson? GOP Senators Warned Their Obits Will Focus on Trump Trial

Will the Trump impeachment define the careers of Senators and House members when they pass away in the years to come? A morbid thought, but Ryan Goodman, a lawyer in the Pentagon during the Obama administration, is warning on his website Just Security that "history" -- as measured by (liberal) media obituaries -- should make the president's defenders nervous about their legacy. 
Tim Graham
January 30th, 2020 2:24 PM

Scarborough Touts Rick Wilson Group Ad After Embarrassing CNN Segment

Forget that embarrassing CNN segment with Don Lemon, “Republican political strategist” Rick Wilson and contributor Wajahat Ali laughing like hyenas over Wilson’s insulting “Boomer Rube” comment against Trump supporters.
Joseph Vazquez
January 30th, 2020 2:20 PM

Politico Worries Trump Will Take 'Victory Lap' After Acquittal

Politico is deeply concerned about impeachment. Not that it could drag on for weeks or even months. No, their worry is that the almost inevitable acquittal of President Donald Trump will lead him to taking a "victory lap" as he's itching to plot a "flashy series finale for impeachment."   
P.J. Gladnick
January 30th, 2020 2:03 PM

NBC Fears Trump Team ‘Legalizing Watergate,’ Pushing ‘Absolute Power’

As the Senate impeachment trial went to a break during the 3:00 p.m. ET hour Wednesday afternoon, anchors of NBC News special coverage immediately went to work blasting the arguments from President Trump’s defense team as “dubious,” “legalizing Watergate,” and asserting “absolute power.” 
Kyle Drennen
January 30th, 2020 12:52 PM

Annoyed Todd Laments Timid Dems, ‘Missed Opportunity’ on Impeachment

As Democrats become more glum about the possibility of getting witnesses and extending the impeachment trial, their counterparts in the media are sharpening criticism of how the whole thing has been handled. Over two hours on Thursday, Chuck Todd repeatedly lamented “missed opportunities” and failure to be “aggressive.” 
Scott Whitlock
January 30th, 2020 12:19 PM

NYT Rescues Biden: ‘I Don't Think Much About Anything Joni Ernst Says'

The New York Times played white knight for candidate Joe Biden after Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa so cruelly brought up  the controversy surrounding Biden’s son Hunter, and his lucrative, controversial position at Ukrainian energy exploration company Burisma, which is at center stage during impeachment proceedings. Reporters Thomas Kaplan and Nick Corasaniti tried to turn things back around…
Clay Waters
January 30th, 2020 12:07 PM

CNN's Avlon: Alexander Must Vote for Witnesses to 'Save Republic'

On New Day, angst-filled CNN political commentator John Avlon asks, "will the headline be: Lamar Alexander saves the republic, or saves the Republican party?" In other words, the republic will be lost if Alexander votes against witnesses. 
Mark Finkelstein
January 30th, 2020 10:32 AM

As Impeachment Rolls on, Fox DOMINATES CNN in the Ratings

It’s one thing for a cable news network to come in first place among its rivals for weeks, months or even a year, but it’s quite another now that the Fox News Channel is celebrating the achievement of topping the ratings charts for 18 consecutive years. Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt touted the victories, adding the most-watched show on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, "finished the month as…
Randy Hall
January 30th, 2020 10:18 AM

Univision, Telemundo Freak Out Over SCOTUS' ‘Public Charge’ Decision

The nation’s Spanish-language networks never waste an opportunity to remind us that, no matter what else may be going on, immigration is the first and foremost issue- both in coverage and in importance to their business interests. The latest instance of these biases on display comes via the network’s coverage of the Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump Administration’s “public charge” policy…
Kathleen Krumhansl and Jorge Bonilla
January 30th, 2020 9:51 AM

VIDEO: 2020 Media Face Off Against 1999 Media on Impeachment

Before the Articles of Impeachment even reached the Senate, liberal journalists on broadcast and cable news insisted that any trial would be illegitimate without witnesses. Who’d ever heard of a trial without witnesses, they asked? As it turns out, their counterparts from 1999 had. Back then, journalists were adamant that any witnesses in President Clinton’s Senate trial would needlessly prolong…
Bill D'Agostino
January 30th, 2020 9:00 AM

Lockhart: Dershowitz's Argument Sounds Like What Hitler Would Say!

A week after being roasted for tweeting a fake conversation between Republican senators, CNN political commentator and former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart claimed Wednesday night during the Senate trial’s dinner break that an argument used by Trump legal team member Alan Dershowitz was “un-American” and akin to those used by “authoritarian people” to justify “genocide.”
Curtis Houck
January 29th, 2020 11:49 PM

When ‘Never Again’ Means Nothing

This week, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces during World War II. Politicians of all stripes dutifully tweeted, “#NeverAgain.” Meanwhile, many of those same politicians continued to forward the worst sort of anti-Semitism, blithely ignoring the fact that anti-Semitism isn't a relic of the past but a thriving part of the present.
Ben Shapiro
January 29th, 2020 10:49 PM

Democracy and Tyranny

During President Donald J. Trump's impeachment trial, we'll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we've become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation's two most fundamental documents, the Declaration…
Walter E. Williams
January 29th, 2020 10:43 PM