Former CNNer, Pompous Prick Avlon Launches Run for Congress as a Dem

February 21st, 2024 1:53 PM

As first reported back on February 9 by fellow former CNN colleague and Puck founding partner Dylan Byers, now-former longtime CNN senior political analyst and all-around tool John Avlon announced Wednesday morning that he’s running for Congress in New York’s first congressional district (anchored on Long Island) as a Democrat.

Wild Trump Smears on PBS: ‘Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Holocaust'

January 10th, 2024 10:01 PM

Journalist Tim Alberta is author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, a book touted as the author’s “deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.” He’s been making the rounds of friendly liberal media outlets lamenting fear-based evangelical Christian loyalty to Donald Trump…

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On PBS, Historian Jon Meacham Compares Liz Cheney, Bush Sr. to Lincoln

January 26th, 2023 12:51 PM

Firing Line host Margaret Hoover talked to liberal historian, presidential biographer, and current Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham, who made some bizarre modern-day comparisons to President Abraham Lincoln and denied he was a Democrat, in the latest edition of the relaunched public affairs show on PBS. Meacham predictably cited Lincoln, the subject of his latest biography, and found…

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MSNBC's Sharpton Defends Tawana Brawley Rape Accusation Hoax on PBS

January 21st, 2023 6:21 AM

Appearing as a guest on the latest episode of PBS's Firing Line, MSNBC host Al Sharpton let it be known that he has not backed down from his infamous claims from 1987 that a teenage black girl was raped by several NYPD cops, which was ultimately found to be a hoax by a grand jury.

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CNN Deceptively Edits Cruz's Gay Marriage Comment to Justify Freakout

July 18th, 2022 9:45 PM

This weekend, Texas Senator Ted Cruz said (unsurprisingly) that he thought Obergefell v. Hodges — the 2015 Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide — was wrongly decided. Predictably, the panel of CNN’s New Day on Monday morning took Cruz’s remarks out of context to bash the Texas Senator and the “right extreme of the base” that is still opposed to…

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CNN Panel Claims Abrams Mask Hypocrisy Was An Honest Mistake

February 7th, 2022 3:19 PM

According to a Monday New Day panel on CNN consisting of Margaret Hoover and Bakari Sellers, Stacey Abrams posing for a photo without a mask surrounded by masked children was not hypocritical, but rather just an honest mistake.

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CNN Cheers Newsom Going After Guns to Spite Supreme Court

December 12th, 2021 11:35 PM

California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to one up Texas by making an anti-gun law that is modeled after their SB8 law, which bans elective abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. He wants to allow private citizens in California to sue anyone selling or manufacturing "assault weapons."

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CNN Republican Margaret Hoover Longs for a More Liberal GOP

July 28th, 2021 10:52 AM

On Sunday morning, Margaret Hoover demonstrated why she is the kind of Republican CNN likes to retain as contributors for the liberal news network as she longed for a Republican party that would support more gun control.

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ALL ABOARD! CNN Gushes Over Biden's 'Transformational' Economic Plan

March 29th, 2021 2:12 PM

On Sunday’s CNN Newsroom, host Ana Cabrera collaborated with a favorite liberal media couple of senior political commentator John Avlon and political commentator and host of PBS’s Firing Line Margaret Hoover to wax poetic about President Joe Biden’s whopping $3 trillion economic plan and convince viewers that those standing in his way were showing they're opposed to growing…

INSANE: Women at NPR Can't Recall Trump-as-Mean-Boss Stories in 2016??

February 9th, 2019 8:45 PM
There are times that women complain about sexism in politics where they just sound ridiculous. Take the Friday night "Week in Politics" roundup on National Public Radio. Host Mary Louise Kelly was outraged by a Huffington Post story on Sen. Amy Klobuchar, expected to announce a presidential run. See if you can believe this complaint. Kelly claimed "I don't remember a lot of Are Men Nice Enough…

How Much Is NPR's 'All Things Considered' Just 'One Thing Considered'?

September 22nd, 2018 1:16 PM
Here's a Saturday "parlor game" for political junkies. Guess which statement on NPR's "Week in Politics" segment on Friday night's so-called All Things Considered comes from the supposed liberal/Democrat pundit, and which comes from the supposed conservative/Republican pundit. This can be pretty tricky, since they sound very, very similar.
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CNN's Powers Oddly Claims CNN's Hoover 'Smeared' Kavanaugh Accuser

September 19th, 2018 10:30 AM
On Wednesday's New Day show, during a discussion of the sexual assault accusations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, left-leaning CNN contributor Kirsten Powers uncharacteristically started to go off on liberal Republican contributor Margaret Hoover after the former George W. Bush administration member pointed out that there is no sign of Kavanaugh "consistently" having a past…

NYT Meets Cute With ‘Conservative’ Hoover and ‘Centrist' Avlon (Wrong)

July 13th, 2018 3:59 PM
Reporter Penelope Green feted a "cute" new politically mixed couple in nauseating fashion and with a partisan edge in the New York Times. The mischaracterizations started in the subhead: "Margaret Hoover and John Avlon: Lessons of a Post-Partisan Union -- A great-granddaughter of a G.O.P. president and a centrist CNN anchor make peace. Green led off by ludicrously labeling Hoover a “conservative…
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Hoover Relaunches Buckley’s Firing Line By Accusing GOP of Racism

June 25th, 2018 5:08 PM
Providing yet another reason to defund public broadcasting, PBS has tapped liberal Republican and CNN political commentator Margaret Hoover to relaunch conservative icon William F. Buckley’s legendary public affairs program Firing Line. As Hoover appeared Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America to promote the new show, co-host George Stephanopoulos teed up a clip of her grilling House Speaker Paul…