The TV news media have declared the Iowa Democratic Caucus a disaster, after a series of technical failures prevented the Democratic Party from being able to determine a winner. Across cable and broadcast networks Tuesday morning, a throng of overtired journalists laid into the DNC with a combination of frustration, confusion, and relentless mockery.
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'View' Blames 'White, Red State' Iowa on Democrats' Caucus Disaster
There was a lot of blame being thrown around Tuesday for Monday’s chaotic Democrat caucuses in Iowa, however, one common theme emerged on ABC: could it be because there’s too many white people? On Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos blasted the state as “unrepresentative, 92% white” to his Democrat progressive guests, and that theme continued on ABC later on The View. Hosts Sunny…
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CBS Declares Trump Winner of Dem Iowa Caucus Chaos
On Tuesday, anchors, correspondents, and pundits on CBS This Morning all agreed that the real winner of the Democratic Iowa caucus was actually President Trump, given all the chaos that plagued the contest. The network broadcast labeled Monday’s inauspicious start to the 2020 Democratic primary season an “embarrassment” that only “helps the President.”
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Behar: 'Praying' Trump Goes 'Nuts,' Gets 'Triggered' by Dems at SOTU
Tuesday, Joy Behar shared her selfish wish that tonight’s State of the Union address would turn chaotic with President Trump going “completely nuts” over impeachment. The co-host of The View also hoped Democrat House Managers would openly mock the President during his speech.
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NBC: Iowa Chaos ‘Wasn’t the Russians,’ Dems ‘Did It to Themselves’
On NBC’s Today show Tuesday morning, correspondent Cynthia McFadden seemed to mock Democrats for Monday night’s Iowa caucus debacle as she declared: “I think the headline is it wasn’t the Russians in this case. It appears to be the Democrats who did it to themselves.”
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Impeachment Gets 77x More TV Time than Economic Successes
According to a new Media Research Center study, for each minute the broadcast evening newscasts spent talking about the President’s successful economic programs, viewers heard 77 minutes about the Democrats’ impeachment push, a massive disparity. Overall, coverage of the President was 93% negative during the last four months, reaching 95% negative in January 2020.
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Frustration Setting in for CNN: Iowa 'Starting to Look Like a Debacle'
It’s past midnight and there’s still no official results from the Iowa caucuses and rumors said results wouldn’t be published until the morning. CNN’s patience wore wearing thin late in the 10:00 p.m. hour when their frustrations flashed. They were so desperate for numbers that host and liberal activist Van Jones began reading unverified numbers an apparent caucus secretary had released on…
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Matthews Mocks Iowa's ‘Three Car Funeral' Preview of Dem ‘Disaster?'
As the Democratic caucus in Iowa descended into chaos and mockery, Chris Matthews turned up just before midnight on Monday to trash the “three car funeral” and suggest it might be a preview of a coming Democratic disaster for the party. He also warned of a “historic loss for the country” if Democrats couldn’t get their act together. Matthews fumed, “The guy in the White House is chuckling all…
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NBC Fears Bloomberg Will Cause ‘Knock Down, Drag Out War’
With fewer and fewer things to talk about on Monday considering the dumpster fire that was the Iowa caucuses, NBC News Now brought on Michael Bloomberg campaign manager Kevin Sheekey to hammer him from the left, including concerns that his presence alongside the far-left Democrats could create “a knock down, drag out war that simply tears the party apart.”
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Nets Hype Schiff's 'Warning' to GOP, Ignore His Conspiracy Theories
Monday was the final day of the Senate’s impeachment trial before Wednesday’s likely acquittal of President Trump. As such, the Democratic impeachment managers were pulling out all the stops, putting out every argument they had no matter how crazy. One claim by Congressman Adam Schiff (CA) suggested if they didn’t remove Trump from office, he might sell Alaska back to Russia. Despite his unhinged…
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MSNBC's Wallace: Trump Is ‘Real’ Enemy to Be 'Killed' Politically
While waiting for the results in the Iowa caucus on Monday night, MSNBC turned into a fight between liberals as the network’s journalists and guests fought over “oligarch” Michael Bloomberg vs. Bernie Sanders. But it was former Republican Nicolle Wallace who provide the awkward moment of the early evening. She repeatedly referred to Donald Trump as the “enemy” and then made a political metaphor…
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Chuck Todd Pushes Sen. Bennet to Censure Trump, Allows Fact-Mangling
Chuck Todd fancies himself as being on the front lines in the fight against President Trump's so-called war on the truth, but in an interview with Colorado Senator and longshot presidential hopeful Michael Bennet on Monday, Todd let Bennet spew objective falsehoods while also pressing him to censure Trump now that impeachment has failed.
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UNHINGED MSNBC: ‘Sociopath’ Trump Now Has Unlimited Power!
As impeachment and the Iowa caucus converge, some of the hosts on MSNBC were panicking that Bernie Sanders would lose to Donald Trump. On Monday afternoon, this fear prompted a historically bizarre rant from MSNBC analyst Steve Schmidt over how the “sociopath” Donald Trump would beat Bernie Sanders. He also insisted that Trump is now the most “powerful” president ever, beating out FDR and Lincoln…
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CBS’s Socialism Earns Warren’s Praise: ‘You Had It Exactly Right’
Reporting from Iowa on Monday, ahead of the Democratic Caucus, CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil received praise from left-wing Senator Elizabeth Warren for his recent effort to sell socialism. The 2020 Democratic contender cheered a segment aired on Friday that featured Dokoupil using pies to convince unwitting mall patrons to support wealth redistribution.