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CNN Host: It’s ‘Very Hard’ for Voters to Understand Impeachment
On Wednesday’s Cuomo Prime Time after the House vote to impeach President Trump, CNN weekend host Michael Smerconish took a shot at the American voters by kvetching that, according to polls, support for impeachment has gone down. And as for why, he surmised that it’s perhaps because Americans have incorrectly deemed it too partisan, decided to tune it out, and that they’re too busy to truly…
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Todd Whines About Unmoving Impeach Polls, ‘Bizarre’ Trump Gets Cheered
Not long after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) began tallying the House vote for the first Article of Impeachment against President Trump Wednesday night, NBC political director Chuck Todd began to complain about how the latest NBC News poll on impeachment showed an unpersuaded public. To that, he huffed about the “factual debate” and how he found it “bizarre” that the President was getting cheered…
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CNN Celebrates Impeachment as ‘Great Day’: Trump ‘Deserved It’
Whether it was repeatedly boasting of how impeachment will be a “stain” on Donald Trump’s legacy or expressing fear about what Trump will do in the future or heralding the exercise as a “great day” for “our constitutional democracy,” CNN couldn’t have been giddier about Wednesday night’s impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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OBSESSED: CBS Spent Entire Evening News Program Pushing Impeachment
For 20 minutes and 25 seconds, the entirety of their Wednesday evening airtime, that’s how much time CBS Evening News dedicated to hawking impeachment to their viewers. The time was used to gush about Democratic speeches, mock White House spin, decry the President’s anger, chide Americans unwilling to go along, and boast about the lack of impartiality from Senate Democrats running for President.
The Right to Destroy Cities
This week, the Supreme Court effectively mandated continued legal tolerance for homelessness across major cities on the West Coast of the United States. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that Americans have a right to sleep on the streets, and that it amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Constitution to levy fines based on such behavior.
Corrupting Our Social Norms
Here are several questions for biologists and medical professionals: If a person is found to have XY chromosomes (heterogametic sex), does a designation as female on his birth certificate, driver's license or Social Security card override the chromosomal evidence? Similarly, if a person is found to have XX chromosomes (homogametic) does a designation as male on her birth certificate, driver's…
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FISA Judge's FBI Rebuke Gets 10 SECONDS on CBS, While ABC, NBC Skip
Nick Fondacaro reported that the networks skipped over the bombshell -- yes, bombshell -- that the judge overseeing the FISA court unleashed a harsh critique of the FBI late on Tuesday. So we wondered if they all kept skipping it on the morning shows. The answer is Yes, with an asterisk. CBS This Morning gave it ten seconds in their top-of-show clip melange called "Eye Opener." Don't blink, you'…
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CNN's Tapper: At Least Clinton Was 'Contrite,' 'Apologetic'
The impeachment of President Trump has been a textbook case in media hypocrisy and on Wednesday's CNN impeachment pre-game show, Jake Tapper illustrated why where he defended the way Democrats behaved during the Bill Clinton's impeachment twenty years ago.
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Church of Impeachment: Matthews Calls House Effort 'Sacramental'
Listening to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews reverential description of impeachment on Wednesday, evidently Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s “prayerful” demeanor is rubbing off on her fellow Democrats. Swept up in the excitement of the House preparing to vote to impeach President Trump, the Hardball host labeled the partisan process “sacramental.”
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CBS Frets Over Biased McConnell, Delighted in Senate Dem’s Partiality
CBS journalists want the Senators in the coming impeachment trial to be impartial and unbiased. Except when they don’t care about that. On Wednesday, This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil hammered Mitch McConnell for having already made a decision against impeachment. Talking to CBS News legal analyst Kim Wehle, he demanded, “The Senate rules for impeachment say, ‘I do solemnly swear,’ this is the…
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‘View’ Panics Over Trump Letter: ‘Scary'‘Rantings of Unstable’ Man!
The View hosts followed the media’s lead in attacking President Trump on Wednesday’s show, over his lengthy letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defending his actions before the House votes on impeachment, later today. Even though The View hosts have a reputation for their own angry meltdowns and fact-free rants, they fretted the letter revealed the hysterical rantings of an unstable president,…
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NBC: Impeachment Caps Off ‘Worst Decade in American Politics’
Amid special coverage of Wednesday’s House vote to impeach President Trump, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd waxed historical about the meaning of it all. Todd lamented that the country seemed “numb” to the process following “the worst decade in American politics.”
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NBC’s Mitchell: ‘Dignified,’ ‘Remarkable’ Pelosi vs. ‘Profane’ Trump
Andrea Mitchell isn’t even trying anymore. The veteran liberal journalist on Wednesday co-anchored live impeachment coverage and gushed over the “remarkable,” “dignified” Nancy Pelosi, lamenting that she must face off against the “profane” Donald Trump. Regarding the six page letter the President sent Pelosi, Mitchell derided it as “partly profane, angry, vituperative letter filled with…
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Chuck Todd Claims Trump Doesn’t 'Appreciate' or ‘Revere’ Constitution
During NBC’s live special coverage of Wednesday’s impeachment vote, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd went all-in for House Democrats, claiming that the partisan process somehow proved that President Trump doesn’t “appreciate” or “revere” the Constitution. He even laughably asserted that “Democrats didn’t engage on this issue politically.”
