NYT Hits Trump 'Sound and Fury,' Likes Obama 'Lofty Approach'
In Monday’s New York Times, Washington bureau Jeremy Peters tsk-tsked the new tastelessness among GOP candidates in “Forget About Restraint, G.O.P. Candidates Echo Trump’s Sound and Fury" -- as in "signifying nothing." The text box: “Greater ease talking about vanquishing foes than governing.” Peters much preferred "the lofty approach of the Obamas."
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CNN's Toobin Has Sad News for James Comey on Leaked Memos
If CNN's Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin has bad news for former FBI Director James Comey you know it has to be real bad. Toobin delivered his bad news about Comey's leaked memos on Monday's The Lead which was hosted by Jim Sciutto. The news that Toobin presented might be enough for Comey to break out his worry beads: he placed himself in a "pretty vulnerable position" by leaking them.
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CNN Highlights Concerns Marijuana Legalization Is Increasing Crime
On Saturday night, CNN Newsroom with Ana Cabrera ran a report by correspondent Scott McLean which highlighted concerns that marijuana legalization in Colorado has sparked an increase in violent crime by attracting more criminals to move to the state.
'Proud Elite' TV Critic Slams 'Roseanne' and Her Viewers' 'Ignorance'
Tim Goodman, chief TV critic at the Hollywood Reporter, intensely despises President Donald Trump, the TV industry's alleged failure to go after Trump(!), and especially the Roseanne reboot. In September, he claimed that television programming hadn't "caught up" with anti-Trump outrage — which even then was out of sync with the experiences of regular TV watchers. Monday, while slamming Roseanne…
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CNN Host Finds Nothing But ‘Racist’ Intent in Trump ‘Breeding’ Tweet
After a trio of CNN political analysts pestered Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about a controversial Trump tweet on immigration during Monday’s White House press briefing, the speculation about the President’s intent continued on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront later that evening. And, of course, the only implications they could think of involved the President being a staunch racist. “And…
CBS: Toronto Driver Van Attacks Were 'Hit-and-Run,' and a 'Collision'
CBS News broke the absurdity meter in a Monday afternoon tweet and related story about today's sidewalk attacks by the driver of a van in Toronto. Despite acknowledging that the man's actions appeared to be deliberate, the networks described them as "hit-and-run."
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Hayes Mocks GOP for Talking Hillary, Runs Full Segment About Hillary
Chris Hayes began then final segment of MSNBC’s All In on Monday night by lambasting Republicans for “running against Hillary Clinton” in the 2018 midterms. Ironically, Hayes spent entire remainder of his show discussing Hillary Clinton.
Sean Penn Tells MSNBC Trump's Like The Joker (Hillary Was Batman?)
Leftist actor and author Sean Penn was interviewed and honored by Ari Melber on Friday night on MSNBC's The Beat. The interview was carefully edited, perhaps to keep Penn's bizarre yammering to a minimum. Penn said "I often think about this President, the way that the audience, meaning the electorate, were it a Batman movie, this is them rooting for the Joker against their own interests and…
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NBC’s Mitchell Pushes Democratic Case Against Confirming Pompeo
After an 11th- hour vote change from Senator Rand Paul (KY) Monday, CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination for Secretary of State was allowed to go to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. Defying expectations and an obstructionist Democratic Party, the progress of Pompeo’s nomination drew the ire of NBC Nightly News and Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, whose report on the…
Vox: Abolish Midterm Elections After Trump's Exit
Dylan Matthews provides yet more proof why nobody should ever treat Vox as a serious publication. In the past this Vox writer suggested we ditch the U.S. Constitution for a parliamentary system of government, get rid of the U.S. Senate, and opined about how American Independence in 1776 was a "monumental mistake."
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Former AG: Comey Memos Were Classified; Hillary Cleared to Spare Obama
Laura Ingraham interviewed Former Attorney General and former federal District Judge Michael Mukasey on her Friday Ingraham Angle show. Mukasey reminded viewers, contrary to assertions made by most other so-called experts, that memos and notes prepared by former FBI Director James Comey while he performed his federal duties "were classified as soon as he wrote them." He also recalled that James…
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo Accuses GOP Guest of Engaging in ‘Ugly Politics’
CNN's pompous New Day co-host Chris Cuomo kicked off the new week by hammered Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, pathetically accusing the GOP official of taking part in “ugly politics” and claiming that he and his fellow Republicans are guilty of “selective outrage” depending on the person or issue involved.
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NBC Airs Adoring Segment About Dem Senator up for Reelection
To the left, climate change is no longer a partisan issue; it’s merely a question of believers versus heretics. Perhaps that is why NBC felt justified in airing a Sunday Nightly News segment bursting at the seams with praise for liberal Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), whom NBC chief climate change correspondent Anne Thompson lauded as “part teacher, part Don Quixote.”
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Tim Graham to Smug CNN: ‘Your Feelings Aren’t Facts!’
The MRC’s Tim Graham appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Saturday and slammed the smug CNN for its claim to a hold on truth. Host Bill Scanlan read from S.E. Cupp’s op-ed ripping into Sean Hannity for failing to disclose a relationship with Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen.
