Conservatives & Republicans

Stuart Stevens, former Republican strategist and senior advisor to disgraced
“Republican” group the Lincoln Project, got the royal treatment on the taxpayer-supported PBS NewsHour program. Stevens, promoting his new anti-Republican book The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy, is the media’s favorite kind of Republican…

Following a collective meltdown the night prior, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their Thursday morning news shows to keep up pressure and impress upon viewers that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) isn’t someone to be trusted given he’s “not...bipartisan” and is not only “right-wing,” but possesses “one of the most conservative records” in a part where “election denialism is…

The late night comedians welcomed Mike Johnson to the Speakership on their Wednesday shows by not just by noting his generic name, but also labeling him “anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy” “dick” who Republicans selected to “bore everyone into forgetting how extreme he is.”

In the first three weeks after the writers’ strike, the late night joke tellers picked right back up where they left off: telling Trump jokes at the expense of almost everything else, including comedy gold mines in Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption scandal and Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulling a Congressional fire alarm, a NewsBusters study has found. At the same time, jokes about Republican…

Morning Joe trashes newly-elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson. Willie Geist, citing an unnamed source, describes Johnson as "Jim Jordan with a jacket and a better haircut." Charlie Sykes one-ups Willie, approvingly quoting Never Trumper ex-GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger as calling Johnson, "Jim Jordan in drag."
 

During a rare Biden White House press conference with a foreign leader (this time, it was Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese), the two pre-selected American reporters — USA Today’s Joey Garrison and PBS’s Laura Barrón-López — promoted leftist narratives, whether it’s attacking Republicans as responsible for America to hemorrhage its global standing, suggesting the GOP would…

CNN has made it no secret that they long for the day that a leftist president or extremist Congress smash Fox News, their largest competitor, and ban them from existence. But when North Carolina Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx simply told an ABC reporter to “shut up” and “go away,” CNN chief national correspondent John King wailed that it was ALL Republicans who were “anti-free speech”…

Before Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson officially became Speaker of the House on Wednesday, there was the seven-person pre-game panel on CNN’s Inside Politics. One of those panelists, senior political analyst Gloria Borger, was forced to concede that despite being “hugely conservative,” Johnson is “not the devil incarnate.”

At a late-night press conference to announce that House Republicans had nominated yet another speaker designate, North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx ABC Capitol Hill correspondent Rachel Scott for asking ridiculous questions; telling who to “shut up” and “go away.” This absolutely triggered the left-wing cast of ABC’s The View, with co-host Sara Haines flipping out completely…

Morning Joe mocks Republican Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, as "Dumb-Moves Comer." This, despite the show having rolled a clip of Comer denouncing as a "dumb move" the decision of eight Republican Congressmen to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, and block his replacement by Steve Scalise.

Last week, when Michael Kosta guest hosted Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, the program blamed everybody except Hamas for the outbreak of war. On Monday, new temp host Desus Nice welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the program and asked her about seemingly everything going on in politics at the moment except for her incendiary accusations at Israel is committing war crimes by…

The PBS NewsHour Monday night pundits lamented the "so-called establishment" of the GOP being "undermined" by right-wingers, going back to Newt Gingrich in 1994. NPR reporter Tamara Keith said most House Republicans want to "burn it all down" and refuse to compromise.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, "you talk to 98% of the members in the House and the Senate who are Republicans, and they privately hate Trump, hate him! Always have. They get in front of a camera, and they just, they sell their political soul to him."

On her MSNBC show, at a time when Hamas is holding more than 200 people hostage, Katie Phang accuses Republicans of holding Americans hostage.