Late Night Hosts Rage At Democrats For Caving On Shutdown
Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.
Morning Joe Says Democrats Won the Shutdown by Demanding Healthcare
Despite folding under pressure to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough and his guests claimed on Monday that Democrats were still winning on the healthcare issue. The night prior, several Democrats and Independents joined Republicans in passing a package that would restore funding to many government entities, essentially showing that…
FINALLY: With the End Near, Networks Admit Dems Caused the Shutdown
Just like they waited until either Joe Biden had bumbled in the June 2024 debate or he was out of office to admit he wasn’t in charge of his faculties, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC awoke Monday morning by telling viewers it was Democrats who had a “whole strategy” to “drive the country into a shutdown,” but lost out when eight defectors “back[ed] away from what they’ve been demanding”…
‘I Want an Opposition Party!’ The View SCREAM at Dems Reopening Gov.
Overnight, a small group of Democrats proved that their party was in the driver’s seat of the longest U.S. government shutdown by crossing the aisle and voting with Republicans to reopen the government. The multimillionaires of ABC News’s The View were so bitter about federal workers getting paid and SNAP recipients getting food that they were raging and screaming into the cameras.…
Networks Omit Justice Brown Jackson's Name From Her SNAP Decision
Last Friday night, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, granted a request by the Trump administration, to temporarily stay a lower court ruling which ordered the government to fully fund SNAP for the rest of this month, until the First Circuit Court of Appeals weighed in on the case. Significant news, yet mysteriously when it came time to report on this story, Justice Brown Jackson's…
Scott Bessent COOKS George Stephanopoulos on Government Shutdowns
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos tried to push Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with regard to ending the ongoing government shutdown. Instead, he was treated to an uncomfortable history lesson.
ABC Rolls Out Biden To Say Trump Is 'Deliberately Making Hunger Worse'
ABC White House correspondent Selina Wang stopped by Saturday’s Good Morning America to put her thumb on the scales for Senate Democrats’ latest proposal to end the government shutdown. While Wang omitted any reason why the deal was not worth taking seriously, she also rolled out former President Joe Biden to claim that President Trump is “deliberately making hunger worse” for people…
Capehart Attacks GOP For 'Cruelty' Amid Shutdown He Supported
The last month has been difficult for MSNBC host and PBS News Hour contributor Jonathan Capehart’s intellectual consistency, as he can’t decide whether the government shutdown is proof that Democrats are finally growing a spine or, as he claimed on Friday, whether “there’s a meanness and a cruelty” to the shutdown that is all Republicans’ fault.
ABC Claims Trump WH Is Using Flight Cuts, Hungry Americans as Tools
On Friday’s Good Morning America, the ABC program implied without evidence flights are being cut to purposefully harm Americans in this government shutdown and touted the partisan claims of a federal judge appointed by President Obama (which they refused to mention) accusing the administration of not fully funding the federal food stamps program to starve Americans.
Hayes Praises Democrats For Shutting Down The Government
As allegedly straightforward journalists seek to aid Democrats in their mission to pin the government shutdown on Republicans, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes joined Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to sabotage that message and praise Democrats for shutting down the government.
The Government Shutdown That Democrats Love
One big word worth learning is “schadenfreude.” Schadenfreude is “pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.” Nothing better captures the perverse pleasure that Democrats are deriving from the pain inflicted on our country caused by the government shutdown. Democrats precipitated this shutdown to force Republicans to back off efforts to turn around our suicidal growth of…
Putting a Price on Life: From 9/11 to BP Oil Spill and Boston Marathon
“But people will die!” That’s what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn’t cover illegal immigrants. Ernst responded with an obvious truth: “We all are going to die.” The audience groaned and booed. The Nation magazine said her “cruelty and sarcasm might cost her her…
Oh SNAP! PBS News Devotes First 14 Minutes to Alleged US Hunger Crisis
The PBS News Hour devoted the first 14 minutes of Monday’s show to the supposedly dire emergency that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP benefits, known colloquially as food stamps) ran out two days ago during the ongoing federal government “shutdown” before a ruling that the government must fund the food aid. First up, a Lisa Desjardins report from various food banks…
SNL's Bizarre Shutdown Sketch Denigrates GOP Women's Sex Lives
Saturday Night Live cast members Ashley Padilla and Andrew Dismukes joined the NBC show’s Weekend Update segment recently to play the role of “Two People Who Just Hooked Up.” According to Padilla and Dismukes’s characters, Republicans and Democrats need to do the same to end the government shutdown. While a sex-themed bit about ending the government shutdown would have just been odd,…
