Government shutdown

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was not a fan of Speaker Mike Johnson using a Thursday press conference to angrily remind everyone that the only reason why the government is shut down is because Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is terrified of his base and needs “to cover his tail.” According to Kimmel, Johnson’s true motivation is to cover up the Epstein Files.

While Wednesday night’s CNN town hall with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was 92 minutes of what our Jorge Bonilla dubbed “an extended infomercial for socialism in America,” NewsNation held a town hall a few miles away at the Kennedy Center that not only ran longer, but featured a robust debate with a parade of guests spanning both age and the…

The government is “shut down.” Media call this a “crisis.” A “crisis (with) no deal in sight,” says Fox News. Reuters says it's a “key risk to US stability.” But when I look around, I see business as usual -- families raise children, workers work, people play music ...  The media act like government is the most important part of life. It isn't. Fortunately, most of life, and the best of life,…

CNN’s much-hyped Shutdown America town hall was, by and large, little more than an extended infomercial for socialism in America, with Kaitlan Collins acting mostly as a facilitator. Little was achieved by this exercise except to showcase the maximalist demands of guests Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders in exchange for an end to the ongoing government shutdown.

It appears that ABC World News Tonight is fighting hard to reclaim the mantle as America’s most nakedly partisan legacy evening newscast. Another wildly biased shutdown item from correspondent Rachel Scott does little to inform viewers but everything to inflame them.

With all the media banter surrounding the ongoing government shutdown, ABC, CBS and PBS NewsHour seem to have conveniently forgotten that the national debt was even a major issue in this whole mess. Perhaps by emphasizing the multitrillion-dollar debt at all, the networks would be putting the Democrats in the hot seat for continuing to drag their feet on the negotiations.

Democrats are demanding $1.5 trillion in new partisan spending – including $5 billion for wasteful international projects – before they’ll vote to reopen the government, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday.

CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! are the only two late night comedy shows with original episodes this week. As such, both men were the only ones able to give their thoughts on the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. While both hosts acknowledged their eternal nemesis, President Donald Trump, should get credit for the deal, they…

The next election is over a year away, but ABC’s Rachel Scott is already in peak midterm form. A report on the ongoing shutdown is completely Democrat-coded, regurgitating Democrat talking points and placing the onus for ending the shutdown exclusively on Republicans.

It’s that time again, wherein ABC’s resident Clinton fixer-slash-”journalist” tries to dunk on someone within the Trump administration only to get absolutely cooked in the process. This week on This Week it’s Vice President JD Vance, laying waste to Stephanopoulos over his insistence on pushing a narrative regarding Border Czar Tom Homan at the expense of other news.

On Thursday night, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki highlighted a moment from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s appearance on C-SPAN, where a frustrated caller claimed Republicans were lying about illegal aliens receiving Medicaid coverage. In an effort to disprove Johnson, The Briefing host strangely cited information that Johnson did not specifically refer to when urging the caller go look for himself…

Talk about politics making strange bedfellows! Morning Joe hails Marjorie Taylor Greene as a working-class hero and an example to other Republicans for her criticism of the shutdown and other Republican policies. MTG! The Republican that the liberal media has loved to hate! She of the Jewish space lasers! But all is forgiven in return for MTG criticizing her fellow Republicans over the…

Though it has received play on all three major broadcast networks, ABC chose on Thursday night and Friday morning to emphasize an anonymous C-SPAN call to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of a woman worried her children “could die” if Johnson fails to reopen the government and ensure federal employees are paid. Of course, ABC (and the caller) ignored how that falls to Senate Democrats and…

You know that a public statement from a Democrat elected official is bad when the media steps in and tries to firefight potential public backlash. Such is the case with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who gets five-alarm firefighting from NBC after saying that “every day gets worse for us.”