Too Bad, So Sad: ABC Upset Dems Were Rolled at the End of the Shutdown
With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history brought to an end late Wednesday, the major broadcast networks emerged Thursday morning amid gleeful Epstein files segments to cover the House vote, but returned to its past tactic of not blaming Democrats. In fact, ABC’s Good Morning America sided with Democrats in seething eight of their own party in the Senate and six in the…
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”…
Colbert Claims Trump Wants Kids To Go Hungry To Pressure Democrats
For liberals such as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, who are worried about the fate of food stamps amid the government shutdown there is a simple solution: reopen the government. However, Colbert used his Monday show to suggest that it was the Trump administration that was starving children to pressure Democrats. Meanwhile, over at ABC, Jimmy Kimmel continued to advance…
Brooks Mourns Dems Are Focused On Obamacare Over Threats To Democracy
Friday evening’s weekly news roundup featuring PBS News Hour host William Brangham, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was full of bizarre government shutdown-related hot takes. In addition to Obamacare subsidies, Brangham and Capehart added rescission packages to the list of Democratic demands, which they falsely claimed take away…
Stewart Tells Harris Dems Need To Go Further Left On Healthcare
Jon Stewart welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from her failed presidential campaign to Donald Trump to the state of the Democratic Party. In one instance, Stewart claimed that Democrats need to go further left on healthcare because the “conservative” Obamacare…
Colbert and Gallego Seek To Align Shutdown Talking Points
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego to Wednesday’s taping of The Late Show for one of his regular segments where he seeks to align his show’s talking points with those of congressional Democrats. This time, the duo focused on the ongoing government shutdown and claimed that they are merely interested in providing affordable healthcare.
Oliver Urges Adoption Of Socialist Single-Payer Healthcare
HBO’s John Oliver is not content to only import his bad jokes from his native Britain; he also wants to import its disastrous healthcare system as well. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver devoted most of the show to a crusade against Medicare Advantage, which he alleged could be fixed by instituting a single-payer healthcare system.
Jonathan Martin Admits Government Shutdown Is about Dems Defying Trump
During an obligatory discussion about the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Morning Joe guest and Politico columnist Jonathan Martin admitted on Wednesday that Democrats were holding out in defiance of President Trump while using health care as a “vehicle.” Trump …
Colbert and Wagner Gush Over No Kings, Dems' Government Shutdown
MSNBC political analyst and podcast Alex Wagner joined CBS’s Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Wednesday for a truly wild two-segment interview on everything from foreign policy to the No Kings rallies to the government shutdown.
Balanced & Insightful: Wednesday’s Real Town Hall Was on NewsNation
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…
ABC’s Rachel Scott Pitches In, Runs a Democrat-Coded Shutdown Report
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.
Morning Joe's Unlikely Working-Class Hero: Marjorie Taylor Greene!
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…
The Politics of the Shutdown, Obamacare, Crime, and Deportations
One more time: There is no such thing as free lunch. Government has no money. It acquires the money used to pay for things one of three ways: taxing, borrowing or printing. Democrat senators, with three exceptions, voted against keeping the federal government fully running because they want to add back spending reduced under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill; they want to spend even more; and…
Meyers Demands Republicans Cave On Obamacare Subsidies
NBC’s Seth Meyers devoted Wednesday’s “Closer Look” segment on Late Night to how the government shutdown has affected air traffic control. At the end, Meyers blamed Republicans for not caving to Democrats’ demands on extending the Biden-era Obamacare subsidies.
