Surprise: CBS’s Dokoupil Brings the Heat to Mayorkas on Border Crisis
On Thursday’s CBS Mornings, co-host Tony Dokoupil surprisingly brought the heat against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas amid the latest wave in the ongoing Biden border crisis, calling out Mayorkas’s anger-filled attacks against Republicans and reminding him that his boss — President Biden — campaigned on encouraging illegal immigration.
LOL! Tapper: Biden's Done So Much on the 'Conservative Side' on Border
On Wednesday’s The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper questioned Speaker Mike Johnson for eleven minutes on the border, persistently pressing him to compromise with Senate Democrats. Then he touted Biden's argument to an ex-Biden aide: "Boy, they've done more on the conservative side of things than any Democratic president in recent history."
'The Cruelty Is The Point,' Velshi Smears GOP As Racist On The Border
Why do Republicans care about the border? It is a simple question with a simple answer: it is a mess. But for MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, who had guest hosting duties for Wednesday’s Alex Wagner Tonight, it is because “they want to let fewer brown people in” and any measures to address the issue prove that “the cruelty is the point.”
CBS’s Margaret Brennan Presses Speaker Johnson On Immigration Judges
During an interview which will air in its entirety on CBS’s Face The Nation, CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent and Face The Nation moderator Margaret Brennan pressed Speaker Mike Johnson on the need to fund more immigration judges so as to address the backflow of asylum claims, as our southern border remains collapsed under the pressure of the ongoing migrant surge.
Power Pals: ABC, CNN, MSNBC Begin New Year with Softballs for KJP
On Tuesday morning as more Americans returned to work, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN This Morning, and MSNBC’s Morning Joe partnered with their allies in the Biden administration to forcefeed viewers White House propaganda in the form of softball interviews with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Not-So-Dirty Dozen: 12 Best Hardballs and Throwdowns From WH Briefings
After taking trips down memory lane on Tuesday and Thursday with the six most pro-Hamas moments and grillings from the left, respectively, we’re going to open 2024 with the 12 best moments – battles, beatdowns, and hardballs – from 2023, the first full year of the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre’s term at the podium.
CNN Admits Red-State Guvs Busing Migrants 'Has Worked Politically'
Sister Toldjah reported CNN hosts are alarmed enough about Joe Biden’s approval rating on immigration that they had to sound the alarm, and admit the Republicans are winning the opinion battle on the border crisis. That’s a crisis at CNN, when Democrats are in danger of losing.
ABC Skips Damning Border Report, but TX Gov Is ‘Cruel and Inhumane’
A new ICE report released on Friday revealed a whopping 6.2 million migrants have been released from federal custody, but ABC’s Good Morning America on Saturday acted as if the true hardship was the few thousand migrants recently bused to New York City, twice conveying the Democratic spin that Texas Governor Greg Abbott was guilty of “cruel and inhumane politics.”
Networks Admit 'Border Crisis,' But Won't Quote Republican Criticism
The leftist networks treated the Trump administration as a perpetual scandal on immigration, whether it was a "Muslim ban" or separating families at the border. For most of the Biden administration, they've energetically ignored the crisis at the border, and when it gets so bad they can't ignore it, it's not a scandal for Team Biden. It's just something that happens to them, like stormy…
CNN Fails To Mention VP's Exclusion From Immigration Talks With Mexico
In its segment on President Biden sending some of his highest-ranking officials to meet with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City today to discuss the crisis at the southern border, CNN This Morning fails to mention that Kamala Harris, whom Biden appointed as his "point person" on the southern border, is not a part of the US delegation.
The Media Are Hiding AMLO’s Border Quid Pro Quo: The Cuban Embargo
There has been some network news reporting of the massive incoming migrant caravan, inasmuch as it is timed to coincide with the visit of Secretaries of State and Homeland Security Antony Blinken and Alejandro Mayorkas to Mexico, where they are scheduled to meet with government officials (and perhaps with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AKA AMLO) on how to deal with the ongoing border…
CNN Panelists: GOP Voters Don't Hear Trump Talk Like the Press Does
In a CNN This Morning segment trying to understand why Donald Trump's fiery rhetoric doesn't seem to be hurting him with Republican primary voters, two panelists expressed a similar view: that the GOP voters don't hear Trump the way the press, and others outside their realm, do. The voters want a fighter, and see him as one.
NBC Gives Biden Spox a Stocking Full of Softballs for Christmas
Two days before Christmas, NBC’s Today decided that it was the perfect time to host Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, for some holiday softballs so she could do a little damage control on behalf of her boss.
Loose Ends: Best & Worst Questions From 2023’s Last Two WH Briefings
With Tuesday and Thursday serving as the final White House press briefings of 2023, we had everything from questions at the border — which was a focus of the year’s first briefing — to more pro-Hamas idiocy. Starting with Thursday, the best exchange came when the Fox Business Network’s Hillary Vaughn battled the National Security Council’s John Kirby over the latest flare-up in the seemingly…
