State of the Union

During a Wednesday interview with Kentucky GOP Rep. James Comer on MSNBC, White House correspondents Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander sounded more like White House press secretaries as they battled Comer on everything from COVID messaging to inflation to President Biden’s economic record.

The CNN "Facts First" fact-checkers evaluated 12 claims from President Biden's State of the Union address but only found one of those that they would describe outright as "false." It looked like an A for effort. They only looked at three claims from the Republican rebuttal from Iowa Gov. Kim Richards, and tagged one as false -- that "the Department of Justice treats parents like domestic…

Appearing on NBC’s Today show Wednesday morning, Ukrainian parliament member Oleksandra Ustinova slammed President Biden’s State of the Union address as “a total disappointment” in the midst of her country being “executed” by Russian forces. In addition to pleading for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine, Ustinova also demanded “real sanctions” against Russia and Putin.

On Wednesday morning’s MSNBC Reports, Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor pushed the view of leftist Democrats who were unhappy that President Biden did not use his State of the Union address to tie Ukraine’s fight for national survival to the fight for democracy here at home.

If you’re an independent, moderate or a Republican, don’t go looking to Stephen Colbert for comedy. The Late Show host on Tuesday night showed, yet again, that he’s mostly speaking to his Democratic base. If you were expecting jokes on high gas prices, there weren’t any. If you were expecting a mocking of Biden for skyrocketing inflation, there was one lame mention that amounted to…

Reacting Wednesday to President Biden’s State of the Union address from the night prior, the broadcast network mornings newscasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC largely decided to play White House stenographers in touting Biden’s “call[s] for unity” and focus “on common ground and not...partisanship.” It resulted, one network said, in cheers that were akin to American unity after 9/11.

During interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, both CBS Mornings and ABC’s Good Morning America questioned the Democrat from the left while discussing President Biden’s State of the Union address. CBS’s Gayle King worried about whether “voting rights” legislation was still a top priority for the administration while ABC’s George Stephanopoulos hoped Biden…

The networks and CNN on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning renewed their obsession with Joe Manchin, fretting over how “weird” it was that the moderate Democrat sat with Republicans at the State of the Union. Barely hiding her annoyance, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King on Wednesday recounted, “He [Biden] was talking about that unity agenda. We saw Senator Manchin sitting with…

If Stephanie Ruhle’s performance tonight is any indication of how she will be when she takes over on the 11th Hour on MSNBC, it is not going to go over well. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, Ruhle had a mini-meltdown over President Joe Biden not selling his “economic wins.” She worried that if Biden and the Democrats don’t start selling how great the economy is, Democrats will…

NBC News was finally in tune with most of America Tuesday night after President Biden’s State of the Union address left them feeling unsure about the fate of Ukraine and confused by some of what was said on the House floor.

CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger suffered from some short-term memory loss while reacting President Biden's Tuesday State of the Union address, claiming that she can't remember the last time a president received a bipartisan standing ovation because certainly former-President Trump never received one.

Outside of the obligatory segments of unity during the State of the Union address Tuesday night (i.e. Ukraine and ending the opioid crisis), President Biden’s speech was filled with swipes at Republicans as he attacked them for passing tax cuts, opposing a federal takeover of elections, and being pro-life. But both ABC and CBS tried to gaslight their viewers by suggesting there was nothing…

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) both called on President Joe Biden to take stronger action to protect children online as Biden delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

The Democrat Party often wonders why it can’t compete with Republicans in rural midwestern states. If they look at their favorite cable network's rhetoric they will know why that is. Moments after Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds finished her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell mocked her.