Ailes-Hating Vanity Fair Scribe: EEK, 'Terrifyingly Competent' Trump!
April 10th, 2024 10:51 AM
The new narrative in media circles suggests that former president Donald Trump is becoming increasingly competent, according to special correspondent at Vanity Fair, Gabriel Sherman. This possibility is causing fear among journalists due to Trump's past propensity for extreme and violent rhetoric. Discussions around a potential second term for Trump worry ex-officials, as the ex-president…
Vanity Fair, WashPost Reporters Share Sexist Tweet Bashing Ingraham
April 7th, 2020 8:09 PM
For the left, they have one set of standards for themselves and another for the rest of the public. Tuesday was no exception as Vanity Fair writer and Fox News-obsessed hack Gabriel Sherman and Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever retweeted a sexist smear against Fox News host Laura Ingraham, White House officials Kellyanne Conway and Kayleigh McEnany, and “Republican” women as no more than…
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Trouble in Dem-Land: 'Obamaworld Is Mad' at Bloomberg's Obama Ads
February 21st, 2020 10:50 PM
We’re less than two months into 2020, and some Democratic presidential hopefuls have already “gone ugly,” especially in the behind-the-scenes conflict between former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former President Barack Obama. A 30-second advertisement implying that Bloomberg and Obama are “close allies” has drawn the ire of officials in “Obamaworld” who describe the campaign as an “…
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MSNBC Contributor: Impeachment So Simple 'Even Fox Viewers Understand'
September 29th, 2019 12:56 PM
On Joy Reid's MSNBC show, Gabe Sherman, an MSNBC contributor and author of a book about Fox News creator Roger Ailes, says that the case supporting the impeachment of President Trump is "a very simple story that even a Fox audience can understand."
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Rob Reiner: Pro-Trump Roseanne Barr Is ‘Lunatic Fringe Invading Us’
April 2nd, 2018 5:13 PM
Conservative representation in entertainment merits mudslinging, according to the liberal media.
At least, that’s the impression an AM Joy panel gave. In a discussion on April 1 over the new ABC reboot of Roseanne, three guests – including actor and director Rob Reiner – and host Joy Reid levied harsh judgment of the show. The actor and director more commonly known as “Meathead” decided that the…
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Eichenwald Slams FNC as 'Speaker Phone for White Nationalists'
January 15th, 2018 9:31 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor and Vanity Fair contributing editor Kurt Eichenwald smeared Fox News as being a "speaker phone for the white nationalist movement" and claimed that the news network "has a lot of anti-Semitic viewers." He went on to push a conspiracy theory that FNC has a history of deliberately messing with the earpieces of himself and other guests to make them look bad.
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Gabe Sherman ‘Shocked’ Obama Would ‘Legitimize’ Weinstein
October 10th, 2017 4:50 PM
Appearing on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon, Vanity Fair special correspondent Gabe Sherman revealed that he was “shocked” that former President Barack Obama would “legitimize” disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein at a recent political event despite claims of sexual harassment against Weinstein being “an open secret in Hollywood and in media circles.”
NBC/MSNBC Creates Its Own (Liberal) Media Reporting Unit
September 15th, 2017 9:10 PM
NBC News has announced it will create a more formal media-news unit (like CNN’s) as media “credibility is under attack.” New York Post media writer Claire Atkinson will head the unit, but the remaining names look pretty liberal, starting with Fox News-busting Gabriel Sherman and BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith, who can’t find anyone in the media who sounds like a liberal activist.
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Stay Classy: Gabe Sherman Calls Ailes a ‘Terrorizing Figure’
May 18th, 2017 11:40 AM
Calling in to Thursday’s NBC Today during a special report on the death of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, New York magazine’s Gabe Sherman bid the media executive good riddance as he launched into an incendiary rant calling Ailes a “terrorizing figure” whose “quest for power consumed him.”
CNN’s Jeff Zucker: The ‘Era of Access Journalism’ ‘Is Over’
January 18th, 2017 6:26 PM
In an interview with New York magazine, published on Wednesday, CNN’s president Jeff Zucker painted a dark vision for the future of journalism under a President Donald Trump but touted his organization’s bright future. “It’s just unfortunate that the most powerful person in the world is trying to delegitimize journalism and an organization that plays such a vital role in our democracy,” he opined…
Shifty Sherman the Ailes-Slayer Skipped Reporting on MSNBC Scandals
September 21st, 2016 10:30 PM
New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman has been the liberal media’s leading investigator/prosecutor of former Fox News boss Roger Ailes and the network’s settlement with Gretchen Carlson on sexual harassment claims. Now Evan Gahr in the New York Observer reports that Sherman didn’t exactly come clean with readers about lengthy negotiations to get hired by MSNBC:
Lefty Blogger: ‘I Can’t Watch’ Fox News ‘Without Feeling Ill’
February 14th, 2016 3:05 PM
Democrats have long envied Republicans’ message discipline, which presumably means Dems are relishing what Martin Longman calls the “disarray” in the GOP and in its main “official organ,” Fox News. “I don’t think right-wing media is set up to deal with an unorthodox candidate [Donald Trump] who doesn’t consistently hew to the conservative line,” remarked Longman. “I also don’t know how they’d…
New York Magazine: Many GOPers Candidates in Name Only
July 20th, 2015 10:06 PM
There soon will be sixteen Republicans officially seeking their party’s 2016 presidential nomination, but Gabriel Sherman probably would replace “officially” with "nominally." In a Sunday post, Sherman suggested that many of those sixteen are CINOs (Candidates in Name Only) who really are running for the title of big-bucks “political celebrity.” He opined that “when it comes to presidential…
New York Mag: NBC Has a 'Dossier of Williams' Apparent Lies'
February 11th, 2015 12:00 AM
In his story on Brian Williams at 10:55 p.m. ET Tuesday, Gabriel Sherman at New York Magazine reported that the now-suspended anchor and his agent "were presented with a dossier of Williams' apparent lies," and that "Williams himself was only slowly grasping the depths of the mess he'd created."
That begs the obvious question of whether the public will ever get to know what's in that "dossier,"…