Jonathan Allen

Well, of course, anybody with eyes to see could see plainly in 2024, if not before, that President Joe Biden was, as the saying goes, “cognitively impaired.” The public was far ahead of those so-called investigators in the press.

Some of us are old enough to remember when journalists praised Musk as a “real-life Iron Man,” “a visionary,” and even “the Jesus Christ of our era.” Back then, every SpaceX rocket launch drew more media adulation than a Barack Obama speech, with journalists describing the company’s breakthroughs as “glorious,” “stunning,” and once, even “a miracle.”

Joe Rogan knows a thing or two about Fake News. The Spotify star contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and watched media outlets spread false information about his treatment regimen. Now, Rogan is setting the record straight on Kamala Harris’s failed attempt to join his podcast late in the presidential campaign. The comedian says he has the “receipts” to back it up.

On Thursday night’s episode of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle hosted a panel including Tim Miller of The Bulwark podcast, NBC senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen, and New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker. Ostensibly the topic of discussion was Wednesday night’s mid-air crash at Reagan National Airport, in which all…

Vice President Kamala Harris selecting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday caused NBC's cast of characters to gush with praise. Throughout the coverage, Walz would be called a “moderate” who can win over Republicans and a "progressive" who can appease Muslim and Arab voters upset with President Joe Biden on Israel while also being lauded for looking “like a lot of dads,”…

The late talk radio star Rush Limbaugh coined the phrase “Gorbasm” for the ecstasy that many reporters felt when covering Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at age 91 on Tuesday. It’s true that Gorbachev was obviously less brutal than previous communist rulers. But his Soviet Union was hardly an enlightened, peace-loving democracy. While Gorbachev relaxed the repression of previous…

There was plenty to pick through on Wednesday’s Hardball, such as topics covered here about how PBS NewsHour’s Yamiche Alcindor implied she was upset with God Bless the USA airing at Trump rallies and the President for not pushing gun control. But there were also meltdowns from Alcindor and her fellow panelists about Trump’s feud with Denmark that included the words “disloyal,” “grenades,” and…