Tony Dokoupil

Stephanopoulos Heckles Rubio, Argues He Killed People by Ending USAID
As the position has often done the week of the annual United Nationals General Assembly (UNGA), Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the rounds Tuesday on the broadcast network flagship morning news shows. Unsurprisingly, ABC’s Good Morning America was the worst, thanks to co-host and former Clinton flack George Stephanopoulos shouting at Rubio, accusing the U.S. of killing innocents…

Networks Still Mourn Kimmel, ABC/NBC Skip Reports of Actual Backlash
ABC, CBS, and NBC were still enraged on Friday morning and evening over unfunny late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s indefinite suspension from ABC over his vile remarks Monday spreading a conspiracy theory about the Charlie Kirk assassination. And once again, they fiddled with a conspiracy theory of their own that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), local TV conglomerates, and the Trump…

Nets Gave Nearly 2x Coverage to Pre-Election Jobs Vs. Jobs Revision
Remember that blowout September 2024 jobs report the broadcast networks slobbered over in October just before the presidential election? Well, the government admitted last week to a big whoopsie in configuring the jobs numbers. Sure enough, ABC CBS and NBC were clearly not as keen on letting viewers know they just mindlessly swallowed up what the Biden administration spit out for political…

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Gives Emotional Commentary Day After Hot Takes Show
On Thursday afternoon, it was unmistakable that MSNBC host Katy Tur was looking to turn the page following Wednesday’s disastrous in which Tur and her assembled guests (such as Matthew Dowd) stepped on one proverbial rake after another with Notable Quotable-worthy first reactions to a Utah Valley University shooting that we would soon learn was the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

WHAT?! CBS Analysts Pity NC Murder Suspect, Insist He Needed More Help
Tuesday’s CBS Morning Plus may have clinched the single dumbest and most tone-deaf segment on last month’s brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina by declaring the murder was proof of a “mental health crisis...within this country” and that America has failed to properly “invest in” and “rehabilitate” people like the alleged killer, DeCarlos Brown…

No Means No: CBS Pesters Sotomayor for Fears About ICE, U.S.’s Future
On Tuesday, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor made an appearance on CBS Mornings to promote the release of her new children’s book, Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You. The anchors for CBS found it appropriate to repeatedly badger a Supreme Court Justice with off-topic questions concerning Monday’s ruling on illegal-immigration ICE raids in California and…

‘CBS Mornings’ Ends Network Blackout on HORRIFYING Charlotte Murder
On Monday, CBS Mornings spent just over two minutes on last month’s brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte allegedly at the hands of a man who had 14 prior arrests but was still allowed to roam free. This ended the …

CBS News Guest, Covid TV Mainstay Downplays Screw-Ups to Trash RFK
Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus, infectious disease expert and Covid-19 pandemic TV mainstay Dr. Michael Osterholm stopped by to hawk his new book The Big One and, despite the best efforts of the CBS co-hosts to have Osterholm answer for the public health community’s failures during Covid that caused their credibility to crater, Osterholm…

CBS Grills Far-Left Minneapolis Mayor About Gun Control Platitudes
In the midst of a tough reelection fight and overseeing a city grappling with the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey made the rounds Thursday morning on national TV news and, while he was largely left to ramble on ABC (and spin utter falsehoods as seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, CBS Mornings made an effort to simply do their jobs…

‘Cultural Zeitgeist’; CBS, NBC Beclown Themselves Celebrating Colbert
Despite having already spent nearly 12 minutes (11:38) on Friday morning decrying the stunning news of CBS cancelling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May 2026, CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today returned to do more pouting Tuesday about this show as one of many (far-left) late-night comedy as part of both media “institutions” and the “cultural Zeitgeist” as evidenced…

CBS Drags Out Far-Left NPR Affiliate to Decry Funding Cuts, Deny Bias
Tuesday’s CBS Mornings Plus gave a spotlight to last week’s passage of a rescission package to take back $1 billion in taxpayer funding for far-left propaganda outlets NPR and PBS by commiserating with the interim news director for KZYX, the NPR affiliate in Mendocino County, California, a coastal and wooded area north of the Bay Area. Unsurprisingly, the arrogance was on display with the…

CBS, NBC Mourn Colbert’s Cancellation, Celebrate His ‘Trademark Humor’
On Friday, it wasn’t that surprising CBS Mornings would be inconsolable over the “very sad” “kick in the stomach” Thursday night that parent company Paramount would be canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in May, the home for late-night group therapy for liberals. While CBS said they “love this man” and are in awe of him, NBC’s Today even joined in and…

Quiet Death: Networks Barely Cover Final Vote to Defund PBS, NPR
Despite the fact that their political correspondents were consumed by suddenly being concerned with a president’s health and their gleeful Epstein coverage, one would have thought ABC, CBS, and NBC could have still found time to go full Chicken Little about the House’s final passage of the $9 billion rescissions package that included a $1 billion clawback of funding to far-left PBS and NPR.…

'CBS Mornings Plus' Worried ICE Will Nab Illegals Out of Hospitals
With Immigration and Customs Enforcement continuing nationwide arrests and deportations, the liberal media have hysterically cranked up the hysteria. On Tuesdays, CBS Mornings Plus, for example, they claimed some illegal immigrants are “avoiding health care” in fear of being arrested by ICE...as if that will suddenly stop ICE from upholding the law.