Tony Dokoupil

Dem Hacks at CBS Hope for 1932-Style Blowout: ‘Fear,’ ‘Panic!’
CBS This Morning hosts on Monday brought on liberal historian and media pundit Doris Kearns Goodwin to discuss what she and other journalists deeply hope for: That election day on Tuesday will be like 1932 and the landslide Democratic win of that year.

SHOCK as CBS Sees Vote By Mail Problems: ‘Vote in Person’ If You Can
CBS has a schizophrenic relationship to covering mail-in voting. The journalists there seem to clash between two impulses: Reporting the obvious potential problems with voting by mail and parroting hack Democratic talking points that there will be no issues. In July, the network did a mail-in voting experiment and found a disaster.…

Is CBS’s Gayle King Embracing Trump COVID Truther Conspiracies?
One of the most bizarre conspiracy theories to bubble up recently is the idea that Donald Trump may have faked his COVID diagnosis. (Why, exactly, he would do that isn’t clear.) CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King on Tuesday hinted that she might be joining the conspiracy crowd.

Morbid Nets Root for 25th Amendment After POTUS Positive Test
All three networks opened their Friday morning broadcasts eagerly promoting the idea that President Trump becomes gravely ill from the coronavirus. Immediately after he announced his positive test overnight, CNN broke in with hours of ghoulish gossip, expecting the worst, and this morning the more subdued networks floated the same possibility

Nets Hope Cindy McCain ‘Giving Cover’ for Republicans to Back Biden
On Wednesday, all three network morning shows one again did the bidding of the Biden campaign by bringing on the widow of the late Republican Senator John McCain, Cindy McCain, to announce her endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee. Not only was Mrs. McCain treated to gushing interviews, but the leftist media hosts actively urged her to lecture “fellow Republicans” on the need to…

CLUELESS CBS Hosts Lecture Voters on ‘Bias Blind Spot’
On Friday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Tony Dokoupil, who once tried to sell socialism to shoppers with a pie demonstration, and fellow co-host Gayle King, a Democratic donor known to vacation with the Obamas, decided that they were qualified to lecture American voters on how to avoid a “bias blind spot” in their political thinking.

CBS: Trump ‘at War With Scientists,' ‘Fighting the Science’
CBS This Morning journalists on Thursday used the most hyperbolic language possible as they weighed in on Donald Trump’s dispute with his CDC Director over the timing of a COVID vaccine. Reporter Weijia Jiang attacked, “This is not the first time President Trump has been at war with scientists. But this time he unequivocally threw his own CDC director under the bus.”

Go Figure: Nets Treat ‘Explosive,’ ‘Staggering’ Atlantic Story as Fact
On Friday morning, the “big three” broadcast network newscasts treated the anonymously sourced Atlantic piece claiming President Trump called fallen U.S. soldiers “losers” and “suckers” as fact, huffing about how “explosive,” “staggering,” and “stinging” the allegations were that have put the President on “…

Priebus BURIES CBS for Claiming Riots as Proof GOP Is ‘Giving Up'
Appearing on CBS This Morning, former RNC Chair Reince Priebus excoriated co-host Tony Dokoupil for his “ridiculous” connection of riots in Wisconsin to proof that the Republican Party is “giving up on “broadening” its appeal. Determined to not sit back and take the liberal narrative, the former White House Chief of Staff accused CBS of “dismissing the fear that people have in this…

Nets FREAK OUT Over Night Two of RNC: ‘Was it Illegal?’
After another successful night of the Republican National Convention, panicked reporters on Wednesday’s network morning shows wildly declared that the entire event could be “illegal” and “possibly a violation of the Hatch Act,” which regulates how and when government officials engage in campaign politics. Making it clear who was issuing the marching orders, the broadcasts touted “House…

CBS Dem Dokoupil Gets History Lesson From Chief of Staff Meadows
While attempting to hammer the Trump campaign on behalf of the Democratic Party on Monday, CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil was treated to a history lesson from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that completely blunted the anchor’s attack. At issue was left-wing hysteria over President Trump planning to accept the GOP nomination from the south lawn of the White House.…

CBS Does Biden’s Dirty Work: Isn’t ‘America in Darkness' Under Trump?
If you thought Kamala Harris would be the only Democrat debating Vice President Mike Pence this election season, you would be wrong. Serving as a partisan stand-in for Joe Biden’s running mate, on Friday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Tony Dokoupil demanded Pence agree with the Democratic nominee’s nasty assertion that President Trump has “cloaked America in darkness.”

Covering Their Tracks: CBS's Reid LIES About Goodyear Discrimination
Between the big three networks, CBS was the only one to report on the viral Goodyear Tires story that was trending on Twitter yesterday. But instead of sharing the company’s discriminatory memo that barred employees from wearing pro-Trump, and pro-police apparel, but endorsed wearing leftist Black Lives Matter apparel, CBS’s Paula Reid deliberately mislead viewers by hiding what the memo said…

Sleazy CBS Plotting With Possible Biden Pick on Embarrassing Trump
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Friday openly goaded Atlanta’s Democratic mayor – a possible VP candidate for Joe Biden – into presenting Donald Trump with a “citation” for not wearing a mask. Talking to Keisha Lance Bottoms, co-host Tony Dokoupil asked about an Atlanta mandate to wear masks. Offering petty advice on how to embarrass Trump, he wondered, “You said President…