Seeped Out on PBS: Trump 'Way More Effective' In the Second Term

At the end of Friday's Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS, moderator Jeffrey Goldberg brought up "something very strange happened at the White House this week, we had a little bit of a president on the roof situation." But something else very strange happened. Liberal reporters said Trump's second term is "way more effective" than the first. 

Tim Graham
August 11th, 2025 6:30 AM

Fox News Sunday: Hochul Flees from Mamdani Despite Common Ground

A Fox News Sunday interview on redistricting turned uncomfortable for New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Faced with the possibility of common ground with socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, Hochul accused his interview of “whitewashing” the differences between them.

Jorge Bonilla
August 10th, 2025 9:58 PM
Jason Stanley MSNBC The Weekend 8-10-25

'Autocratic Slide': MSNBC Hosts Paranoid Professor Who Fled To Canada

MSNBC's The Weekend, in a segment devoted to stalking fears of autocracy and fascism in Trump's America, has as a guest Jason Stanley, who gave up his job as a Yale professor and fled to Canada,  “entirely because of the political climate in the United States.”

Mark Finkelstein
August 10th, 2025 6:37 PM

SOCIALISTS IN SOFT FOCUS: CNN’s Dana Bash SQUEES Over Bernie Sanders

On CNN, Dana Bash demonstrated what passes for an “interview” of prominent elected liberal on State of the Union. Her chat with Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders had all the tone and gravitas of a celebrity interview, right down to the theater venue most commonly associated with movie stars.

Jorge Bonilla
August 10th, 2025 4:44 PM

Mark Halperin PUSHED 'Fact Checker' Kessler to Admit 'Cheapfake' Error

Former ABC News political director Mark Halperin interviewed Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler after his final “fact check.” Halperin honed in on one of Kessler's most controversial recent checks, going after the New York Post for overplaying Joe Biden meandering off to talk to a parachutist.

Tim Graham
August 10th, 2025 2:32 PM

IT’S (D)IFFERENT: Welker Lets Pritzker Pontificate on TX Redistricting

The standard in what passes for elite legacy media doing their jobs is so eroded that we’ve almost allowed ourselves to cheer when they do something as rudimentary as ask a Democrat politician a question that might seem just a teensy bit uncomfortable. But, as we can learn from the latest episode of NBC’s Meet the Press, merely asking a question is not enough.

Jorge Bonilla
August 10th, 2025 12:56 PM
Kristy Greenberg Eugene Daniels MSNBC The Weekend 8-9-25

MSNBC Analyst Frets Prosecutor Investigating Letitia James Is Biased!

On MSNBC's The Weekend, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg accuses Ed Martin, recently appointed by AG Pam Bondi to investigate possible financial fraud by Adam Schiff and Letitia James of "bias." She ignores the blatant bias of Schiff, who was the lead prosecutor in the first House impeachment of Trump, and of James, who ran for office on a pledge of going after Trump.

Mark Finkelstein
August 10th, 2025 8:37 AM

Remember When Colbert Said Paying High Prices Under Biden Was Moral?

Lame duck comedian Stephen Colbert went on a tirade against President Donald Trump’s tariffs and heralded the supposedly impending doom of skyrocketing prices, and ended up beclowning himself in the process.

Joseph Vazquez
August 9th, 2025 10:51 PM

Premature Fact-Checkulation: PolitiFact Pounces on Prediction by Trump

PolitiFact is hyper-aggressive in “fact checking” Donald Trump, with eight “checks” over the last 30 days and four of them “Pants On Fire” denunciations. On Friday, they slapped a “Mostly False” on this presidential post on Truth Social: “Promises kept: negative net migration (in the U.S.) for the first time in 50 years!”

Tim Graham
August 9th, 2025 2:46 PM

CBS Starts Hyping 2028 Democrats, Gallego's Ability To Speak Spanish

The 2026 midterm elections are still over a year away, but CBS White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe is already looking past that to 2028. On CBS Saturday Morning, O’Keefe traveled to Iowa for a friendly profile of Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego amid speculation he might run for president. O’Keefe would both marvel over Gallego’s ability to speak Spanish and ignore that Gallego wasn’t…

Alex Christy
August 9th, 2025 2:02 PM

Fallon Invites Gutfeld on ‘Tonight Show,’ Media Meltdown Ensues

You knew it was coming. “The Tonight Show” is trying something new – extending an olive branch to the half of the country it wrote off in 2017.

Christian Toto
August 9th, 2025 1:30 PM

MSNBC Frets Illegals Arrested with Penske Truck, Scoffs at Dean Cain

On Thursday afternoon, MSNBC's Chris Jansing presided over a panel that fretted over video of border agents using a Penske truck to lure and arrest illegal aliens in Los Angeles, and contributor Tim Miller scoffed over right-leaning actor Dean Cain announcing plans to join ICE.

Brad Wilmouth
August 9th, 2025 1:08 PM

CBS Runs Puff Piece On ICE-Monitoring Activists

CBS correspondent Adam Yamaguchi unraveled the conspiratorial notion on Friday that President Trump has turned the network into state TV. During a report on Evening News, Yamaguchi ran an uncritical profile that featured a trio of anti-ICE activists and the ways they are trying to thwart the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Alex Christy
August 9th, 2025 11:38 AM

Vanity Fair Overanalyzes if South Park Is Sufficiently Anti-Trump

David Canfield, Vanity Fair's Hollywood Correspondent, is fixated on determining the political stance of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, especially regarding their views on Donald Trump. Despite South Park’s reputation for controversial satire, Canfield is unable to pin them down as decisively anti-Trump, which triggers his insecurity. South Park’s equal-opportunity satire…

P.J. Gladnick
August 9th, 2025 10:42 AM