CNN Host Rushes to Defend Biden on Ukraine, House GOP Whip Whacks Back

After many hours of covering the Trump-shooting story, CNN is reverting to questioning Donald Trump (and now J.D. Vance) as sympathizers of Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday morning, anchor Kate Bolduan pressed House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Ukraine, starting with a reflexive defense of Biden.

Mary Clare Waldron
July 16th, 2024 2:10 PM

Fox, AP, WSJ Nuke KJP for Refusing to Say Biden Has to Change Tone

In the first White House press briefing since the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump, reporters from across the spectrum surprisingly took the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre to task for failing to state whether President Biden believes he too has to lower the proverbial temperature of our body politic. Along with Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich and Edward Lawrence, they also had cover…

Curtis Houck
July 16th, 2024 1:04 PM

Meyers Blames 'Too Many Guns,' Claims GOP Is Making 'Things Worse'

Seth Meyers, NBC’s host of Late Night, solemnly reacted on Monday to the Saturday attempted assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump by appropriately denouncing political violence, but inappropriately blaming the situation on the lack of gun control in America and accusing Republicans of making things worse in the aftermath of the shooting.

Alex Christy
July 16th, 2024 12:52 PM
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Scarborough Airs Fury at NBC Execs Over Being Yanked—Threatens to Quit

Joe Scarborough scolds the NBC suits, essentially accusing them of lying, for having yanked Morning Joe off the air on Monday, July 15th, the first scheduled episode of the show after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Scarborough ends by saying that if the suits try that again, "they can find someone else to host the show."

Mark Finkelstein
July 16th, 2024 10:54 AM

Colbert, Kinzinger Mock RNC For Encouraging Speakers To 'Dial It Down'

Following a solemn introduction where he recalled various acts of political violence dating back to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in his youth, CBS’s Stephen Colbert returned to the jokes on Monday's edition of The Late Show as he and CNN pundit and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger mocked the GOP and President Trump’s ability to “dial it down” at the Republican National Convention…

Alex Christy
July 16th, 2024 9:33 AM

STUDY: Despite Massive Media Attack, Trump Popularity Has Grown

A  new Media Research Center study found ABC, CBS and NBC devoted massive quantities of airtime (a whopping 1,608 minutes on just the three evening newscasts) to promoting the legal efforts against Trump, nearly all of it (95%) fiercely negative. Yet the liberal media’s crusade against the former president has utterly boomeranged.

Rich Noyes
July 16th, 2024 8:31 AM

NB Podcast: Trump Is Shot, Somehow You Can't Blame Leftist Hot Talk

Donald Trump was shot in the ear on Saturday night, and the networks tried to be calm. But a spin did emerge. Republicans can't blame Democrats for inspiring violence based on all their talk of Trump being Hitler, Stalin, Mao, the Covid killer, or any of that rhetoric. That's quite a flip from what they've done to Republicans in the past.

Tim Graham
July 16th, 2024 6:45 AM

CNN’s Daniel Dale Returns To Ridiculous Form For RNC Coverage

It wasn’t that long ago that we featured CNN’s Daniel Dale popping out of a box of Tim Horton’s and fact-checking President Joe Biden, albeit meekly. But don’t fret. Now that there are Republicans on the dais, Dale is back to old form. Unfortunately, the old form in question is that of Regime Media fact-debater.

Jorge Bonilla
July 16th, 2024 2:16 AM

MSNBC: Minorities in the GOP ‘Take the Humiliation From Donald Trump’

Not long after MSNBC’s Joy Reid decried the reasonable notion that former President Trump shouldn't be viewed as a “victim” after literally getting shot in the head during a failed assassination attempt, during their Monday coverage of night one of the Republican National Convention, she took disgusting swipes at the minority Republicans who were vying to be his vice president; suggesting they…

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 16th, 2024 1:29 AM

PBS's Capehart Can't Handle Host's Truth:'The Left Has Vilified' Trump

PBS’s coverage of Night One of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee got off to a bad start during an interview with Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, who’d just delivered an early speech to the convention delegates. At 8:07 ET, News Hour co-anchor Geoff Bennett, who is hosting the network’s taxpayer-funded convention coverage along with fellow News Hour co…

Clay Waters
July 16th, 2024 12:04 AM

HOLT-BIDEN INTERVIEW: The Temperature Has Not Been Lowered

NBC’s Lester Holt sat down with President Joe Biden for a much-hyped interview that would kick off Biden’s counterprogramming of the Republican National Convention, which kicked off tonight. Despite President Biden’s calls to lower the temperature in the wake of the failed attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump, his rhetoric remains pretty much the same and met little pushback…

Jorge Bonilla
July 15th, 2024 11:26 PM

Van Jones: Having African Americans Speak at RNC Is 'Cringey'

On Monday night, CNNs Republican National Convention co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Van Jones shared their thoughts on the convention. Griffin attacked republicans, per usual, while Jones insulted the African American men who spoke at the convention.

Sarah Butler
July 15th, 2024 10:50 PM

Joy Reid Fears Trump Will Be Able to ‘Rewrite Himself’ as ‘a Victim’

Not long after the assassination attempt on former President Trump, MSNBC host Joy Reid made her X account private over the weekend, possibly to hide the incendiary anti-Rhetoric she spewed for years. So, the network’s Monday night coverage of the night one of the Republican National Convention was Reid first public comments on the shooting. Of course, they were vile. She expressed her “fear”…

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 15th, 2024 9:42 PM

CNN Decries Assassination Attempt Aids 'Political Martyrdom' Narrative

On Monday, CNN Newsroom Jim Acosta hosted Michael Gold, political correspondent for The New York Times. Unsurprisingly, both downplayed Donald Trumps attempted assassination and whine that people think Trump was “saved by God.”

Sarah Butler
July 15th, 2024 8:55 PM