CBS Seizes on Trump COVID Diagnosis as ‘October Surprise’

Refusing to let go of campaign politics even for a day, on Friday, CBS This Morning seized on President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis as the “October surprise” of the 2020 campaign. The broadcast also decided that it was important, just hours after the troubling news broke, to remind viewers of polling showing the pandemic was a supposed political advantage for Joe Biden.

 

Kyle Drennen

CNN Turns to Author of 'Useful Idiot' Trump Book for COVID-Shaming

HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Date was a guest on Friday's CNN Newsroom to discuss the news that President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 and used the opportunity to hype his anti-Trump book and re-write the history of the pandemic.

Alex Christy

Weird Scarborough Urges GOPers to Denounce Trump: 'I Can See You!'

On Thursday's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough dressed up his usual Republican-shaming routine with a truly antiquated reference to the old children's-TV series Romper Room, which pre-dated Sesame Street. 

John Shannon

NYTimes Snarks at ‘Earpiece’ Conspiracy on Right, Skips When THEY Did!

New York Times reporter Kevin Roose, eternally hypersensitive to the dangers of the right-wing on the internet, elevated some brief online scuttlebutt about an alleged Biden debate “earpiece” into a full-blown history that mostly mocked the right: “The Long History of ‘Hidden Earpiece’ Conspiracy Theories.” But one of the left-leaning conspiracists could be found very close to home.…

Clay Waters

Left-Wingers Who Didn’t Go Below the Belt on Trump Getting COVID-19

President Trump and his wife have both tested positive for COVID-19, and while there’s been much mockery and insults directed at Trump, a few celebrities posted content that lacked their usual acidity.

Sergie Daez

CRUEL: Hispanic Liberal Media Politicize President's Health

Following the announcement that President Trump and the First Lady had tested positive for COVID-19, the Hispanic media has gone out of its way to criticize how Trump and his family did not wear masks during the debate, failing to mention any concerns about their health.

Maria Bello and Sebastian Aquino

Jon Karl: WH Can't Be Trusted to Tell Truth About Trump's Health

The media will never take any responsibility for why Americans find them so untrustworthy; all they can do is reflexively blame President Trump. ABC’s chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl perfectly displayed this point while visiting Friday's The View, discussing President Trump’s positive COVID-19 test. He indulged the left-wing hosts’ in stirring up a conspiracy that the…

Kristine Marsh

Politico Hypes Soros-Linked Group Spending 7 Figures to Fight Barrett

Politico seems to be getting into the habit of hyping up radical leftist groups tied to liberal billionaire George Soros looking to sway American politics.

Joseph Vazquez

No Surprise! Big Tech Among Top Contributors to Biden, Not Trump

Big Tech companies appear to be pulling for a former Vice President Joe Biden victory in November. 

“Joining Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft are among the top five contributors to Joe Biden's candidate campaign committee in the 2020 cycle, according to data from OpenSecrets, a website which tracks money in politics and campaign finance records,” noted Reuters.

Kayla Sargent

VILE: ABC Declares Trump Paying Price of ‘Dangerous Gamble’

On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America could not resist gloating over President Trump being diagnosed with COVID-19, claiming the bill had come due for his “dangerous gamble” on the virus. In addition, correspondents crassly plotted political strategy and gleefully declared that his “diagnosis is a crushing blow to his effort to convince Americans that the worst of the pandemic is…

Kyle Drennen

CNN: Trump Will Use 'Violent Extremists' to 'Disrupt the Elections!'

Appearing on CNN's New Day on Thursday, unhinged left-wing commentator Errol Louis was given free reign to fabricate wild claims that President Trump was sending a clear signal to violent extremists, militia-type organizations” and telling them “That he does want them, in fact, to go out and help disrupt the elections.” Not only was there no challenge of the false smear, the cable network has…

Joseph Norris

OOPS: CNN Claims 7.9% Jobless Rate Highest Before Election, Skips 2012

CNN’s partisanship and Trump-loathing overrode journalism on the last Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)  jobs report before Election Day. When the BLS reported on Friday that unemployment dropped to 7.9 percent, CNN rushed out a Tweet  laced with propaganda: “JUST IN: The US added 661,000 jobs in September, and unemployment fell to 7.9%. The rate has never been this high going into an election…

Joseph Vazquez

‘How Fake Is It Now?’ 10 Hollywood Ghouls Mock Trump Having COVID

If aliens were to come to earth this week and witness firsthand the gloating going around Twitter over the president and his wife contracting coronavirus, they’d probably leave and never come back. In fact, they might want to drop a few planet-killing payloads and put us all out of our misery.

 

Gabriel Hays

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

Kristine Marsh