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Scarborough turns much of Morning Joe's discussion of the settlement of Dominion's defamation case against Fox New into yet another chance to air his grievance against Donald Trump for having suggested that Scarborough could be responsible for the death of a former congressional aide.

Everywhere one looks these days it appears services and products cost more but deliver less than they once did. That seems especially true when it comes to the federal government. President Biden wants to raise taxes again. Unlikely, given the Republican House majority, but this Tax Day offers us our annual opportunity to explore what we are getting in exchange for what we’re paying Washington…

CBS’s The Late Show host Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show temp host Jordan Klepper condemned Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on their Tuesday shows for joking about possibly putting a new state prison next to Disney World and it was unclear if these professional joke tellers knew DeSantis was joking.

The nation’s Spanish-language media appear to have made some (D)istinctions as to which ethics stories they choose to cover. Allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas were covered extensively, but an actual ethics scandal surrounding Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew nary a mention.

The TV "news" networks have showed an opinion of congressional hearings by Republicans. They treat them like they don't exist. They're not "news," just stunts. This is quite a contrast with their ardent promotion of the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6.

On Tuesday, CNN Tonight co-host Alisyn Camerota took to the airwaves during The Lead With Jake Tapper to bemoan that the Fox News Channel was able to settle out of court in the Dominion lawsuit for about half of the original 1.6 billion dollar lawsuit without apologizing. She declared that this was a “victory for Fox” and that this was “the best outcome that Fox could ever…

In an interview on NewsNation, former CNN host Brian Stelter was asked about being fired. He claimed not to know the reason. “I think we were doing fantastic journalism at CNN for the nine years that I was there. And I also think Fox News really enjoyed making me a target and using horrible …

The PBS NewsHour Weekend show on Sunday pitched for more Euro-socialist-style government programs -- for the children in a school lunch “crisis,” and in the name of U.S. average life expectancy. To make the argument that the United States should be more like other “industrialized” countries in order to boost U.S. life expectancy, host John Yang teed up a liberal doctor and a universal…

For the second day in a row, a congressional committee hearing made headlines. Both times the “big three” evening news broadcasts decided to blow off covering the story due to their desire to protect Congressional Democrats from embarrassing headlines. This time, on Tuesday the Senate Homeland Security Committee grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas due to his horrific…

Amid stories meant to inflame racial tensions, the Fox News vs. Dominion Voting Systems case, and rallying to TikTok’s defense over a Montana bill to ban the app, NBC’s Today found time Tuesday to bemoan Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) “escalating feud with Disney” daring to “doubl[e] down on a fight against an American icon: Mickey Mouse.”