Nets Mock Brexit-Supporting Johnson: ‘Buffoon,’ ‘Boris the Clown'

All three networks on Tuesday night offered up mocking, derisive reports on Brexit-supporting Boris Johnson winning his party's support and becoming the new British Prime Minister. ABC, CBS and NBC also highlighted comparisons of the conservative leader to Donald Trump. On World News Tonight, Ian Pannell derided, “To his opponents, he's an ambitious philanderer, unfaithful in marriage, accused…

Scott Whitlock
July 24th, 2019 5:00 PM

Keep the Faith: CNN Boasts Mueller Hearing, Report Lead to Impeachment

During a brief break in Wednesday afternoon’s House Intelligence Committee hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, CNN again did its best to keep the faith for their boss Jeffrey Zucker and fellow lefties amidst their permanent impeachment campaign, hailing the hearing as part of a “Watergate roadmap” to begin ridding America of President Trump.

Curtis Houck
July 24th, 2019 4:09 PM

PBS Spin: 2020 Could Determine Trump's Status as 'A Free Man'

After Special Counsel Robert Mueller's underwhelming testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor declared that Mueller had raised the stakes in 2020. No longer is 2020 a contrast of visions between President Trump and whoever the Democratic nominee is, but, "it may also come down to [Trump] being a free man." Host Judy Woodruff agreed, "That's a good…
Alex Christy
July 24th, 2019 3:56 PM

Todd: ‘Complete Failure,’ Can’t ‘Combat’ Right’s ‘Propaganda Machine’

NBC’s Chuck Todd echoed his MSNBC colleagues when he expressed disappointment over Robert Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday. On NBC News’ live coverage of the event, the Meet the Press moderator called the testimony “a complete failure” and added “on optics this was a disaster.” Later on in the coverage Todd whined that “you have a propaganda machine on the right” and “the Democrats haven’t…
Geoffrey Dickens
July 24th, 2019 3:07 PM

Going Nuclear! New Antitrust Initiative Launched Against Big Tech

The reckoning may be coming for Big Tech companies from the Department of Justice. The U.S. Department of Justice launched a massive antitrust investigation of Big Tech and whether they engage in anti-competitive behavior on Tuesday July 23. The Wall Street Journal described this as an incoming “threat for companies such as Facebook Inc., Google, Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.” It cited the…
Alexander Hall
July 24th, 2019 2:43 PM

CNN Journalists Blame Fox for Inciting Right-Wing Terrorism

On Tuesday's CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon and CNN terrorism analyst Juliette Kayyem suggested that Fox News was to blame for right-wing terrorism in the U.S., and that it gives a platform to racism, as the two discussed reports that such violence is a bigger problem in the U.S. than terrorism from other sources.

Brad Wilmouth
July 24th, 2019 2:29 PM

Hollywood Mueller Groupies Faced with ‘Frail Old Man’ at Hearing

If you’re a Hollywood lefty hoping for the total annihilation of President Donald Trump, then Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony on Wednesday was your day of vindication — well it was supposed to be anyways.
Gabriel Hays
July 24th, 2019 2:23 PM

Disappointed MSNBC Blasts Mueller Hearing as a ‘Boring' 'Disaster'

Disappointment. Anger. Sadness. The journalists and hosts at MSNBC on Wednesday alternated between these emotions as it became clear that Robert Mueller’s testimony wasn’t going the way they thought it might. Various network personalities raged at how the hearings were turning into a “boring” “disaster.” MSNBC analyst Jeremy Bash bluntly concluded, “I thought he was boring, I thought in some…
Scott Whitlock
July 24th, 2019 2:00 PM

ABC Lauds Mueller 'Sticking to the Facts' 'Not Playing Politics'

ABC’s live coverage team was quick to come to Robert Mueller’s defense after his first fumbling testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this morning was roundly criticized by media on both sides of the aisle. ABC characterized Mueller’s confused and evasive performance as simply the former Special Counsel being apolitical and “sticking to the facts.”
Kristine Marsh
July 24th, 2019 1:57 PM

MOP-UP: CNN Hails ‘Bombshell’ Hearing as ‘Big Deal,’ ‘Bad’ for Trump

While others in the liberal media conceded that Wednesday morning’s House hearing with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller didn’t go as swimmingly as planned, CNN largely operated in an alternate reality concocted by Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Instead, the analysts and hosts triumphantly hailed the hearing’s contents as a “big deal,” a “bombshell,” and “really bad” for Trump that it was “almost…
Curtis Houck
July 24th, 2019 1:49 PM

Money in Politics: Facebook, Amazon Set Records for Lobbying Cash

Facebook and Amazon set new records for lobbying spending in early 2019, according to recent disclosures.
Joseph Vazquez
July 24th, 2019 12:39 PM

It’s Mueller Day, So of Course Scarborough Drops a Nazi Reference

If it’s a weekday, then it’s time for a Nazi reference on Morning Joe. Previewing Robert Mueller’s testimony in front of Congress, Joe Scarborough compared Donald Trump to the evil of Hitler and the Nazis: Citing the Financial Times, he blasted, “... The Nazis in the early 1930s would rail against quote, 'the system,' constantly railing quote ‘against the system’ because the, quote ‘system’ was…
Scott Whitlock
July 24th, 2019 12:26 PM

Google Engineer: CEO Sundar Pichai’s Testimony Wasn’t ‘True’

Google’s iron curtain shielding its biases is beginning to crumble. In an interview with Project Veritas’ founder James O’Keefe, current Google engineer Greg Coppola cast doubt on the multiple testimonies given by Google executives to Congress, especially CEO Sundar Pichai’s December statements.  
Corinne Weaver
July 24th, 2019 12:05 PM

Blundering John Dean to CNN: Mueller Found 'There Was Collusion'

On CNN this morning, in the pre-game of Robert Mueller's testimony today, John Dean, Mr. Cancer-on-the-Presidency, told John Berman: "The [Mueller] report indicates there was collusion, contrary to Mr. Trump's statement." Of course, the single most noteworthy finding emerging from the Mueller report, as even NPR had to admit, was that there was not any collusion between Russia and the Trump…
Mark Finkelstein
July 24th, 2019 11:07 AM