State of the Union
Tapper Tries to Trip Speaker Johnson on Comey Indictment, Gets WRECKED
The indictment of Resistance FBI Director James Comey is clearly the top news story of this weekend’s cycle. As Jake Tapper’s interview of Speaker Mike Johnson on CNN’s State of the Union demonstrates, the legacy media do not quite yet have a handle on this story.
Scott Jennings SCHOOLS Panel Libs on Comey Indictment
The indictment of one James Comey has triggered among the legacy media and other Acela elites a case of Biden Amnesia wherein they forget the targeted prosecutions of then-former President Donald Trump. And in this case, CNN’s Scott Jennings also catches them in a blaring contradiction.
Dana Bash Sits Back as Jasmine Crockett Incites Further Violence
The words of the legacy media suggest that they abhor political violence in all its forms, and condemn such acts. But they continually platform the very politicians that inflame our discourse during delicate times. The latest example of this is Dana Bash’s interview with Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on State of the Union.
FAKE NEWS: Scottie Mac Twists Gov. Cox’s Statements on Trans Motive
The left have been furiously spinning narrative in the wake of the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Much of this spin is dedicated to the negation of a transgender motive behind the shooting. In service of that narrative, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane completely misrepresented statements by Utah Governor Spencer Cox.
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.
Legacy Sunday Shows Mostly Pretend Trump Shooting Never Happened
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the failed assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, a transcendent event in our nation’s politics and history that demands reflection. However, the anniversary of the shooting was mostly met with indifference on the legacy media’s Sunday political talk shows.
Dana Bash Tries to Press Tom Homan on Alligator Alcatraz, Gets COOKED
A hostile interview on CNN’s State of the Union with the Trump Administration’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, ended with host Dana Bash getting roasted for the obvious double standard of coverage in comparison to facilities during the border overrun that occurred during the Biden presidency. Reasonable individuals may conclude, as did Homan, that things were (D)ifferent back then.
Larry Summers Loses Noggin Nuggets Over Trump’s ‘2,000 Days of Death’
Former President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council director has slipped from being the voice of reason on inflation to going full Cocaine Bear by screeching that President Trump was killing people with his economic agenda.
Death Spiral: Stephanopoulos, Bash Try to Pin Flood Deaths on Trump
The devastating floods in Kerr County, Texas were breaking news on Sunday morning, and with it came desperate spin that somehow the human lives lost in the flood could be blamed on Trump budget cuts. Both ABC's George Stephanopoulos and CNN's Dana Bash claimed there were "staffing shortfalls" in the National Weather Service, but AP found the NWS was staffed up in Texas for the flooding.
Scott Jennings MOCKS Dem on Iran: 'Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Butchers'
On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, commentator Scott Jennings mocked a Democrat for suggesting Iran wasn't a threat by using the phrase "fiery but mostly peaceful Iranian butchers." The Democrat was new CNN pundit Xochitl Hinojosa, who was until recently a spokesperson at Biden's Department of Justice.
Speaker Johnson SCHOOLS Jake Tapper on Media Coverage of Corruption
The onslaught of media stories about the Trump family’s stake in cryptocurrency betrays a strange new interest in coverage of the perception of corruption. As Speaker Mike Johnson reminded CNN’s Jake Tapper, things were (D)ifferent back then.
ORIGINAL SINNER: Jake Tapper Remains Unrepentant During Promo Segment
On the latest installment of CNN State of the Union, an unrepentant Jake Tapper devoted a segment to promoting his upcoming Original Sin, co-written with Alex Thompson of Axios. The promotional segment makes clear, however, that Tapper appears unwilling to take personal responsibility for his own role, and that of the broader media, in perpetrating the biggest…
STATE OF THE SOFTBALL: CNN Gently Questions ICE-Surrectionist NJ Dems
The legacy media have largely avoided reporting on Friday’s ICE-Surrection at a New Jersey detention facility. On this Sunday’s CNN State of the Union, however, we see what clearly looks to be favorable coverage that sidesteps the violent nature of what happened there.
With Books to Sell, Tapper Asks Walz Whether Biden Reup Was a Mistake
As predictable as the sun rising in the East: the media’s silence in the face of President Joe Biden’s evident cognitive decline is met with a deluge of books, by some of those same media types, chronicling that decline in detail.
