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Remember When Colbert Said Paying High Prices Under Biden Was Moral?
Lame duck comedian Stephen Colbert went on a tirade against President Donald Trump’s tariffs and heralded the supposedly impending doom of skyrocketing prices, and ended up beclowning himself in the process.
Premature Fact-Checkulation: PolitiFact Pounces on Prediction by Trump
PolitiFact is hyper-aggressive in “fact checking” Donald Trump, with eight “checks” over the last 30 days and four of them “Pants On Fire” denunciations. On Friday, they slapped a “Mostly False” on this presidential post on Truth Social: “Promises kept: negative net migration (in the U.S.) for the first time in 50 years!”
MSNBC Frets Illegals Arrested with Penske Truck, Scoffs at Dean Cain
On Thursday afternoon, MSNBC's Chris Jansing presided over a panel that fretted over video of border agents using a Penske truck to lure and arrest illegal aliens in Los Angeles, and contributor Tim Miller scoffed over right-leaning actor Dean Cain announcing plans to join ICE.
Vanity Fair Goes Overanalyzes if South Park Is Sufficiently Anti-Trump
David Canfield, Vanity Fair's Hollywood Correspondent, is fixated on determining the political stance of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, especially regarding their views on Donald Trump. Despite South Park’s reputation for controversial satire, Canfield is unable to pin them down as decisively anti-Trump, which triggers his insecurity. South Park’s equal-opportunity satire…
PBS Attacks 'Corrosion of Democracy' As Texas Redistricts
New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering.
Kristi Noem Calls Out South Park for Being 'Lazy' and 'Petty'
The button-pushing comedy series South Park recently took aim at the Trump administration to kick off their newest season. Well known for its “nothing is off limits” satirical comedy, some conservatives were raising eyebrows at the show’s latest episodes featuring the Trump administration, including Wednesday’s episode which took swings at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Exclusive: John Eastman Says Banks Must Answer for Debanking
Trump just had to compel financial institutions to fulfill their basic responsibilities of serving their customers instead of fretting over their political beliefs. But as one former Trump attorney put it, this is what the banks should have been doing all along.
CNN Says the GOP Is ‘Rigging’ Elections and ‘Essentially Cheat’ to Win
If you tuned into CNN’s Inside Politics on August 7th, you might have thought you were watching a live feed from a DNC strategy session. The segment, aimed at critiquing Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas, quickly turned into yet another case study in media hypocrisy and a stunning example of the left's performative outrage, with one commentator suggesting Republicans…
Colbert: 'Brutality And Cruelty' Define Trump's Immigration Policies
Closing out another week of Democratic guests, outgoing The Late Show host Stephen Colbert welcomed California Sen. Alex Padilla to CBS on Thursday to hope that he is successful in giving legal status to illegal immigrants because President Trump’s immigration policy is defined by its purposeful “brutality and cruelty.”
NPR Whines As NASA Climate Change-Tracking Satellites Come Under Fire
On Monday, NPR climate correspondent Rebecca Hersher wrote an article further explaining her Morning Edition interview about the Trump administration's proposal to cut funding to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. This incredibly expensive satellite program, designed to monitor climate change through carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, was touted as an essential part of the American…
Column: Hollywood's Writers Wage War on 'King' Trump
The entertainment press found it very important to report that Hollywood thinks Trump is an authoritarian. This is still somehow considered “news.” Over 2,300 members of the Writers Guild felt compelled to speak out in an open letter because they believe in their “role in a healthy democracy.”
Be Really Worried—CNN Hypes Fears Of Tariff Impact on School Supplies
A CNN This Morning segment hypes fears of the effect of Trump tariffs on back to school supplies. Host Audie Cornish suggests that people will be using buy now, pay later plans to pay for "pencils and crayons." Julie Margetta Morgan, president of the self-described "progressive" think tank, the Century Foundation, says that people should "be really worried" about that.
Hold January 6 ‘Insurrection’ Committee-Styled Hearings on Obamagate!
Last week, I examined the reaction to and the consequences of a possible indictment of former President Barack Obama over “Obamagate,” the false claim that “the intelligence community” concluded a) Russians interfered in the 2016 election (which is not in dispute), b) they did so to help elect candidate Donald Trump, and c) Trump “colluded” with the Russians to get elected.
Carville Demands Dems Add States, SCOTUS Seats 'To Save Democracy'
Former Clinton strategist James Carville does a podcast with former Clinton cheerleading journalist Al Hunt, and on their Wednesday recording of Politicon's Politics War Room, they reacted to the redistricting battle currently going on in Texas. While Hunt claimed Republicans are “fighting dirty,” Carville gave the game away and claimed that in order “to save democracy,” Democrats…
