Jonathan Lemire MSNBC Morning Joe 5/23/25
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Lemire Chuckles at Trump Admin Claim Harvard Coordinated With CCP

May 23rd, 2025 1:58 PM

On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire chuckles as he mentions the claim by the Trump administration, in explaining its decision to revoke Harvard's right to enroll foreign students, that Harvard is "coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party." Lemire needs to read the letter to Harvard from the House Select Committee on the CCP, which describes: Harvard’s repeated training of members of the…

PolitiFact Declines To Give Schumer a False Label For False DOGE Claim

May 23rd, 2025 12:04 PM

If you argue that fact-checking websites like PolitiFact should not be the final arbiter of what is true because they fact-check Republicans way more than Democrats, the response you are likely to get is because they deserve it. However, a Thursday article on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer undermines that point because the article makes it clear that Schumer was wrong to blame the…

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'Say Good Bye To Grandma': Kimmel, Daily Show Continue Attacks On BBB

May 23rd, 2025 10:00 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Ronny Chieng continued their dishonest attacks on the GOP’s spending bill, dubbed The Big Beautiful Bill, on their Thursday shows, calling it “mostly ass,” “cartoonishly mean,” and insisting people should “say goodbye to grandma.”

Column: 'Truth Teller' Bruce Springsteen Slimes Trump as Treasonous

May 23rd, 2025 5:30 AM

When Donald Trump is president, it’s considered dangerously authoritarian if he accuses someone of treason – and it’s considered heroic “truth-telling” when you accuse Trump of being a treasonous authoritarian.  The latest exhibit is leftist rock star/first-rate tax evader Bruce Springsteen. On stage in England, Springsteen claimed America "is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent,…

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House Passage of ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Draws Mixed Legacy Coverage

May 23rd, 2025 12:43 AM

The United States House of Representatives passed its “One Big, Beautiful Bill”, which seeks to renew the tax cuts first enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a significant plank of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. But coverage on the legacy media newscasts was mixed, at best. 

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PBS Twists Democratic Shoving, Discrimination Into Trump REVENGE

May 22nd, 2025 10:22 PM

On Wednesday’s edition of the PBS News Hour, co-anchor Geoff Bennett twisted a legitimate arrest of a Democratic congresswoman for pushing and shoving federal agents into a Trump revenge tour against his “perceived political adversaries.” As if a victim of Democratic lawfare and two assassination attempts doesn’t have actual enemies?

The View: More Whites Need to Die to Count as Genocide in South Africa

May 22nd, 2025 3:21 PM

Despite admitting that white people were having their land taken by the South African government as racial retribution, the leftist extremists of ABC’s The View opened Thursday’s show by arguing that not enough white people had been killed fast enough for it to be considered a “genocide” as President Trump said. According to their ghoulish hate, any suggestion otherwise was “false…

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Chieng: Need For Trump Missile Defense Sounds Like 'A Us Problem'

May 22nd, 2025 12:07 PM

While some late comedians have attacked the GOP’s spending bill as an attack on poor people, Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng decided to be different and take a swing at the national security portions, mainly President Trump’s call for a “Golden Dome” missile defense system. On Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show, Chieng quipped that the argument for the system sounds “like a us problem…

Darcy: Conservatives ‘Do Not Deserve’ Credit for Being Right on Biden

May 22nd, 2025 11:55 AM

Status newsletter writer and former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy showed Wednesday how hate rages through his veins and soul at conservatives and particularly at “right-wing media” because he argued this “irresponsible,” “dishonest machine” filled with “malicious” intent — which contain plenty of good and decent people — “do not deserve” credit for being out in front of legacy (liberal)…

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CNN: 'Can't Deny' DC Shooter Yelled Free Palestine—'MAY Be' Hate Crime

May 22nd, 2025 11:20 AM

On CNN This Morning, CNN security analyst Juliette Kayyem, a former Obama DHS appointee, speaking of the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers outside an event at the DC Jewish museum, says: "We can't deny the suspect said 'Free Palestine.' He killed two Israelis. There may be either a hate crime or a federal crime."

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Kimmel Wonders How GOP Can Go to Church and Pass Spending Bill

May 22nd, 2025 9:46 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel continued his attacks on Republicans and their spending bill, called the Big Beautiful Bill, on his Wednesday show. While Kimmel repeated many of the misleading talking points he issued on Tuesday, this time he added his amazement that Republicans also go to church.

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Tariff Tensions: CNN Panel Calls Trump 'Authoritarian' Over Tariffs

May 21st, 2025 6:37 PM

On Tuesday night’s episode of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Jim Scuitto spoke with Laura Barron-Lopez of PBS NewsHour and Reuter’s Jim Mason, who called President Trump “authoritarian” and blamed the MAGA movement for fundamentally changing the Republican Party for the worst, simply over the Trump administration’s tariff policies.

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Colbert Tells Comey His 8647 Post Was 'Not Hot Water'

May 21st, 2025 9:54 AM

Former FBI Director James Comey took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he promoted his new novel about a violent right-wing podcaster while the eponymous host absolved him of any wrongdoing over his recent 8647 Instagram post that some interpreted as a call to kill President Trump.

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LEGACY STENOGRAPHY: Media Uncritically Report Biden’s 2014 PSA Test

May 21st, 2025 9:49 AM

It appears that the legacy media have learned nothing from the release of the Hur tapes, and the release of Tapper/Thompson’s “Original Sin”. Faced with former President Biden’s devastating cancer diagnosis, and with the choice between investigative journalism or stenography, the media continue to choose the latter.