NPR Anchor Inskeep Praises Obama as a 'Cool Guy...Cool Every Time'
December 18th, 2016 3:43 PM
NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep celebrated his tenth high-profile interview with Barack Obama on Friday’s broadcast by acting as he always does: like a helpful public affairs staffer at the White House. Inskeep went on CNN on Friday morning to explain just how cool the president is, but he’s passionate when necessary.
Variety Movie Critic Trashes D'Souza Film as a Worst Film of 2016
December 17th, 2016 8:49 PM
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday put a gauzy movie about the Obamas’ first date among her ten best movies of 2016. Now in Variety, film critic Owen Gleiberman singled out Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary Hillary’s America in his five worst movies of 2016. "You've got to say this for the right-wing firebrand-turned-documentary filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza: A few years back, he looked like an…
Chelsea Handler Rips White Female Trump Voters for ‘Self-Mutilation’
December 15th, 2016 2:21 PM
Comedian Chelsea Handler, an advocate for “women supporting women,” is at it again – criticizing the great culprits behind Donald Trump’s victory. (White women, of course.) In an essay penned for Arianna Huffington’s new health site, Thrive Global, Handler attacked those who take their rights for granted and bow to their male overlords. “Specifically,” she posited, “the 53% of all white female…
CNN.com: Electoral College Is 'Democracy's Ugliest Anachronism'
December 15th, 2016 11:39 AM
A Thursday op-ed on CNN.com outlined a proposal to "not only...end a Trump administration, but also to eradicate democracy's ugliest anachronism -- the Electoral College." Scott Piro hoped against hope that a group of Trump electors would switch their vote to Hillary Clinton, in order to gain "the bipartisan support needed to legislate it [the Electoral College] out of existence." Piro contended…
Joan Walsh: Obama Was ‘Moderate,’ But Still Faced a ‘Whitelash’
December 14th, 2016 8:47 PM
Like most observers, The Nation’s Walsh expected that the voters who backed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 would turn out for Hillary Clinton, whose presidency would safeguard Obama’s “political, social, and racial legacy.” Of course, countless expectations were dashed on November 8, when, as Walsh puts it, an “unexpected surge of white voters…took their country back from a black man [and] refused…
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CNN's Bash Fawns Over 'Trail-Blazing' Mikulski's 'Words of Wisdom'
December 14th, 2016 3:42 PM
CNN's Dana Bash paid tribute to retiring Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski on Wednesday's New Day, touting that "it's the end of the Obama and the Mikulski eras; and the trail-blazing senator walked out the door — dropping important pearls of wisdom." Bash played up how the longtime Maryland politician is "retiring disappointed. Her old Senate colleague [Hillary Clinton] failed to become the…
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'We Have a Chance!' The View Desperately Tries to Get Trump Unelected
December 14th, 2016 1:46 PM
Wednesday on The View, the ladies turned their self-admitted “rage” over the election results into a tentative plan of how to stop Trump from entering office. Host Joy Behar argued that the Constitution left a “chance” for Trump to get forced out, with help from the electoral college.
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Jorge Ramos Comes Out Against Deportation of Criminal Aliens
December 14th, 2016 8:00 AM
This interview is perhaps the most consequential to emerge from Univision's still-smoking post-electoral rubble. Over the course of a few minutes, we are shown a definitive editorial direction, and we are treated to admissions that were unimaginable a little over a month ago.
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Mrs. Stephanopoulos Brags Kid Screamed About Abortions After Trump Won
December 13th, 2016 4:03 PM
Nothing could make a liberal power couple’s hearts swell up with pride more than the sweet sounds of their young daughter throwing a pro-abortion hissy fit. That’s exactly what happened Tuesday on The View, when actress/comedian Ali Wentworth, married to ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos, boasted about how “upset” her young daughter was with Trump’s win. Wentworth bragged that the 14-year-old…
Lib Pundit Pierce: No Trump Presidency If Electoral College Works
December 13th, 2016 10:09 AM
The Hamilton electors, whatever their number, are being cheered on by Hamilton bloggers, one of whom is Esquire’s Pierce. In a Saturday post, Pierce argued that in the country the Founding Fathers envisioned, the Electoral College would vote down a Donald Trump presidency. Pierce wrote, “Let us assume for a moment that our constitutional institutions are as strong and functional as they are…
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CNN's Mudd Slams RNC's Spicer: 'Doesn't Know A** from Hole in Ground'
December 12th, 2016 10:55 PM
Appearing as a panel member on Monday's New Day, CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd reacted angrily to video of the RNC's Sean Spicer dismissing reports that CIA members believe the Russian government hacked the DNC for the purpose of helping Donald Trump get elected, as the CNN analyst declared that he would like to "jump through the TV" and take him "behind the shed." He then derided the…
Daily Beast Columnist Declares 2016 Presidential Outcome 'a Hoax'
December 12th, 2016 7:04 PM
It's been more than a month since the November 8 election, and liberals are still struggling to find a way to make Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton the winner of this year's presidential contest.
One of those advocating the (s)election of the former secretary of state is Alan Gilbert -- the John Evans Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies in the University of Denver…
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Schweizer Switcheroo: ABC Hated Clinton-Bashing, Touts Trump-Trashing
December 11th, 2016 1:43 PM
Last year, ABC's George Stephanopoulos used his perch as anchor of This Week to trash author Peter Schweizer for his book Clinton Cash, which alleged serious conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's State Department. But now that Schweizer is questioning the conflicts of interest that may surround Donald Trump's presidency, This Week finds Schweizer worth citing…
Boston Globe Op-Ed: Hillary Lost Thanks to One Word; It's Not 'Russia'
December 10th, 2016 5:10 PM
Now that President Obama has officially joined the crowd which wants America to believe that it's Russia's fault that Donald Trump won the presidential election, it's quite timely to revisit an item published in the Boston Globe during the week before Thanksgiving.