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'Got To Be Kidding': Kimmel, Colbert Dismiss Hunter Pardon Criticisms
December 4th, 2024 10:00 AM
CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel were displeased on their Tuesday shows that some people are still criticizing President Joe Biden for pardoning his son, Hunter. For both men, the re-election of Donald Trump makes such criticisms moot.
MRC Investigates Sen. Cornyn’s Effort to Save Pro-Censorship Program
November 13th, 2024 4:01 PM
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) ultimately was elected to lead Republicans as they took a majority in the Senate following the 2024 election red wave. But what transpired before today’s leadership vote surrounding free speech and censorship contextualizes the direction Republicans have chosen to take on the important constitutional issue.
WashPost's Aaron Blake Falls On His Face Over Biden Hiding from Media
April 12th, 2021 6:06 PM
Washington Post “senior political reporter” Aaron Blake overwhelmingly writes pieces titled “Analysis.” Some of that analysis fails the laugh test. On Monday, Blake freaked out over a Twitter thread from Sen. John Cornyn under the headline "John Cornyn’s ugly, transparent attempt to paint Biden as a Manchurian Candidate." Oh, Blake painted Trump as a Russian tool, and he's fine with…
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Fox News Discusses Navy Troops Wanting Gun Rights on Bases
December 15th, 2019 10:08 AM
In the past week, in the aftermath of the shooting attack that killed three U.S. Navy sailors on a military base in Pensacola, Florida, Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends show has given substantial attention to the problem of most troops not being allowed to carry weapons on base. In several segments this week, the show highlighted the views of several Navy troops who are speaking out on the…
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CNN Smears Gun Owners, Trashes ‘Diversionary’ Speech by Racist Trump
August 5th, 2019 11:51 AM
On Monday morning, CNN Newsroom made sure everyone recognized its hatred for President Donald Trump, his supporters, the Second Amendment, and anyone looking to unify the country in the wake of the Dayton and El Paso mass shootings. If you weren’t on board with those terms or approved of the President’s Monday morning speech, there was no place for you aboard Team Jeffrey Zucker.
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ABC’s Moran Champions Booker’s ‘I Am Spartacus’ Grandstanding
September 6th, 2018 9:17 PM
The most embarrassing moment throughout the entire confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh didn’t even involve him directly. In an obvious case of grandstanding Thursday, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker issued hollow threats about released allegedly confidential e-mails from the nominee, which he said could get him expelled from the Senate. Despite being called out for his…
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Lemon: Prayer Didn’t Stop Shootings, But Irrelevant Gun Control Could!
November 7th, 2017 5:58 PM
CNN Tonight host Don Lemon went on a nearly-four-minute-long commentary on Monday emphasizing that he’s not “not anti-thoughts and prayers,” but demanded Congress defeat the NRA and pass gun control measures that wouldn’t have stopped Sunday’s Sutherland Springs church shooting.
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Matthews Mocks Southerners Backing Sessions With a Hint of 'Dixie'
July 26th, 2017 11:02 PM
While covering on Wednesday the public ridiculing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions by President Trump, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews bizarrely claimed that it’s “mostly southern senators” with “Dixie in their voices” who are supporting “a favorite of the old Confederacy.”
Delicate NYT Editorial Calls GOP Senator 'Thug' for 'Pinata' Metaphor
March 11th, 2016 11:39 AM
Don’t know much about...metaphors? The New York Times was shocked and appalled that a Republican senator predicted any Obama Supreme Court nominee would be treated like a piñata, and said such “violent imagery” made Sen. John Cornyn a “thug, threatening harm,” in a Friday editorial, “Republican Threats and the Supreme Court."
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Nets Neglect to Cover Sen Dems Blocking Passage of Syrian Refugee Bill
January 21st, 2016 2:45 AM
On Wednesday night, the major broadcast networks failed to cover the move by Senate Democrats earlier in the day to filibuster the bipartisan Syrian refugee legislation that had passed the House in November with the help of 47 Democrats that would have tightened restrictions to more thoroughly vet refugees from the war-torn region seeking to enter the U.S. Overall, the vote failed to hit the 60…
MSNBC's Fineman: Sounding 'Nuts' with 'Outrageous Statements' is a Plu
December 11th, 2013 4:01 PM
On Tuesday's All In show on MSNBC, during a discussion of Texas Republican Rep. Steve Stockman's primary challenge to Senator John Cornyn, MSNBC political analyst Howard Fineman asserted that, "if you don't make outrageous statements," the Tea Party movement will not consider you to be "serious."
Referring to some of Stockman's more controversial statements, Fineman reacted:
Radio Lefty Bill Press Calls Paying Soldiers’ Families Death Benefit
October 11th, 2013 10:01 AM
Just hours before the Senate voted to approve a measure that was passed by the House on Wednesday in a 425-0 vote to restore the death benefits paid to the families of fallen soldiers, liberal radio talk show host Bill Press showed his true colors when he said it would be a “big mistake” for the government to do that because “once the government starts making special exceptions, it allows the…
MSNBC’s Hayes Bashes GOP as ‘Maniacally Obsessed,’ ‘Cruelly In
July 2nd, 2013 4:46 PM
On the Monday night edition of All In with Chris Hayes, host Chris Hayes sneered at Republican opposition to ObamaCare, deriding the "manically obsessed," "cruel" GOP. Going off on a fact-free soliloquy, Hayes hypothesized that the “worst caricature of a Republican” would be “maniacally obsessed with destroying Barack Obama, cruelly indifferent to the fates of the non-rich, [and a] cartoonish…
Maddow Mocks Republican Defeat With Orgy Of 'Disaster' Digs
November 10th, 2012 8:26 AM
Didn't anyone ever tell Rachel Maddow that revenge is a dish best eaten cold?
Using the thinnest of pretexts, Rachel went on a Republican-taunting rampage on her MSNBC show last night. The supposed subject was the decision of Senate Republicans to elevate John Cornyn to the #2 leadership spot, despite the disappointing results for the GOP's senatorial campaign committee that he led. That…
