Mike Johnson

CNN, MSNBC Can NOT Allow Speaker Johnson to Explain the Shutdown
Last Thursday morning, as the government shutdown began its second day, House Speaker Mike Johnson was holding a news conference and speaking on various aspects of the issue. But a funny thing happened to Speaker Johnson, and to those watching him on both CNN and MSNBC, he was interrupted, taken away, replaced by, and then "corrected" by, the anchors in place at each respective network.

NBC Grills Jeffries on Dem Shutdown After Last Week’s Johnson Tussle
More of this please, NBC. Monday’s Today and co-host Craig Melvin followed through on its promise to speak with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) about the government shutdown after throwing down with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday. To his credit, Melvin used the limited time (3:47) to repeatedly press Jeffries on his past statements about government shutdowns…

NBC’s Melvin to Johnson: ‘Can’t Get to’ ‘Misleading’ Claim on Illegals
Falling in between ABC’s George Stephanopoulos’s partisan hectoring on Wednesday and Thursday’s respectful exchanges with CBS’s Tony Dokoupil, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) finished a tour of the broadcast networks Friday on NBC’s Today. There, co-host Craig Melvin battled him over the government shutdown by using week-old polls claiming Americans believe Republicans are to blame…

Morning Joe Mocks Bible-Reading Johnson, Lies About Republicans Lying
On Wednesday morning, the first day of the government shutdown, Morning Joe stooped as low as it could to mock House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over the Bible and lie about Republicans exposing illegal immigrant health care coverage.

WOW: Warren SLAMS CBS Host for Noting Dems Back Aid for ‘Non-Citizens’
In a tremendous illustration of how leftists believe the legacy, liberal media are supposed to work for them, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) flashed disgust on Thursday’s CBS Mornings as co-host Tony Dokoupil for stating the truth Democrats have and continue to support taxpayer-funded health care (such as emergency room visits) for “non-citizens” as a condition for ending the…

HACK! Stephanopoulos Berates Johnson, Sucks Up to Jeffries on Shutdown
For day one of the government shutdown, ABC’s Good Morning America showed its rancorous liberal bias with back-to-back interviews Wednesday of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Co-host George Stephanopoulos fully embraced his background as a one-time Clinton official by berating and screeching at Johnson while providing Jeffries a…

Interviewing Johnson, Bash Advocates For Democrats' Shutdown Position
It was a tale of two interviews for CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday’s Inside Politics as she sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson and left-wing activist and actress Jane Fonda. During her conversation with Johnson, Bash recited Democratic talking points on the government shutdown and wondered if there is “something to that.” Meanwhile, she laughed it up with Fonda and suggested that she…

Godfather Glop: CNN's Tapper Analogizes Trump To Movie Mob Boss
Can you imagine Jake Tapper, or any leading light of the liberal media, analogizing, say, Barack Obama to a murderous crime boss? Rhetorical question. But on CNN's State of the Union,Tapper did just that regarding President Trump. Discussing the impending meeting between Trump and Chuck Schumer, Tapper asks Speaker Mike Johnson: "So at this meeting tomorrow, is President Trump looking to make…

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.

Five Times CBS Was Caught Deceptively Editing Interviews
Yet again, the propagandists at CBS have found themselves in the midst of another deceptive editing scandal. On Sunday, the network was caught editing out the substantive portion of one of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s responses to a question on Face the Nation. But this incident is just the latest in CBS’s lengthy record of journalistic malfeasance. Let’s look back at some of the worst…

ABC Goes All Negative With Speaker Johnson on BBB, Epstein, Guns
As part of a New York City media blitz on Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) entered enemy territory on ABC’s Good Morning America and, unfortunately, weekend co-host Whit Johnson went all-negative in a six-minute-plus interview on turmoil inside the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), negative spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill, harping on the Epstein File hubbub, and demanding…

DOH! Scarborough Claims Louisiana Has a Murder Rate 400x California's
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough flunked basic math on Tuesday’s Morning Joe as he claimed you are 400 times more likely to be murdered in the red state of Louisiana than the blue state of California. Even charitable interpretations of this blunder fail to help Scarborough make the point he thinks he was making.

MSNBC Melts Down After CPB Shut Down Announcement
On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.

ABC Breaks in for Special Report to Dump on Big Beautiful Bill Passage
ABC was surprisingly the only major broadcast network to break in Thursday afternoon for a special report on the House passage of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which he’s slated to sign into law Friday. What was unsurprising, however, was the ABC presented a wholly negative perspective declaring the bill was to “mostly” benefit “the wealthiest Americans” while stating as though it’s a…