Princess Kate and Democracy’s Discontents

Daniel McCarthy
March 20th, 2024 4:14 PM

Unelected pundits unceasingly tell us democracy is in danger. Yet as voters grit their teeth for a Biden-Trump rematch, they might wonder whether democracy is such a great thing in the first place. Was it all a mistake to ditch George III for this? The U.K. has free elections just as we do. But when a prime minister is as unpopular as, say, Rishi Sunak is right now, nobody worries that Britain…

 
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CNN Panel Repeatedly Suggests President Trump Sees Himself as a King

Ryan Foley
June 4th, 2019 9:09 PM

During the 3:00 p.m. hour of Monday's CNN Newsroom, the panel repeatedly compared President Trump to a king as they covered his state visit with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. In addition to indulging her guests’ suggestions that the President would like to be a king, host Brooke Baldwin teed up British journalist Harry Mount to trash the President.

 

Busy on Royal Baby Watch, Nets Ignore Jihad Against Mid-East Christian

Matt Philbin
July 25th, 2013 9:21 AM
Everyone’s happy about the arrival of the future king of Britain – that is, everyone at leisure to take note. Presumably, Middle Eastern Christians have been too busy trying to survive to worry over whether the Duchess of Cambridge was in false labor. And while the hard-nosed journalists at ABC, CBS and NBC have been knitting booties and speculating on names, Middle Eastern Christians have…
 

CNN Scrolls 'Child Pronounced Dead On The Scene' During Royal Birth Co

Noel Sheppard
July 24th, 2013 11:17 AM
Whoever was manning CNN's news ticker Monday clearly wasn't using his or her head. Moments after the Royal birth, as CNN International anchor Becky Anderson reported the news live from outside of Buckingham Palace above a chyron reading "Duchess Catherine Gives Birth To A Son," a story about a three-year-old fatally shooting himself in Arkansas scrolled at the bottom of the screen concluding…
 

HuffPo Hypes Hopes Royal Baby Will be Gay

Lauren Enk
July 23rd, 2013 6:30 PM
The royal prince is barely a day old, but already lefties are crossing their fingers in hopes that he’s gay. Huffington Post hyped what may be the dumbest polling ever this morning – a survey claiming that a majority of Brits would react favorably if the son born yesterday to Prince William and Kate Middleton would come out as a homosexual in the future. The survey was conducted by the “…
 

Leno: I Was Supposed to Deliver Royal Baby Announcement But They Repla

Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2013 9:30 AM
Jay Leno took a another comedic swipe at NBC Monday. Early in his Tonight Show monologue, the host said, "I was a little bummed out because I was the one that was supposed to deliver the [Royal] baby announcement this afternoon at the hospital, and they replaced me at the last minute” with Jimmy Fallon.
 

CNN Royal Correspondent: Having a Boy First Time Shows 'How Brilliant

Noel Sheppard
July 22nd, 2013 4:54 PM
Not surprisingly, America's media are gushing and fawning over the birth of the newest Royal baby in much the same way they do any utterance by President Obama. Take CNN Royal correspondent Victoria Arbiter who actually said moments after Monday's announcement, "This is how brilliant a Royal Kate is. There are women throughout British Royal family history that have panicked having not being…