PBS Platforms Bizarre Ex-CDC Official on Aid Cuts: 'People Will Die'
PBS’s Amanpour & Co., which is simulcast on CNN International, hosted guest Demetre Daskalakis on Monday’s edition and repped his appearance in an email with the subject line: “‘People Will Die:’ Fmr. CDC Official Warns Against HIV/AIDS Cuts.” Daskalakis resigned as director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases in August. A deeper dive into the…
Kimmel Claims 'Everyone Wants to Choke' GOP in Health Care
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel continued his crusade against Republicans’ health care ideas on his Thursday show by claiming “everyone wants to choke them” for not doing anything about the expiring Biden-era Obamacare subsidies. When Kimmel did finally acknowledge that Republicans do, in fact, have a plan, he compared it to a woman getting a gynecology exam from a Jiffy Lube.
Kimmel Decries 'Inhumane' GOP Health Care Stance to Buttigieg
For some unknown reason, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to his Wednesday show to discuss the political world’s recent developments, including on health care. True to form, Kimmel could not resist calling GOP efforts “inhumane” despite not actually describing what those efforts entail. Additionally, during his earlier monologue, Kimmel lamented that…
Let’s Fix Our Broken Health Care System
We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding the renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums. This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and cooperate with Republicans to get a continuing resolution passed to fund our government and get back to business. But the…
NY Times Unloads Nasty Review of Sen. Fetterman's Memoir: 'Self-Pity'
Jennifer Szalai, the nonfiction book critic for the New York Times, uncorked a nasty review of Sen. John Fetterman’s new memoir (D-PA) Unfettered in Wednesday’s edition (the review was written before Fetterman’s hospitalization after a fall). A petulant take-down which surely has nothing to do with Fetterman's willingness to buck his Democratic Party at times, right?
Too Bad, So Sad: ABC Upset Dems Were Rolled at the End of the Shutdown
With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history brought to an end late Wednesday, the major broadcast networks emerged Thursday morning amid gleeful Epstein files segments to cover the House vote, but returned to its past tactic of not blaming Democrats. In fact, ABC’s Good Morning America sided with Democrats in seething eight of their own party in the Senate and six in the…
FINALLY: With the End Near, Networks Admit Dems Caused the Shutdown
Just like they waited until either Joe Biden had bumbled in the June 2024 debate or he was out of office to admit he wasn’t in charge of his faculties, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC awoke Monday morning by telling viewers it was Democrats who had a “whole strategy” to “drive the country into a shutdown,” but lost out when eight defectors “back[ed] away from what they’ve been demanding”…
Colbert Claims Trump Wants Kids To Go Hungry To Pressure Democrats
For liberals such as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, who are worried about the fate of food stamps amid the government shutdown there is a simple solution: reopen the government. However, Colbert used his Monday show to suggest that it was the Trump administration that was starving children to pressure Democrats. Meanwhile, over at ABC, Jimmy Kimmel continued to advance…
Brooks Mourns Dems Are Focused On Obamacare Over Threats To Democracy
Friday evening’s weekly news roundup featuring PBS News Hour host William Brangham, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was full of bizarre government shutdown-related hot takes. In addition to Obamacare subsidies, Brangham and Capehart added rescission packages to the list of Democratic demands, which they falsely claimed take away…
Stewart Tells Harris Dems Need To Go Further Left On Healthcare
Jon Stewart welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from her failed presidential campaign to Donald Trump to the state of the Democratic Party. In one instance, Stewart claimed that Democrats need to go further left on healthcare because the “conservative” Obamacare…
Colbert and Gallego Seek To Align Shutdown Talking Points
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego to Wednesday’s taping of The Late Show for one of his regular segments where he seeks to align his show’s talking points with those of congressional Democrats. This time, the duo focused on the ongoing government shutdown and claimed that they are merely interested in providing affordable healthcare.
Oliver Urges Adoption Of Socialist Single-Payer Healthcare
HBO’s John Oliver is not content to only import his bad jokes from his native Britain; he also wants to import its disastrous healthcare system as well. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver devoted most of the show to a crusade against Medicare Advantage, which he alleged could be fixed by instituting a single-payer healthcare system.
Jonathan Martin Admits Government Shutdown Is about Dems Defying Trump
During an obligatory discussion about the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Morning Joe guest and Politico columnist Jonathan Martin admitted on Wednesday that Democrats were holding out in defiance of President Trump while using health care as a “vehicle.” Trump …
Colbert and Wagner Gush Over No Kings, Dems' Government Shutdown
MSNBC political analyst and podcast Alex Wagner joined CBS’s Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Wednesday for a truly wild two-segment interview on everything from foreign policy to the No Kings rallies to the government shutdown.
