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Huh? O'Donnell Drags 1939 Jimmy Stewart Movie Into D.C. Crime Debate

Alex Christy
August 21st, 2025 1:30 PM

Lawrence O’Donnell often tries to wax poetic on his MSNBC show, The Last Word, but he’s really just an unserious person speaking in a solemn tone. On Wednesday, O’Donnell tried to claim that Union Station in Washington, D.C. doesn’t have a crime problem and cited a movie released in 1939 and a man who hasn’t been a senator since January 2009 to make his point.

 
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Shameless Scarborough Buries Biden Pardon 52 Minutes Deep

Mark Finkelstein
December 2nd, 2024 9:48 AM

The incontrovertible top story of the day is Joe Biden's pardoning of his son Hunter, and the president having repeatedly lied in promising not to do so. But Joe Scarborough doesn't describe the pardon as even one of the day's two top stories.  Instead, he buries it 51 minutes into Morning Joe. And even when the show finally gets around to the subject, the gutless Scarborough doesn't express…

 

Boston Globe Sees Gun Grabbers as New 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'

Clay Waters
March 31st, 2018 10:16 AM
Boston Globe columnist and movie critic Ty Burr summoned the ghost of Frank Capra once more to project his liberal cinematic fantasies onto the American populace, and to save us all from the dark reality of President Trump. Burr thinks a gun-grabbing star was born in the form of a teenage Parkland activist, and pushes the conceit past ridiculousness, in “Can Emma Gonzalez give us a Hollywood…
 

Boston Globe: We Need Jimmy Stewart to Save Us From ‘Idiot’ Trump

Scott Whitlock
May 22nd, 2017 3:51 PM
A liberal Boston Globe columnist is beside himself over the supposed evil and corruption of Donald Trump. So, the only person who can save America from the “idiot-in-chief” is...  Jimmy Stewart? More precisely, Stewart’s iconic role as the noble politician in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. It’s ironic that the Globe is pining for honesty and reliability, given the paper’s front page fake news in…
 

Kimmel Presents Fox's 'Version' of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’: ‘M

Noel Sheppard
December 13th, 2013 5:08 PM
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel began his program Thursday evening bashing the Fox News Network. After mocking Megyn Kelly and contributor Monica Crowley for claiming that the historical figures Santa Claus and Jesus Christ were white, he presented a trailer for a Fox News version of “It’s a Wonderful Life” wherein Henry Potter is the hero trying to preserve Bedford Falls as an example of free market…
 

McClellan Book Reminds Matthews of 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mark Finkelstein
May 29th, 2008 6:44 PM
"I'm not fit to be a Senator. I'm not fit to live. Expel me! Expel me! Not him. Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of our state. Every word of it is true. I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust. Expel me!"—Claude Rains as the corrupt Sen. Joseph Paine in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"…