Karen Bass

The horrific California wildfires have left many stories in their terrifying wake: some heartbreaking, some inspirational, with many more to be told as the fires continue to burn. In addition to reporting these, the media seem bent on telling another story: that of Governor Gavin Newsom as a competent state executive completely in control and proactively responding to the fires.

Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis, as usual, hit the nail right on the head the other day.

Morning Joe airs a deceptive edit of LA Mayor Karen Bass stonewalling a reporter asking her if she owes an apology to LA residents regarding the wildfire. In Morning Joe's video, the reporter asks one question, then the clip immediately transitions to a later statement Bass makes saying she's directing all resources to the fire. The video omits that for 90 seconds, Bass stonewalled the…

On Wednesday morning, President-elect Trump weighed in on the fires raging through Los Angeles County, blaming California Governor Gavin Newsom for the disaster. During an Inside Politics panel discussion on the matter, CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson accused Trump of having “no sense that Californians are Americans” and lacking empathy because of his feuds with “Democrat[s] in general.”…

MSNBC host Joy Reid didn’t hide her disdain for black conservative radio host Larry Elder, on her show last night while talking about California’s upcoming recall election. The Chicken Little commentator panicked that if Elder was elected governor, the state would go to hell in a handbasket (as if it wasn’t already?) and turn into “nightmare” states California and Texas.

MSNBC’s The ReidOut closed on an awkward note Tuesday night as Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) dared to go against the grain and remind host Joy Reid and viewers that conservatives, Republicans, and police officers are human beings too who are capable of sincerity and shouldn’t be “paint[ed]....with a broad brush.”

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appears to have painted himself into a corner with his promise to select a woman — and apparently from the candidates on his short list, an African-American woman — to be his running mate. While it is just the latest example of his party's tribalism in which externals such as race and gender are preferred over actual ideas, in the end it will make no…

On her eponymous afternoon program, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell fretted on Monday that Republicans would "try to sully" former Obama administration official Susan Rice over the Benghazi scandal and the Mike Flynn investigation as she covered for her by declaring that it would be a "complete false flag" to hit her over those issues. She also only vaguely touched on the controversy around…

California Congresswoman Karen Bass has long been a fan of brutal dictator Fidel Castro. But now, she’s one of the final potential candidates to be Joe Biden’s running mate. So who is going to press her over fawning over the commie? Not The Washington Post. The paper on Saturday offered a 41 paragraph tribute to the “pragmatic” Bass.