ABC: ‘Moderate’ Kamala Was Reagan With ‘Morning in America’ DNC Speech

August 23rd, 2024 11:28 AM

As they have all week, ABC’s Good Morning America had the best (or worst?) body of work gleefully devouring propaganda from the Democratic National Convention like drunk college kids hankering for late-night pizza. On Friday, they drooled over “what a night” for Vice President Kamala Harris, giving a “Morning in America” speech that could have been given “at a Republican convention...…

NYT Pouts Over Johnson Doing ‘What Passes for Brave in Today's GOP'

April 22nd, 2024 12:37 PM

Congressional correspondent Annie Karni got snarky against Republicans (and, perhaps some of her fellow reporters?) in Sunday’s New York Times, after House Speaker Mike Johnson received some backhanded praise from some quarters of the media/Democratic alliance for pushing a military aid bill for Ukraine through: “Mike Johnson, Like Pence, Does What Passes for Brave in Today’s GOP: His…

Video

NOW You Like Him? ABC Hails DeSantis for Cracking Down on Retail Theft

April 12th, 2024 4:20 PM

Exactly two weeks after Disney more or less cried uncle and agreed to a settlement with the State of Florida in its lawsuit over the Parental Rights in Education bill and a few months after Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) presidential campaign came to an end, Disney-owned ABC had a surprisingly laudatory segment on Thursday’s Good Morning America as they praised DeSantis for “com[ing]…

Michael Luttig MSNBC Deadline White House 12-20-23
Video

MSNBC's Judge: Colorado Banning Trump From Ballot 'Not Political'

December 21st, 2023 10:13 AM

On Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show, retired federal judge Michael Luttig calls the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court "a masterful judicial opinion. It is unassailable and irrefutable in every single respect." He goes on to claim, "This is not politics. It is certainly not partisan politics. And the Supreme Court's decision yesterday was not a political decision in any sense of that word."…

Video

PBS: Pope Francis Has ‘Gained Adoration’ For His LGBTQ+ Inclusion

December 19th, 2023 4:54 PM

Slot him into the media’s “Strange New Respect for Religion” category: Pope Francis, beloved by liberals for his “progressive” tack toward the LGBTQ movement -- and hostility toward conservative Catholics. PBS Weekend was the latest to genuflect toward the “social reform” minded (i.e. liberal-pleasing) pontiff on Saturday.

Charlie Sykes MSNBC Morning Joe 6-19-23
Video

Charlie Sykes: Bill Barr Makes Me 'Gag'—But He's Right About Trump

June 19th, 2023 2:23 PM

On Morning Joe, Never Trumper Charlie Sykes praises former Trump attorney general Bill Barr for harshly criticizing Trump, but prefaces his praise by saying, "it takes a healthy gag reflex to accept Bill Barr."

Mika Brzezinski MSNBC Morning Joe 5-2-23
Video

Mika Slow-Claps for Kevin McCarthy Dissing Russian Reporter in Israel

May 2nd, 2023 11:16 AM

Kevin McCarthy has been the frequent target of criticism by Morning Joe. But on Tuesday's show, praise was heaped on him, with Mika Brzezinski leading the charge, for the strong statement he made, while in Israel, in favor of continuing support for Ukraine. 

NY Times Whiners Hardest Hit: DOE Now Believes COVID Lab Leak Theory

February 28th, 2023 6:43 PM

The Department of Energy now believes it’s likely the Covid-19 pandemic emerged from a biolab leak in Wuhan, China, vindicating three years of dissenting conservatives who were smeared as not only wrong but racist for advocating a theory about the origins of Covid that is now the official hypothesis of yet another government agency. Yet the relatively sober new coverage belies the paper’s…

Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough Willie Geist MSNBC Morning Joe 2-23-23
Video

Morning Joe Praises Fox News's Defense of Biden Visiting Ukraine

February 23rd, 2023 9:20 AM

Morning Joe praised Fox News in general, and Brit Hume in particular, for defending President Biden's visit to Ukraine before making a visit to East Palestine. Hume made the point that a president's prime responsibility is the national defense.

NYT Loves FBI: SWAT Teams, Surveillance, Pressuring Twitter All Cool

January 2nd, 2023 6:30 AM

For decades the New York Times used the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a symbol of the fears of oppressive government surveillance. The Times has cheerfully tossed all that history aside to engage in knee-jerk defense of the agency -- when it’s Republicans doing the criticizing. Reporters Adam Goldman and Alan Feuer raced to defend the paper’s favorite domestic…

Video

Scarborough: Compared to Nixon, Trump Takes 'Evil' to a 'New Level'

December 20th, 2022 4:19 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough quoted Hunter S. Thompson calling Richard Nixon evil "in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the devil can understand," says Nixon deserves another look, and that Donald Trump takes evil to "a new level."

NY Times Gets Religion: Embraces Warnock, ‘Who Sees Voting as Prayer'

December 11th, 2022 2:46 PM

Respect for religion reigned over the front page of Thursday’s New York Times, at least the progressive strain, focusing on U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, the reverend who recently won reelection in Georgia runoff. The Times has found its latest left-wing “rising star,” as revealed in the fawning profile by Katie Glueck, “Raphael Warnock Is a Pastor and Politician Who Sees Voting…

Joe Scarborough MSNBC Morning Joe 11-23-22
Video

Joe Scarborough's Sudden Respect For Conservative SCOTUS Justices

November 23rd, 2022 11:36 AM

Reacting to the just-issued Supreme Court decision clearing the way for the IRS to furnish Trump tax returns to the Democrat-controlled House, Joe Scarborough, on Morning Joe, goes on a long spiel hailing the dedication of conservative Justices on the Court for respecting the precepts of "Madisonian checks and balances."

Video

Morning Joe: Red Wave 'Gone' Because of 'Political Poison' Trump

August 30th, 2022 5:04 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and John Heilemann agree that the prospects of a Republican 'red wave' in the midterms are "gone" because of the 'political poison' of Donald Trump.