POLL: What Was the Worst Media Quote of the Week?
POLL: What Was the Worst Media Quote of the Week?
Fox News Highlights ICE Arresting 1,300 Illegals as MS NOW Ignores
On Tuesday morning, there was a stark contrast in the kind of coverage ICE received from Fox News compared to MS NOW as the two news networks, within half an hour of each other, focused on vastly different stories.
Stewart Struggles To Say Daily Show Is Beneficial
Jon Stewart joined former First Lady Michelle Obama on her IMO podcast on Wednesday and struggled to say that political comedy shows, such as The Daily Show, are beneficial to America. But before Stewart was able to achieve full self-awareness, he would say that they are because they are made in “good faith," and any good faith discourse is worth it.
Hasan Piker to Dems: Don’t Quit Me
Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: “Democrats, listen to me, I know we don’t always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point — I know you don’t want to do this — defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I’m part of this coalition, even though I am, whether you like it or not ... I’m not this dangerous, toxic radical…
Jelly Roll Continues Attacking Critics: 'Starting To Feel Like' Kimmel
One theme of ABC’s 2026 Jimmy Kimmel Live! summer guest hosts is their desire to portray themselves as some sort of victim whenever someone criticizes them. On Wednesday, Jelly Roll continued his week of going after his critics by claiming, “I'm really starting to feel like my pal, Jimmy Kimmel.”
OMISSION: Networks IGNORE 5th Anniversary of Abbey Gate Bombing
Five years ago, the war in Afghanistan claimed its final martyred Americans: 13 service members killed (and dozens of others wounded) in a bombing attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan as final evacuation of American troops was ongoing. None of the broadcast network evening newscasts paused to honor the fallen.
15 New York Sheriffs Sue to Stop Hochul’s New Sanctuary Provisions
Fifteen New York country sheriffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the state’s “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act” and the newly created Office of Immigrant Trust for being unconstitutional efforts to prevent them from working with federal immigration officers to ensure public safety.
MS NOW: Trump ‘Trying to Restrict’ ‘the French Language in Canada’
Amid a repetitive droning refrain about President Trump’s purported “madness,” The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell madly proclaimed (without evidence or explanation) that “Trump was trying to restrict the use of the French language in Canada.” Wipe away the Trump Derangement Syndrome and the desire to whip the MS NOW audience into a mouth-foaming rage; the issue was about making American…
Chicago Sky Bans Kanter Freedom from Arena – With No Fever Games Left
On Tuesday, the owner of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky banned former NBA player and Indiana Fever fan Enes Kanter Freedom from future games in his team’s arena – an impotent gesture, given that the Fever doesn’t have any games left in Chicago.
Scarborough Likens Minnesota ICE Shooting Aftermath to Jim Crow South
On Wednesday, Morning Joe reacted to an ABC Good Morning America interview with the family of Alex Pretti and continued to decry ICE in the lead-up to the midterms. In the show’s return to the Minneapolis unrest discussion, host Joe Scarborough decided to make a historical comparison and compared the shooting’s aftermath to “what happened in the Jim Crow South when a Black man would be shot…
Networks Spend Over 18 Mins Cheering Creepy Chinese Robot Convention
Between last Friday and Tuesday, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC spent 18 minutes and 25 seconds on their flagship morning and evening newscasts fawning, giggling, and reveling in the Chinese Communist Party’s second World Humanoid Robot Games with thousands of robots completing tasks ranging from basic household chores to track and field events. Missing was any direct acknowledgment of…
Jelly Roll: 'Should've Voted For' Harris If You Don't Like Trump Jokes
On Monday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Jelly Roll called President Trump a racist and told several fat jokes, which naturally led to him being criticized on the internet. On Tuesday, he returned to the ABC show to attack those critics and say if you wanted “jokes about Kamala Harris, you should've voted for her.”
MS NOW Blowhard Falls for Iranian Propaganda Ghostwritten in the U.S.
So committed is MS NOW to the parroting of Trump-deranged talking points that the network is now enthusiastically promoting Iranian propaganda. On some shows, they’ll even “analyze” Iranian propaganda.
MS NOW Pushes Flaky View That the Second Amendment Is for Muskets
On Saturday's Connect with Jacob Soboroff show on MS NOW, fill-in host Melissa Murray presided over a segment in which one guest promoted the weak liberal narrative that the Second Amendment only applies to guns that existed in the 1700s.