POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)
NOMINEES:
1. Jonathan Capehart: Shouldn’t We Be Worried About Trump’s “Mental Acuity?”
“If President Trump is mentally anguished over the editing of a television [60 Minutes with Kamala Harris] interview, why shouldn’t I be concerned about his mental acuity in the office right now and all the crazy stuff he’s doing?”
— Washington Post associate editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC’s The Weekend, June 1.
2. Keith Olbermann: “The Blood” of Terror Attack Is “On the Hands of Donald Trump”
“You just round up all the people who you think look like threats. That is remigration. That is ethnic cleansing. That is Donald Trump’s presidency. And that, because you no longer bother to look for people who are guilty or who might be planning heinous acts, you just look for their skin tone and their names, that is why the blood of Boulder, Colorado, is on the hands of Donald Trump.”
— Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on his Countdown podcast, June 3.
3. Christiane Amanpour: “I Literally Prepared to Go to America” As If It Was “North Korea”
“When I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago, last week. I must say I was afraid. I’m a foreigner, I don’t have a green card, I’m not an American citizen, I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea.”
— PBS host Christiane Amanpour on her podcast Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files with Jamie Rubin, June 3.
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