The CBS-Scott Pelley Turmoil Continues
A while back in this space - April 4th to be exact - the headline here was this, "Do 'Major Shakeups' Mean CBS News Is in Free Fall?"
Maher Associates Platner's Nazi Tattoo With Conservatives
Friday’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher brought out the best and worst of the eponymous host. On one hand, Maher reacted to Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ever-growing list of scandals by claiming he would have thought a Nazi tattoo was a conservative thing and that in the past, sex scandals have only been disqualifying for Democrats. However, in the Overtime…
Capehart Says Trump And Republicans Are Why Platner Shouldn't Drop Out
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the abuse allegations made by Lyndsey Fifield against far-left Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. When asked if Platner should drop out of the race, Capehart eventually said no because it is unfair to hold anyone running for office to any moral standard because Donald Trump is currently the president.…
On CNN Panetta Says You Can't Trust Iranian Leaders Or Trump
No matter how one may feel about President Trump and the war with Iran, an objective observer should easily be able to distinguish between the good and evil involved in the conflict, and someone, who, by their current or former position, should be aware of our recent history, should recognize the differences between this relatively short-lived conflict and previous longer wars that the U.S.…
A Day Late: ABC Finally Covers Platner’s ‘Firestorm of Controversy’
Friday’s CBS Mornings was the first major broadcast network flagship newscast to mention the allegations laid out by ex-girlfriends of Maine Democrat senatorial candidate Graham Platner with nothing on ABC or NBC, and all three networks skipping it Thursday night. By Friday night, however, ABC’s World News Tonight covered the disturbing claims and the CBS Evening News…
PBS Pleased 'Deeply Conservative' MT Town Pushed Back vs Cruel ICE
Thursday’s PBS News Hour kept up its desperate rear-guard action fight against the Trump Administration’s tactics in deporting illegal immigrants, and were emotional and delighted to find a change of heart in a “deeply conservative” Montana town that didn’t turn out to be full of hate-filled rubes after all. The online headline: “ICE arrest in a rural Montana town prompts a…
Sunny Hostin Is ‘Embarrassed’ By America, Calls it ‘Failed Experiment’
With America’s 250th birthday coming up next month, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin went on an anti-American rant during Friday’s episode of The View. Hostin, who once said she felt more comfortable in Ghana than America, proclaimed she was “embarrassed” by many things about the country that gave her the privilege to be a multimillionaire TV co-host. She even asserted that…
Elitist Media Reveal Their True Feelings About America
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, the elitist media seem to be asking the question: “What’s there to celebrate?” The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the last month.
Arrogance: Remaining ‘60 Minutes’ Journos Trash Bosses...But Will Stay
The mystery of whether the three remaining 60 Minutes correspondents – Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim – would remain at the CBS newsmagazine was solved Friday when they revealed in a joint memo displaying their aircraft carrier-sized egos that they would stay and attempt to work with CBS News editor-in-chief and new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.…
ABC, NBC Ignore Disturbing New Allegations Against Maine Dem Platner
On Thursday afternoon, The New York Times released a long-rumored item about embattled Maine Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner that detailed claims many will find abusive toward ex-girlfriends. The major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – saw no reason to tell viewers about it on their flagship Thursday night newscasts. On their lead Friday morning shows, the…
Fallon Suggests CBS Will Hire Vladimir Putin 'To Appeal To Trump'
NBC’s Jimmy Fallon returned to the subject of CBS and 60 Minutes firing Scott Pelley on Thursday by playing a satirical 60 Minutes intro that featured what he considered to be some of the replacements CBS could try to “appeal to Trump” and included Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Graham Platner Accuser Torches New York Times, Claims She Was 'Set Up'
Late on Thursday, the New York Times came out with a story by Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer that featured GOP operative Lyndsey Fifield making accusations against progressive darling and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, including how “she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab…
Ex-NBC Boss Rips Weiss: 'What the Hell Is Going on with This Lady?'
Appearing as a guest late Wednesday on MS NOW's The 11th Hour, former NBC News chairman Andy Lack slammed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for her efforts to reform the 60 Minutes show, including the recent firing of Scott Pelley, displaying an almost sexist attitude toward Weiss as he imagined how 60 Minutes founder Don Hewitt might have responded.
Jon Stewart Wonders 'Is America Aligning With The Axis Powers?'
While hosting Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Wednesday, Jon Stewart unleashed some foreign policy analysis so ridiculous that it makes one wonder what planet he has been living on for the past 12 years. While interviewing New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells, Stewart wondered if America is now “aligning with the Axis” powers, while Wallace-Wells channeled…
