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After an extended silence, CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins has finally responded to accusations of providing material support to the shooter of UnitedHealthCEO Brian Thompson. In an X post, Collins denies the main charge of sharing a fundraising link for the shooter, defending her sharing of a support website due to its being “newsworthy.”

The most unserious "news" theme is insisting the Justice Department has been independent and impartial under recent Democrat presidents, especially Joe Biden's. After four years of Biden's DOJ pursuing January 6 defendants and appointing a special counsel to put Trump in jail, the newfangled CBS Evening News on Friday began with a "Schoolhouse Rock"-style lecture about impartiality. That's…

On Saturday’s The Weekend, MSNBC brought aboard predictable Trump critic George Conway to insult the President as a “criminal sociopath,” his administration as “a criminal regime,” and his first administration as “Shitshow One.”

Samantha Bee was singled out by longtime Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels as something to avoid in political comedy. It’s an anecdote in a forthcoming book by Susan Morrison titled Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.

On Friday afternoon, CNN hosts Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar devoted a segment to letting gay rights activist Stacy Lentz complain about the Donald Trump administration removing the word "transgender" from gay-related government websites.

Ya can’t make it up. Here is the Washington Post this week headlining: 

ABC White House correspondent Selina Wang tried to emotionally manipulate viewers of Saturday’s Good Morning America by suggesting that the Trump Administration’s effort to trim the size of the government’s bureaucracy is an attack on veterans.

Oscar scandals are now an inevitable part of awards season.

HBO’s Bill Maher doubled down on Friday’s episode of Real Time on his fallacious appeal to the center argument that President Donald Trump “has gone way too far” in issuing an executive order that says there are only two sexes.

PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks came together on Friday to mourn the first month of Donald Trump 2.0. Together, the trio would lament the supposed lack of “guardrails” that is allowing Trump to run “roughshod” over the government in pursuit of “Ivy League right-wing nihilism.”

Donald Trump never gets any credit for granting broad access to the press. Team Biden was never blamed for avoiding them. That's because journalists don't care about their own access. They care about the Democrats winning. They're partisan team players, not nonpartisan watchdogs. 

CNN’s outrageously biased ongoing treatment of Elon Musk took a turn Thursday that was so over-the-top it was actually a little funny. On that day’s episode of Inside Politics, Dana Bash hosted two of Musk’s especially vitriolic detractors, and her attempts to cover for them were so ridiculous, it was actually a little more than the pair could just sit there and take.

Fox national correspondent Bill Melugin — arguably the country’s foremost border reporter (alongside NewsNation’s Ali Bradley and the New York Post’s Jennie Taer) — absolutely cooked Axios’s Russell Contreras on Friday morning in reaction to this toolish tweet seeking to defend President Biden’s handling of the border crisis: “SCOOP: U.S. agents arrested more than 21,000 unauthorized…

If PBS wants to combat accusations that the tax-funded news network is a haven for smug elitist politics (PBS, where even the conservatives are liberal!), Thursday night’s segment featuring former New York Times columnist and (once) respected economist Paul Krugman wasn’t the way to go about it. Krugman really leaned into his natural unlikability in the remote interview with PBS’s resident…