Morning Joe Buries Platner Sexting Scandal, Lowers Maine Expectations
On Monday, amid the new sexting scandal for Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, otherwise known for his Nazi tattoo and past Reddit comments, MS NOW’s Morning Joe spent little time on the topic. The only segment of the morning show regarding the scandal came three hours and 35 minutes into the show. The segment aired just under a month after the show’s softball interview…
The View Blames ALL Men for Dem Nazi Platner Cheating on His Wife
Even when they finally talk about Democratic Party scandals, The View finds a way to shift the blame to someone else. The ABC News show spent part of Monday’s episode trying to make the case for Graham Platner, a Nazi and the presumptive Democratic Party nominee in the Senate race in Maine. According to some members of the cast, men in general were the problem with Platner’s…
Nets End AM/PM Blackout on Platner, What ‘Some Say’ Is Nazi Tattoo
After the Sunday morning talk shows broke the dam on the broadcast network-wide blackout of coverage on Maine Democrat senatorial candidate Graham Platner and his umpteen scandals, Sunday’s NBC Nightly News and the Monday morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC covered the “fresh controversy” hitting “one of the most-talked-about candidates in the midterms” who’s “critical to Democrats’…
Snopes Denounces GOP on Talarico But Not Pro-Abort Conspiracy Theories
The self-styled fact-checkers at Snopes had an interesting Friday. On one hand, Rae Deng claimed there is insufficient evidence to label a left-wing conspiracy theory about a proposed bill in North Carolina making murdering women legal if they seek an abortion false. On the other hand, Jack Izzo was adamant that Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is the victim of a “chronically…
Maher Describes Texas Senate Race As 'Attila The Hun' Vs. 'Nice Guy'
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, HBO’s Bill Maher sought to frame the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico as “Attila the Hun” versus “a nice guy.” At the same time, after former GOP Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pointed out that Talarico has said some whacky things in the past, MS NOW host Katy Tur stepped in to defend Talarico by claiming “he’s taken that…
PBS Claims 'Biden's Health Has Been Litigated In Public Exhaustively'
PBS News Hour anchor Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart teamed up to try to absolve the media from their past errors on Friday by making the curious claim that “Joe Biden's health has been litigated in public exhaustively.” For his part, Capehart went so far as to try to shift the presidential health concerns to President Trump for simply having three semi-annual…
Leila Coddle: NPR Asks Talarico to Lay Out Issues, Rebut GOP Insults
NPR promoted leftist Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico with an interview on Friday’s Morning Edition. The Democrat received open-ended softballs that didn't challenge any of his left-wing stands. She asked if he would abolish ICE, like the other "progressives."
Talarico Skates by CBS When Asked on Trans Lunacy, ‘God Is Non-Binary’
Far-left Texas State Representative and senatorial candidate James Talarico sat for a 15-minute interview on Wednesday with CBS News White House and election correspondent Ed O’Keefe and, thanks to its short duration and O’Keefe likely wanting to cover a whole slew of topics, skated by with dodgy answers on his radical views about transgenderism and his heretical claim that “God is non-binary…
PolitiFact Defends Talarico From Vegan Charge, Ignores Six Sexes Claim
PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough has his priorities out of order. On Wednesday, he penned an article declaring GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton “false” for calling his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, a vegan. However, he could have rated Paxton “half-true” or written another article labeling Talarico “false” because Paxton also cited Talarico’s previous comments about there being six…
Velshi: Voters Could Stop U.S. Elections Becoming Like Iran and Russia
During MS NOW’s Texas Senate Primary election coverage, the new helm of the spin-off network’s election big board, Ali Velshi said American elections could turn into elections in Russia and Iran with meaningless ballots. He then stated he felt a groundswell movement, as seen with anti-DOGE and Minneapolis’s protests, would rise to vote in the upcoming midterms to stop it.
Giddy Networks Hope Paxton Win Will ‘Backfire,’ ‘Boost’ Dem Talarico
The “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC were enthralled Wednesday morning with the possibilities of a blue Texas Senate seat in November as they declared the Republican nomination of “controversial” Attorney General Ken Paxton over incumbent John Cornyn could “backfire for the GOP” with Democrat state Representative James Talarico serving “as their best chance to win in decades.”
MS NOW: Talarico 'Can Out-Bible' GOP, Race Will Be 'Good Versus Evil'
After Tuesday’s GOP Senate Primary in Texas, MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera welcomed former Bush and McCain advisor Mark McKinnon to her show the following day to react. McKinnon twice stated that the matchup is more than Republican Ken Paxton versus Democrat James Talarico but that it is “good versus evil.”
Column: Graham Platner's Comedic Potential Lost In Joke Drought
Bonchie of RedState.com asked an interesting question on X: Has a single late night comic told a single joke about Graham Platner? Our Alex Christy found nothing on ABC, CBS, or NBC. Comedy Central had a bit, but made more fun of stupid rural Mainers.
‘CBS Mornings’ Becomes First Network Show to Air WILD Talarico Clips
In what took only a few seconds and thus proving how easy it should be to do their supposed jobs as journalists, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings became the first flagship morning or evening broadcast network newscast — meaning ABC, CBS, and NBC — to mention Texas Democrat senatorial candidate James Talarico’s radical views on gender and religion in a larger piece about Tuesday’s Texas…
