Capitol Hill Riot

So the week ends with this headline from The Washington Post: "Jan. 6 committee sets up historic showdown." Notice anything curious here? Or should I say curiously missing? That would be serious media coverage of the January 6 Committee members themselves, what they did or did not do on January 6 and in the run-up to that day, not to mention their role afterwards in the establishment…

On Morning Joe, MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan demands that AG Merrick Garland "get in the game" and "fight" Republicans, by prosecuting Members of Congress who haven't replied to subpoenas. She says the actions of the House January 6th committee is legitimate. But the panel frets that if the Republicans take back the House in January, they will exact "revenge" by investigating Democrats,…

On Monday, The Right Scoop reported: “MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace actually blamed the Russian invasion of Ukraine today on January 6th.” The article explained: “On her show today, Wallace claimed that ‘everything about January 6th made everything about invading Ukraine easier for Vladimir Putin.’”

As part of their weeks-long media tour promoting their book This Shall Not Pass, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns joined Monday’s CBS Mornings and, as predicted, almost the entirety of their eight-minute-plus segment was devoted to trashing the Republican Party and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) while all but ignoring attempts by the authors to…

Sunday's Washington Post looked like a partisan rag with a collection of hit pieces (and a cartoon) on McCarthy and his "humiliating pilgrimage" to Mar-a-Lago to make nice with the former president after the GOP anger subsided. He would be a terrible speaker, they insisted, and would cause more "debacles" like this. 

Appearing on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show on Sunday, Rob "Meathead" Reiner said that our country's democracy is "hanging by a thread," at that if Biden AG Merrick Garland doesn't indict Donald Trump, it's "the end of democracy."

The New York Times reported on a political focus group and came back scared for democracy: “These 8 Conservative Men Are Making No Apologies.” What precisely would the “conservative men” have to apologize for? It’s not made clear. Deputy Opinion Editor and former campaign reporter Patrick Healy and Adrian Rivera damned them with faint praise in the lead sentence, before a follow-up…

Wednesday’s Psaki Show marked a contrast between the constructive and the absurd as Fox’s Peter Doocy engaged the White House press secretary on questions surrounding President Biden’s son Hunter and brother Jim and, as other reporters would as well, immigration. But in contrast, others expressed discomfort with a lack of COVID restrictions, raised concerns about right-wing terrorism, and…

Tiffany Cross has a recurring fantasy. She dreams of seeing Donald Trump being arrested in the style of the "Cops" TV show. Back in 2020, we caught Cross fantasizing being: "Dragged out on the White House lawn like a 1980s episode of 'Cops." Cross cranked up her "Cops" dream machine again this morning. Here's how she fleshed out her fantasy: "You play the music to the TV show, Cops, and march…

It may have been April 1, but the fools on ABC’s The View are that way year-round. As was the cast on Friday as co-host Sunny Hostin and guest co-host Chelsea Clinton falsely claimed that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, “was actively participating” in the violent riot that stormed the Capitol on January 6. Hostin was then forced to read a “legal note”…

Poor Joe Scarborough. The Morning Joe host sputters with impotent rage at the prospect that Donald Trump and certain of his associates wont' be criminally charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election, or for Trump's alleged finagling with numbers in his real estate dealings.

Shortly after getting in touch with reality for a second and demanding greater domestic oil production earlier in the show on Friday, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View dipped into lunacy as they cheered on justice correspondent for The Nation and staunch racist Elie Mystal and his declaration that the Constitution is “kind of trash.”

While MSNBC was decrying President Biden for not mentioning January 6 in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, CBS’s post-speech coverage featured something of a debate over whether or not Biden should have or needed to mention the Capitol Riot at all. CBS congressional correspondent Scott McFarland was the first journalist on the program to mention the lack of January 6 talk and…

Moments after President Joe Biden finished his divisive State of the Union address and walked away from the podium on the House floor Tuesday night, MSNBC’s initial reaction was to whine that the speech didn’t attack Republicans enough.