Balanced & Insightful: Wednesday’s Real Town Hall Was on NewsNation
While Wednesday night’s CNN town hall with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was 92 minutes of what our Jorge Bonilla dubbed “an extended infomercial for socialism in America,” NewsNation held a town hall a few miles away at the Kennedy Center that not only ran longer, but featured a robust debate with a parade of guests spanning both age and the…
ABC’s Rachel Scott Pitches In, Runs a Democrat-Coded Shutdown Report
The next election is over a year away, but ABC’s Rachel Scott is already in peak midterm form. A report on the ongoing shutdown is completely Democrat-coded, regurgitating Democrat talking points and placing the onus for ending the shutdown exclusively on Republicans.
Morning Joe's Unlikely Working-Class Hero: Marjorie Taylor Greene!
Talk about politics making strange bedfellows! Morning Joe hails Marjorie Taylor Greene as a working-class hero and an example to other Republicans for her criticism of the shutdown and other Republican policies. MTG! The Republican that the liberal media has loved to hate! She of the Jewish space lasers! But all is forgiven in return for MTG criticizing her fellow Republicans over the…
The Politics of the Shutdown, Obamacare, Crime, and Deportations
One more time: There is no such thing as free lunch. Government has no money. It acquires the money used to pay for things one of three ways: taxing, borrowing or printing. Democrat senators, with three exceptions, voted against keeping the federal government fully running because they want to add back spending reduced under the so-called Big Beautiful Bill; they want to spend even more; and…
Meyers Demands Republicans Cave On Obamacare Subsidies
NBC’s Seth Meyers devoted Wednesday’s “Closer Look” segment on Late Night to how the government shutdown has affected air traffic control. At the end, Meyers blamed Republicans for not caving to Democrats’ demands on extending the Biden-era Obamacare subsidies.
Kimmel: GOP Is Lying About Health Care Because 'Klan Mom' Says So
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel found a strange, new respect for Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a woman he has frequently dubbed “Klan Mom,” on his Tuesday show as he claimed a recent tweet from Greene proved his point that Republicans are lying about health care amid the government shutdown.
Stewart Portrays Dems' Shutdown Position As Not Wanting People To Die
An exasperated Jon Stewart condemned Republicans on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show on Comedy Central for not folding to Democratic demands to end the government shutdown because, in his mind, Democrats simply oppose people dying.
CNN, MSNBC Can NOT Allow Speaker Johnson to Explain the Shutdown
Last Thursday morning, as the government shutdown began its second day, House Speaker Mike Johnson was holding a news conference and speaking on various aspects of the issue. But a funny thing happened to Speaker Johnson, and to those watching him on both CNN and MSNBC, he was interrupted, taken away, replaced by, and then "corrected" by, the anchors in place at each respective network.
NBC Grills Jeffries on Dem Shutdown After Last Week’s Johnson Tussle
More of this please, NBC. Monday’s Today and co-host Craig Melvin followed through on its promise to speak with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) about the government shutdown after throwing down with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday. To his credit, Melvin used the limited time (3:47) to repeatedly press Jeffries on his past statements about government shutdowns…
WHAT?! WashPost Admits Obamacare ‘Was Never Actually Affordable'
Hold on to your britches because you’re not going to believe this one. The Washington Post Editorial Board just admitted that the so-called "Affordable Care Act," one the most notorious pieces of Obama-era legislation foisted upon consumers by legislators and the liberal media as the saving grace of American health care, turned out to be an expensive mess.
Atlantic Mag Praises Trump for Forcing Pfizer to Slash Drug Prices
Atlantic magazine writer Nicholas Florko reluctantly praises President Trump for persuading Pfizer to lower its U.S. drug prices to match those in other developed countries. Trump's administration struck a deal with Pfizer where the pharmaceutical giant will also participate in TrumpRx, a program offering discounted drugs. This breakthrough followed years of Trump's efforts to reduce…
ABC Warns People 'Could Suffer' If Democrats Cave On Shutdown
ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang brought out the emotional heartstrings on Saturday’s Good Morning America to warn that people “could suffer” if Democrats cave on the government shutdown.
Leavitt Hits Journos Over Dems Demanding Free Care for Illegals
In a rare second White House press briefing of the week, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt largely avoided the disingenuous nonsense the liberal media have spewed this week about the federal government shutdown and declarations that Republicans are to blame and falsely claiming Democrats support free health care for illegal immigrants. But towards the end of the briefing, she ran into such…
NBC’s Melvin to Johnson: ‘Can’t Get to’ ‘Misleading’ Claim on Illegals
Falling in between ABC’s George Stephanopoulos’s partisan hectoring on Wednesday and Thursday’s respectful exchanges with CBS’s Tony Dokoupil, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) finished a tour of the broadcast networks Friday on NBC’s Today. There, co-host Craig Melvin battled him over the government shutdown by using week-old polls claiming Americans believe Republicans are to blame…