MSNBC Pushed ‘Sharp As A Tack' Biden, Now Frets About Trump’s Acuity!
Today’s episode of The Weekend on MS NOW devoted a segment to questioning Donald Trump’s “mental acuity.” Leading the charge was Jonathan Capehart, who declared that more people should be talking about it “in the way they were giving President Biden hell for walking with a stiff gait.” It wasn't just a stiff gait, Jonathan, and if anyone should know that, it's you. This is the Capehart who,…
Capehart Plays The Race Card on Republican Byron Donalds' Fla. Guv Run
On Saturday’s The Weekend on MS NOW, co-host Jonathan Capehart turned the Florida governor’s race into an indictment of white Republican voters. Capehart gleefully noted that Trump-endorsed Congressman Byron Donalds failed to crack 50% in the Republican primary. And he cited a Tampa Bay Times piece indicating that Donalds did worse in the GOP primary in heavily white districts than in more…
Capehart Denounces Efforts To Tie DSA Senate Candidate To The DSA
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday for his weekly news recap segment with The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks. During the part of the discussion about DSA candidate Angie Nixon winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida, Capehart insisted that you can’t actually claim Nixon is a DSA candidate and therefore tie her to the DSA’s recent praise of Fidel Castro…
Capehart: El-Sayed Is Not a Socialist, But Trump Is 'Openly Racist'
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour anchor Amna Nawaz and The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks on Friday to defend Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from Brooks’s accusation of being a socialist. While that may have been a bridge too far for Capehart, he had no problem claiming President Trump’s new birthright citizenship executive orders were “openly racist” and “white…
PBS Endorses Harris's D.C. Statehood, Court Packing Schemes
The main Democratic and media—but we repeat ourselves—conceit of the 2024 election that voters saw straight through was that former Vice President Kamala Harris is some sort of a moderate. Harris recently proved voters right again in a recent statement where she endorsed statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and the need to “revisit” the…
Capehart Insists His Conspiracy Theories Are 'A Healthy Imagination'
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday for his weekly participation in recapping the week’s news, which focused heavily on President Trump’s Thursday speech about election integrity. As Capehart spread wild conspiracy theories about Trump seizing ballot boxes, Capehart insisted that such conspiracy theorizing is really just proof that he has “a healthy imagination.”
Capehart Does 180 On Platner After Scandals Become Electoral Liability
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday to recap the week’s news, which naturally highlighted Graham Platner’s decision to exit the Maine Senate race after being accused of rape amid a long list of other scandals. In contrast to what he said a month ago after the first accusations of violence towards women came out, Capehart declared he was happy to see Platner go because…
Fight Me! Capehart Ready to Rumble Over His American Credentials
Wow! The mostly peaceful pundit Jonathan Capehart entered the octagon on Saturday's edition of MS NOW's The Weekend! “As descendants of slaves who built this country....I defy anyone to tell me that I don't love this country. And I am not a part of this country. "I will, I will fight anybody who tries to say that I am not American!”
On PBS, Brooks RIPS DSA 'Authoritarians,' Capehart Says 'Not a Thing'
On Friday's PBS News Hour, pundit David Brooks struck a true centrist pose, denouncing Trump's "authoritarian power grabs," and then trashing the ascendant "authoritarian wing" of the DSA, insisting the Democrats need to reject the left-wing authoritarians. Jonathan Capehart claimed this trend of DSA victories is not yet "a thing," and that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing just fine.
Buttigieg Swatting: 'The Weekend' Overcome by Emotion, Assumptions
On Saturday morning's The Weekend on MS NOW, co-hosts Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels, and Jackie Alemany reacted with visible emotion — Capehart especially overcome — to Pete Buttigieg’s Substack post detailing an anonymous false report to Child Protective Services that temporarily upended his family
PBS on Vance Revisits Nixon: Capehart, Brooks Agree Trump Has No SHAME
The Friday night pundit panel concluded on a historic PBS topic: Watergate. In its earliest years, PBS found it delightful to contribute to President Nixon's political demise, running the Watergate hearings live during the day and repeating them at night. PBS anchor Jim Lehrer was elated: "as justice, it was pure delicious!"
MS NOW: Israel Blocks Peace, Ignores Hezbollah Killing IDF Soldiers
Co-host Jonathan Capehart opened Saturday's The Weekend on MS NOW show by branding Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon as a “roadblock to a permanent peace deal with Iran.” Capehart highlighted Lebanese casualties from strikes that came “just hours after a ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hezbollah.” MS NOW contributor Inzaman Rashid, reporting from Dubai, piled on. He declared that…
Top 10 Media Freakouts Over Elon Musk Becoming Trillionaire
For all the media bluster that Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter could ultimately nuke his net worth, the goalposts have since been moved and those same media talking heads are having a meltdown over the fact that the world’s richest man just proved all of them wrong.
MS NOW’s Elon Meltdown: A 'Clown' Who 'Bought' the Election for Trump
On MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” the panel engaged in a full-throated class-warfare kvetch over Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire. Co-host Eugene Daniels grew visibly agitated as economist Justin Wolfers claimed Musk “bought” the 2024 election for Donald Trump with a $250 million investment. Daniels declared the discussion made him “very angry” — not at Wolfers, but at the country…
