Nets: ‘Desperate’ Cruz & Kasich Alliance ‘Too Late' to Stop Trump

On Monday, all three network morning shows parroted Donald Trump’s campaign talking points by dismissing Ted Cruz and John Kasich teaming up to stop the GOP frontrunner as an act of “desperation” that came “too little, too late.” Appearing on NBC’s Today, Bloomberg Politics managing editor Mark Halperin proclaimed: “Donald Trump, to be stopped, they need to do something different....This is…
Kyle Drennen
April 25th, 2016 12:43 PM

In Wash Post, Jim Webb Wallops Anti-Jackson Twenty Changers

As Bernie and Hillary continue try to outstrip one another in the Great Pander Off of 2016, it seems like an eternity ago that there was an actual grownup in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. But it was only in October that Jim Webb gave up his run. 
Matt Philbin
April 25th, 2016 12:20 PM

CBS Swoons Over ‘Passionate Centrist’ Obama Fan Larry Wilmore

Making his latest appearance on CBS This Morning with co-host, devout fan, and Obama friend Gayle King, Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore was serenaded on Monday by King and her fellow co-hosts as a “passionate centrist” who loves President Obama but supposedly mocks politicians on both sides. 
Curtis Houck
April 25th, 2016 12:12 PM

Excited ABC Pushes Idea That Kochs ‘on the Sideline’ Will Destroy GOP

The journalists at ABC and CBS on Monday excitedly pushed the idea that the Koch brothers will politically stay on the sideline. CBS This Morning’s Nancy Cordes even spun an interview with Charles Koch as “tentative support for Hillary Clinton. Good Morning America's Jon Karl on Sunday talked to Mr. Koch about the plans he and his billionaire brother have for 2016. 
Scott Whitlock
April 25th, 2016 12:11 PM

Scarborough's Love Letter to Hillary's Foreign Policy Leadership

Joe Scarborough was careful to state for the record that he was "not voting for Hillary Clinton." But everything else he said during a segment on today's Morning Joe was one long love letter to her foreign policy and leadership skills. Granted, Joe set the bar very low, comparing Hillary's prospective leadership to President Obama's fecklessness. Even so, it was striking to hear Scarborough…
Mark Finkelstein
April 25th, 2016 9:27 AM

'The Good Wife' Touts Huma Abedin as 'New Feminism'

Alicia (Juliana Margulies) throws a party for Peter’s mother and her fiancé in “Party,” CBS’s The Good Wife’s latest episode. From the wrong flowers arriving – funeral arrangements instead of the ones she ordered – to a cake personalized with “Rest in Peace,” Alicia can’t catch a break. Even the joyous return of son Zach turns bad. 
Karen Townsend
April 25th, 2016 1:24 AM

E! Channel’s ‘I Am Cait’: Christians Hate Us and Ted Cruz is Awful

The first transgender kiss in the history of I Am Cait went down on Sunday night’s show, titled ‘Houston We Have a Problem.’ And…it was every bit as awful as you would expect.
Dylan Gwinn
April 25th, 2016 12:30 AM

CNN Anchors Fret Cruz Thinks Transgenders Men 'Pretending' to Be Women

On Friday's At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan, CNN co-hosts John Berman and Kate Bolduan repeatedly pressed Ted Cruz campaign national chairman Chad Sweet about whether Senator Cruz believes transgender men are actually "men pretending to be women" as the two began the segment focusing on a Cruz campaign ad attacking Donald Trump over the North Carolina bathroom bill.
Brad Wilmouth
April 24th, 2016 11:55 PM

DNC Chair: Hillary Has Been Transparent 'Other Than Private Server'

In a Fox News Sunday interview so painful to watch readers are advised to consider taking headache medicine before viewing, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried to make the case that the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of emails containing sensitive and classified national security information and her use of an undisclosed private email server is a…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2016 11:54 PM

NYT's Kristof Wants to Debunk the 'Crooked Hillary Myth'

New York Times columnist Nick Kristof sounded angry in a headline to his Sunday column: “Debunking the ‘Crooked Hillary’ Myth.” Online, they spit out some of the venom, merely asking: “Is Hillary Clinton Honest?” Kristof’s column concluded: “She’s not a saint but a politician, and to me this notion that she’s fundamentally dishonest is a bogus narrative.” He even dismisses fellow Times columnist…
Tim Graham
April 24th, 2016 10:19 PM

On Meet the Press, Sanders Questions Why Cigarettes Remain Legal

On Meet the Press today, host Chuck Todd asked Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders what he thought of the idea of a consumption tax on soda. Sanders' answer, laded with his standard "massive wealthy inequality" argument, led Todd to believe that Sanders might also be against cigarette taxes. No, those taxes are fine, Sanders said, but given that "cigarettes are causing cancer ...…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2016 10:02 PM

Zeke Emanuel Clashes with FBN's Varney on ObamaCare Fantasies

Things must be getting grim on the Obamacare front if the Obama administration feels it must send "Zeke the Bleak" Emanuel out to defend it. Though he was on relatively good behavior compared to previous interviews he has given, Emanuel, rather than visibly losing his cool, kept on using Stuart Varney's first name in his responses during a Fox Business interview this week to the point where it…
Tom Blumer
April 24th, 2016 4:44 PM

Class War from the NYT, Home of Luxe Dog Houses and $9,500 Cruises

Class war returns to the front page of the Sunday New York Times, with business reporter Nelson Schwartz’s long jeremiad against special cruise ship packages which surely represent a new Gilded Age, “In New Age of Privilege, Not All Are in Same Boat." On the list of lamentables was a special $10,000 cruise option "hidden" on a ship offering less expensive choices. Yet for a paper which seethes at…
Clay Waters
April 24th, 2016 3:57 PM

'Meet the Press': Just Stop and 'Accept' Trump Is Your Nominee Already

It seems as though Chuck Todd and folks at NBC have had enough of Republican efforts to stop their beloved Donald Trump from getting the nomination. To kick off his political discussion Sunday on meet The Press Todd equated the Republican election cycle to the five stages of grief. Todd stated that the party had already gone through the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. And all…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 24th, 2016 3:50 PM