Kimmel Mocks Trump By Giving Him a Fake News Network

Monday night on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the late-night host mocked the President’s hostile relationship with the press by giving him a fake pro-Trump news network. Kimmel opened the segment with feigned sympathy, snarking that the media was “very hard” on Trump but he “deserved” “even-handed” coverage, before playing a clip from “Trump TV.”
Kristine Marsh

Brian Williams: President Trump Wanted to 'Break Furniture'

During The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, the former Nightly News host said that the feud between career government officials and the President over his executive order to ban immigration from seven terrorist-haven nations is like Trump wanting to "break furniture." The remark came after the admininistration fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama apointee, for not enforcing the…
Jackson Richman

Media Yawn Over Dem Filibuster, Scolded GOP Blocking of Obama Pick

Network reporters have barely noticed the brass knuckles threat from Senate Democrats to filibuster whoever President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court, regardless of the nominee’s qualifications or ideology. But that’s not the approach they took when Republicans blocked President Obama, then a lame duck, from picking a Justice during his final months in office.
Rich Noyes

NYT’s Hulse: GOP Facing Nightmare, This Time Over ‘The Dreamers’

New York Times Washington correspondent Carl Hulse has been writing versions of the same story for years -- Republicans on the defensive. On Tuesday, he paired his standard trope with the issue the NYT is most liberal on -- amnesty for illegal immigrants -- to starkly slanted effect for his “On Washington” column, “Are ‘Dreamers’ Next? G.O.P. Fears Backlash.”
Clay Waters

ABC: Trump Picks 'White Men,' Like Most 'Conservative' Justices

During Tuesday’s Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos spoke with ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jon Karl and Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran about Trump’s potential Supreme Court Justice pick. Karl’s report described both front-runners, Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, as conservative picks that would get pushback from Democrats. Stephanopoulos agreed by oddly…
Kristine Marsh

Naked Politics: Lena Dunham Pushes Obamacare from Bathtub

Actress and producer Lena Dunham wants you to get covered. But ironically, she delivered her message nude.
Sarah Stites

CNN Suddenly Beefs Up Investigative Reporting, With Leftist Advisers

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik touted the news on Monday that CNN announced a “major new initiative in investigative reporting” without really noticing the irony: Why are all the liberal outlets beefing up their I-teams now that Barack Obama has left the White House? The laugh line comes in the middle, when Andrew Morse, the executive vice president of editorial for CNN/U.S  insists: "This…
Tim Graham

MSNBC: Osama ‘Prayed’ for the Travel Ban, ‘We’re All Crusaders Now’

The radical rhetoric targeting President Donald Trump got extremely out of hand during Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, with accusations that America’s number one enemy for 10 years, Osama bin Laden, desired Trump’s travel ban. “Osama bin Laden’s whole theory of a war of the west on Islam now gains great credence thanks to what Donald Trump just did,” declared the Huffington Post’s Howard…
Nicholas Fondacaro

CW’s ‘Jane the Virgin:’ Donald Trump 'Ruined a Lot of Things'

We already know that The CW's Jane the Virgin was "with her," but they came back with another swipe at President Trump again this week. Rogelio blamed Donald Trump for “ruining romance” and the Spanish-accented narrator piped up that Trump has ruined “a lot of other things, too.”
Karen Townsend

'The Young Pope' Asserts That No Priests Respect the Vow of Chastity

The sixth episode of HBO’s The Young Pope made another blanket, heretical statement about Catholic priests. Additionally, the episode, which aired January 30, contains two power-hungry speeches given by the Pope (Jude Law) aimed at destroying the Italian Prime Minister and an order of monks. 
Callista Ring

Samantha Bee to Host Trump Roast on Night of Correspondents’ Dinner

The White House Correspondents' Dinner slated to be held in Washington, D.C., on April 29 will face a “counter-event” hosted by Samantha Bee, the foul-mouthed host of the Full Frontal weekly program on TBS. Entitled “Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner,” the “alternative gala” was announced on Monday by Bee, who was a correspondent on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show before getting her own…
Randy Hall

NBC’s Holt Lectures Viewers on the Meaning of the Statue of Liberty

With the debate over the legality of President Donald Trump’s immigration and travel ban still raging Monday evening, NBC broadcasted their Nightly News program “from the shadow of the Statue of Liberty” accompanied by a lecture from anchor Lester Holt. “Behind me the Statue of Liberty, which for nearly 130 years, has symbolized the welcome arms of a country of immigrants,” he opined at the start…
Nicholas Fondacaro

WashPost's Rubin Cheers on MSNBC's Hayes Gloating Over GOP Worries

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin appeared on Friday's All In with Chris Hayes to play the role of allegedly right-leaning MSNBC guest who mostly offers agreement to the liberal MSNBC host, and spends little time injecting the conservative point of view into the conversation. As Hayes focused on reports that Republicans have expressed worries in private meetings about how to repeal…
Brad Wilmouth

#DeleteUber: When Celebs Act Without the Facts

In addition to slamming Donald Trump at 2017’s hyper-political SAG awards, many celebrities took to social media this weekend to criticize the president’s new immigration policies. So when Uber appeared to capitalize on the controversial travel ban, the stars quickly dropped the ride-hailing phone app.   
Sarah Stites