George Conway MSNBC The Weekend 8-30-25

If He Could, Trump Would Have Ordered Guard To Stop J6 Vote Count

Ho-hum: Another day, another Trump = Hitler analogy on MSNBC. Today it was George Conway's turn. In an appearance on The Weekend, the co-founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project said that Trump's law enforcement moves in American cities is similar to what Hitler did in 1933.But Conway took things a step further, claiming: "If Donald Trump had had control of the policing in the District of…

Mark Finkelstein
August 30th, 2025 7:30 PM

The Media Jumps to Defend Trump-Fired Bureaucrats

It’s probably safe to say that unless they were a serious Washington insider, most Americans had never heard the names of Center for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Jeffrey Lord
August 30th, 2025 4:00 PM

Olbermann Blames Trump For Shooting, Says Bush Staged Terror Threats

Keith Olbermann clearly needs some help. On his Thursday Countdown podcast, the former MSNBC and ESPN host unleashed deranged attacks on President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush, accusing the former of being behind the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting and the latter of staging terrorist threats to get himself re-elected. The common thread, for Olbermann, is that…

Alex Christy
August 30th, 2025 2:00 PM

FireAid: Latest Example of Woke Celebrity Privilege?

Why do celebrities turn awards show speeches into political rants?

Christian Toto
August 30th, 2025 1:30 PM

Softest Interview Ever? Swisher Asks Newsom What His Favorite Meme Is

There are softball interviews, there are T-ball interviews, and then there’s whatever New York Magazine and Vox Media's Pivot podcast host Kara Swisher did on Friday with California Gov. Gavin Newsom when she asked him what his favorite meme is.

Alex Christy
August 30th, 2025 11:50 AM

PBS Guest Blames GOP, American Gun Culture For School Shootings

Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr pinch-hit for MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour and, during the discussion on the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, blamed the GOP and its embrace of gun culture for mass shootings in America. New York Times columnist David Brooks wasn’t much better. While he refrained from that…

Alex Christy
August 30th, 2025 9:41 AM

Scarborough Trashes GOP, Pushes Irrelevant Gun Laws After MN Shooting

In the aftermath of the school shooting in Minneapolis, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went after Republicans for their history of resisting more gun control, and ignored the fact that Democrats run Minneapolis and have had complete control of Minnesota's state government as recently as 2024. Scarborough also bizarrely pined for a wish list of gun restrictions that Democrats have…

Brad Wilmouth
August 29th, 2025 11:05 PM

ABC Goes All Negative With Speaker Johnson on BBB, Epstein, Guns

As part of a New York City media blitz on Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) entered enemy territory on ABC’s Good Morning America and, unfortunately, weekend co-host Whit Johnson went all-negative in a six-minute-plus interview on turmoil inside the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), negative spin on the One Big Beautiful Bill, harping on the Epstein File hubbub, and demanding…

Curtis Houck
August 29th, 2025 6:17 PM

CBS News Pushes for Return of the 1994 ‘Federal Assault Weapons Ban’

Despite mass shootings being on the decline in 2025 (and the last couple of years), CBS Evening News Plus (on the network’s streaming service), dedicated an interview segment to pushing for the return of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. They highlighted a study from Northwestern University that claimed that if the ban was still in place, then it would see “a significant reduction…

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 29th, 2025 5:17 PM

Bed, Bath and Beyond California

The much-publicized exchange between Bed Bath & Beyond chairman Marcus Lemonis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a lesson for the whole country. We shoppers look back fondly on the marketing acumen that, starting with one store in 1971, built Bed Bath & Beyond into a retail giant that once had 365 stores nationwide.

Star Parker
August 29th, 2025 4:54 PM

Minneapolis School Shooter’s Mom Lawyers Up, Won’t Talk to Police

The mother of 23 year-old transgender Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman, who signed the name change for her biological male son from Robert to Robin, has hired a criminal defense lawyer and is refusing to speak to police.

Craig Bannister
August 29th, 2025 4:00 PM

Judge Grants Motions to Dismiss Defamation Cases Against AP, Puck News

After waiting more than month for a decision, Judge William Scott Henry of Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit granted two motions to dismiss on a pair of defamation suits against The Associated Press and Puck News. The cases were brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young in the wake of his successful defamation case brought against CNN in the same court and before the same judge.

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 29th, 2025 3:50 PM

CNN Talking Heads Can’t Stop Accidentally ‘Misgendering’ Trans Shooter

Left-wing talking heads, particularly on CNN, keep referring to the Minneapolis Catholic school shooter as a male — despite their usual fanatical support of delusional transgender ideology. It appears TV journalists are so loath to discuss the shooter’s “trans identity” that some of them can’t stop accidentally referring to him with biologically-accurate male pronouns.

Bill D'Agostino
August 29th, 2025 3:02 PM

Not An Inch for Trump: Nets Spike GDP Revision Showing Stronger Growth

The Trump economy just keeps defying all the media crystal ball predictions of economic catastrophe, but the evening networks revealed an impulse to ignore good news that benefits the president.

Joseph Vazquez
August 29th, 2025 2:21 PM