On PBS, David Brooks Hammers Trump for 'North Korean Loyalty Tests'

On the PBS NewsHour Friday night, pundits David Brooks and Mark Shields trashed President Trump's "North Korean-style loyalty tests" and praised Bernie Sanders. Brooks said a commission to make recommendations on reopening the economy is a good thing, but there's the sense that being nice to President Trump is essential to being appointed. 
Tim Graham

CW Drama: Priest Succumbs to Temptation, Kisses Parishioner

It takes something pretty wild to make a viewer think the CW dramatic soap opera Dynasty has gone beyond the pale, given the standard storylines written for the show. This week though, it succeeded.
Karen Townsend

Yamiche Alcindor Lectures Surgeon General About Offensive ‘Language’

Supposedly doing the work of the American taxpayers as a PBS correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor used Friday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force daily briefing to try and cancel U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams for urging racial minorities to, along with following CDC coronavirus guidelines, avoid the use of alcohol and drugs for the well-being of “your abuela,” “granddaddy,” “big mama,” and “pop-…
Curtis Houck

Amanpour Presses for Biden to Hit Trump, Embrace Sanders

On Thursday's Amanpour & Co., as she interviewed Joe Biden campaign co-chair and Democratic Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, PBS host Christiane Amanpour made no attempt to press her from the right as the PBS host sympathetically wondered if the Democratic nominee would be critical of President Donald Trump in the near future during such a sensitive time, and also embrace parts of…
Brad Wilmouth

NYT Writer: COVID-19 Killing ‘Myth’ US Is Greatest Country of All

When anything draws as much attention for as long as the coronavirus outbreak has, it comes as no surprise that people in the “mainstream media” will have widely divergent views on that topic. That concept was demonstrated on Friday, when a columnist for the New York Times used the opportunity to criticize the “myth” that the United States is the “greatest country on earth.”
Randy Hall

Spike Lee Blasts Trump, Praises Cuomo, Claims Virus Is Earth’s Revenge

People need to urge director Spike Lee to “Do The Right Thing,” and shut up. In an XM radio interview with “The Joe Madison Show,” the Blackkklansman director spouted off his usual leftwing lunacies for the umpteenth time this month. Today he surmised that coronavirus is a sign that the earth is “angry” with humanity, and that NY Gov Andrew Cuomo is so much better than President Trump.
Gabriel Hays

Global Pandemic Doesn't Stop Jane Fonda's Climate Hysteria

On Thursday, NBC's left-wing Late Night host Seth Meyers didn't hesitate to provide left-wing actress Jane Fonda with a platform for her latest “activist pursuit” of combating climate change, even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aiden Jackson

Watch Trump Torpedo Jim Acosta for Trashing ‘Happy Talk Briefings’

On Friday, the White House Briefing Room saw quite the duel when President Trump nuked CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta for taking issue with what he felt was too much hope and optimism amidst the coronavirus pandemic and not enough negativity. At one point, the President obliterated Acosta with the seemingly obvious, which is that these briefings are “not happy talk” but “sad talk…
Curtis Houck

NBC Actually Blasts China’s Coronavirus Lies and Propaganda

After initially defending China last month, on Friday, NBC’s Today show hammered the nation’s authoritarian communist regime for covering up the spread of coronavirus, citing evidence that the outbreak may have began as early as November. The network even highlighted numerous propaganda efforts launched by the Chinese government to lie to world about the pandemic.
Kyle Drennen

Twitter Is Taking Away Your Privacy, But at Least It Warned You

Can you put a price on your privacy? Twitter can, apparently. Say goodbye to your information privacy on Twitter. It now belongs to advertisers. “Twitter has removed a privacy feature that allowed all users to stop sharing some private information with advertisers,” The Verge wrote on April 8. It added, “The setting prevented Twitter from sharing information like the ads you saw or interacted…
Alexander Hall

Grammy-Nominated Eric Carmen Complains Twitter Is ‘Suppressing’ Him

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Eric Carmen (@RealEricCarmen) is battling Twitter. The open conservative and supporter of President Trump often complains that his tweets are being suppressed and that Twitter is deleting his followers.
Heather Moon

Obama Staffers, Colbert Bash Trump ‘Giving False Hope' at Briefings

Despite admitting he hasn’t been keeping up with the Trump administration’s daily coronavirus briefings, Late Show host Stephen Colbert didn’t mind bashing them anyway, with his liberal guests on his early Friday morning show. Colbert had sympathetic listeners in his guests, former Obama staffers and Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor.
Kristine Marsh

Senate Dems Upend Bill to Help Small Business, Todd Blames Both Sides

After another devastating day of job losses, Senate Republicans moved to provide $250 billion in relief for small business amidst stay-at-home orders. After Democrats blocked this proposal, Chuck Todd determined on MSNBC's Thursday special coverage of the pandemic that both sides are to blame.  
Alex Christy

WashPost Dreams ‘Earth 2’ ‘Many Times Better’ Under President Hillary

Apparently, liberals have an alternative reality built up in their minds where Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in 2016 and now is an amazing president.
Alexa Moutevelis