Uh-Oh: Social Media Stats Suggest America's BORED by Impeachment
Here's another bad sign that the impeachment trial is flopping for Democrats in public opinion. Axios social-media guru Neal Rothschild worried out loud in an item headlined "Impeachment trial draws shrugs -- by design." That's not exactly by the Democratic design. It's a GOP conspiracy! "Interest in the Senate impeachment trial over its first three days was barely half as strong as the first…
Tim Graham
‘God Only Knows’: Todd Dreads Trump’s Reaction to Possible Acquittal
Taking a breather from blaming the country’s division solely on right-leaning Americans and railing against moderate female Republican senators who had issues with the Democratic impeachment managers, NBC political director Chuck Todd took time during Sunday’s Meet the Press to share his dread for what President Trump would say if the Senate acquitted him.
Nicholas Fondacaro
ABC, NBC Fear Biden Will Face ‘Divisive Strategy’ from Trump's Defense
As the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump was set to resume on Monday with the second day of the President’s legal team giving their opening arguments, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today previewed the trial and shared their fears for what the defense would say about former Vice President Joe Biden.
Nicholas Fondacaro
CNN's Don Lemon & Panelists Laugh at Trump & His 'Boomer Rube' Voters
On a special Saturday edition of CNN Tonight, CNN host Don Lemon cracked up laughing as his guests derided the intelligence of both President Donald Trump and his "boomer rube" supporters. Don Lemon, laughing at the dummies.
Brad Wilmouth
Nets Decry Trump’s Legal Team ‘Discrediting’ Days of Dem ‘Evidence’
Saturday’s abbreviated impeachment hearing was the first time President Trump’s legal team was able to have the Senate floor all to themselves during opening arguments, and the liberal media were not happy about it. All three of the broadcast networks used their evening newscasts to decry and whine about the arguments Trump’s legal team were making.
Nicholas Fondacaro
Saturday Night Fights: Steve Cortes Pins Rick Wilson on MSNBC
After years as a CNN analyst, Steve Cortes is a free agent on TV again. On Saturday night, MSNBC's Joy Reid put him up against three Never Trumpers. Rick Wilson was comparing "First Thug" Donald Trump to Saddam Hussein and his backers to Nazis at a Nuremberg rally. Cortes said unlikeable elitists like Wilson helped Trump win in 2016 and will get him re-elected in 2020.
Tim Graham
MSNBC Unmoved by Trump Team's Supposed Lack of Substance, ‘Weak Tea’
Just like with CNN, MSNBC spent Saturday afternoon doing their best to refrain from using positive descriptors when talking about day one of President Trump’s legal team, instead calling their brief presentation as having included “a little false flag,” not substantive, and “weak tea.”
Curtis Houck
The Impeachment Media Goes Into Overdrive to Discredit Cipollone
On Day One of the impeachment hearings, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said this: “Not even Mr. Schiff’s Republican colleagues were allowed into the SCIF.” Cue the left-wing media vapors. Over at the far left-wing SecondNexus.com the left-wing outrage machine immediately cranked up. The headline: "Trump's White House Counsel Just Told the Most Blatant Lie on the Floor of the Senate in Trump…
Jeffrey Lord
Hypocrisy: Daily Beast's Obeidallah Slams Trump for Anti-Semitism
Muslim comedian and talk-show host Dean Obeidallah compared the impeachment of President Trump to a "diamond," it lasts forever. (Somehow Bill Clinton's never does.) Now Obeidallah wrote an article for the Daily Beast headlined "Trump’s Still Normalizing Anti-Semitism, and It’s Only Going to Get Worse." He claimed the president has "continued to normalize anti-Semitism in our country at a time…
Tim Graham
CNN’s Toobin Trashes Trump Team as ‘White House and White People’
Despite the fact that the leading 2020 Democrats are white, CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin attacked President Trump’s legal team for the Senate impeachment trial as “White House and white people” reflecting “the diversity of the two parties” compared to the House impeachment managers. Along with knocking the Trump lawyers as “not spell-binding,” “wandering in the wastelands,” and “weak…
Curtis Houck
NYT Conspiracy: Right-Wing Media Have Been Helping Trump for 50 Years?
The New York Times is lining up excuses for why the Democrats’ brilliant impeachment case against Trump is not sinking in with Republicans: Conspiracy! That’s the thrust of an op-ed by professor Nicole Hemmer, “Scandalize! Minimize! Repeat as Necessary -- Right-wing media have been laying the groundwork for Trump’s acquittal for half a century.” She made dubious use of space by defending…
Clay Waters
FLASHBACK: Last Impeachment Reminded NY Times of 'Nazi Germany'
New York Times writer Ginger Thompson on January 25, 1999 went so far as to compare the Clinton impeachment — in the first sentence of a front page story — to Nazi Germany: “As she watches Republicans in Congress push ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Ellen Mendel of Manhattan says she feels the same despair that she did as a girl in Nazi Germany when the efforts of a…
Scott Whitlock
CBS’s O’Donnell Frets: Can Dems ‘Object' to 'Untruthful' Trump Team?
During a special report just before President Trump’s defense team began making their opening statement in the Senate impeachment trial on Saturday morning, CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell seemed to assume that they would lie and hoped Democrats could find a way to “object” throughout the proceeding.
Kyle Drennen
CNN Dishonestly RIPS Sen. Blackburn for Honestly Criticizing Vindman
CNN really lays it on thick when it comes to its own preferred experts driving the impeachment of Donald Trump. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) attacked Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on Twitter, which drove CNN into a rage on Friday morning. Vindman's testimony against Trump was played by Democrats during their presentation on Thursday.
