When Americans interview foreign tyrants, you have to question how they paint themselves as champions of democracy. They’re often so pleased to be granted access that this leads to compliant questioning. That happened on Meet the Press with Cuban “President” Miguel Diaz-Canel. "It's an honor," Kristen Welker oozed. She didn't say that at the end of the last Trump interview.
Diaz-Canel is not a “president,” which implies he is somehow elected. He’s not. He was selected by the Communist Party to play the Head of State. NewsBusters associate editor Nick Fondacaro and news analyst and radio host Jorge Bonilla joined the show to consider all the bias over the weekend.
The toughest question was “Would you be willing to step down if it meant saving Cuba?” Diaz-Canel was offended by the question, suggesting she wouldn’t ask Trump that, and suggesting she was the puppet in this conversation: “Is that a question from you, or is that coming from the State Department of the U.S. government?” Welker's interviews with Trump are more combative than the communists get. She insisted to her Cuban guest that "I ask very hard questions of President Trump."
The Sunday shows suddenly turned on Rep. Eric Swalwell over new allegations of sexual assault and misconduct reported by CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle. There was investigative reporting -- but there was also curious timing, since Democrats are lagging in California's "jungle primary" for governor, and it's possible the top two vote-getters for the general election could both be Republicans. Getting Swalwell out gives the Democrats more of a fighting chance. Democrats at first seemed to want him out of the governor's race, but not Congress. That all changed on Monday, and Swalwell is leaving his House seat.
In his latest study of guests on ABC's The View, Nick found it was overwhelmingly liberal again -- 27 to 1 over the first three months of 2026. The one somewhat Republican guest was former reality-TV star Spencer Pratt, who's running for Mayor of Los Angeles on the single local issue of Mayor Karen Bass's poor recovery efforts after the devastating Palisades wildfire.
We also discussed MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell's recent bender on how the president's youngest son Barron Trump should really be serving in the armed forces during the war in Iran. O'Donnell never served, and neither did his one child, a daughter. He even claimed without evidence that young Barron failed to register for the draft.
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