MS NOW's Ali Vitali Defends Media's Pre-Election Fearmongering
MS NOW host and congressional correspondent Ali Vitali wondered outside the bubble on Friday to join HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher and Free Press contributor Coleman Hughes in recapping Tuesday’s midterm election results, which included some discussion about the media’s role in election coverage. During the regular show, Vitali would defend media fearmongering about the administration…
Networks Decry Miller Becoming Chief of Staff, CBS Implies Misogyny
Following the news of President Trump promoting Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff after Susie Wiles’s resignation, all the evening network newscasts showed some displeasure in their reports and labeled Miller as controversial, including a loaded report from ABC’s Jonathan Karl while CBS’s Weijia Jiang implied that Trump was a misogynist, like NBc did weeks ago after Katie Zacharia was removed…
Repeat! Scarborough Cries About GOP 'Beating Hispanics' EIGHT Times
Joe Scarborough has a long history of mounting verbal hobbyhorses and riding them into the ground. On Thursday’s Morning Joe, he did it again—this time with the word “beat.” Across roughly the first hour and a half of the show, Scarborough used some variation of “beat,” “beating,” or “beating up” no fewer than eight times. The target was Republicans, and his accusation was their alleged…
MS NOW Invokes Jim Crow to Bash Trump Over Mississippi Election
On Thursday, MS NOW’s On the Line found plenty of ways to make Mississippi’s election about Donald Trump, but activist LaTosha Brown took things a step further by invoking the state’s Jim Crow history to explain the apparent Democratic advantage.
The View Urges Dems Not to Only Target Trump, Fix Affordability First
Democrats have flipped the House and Senate and before any of them have been sworn into office, many seem to already be drunk on power as they publicly fantasize about all the far-left policies they’re going to enact. Their over zealousness was such an obvious problem that even some of the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View could see the writing on the wall. Most of the cast wanted fixing…
O’Donnell Celebrates ‘Bad Guys’ Losing, Hails El-Sayed After Midterms
During Wednesday’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell took a victory lap following the Democrats’ win in the midterm elections, and repeatedly declared that “the bad guys lost” some 12 times while celebrating what he portrayed as a long awaited Hollywood-style ending to American politics.
Blue Wave Embarrasses Leftists Claiming Trump Would END Elections
The Democrats were widely successful in the midterms...which makes it embarrassing to all the leftists who wackily predicted Trump would cancel the midterms.
NewsBusters Podcast: Rachel Maddow Leads a Glee Club for the Blue Wave
The media's joy over the blue wave on Tuesday was palpable. CNN's Kasie Hunt said "it took years for us to get there." MS NOW's Rachel Maddow called it a "freaking one-finger salute" to Trump's alleged authoritarianism. George Stephanopoulos asked James Talarico how he would now "pursue a politics of love."
MS NOW Hails Talarico, Hamilton, Claims Evangelical 'Slander' of Jesus
The Atlantic writer and ex-Republican Peter Wehner stopped by MS NOW’s The Moment with Katy Tur on Thursday to discuss his latest article that tries to argue that James Talarico and Adam Hamilton’s Senate wins in Texas and Kansas were “an important moment for the Evangelical movement, which I think has done so much to slander the name of Jesus.”
CBS Continues Glee After Dem Wins, Hopes For Bipartisanship to ‘Reign’
After five hours of celebratory programming on Wednesday’s CBS Mornings, featuring softball interviews with Democrats after midterm wins, the CBS morning show continued to showcase more glee on Thursday. Norah O’Donnell claimed the victories could lead to more “bipartisanship,” while continuing to push Kansas Democrat Senator-Elect Adam Hamilton as a “moderate” who would push back against…
Despite Dem Wins, Daily Show Suggests Strikes To Combat 'Dictator'
Despite Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta’s preferred team winning on Tuesday, he welcomed Harvard Kennedy School Prof. Erica Chenoweth (pronouns: they/them) to Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show, where the two strategized how to combat the “dictator” president. One tactic Chenoweth came up with was for “limited strikes.”
CBS Coos for Pro-Impeachment Winner in NY, ‘Decency & Kindness’ KS Dem
For some reason, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings was live for an intolerable five hours to celebrate their party’s sweep in the midterm elections, airing from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Eastern, with plenty of interviews drooling over their new friends, celebrating other victories, and showing us they’re unconcerned about appearing any different than the show has for years.
Scarborough: Power Is Rented—Except When Democrats Take Texas
Discussing the midterm results, Joe Scarborough brags of having repeatedly warned administrations that power is rented, not owned, and that parties that don't deliver will get their "ass kicked' in the next cycle. But Scarborough makes an exception regarding the sweeping Democratic win in Texas, saying that because of ICE actions, "good luck, Republicans, ever getting [their dominance] back…
Disneyland for Dems? Here’s the Worst Takes From Post-Election ‘GMA’
As it were a four-year-old at Disneyland or Disney World, ABC’s Good Morning America saw its dreams come true by Wednesday, with Democrats romping to gigantic majorities in Congress and across the country. They were so excited that they could barely hide it in cheering the “blue tsunami” “crash[ing] overnight” to hand down “a decisive message” of “a resounding rebuke” of Trump’s policies and…
