Interviewing Johnson, Bash Advocates For Democrats' Shutdown Position
It was a tale of two interviews for CNN’s Dana Bash on Wednesday’s Inside Politics as she sat down with Speaker Mike Johnson and left-wing activist and actress Jane Fonda. During her conversation with Johnson, Bash recited Democratic talking points on the government shutdown and wondered if there is “something to that.” Meanwhile, she laughed it up with Fonda and suggested that she…
Godfather Glop: CNN's Tapper Analogizes Trump To Movie Mob Boss
Can you imagine Jake Tapper, or any leading light of the liberal media, analogizing, say, Barack Obama to a murderous crime boss? Rhetorical question. But on CNN's State of the Union,Tapper did just that regarding President Trump. Discussing the impending meeting between Trump and Chuck Schumer, Tapper asks Speaker Mike Johnson: "So at this meeting tomorrow, is President Trump looking to make…
Tapper Tries to Trip Speaker Johnson on Comey Indictment, Gets WRECKED
The indictment of Resistance FBI Director James Comey is clearly the top news story of this weekend’s cycle. As Jake Tapper’s interview of Speaker Mike Johnson on CNN’s State of the Union demonstrates, the legacy media do not quite yet have a handle on this story.
Five Times CBS Was Caught Deceptively Editing Interviews
Yet again, the propagandists at CBS have found themselves in the midst of another deceptive editing scandal. On Sunday, the network was caught editing out the substantive portion of one of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s responses to a question on Face the Nation. But this incident is just the latest in CBS’s lengthy record of journalistic malfeasance. Let’s look back at some of the worst…
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…
DOH! Scarborough Claims Louisiana Has a Murder Rate 400x California's
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough flunked basic math on Tuesday’s Morning Joe as he claimed you are 400 times more likely to be murdered in the red state of Louisiana than the blue state of California. Even charitable interpretations of this blunder fail to help Scarborough make the point he thinks he was making.
MSNBC Melts Down After CPB Shut Down Announcement
On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is shutting down, and the cast of MSNBC’s The 11th Hour lost its mind as it rolled out the same tired talking points about local news, weather, and children’s educational programming.
ABC Breaks in for Special Report to Dump on Big Beautiful Bill Passage
ABC was surprisingly the only major broadcast network to break in Thursday afternoon for a special report on the House passage of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which he’s slated to sign into law Friday. What was unsurprising, however, was the ABC presented a wholly negative perspective declaring the bill was to “mostly” benefit “the wealthiest Americans” while stating as though it’s a…
Oliver Attacks GOP For Wanting Medicaid Work Requirements
HBO’s John Oliver was in a bit of a difficult position for Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight. The previous week he suggested that President Trump was on the verge of putting the country into the middle of another Middle East disaster, but that prediction didn’t come true, so he did the best thing he could: hope everyone forgot that he said he would have more to say about that and…
Meyers Claims GOP Would Have Snitched On Tea Party In 1700s
NBC’s Seth Meyers continued his lamentations on President Trump’s response to the Los Angeles riots on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night. As Meyers tells it, Congressional Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, are “collaborating” with Trump to “turn America into a military-style autocracy” and would’ve ratted out the original Tea Party to the British in 1773.
Acosta Displays Amazing Hypocrisy On Election Conspiracy Theories
Even by his own standards, former CNN anchor turned Substack podcaster Jim Acosta displayed a stunning amount of hypocrisy on Tuesday when it comes to conspiracy theories about the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections. On 2020, Acosta let former CNN colleague Michael Fanone go on a profanity-laden rant against Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans while he labeled actress Rosie O’Donnell…
PolitiFact Torches Straw Man To Label Johnson 'False' On SNAP Reforms
On Sunday, Speaker Mike Johnson gave CBS’s Margaret Brennan what many considered to be a much-needed education on the House’s Big Beautiful Bill’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reforms. However, on Thursday, PolitiFact’s Loreben Tuquero asserted that it was Johnson who was the “false” one, although she had to torch a straw man to do so.
Face the Nation or Face the Facts? Mike Johnson SCHOOLS Brennan on BBB
CBS’s Margaret Brennan butted heads with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday’s installment of Face the Nation over the proposed tax cuts in what has been dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The proposed cuts mentioned in the segment were regarding ending Medicaid and S.N.A.P. fraud, as well as cutting back on erroneous spending by government agencies.
Speaker Johnson SCHOOLS Jake Tapper on Media Coverage of Corruption
The onslaught of media stories about the Trump family’s stake in cryptocurrency betrays a strange new interest in coverage of the perception of corruption. As Speaker Mike Johnson reminded CNN’s Jake Tapper, things were (D)ifferent back then.
