Bash Paints Texas Senate Race As 'Ethical Issues' vs. 'Christian'
CNN anchor Dana Bash joined HBO host Bill Maher on Friday’s edition of Real Time to analyze the state of the midterms. At one point, Bash portrayed the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico as one between someone who has “ethical issues” and one who is a “Christian” who “wears his faith on his sleeve.”
Capehart Denounces Efforts To Tie DSA Senate Candidate To The DSA
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined PBS News Hour on Friday for his weekly news recap segment with The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks. During the part of the discussion about DSA candidate Angie Nixon winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Florida, Capehart insisted that you can’t actually claim Nixon is a DSA candidate and therefore tie her to the DSA’s recent praise of Fidel Castro…
O’Donnell’s ‘Favorite New Book’ Dreams of Future ‘National Divorce'
On Wednesday night, MS NOW’s The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell continued the network's promotion of the novel The Breakup, a futuristic book set 20 years into the future after a civil war and “national divorce.” O’Donnell called the book his “favorite new book” as he told fellow MS NOW host Jen Psaki details of the novel, including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s role of “…
CBS Frets Over Deportations to Africa, Changes at Pentagon Newspaper
On Friday, CBS once again proved it had not taken a ‘MAGA’ turn under new ownership with two unique stories to hit the Trump administration on CBS Evening News.
Amanpour On The Aftermath Of Spain's Migrant Crisis: 'Very Tricky One'
Some things in politics truly are complicated and require some nuance, but others are actually rather simple. For instance, when the population of a town nearly doubles overnight because of a mass swarm of illegal immigrants, the only rationale response is to send them back. However, PBS/CNN host Christiane Amanpour declared on her Thursday The Ex Files podcast that the aftermath of July’s…
Grow Up! More Leaks to Darcy Hit ’60 Minutes’ Ahead of Premiere
Status’s Oliver Darcy uncorked more tiresome, whiny laments Thursday night about the state of CBS’s 60 Minutes ahead of season 59’s September 13 premiere – helmed by new boss Nick Bilton – with one anonymous staffer telling him the state of preparations as so far behind it’s become a “five-alarm fire.”
Velshi Finds It Odd GOP Is Pointing Out Talarico's Wacky Views
While guest hosting All In on Thursday, MS NOW’s Ali Velshi welcomed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico to another one of his strategy planning sessions disguised as an interview. At one point, Velshi seemed befuddled by the idea that “Most people are not losing sleep over transgender kids in sports, but they [Republicans] seem to just be stuck on this one with you.”
Rosie O'Donnell Sings To Trump: 'Why Not Resign'
Rosie O’Donnell closed out her week guest hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday by singing President Trump a song and demanding that he resign. Elsewhere in her monologue, O’Donnell also hyped the idea that she has a non-binary-identifying kid who claims to be neither a girl nor a boy.
Partial Credit: Networks Denounce Soaring Debt But Skip Leading Causes
Since President Trump is in the White House and Republicans control Congress, it was only a matter of time until the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC noticed the national debt, and Wednesday’s grim milestone that the debt had crossed $40 trillion gave them the perfect hook. While it’s admirable the press suddenly care about the national debt, they still failed Wednesday night and Thursday…
Psaki Attacks DOJ For Investigating Fake Dan Sullivan In Alaska
MS NOW’s Jen Psaki attacked President Trump and the Justice Department on Wednesday’s edition of The Briefing for launching an investigation into whether Alaskan GOP Senate candidate Dan Sullivan is running a deception operation to try to take votes away from the GOP incumbent senator of the same. Psaki portrayed this as just another instance of a politicized DOJ but naturally declined to…
Meyers Wonders If Plane Switch Should End WH Correspondents' Dinner
NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers is currently in the middle of a seven-week summer hiatus, but on Wednesday, Meyers and show producer/writer Sal Gentile put out a podcast on the show’s YouTube page where they discussed some of the topics they would have covered if the show was on the air. One of the topics was President Trump’s recent plane switch in Turkey, which led Meyers to wonder if the…
MS NOW: Cubans May Not Vote for DSA Because of ‘Incorrect Conflation’
On Wednesday, after Democratic socialist candidate Angie Nixon was victorious in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, MS NOW reporter Alex Tabet worried that Cubans in Florida would not vote for Nixon because of Republicans’ “incorrect conflation of communism and Democratic socialism.”
Haberman Mourns Trump's 'Attacks on Women,' But Called Harp a 'Binky'
New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman joined PBS/CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour on the latters’ The Ex Files podcast on Tuesday to talk about President Trump’s relationship with the press. During their conversation, Haberman lamented Trump’s “attacks on women” journalists, but Haberman is the same person who claimed on Sunday that Trump aide Natalie Harp is “his binky.”
'Bring Sexy Back': CNN Declares New Democrat Election Strategy
After more primary elections passed by with another surprising Democratic socialist victory in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, Wednesday’s CNN This Morning dedicated a segment near the end of the post-election show to infatuation with a supposed Democratic candidate strategy for the midterms and beyond: “Bring Sexy Back.”
