Maher Associates Platner's Nazi Tattoo With Conservatives
Friday’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher brought out the best and worst of the eponymous host. On one hand, Maher reacted to Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ever-growing list of scandals by claiming he would have thought a Nazi tattoo was a conservative thing and that in the past, sex scandals have only been disqualifying for Democrats. However, in the Overtime…
Capehart Says Trump And Republicans Are Why Platner Shouldn't Drop Out
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the abuse allegations made by Lyndsey Fifield against far-left Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. When asked if Platner should drop out of the race, Capehart eventually said no because it is unfair to hold anyone running for office to any moral standard because Donald Trump is currently the president.…
A Day Late: ABC Finally Covers Platner’s ‘Firestorm of Controversy’
Friday’s CBS Mornings was the first major broadcast network flagship newscast to mention the allegations laid out by ex-girlfriends of Maine Democrat senatorial candidate Graham Platner with nothing on ABC or NBC, and all three networks skipping it Thursday night. By Friday night, however, ABC’s World News Tonight covered the disturbing claims and the CBS Evening News…
Sunny Hostin Is ‘Embarrassed’ By America, Calls it ‘Failed Experiment’
With America’s 250th birthday coming up next month, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin went on an anti-American rant during Friday’s episode of The View. Hostin, who once said she felt more comfortable in Ghana than America, proclaimed she was “embarrassed” by many things about the country that gave her the privilege to be a multimillionaire TV co-host. She even asserted that…
ABC, NBC Ignore Disturbing New Allegations Against Maine Dem Platner
On Thursday afternoon, The New York Times released a long-rumored item about embattled Maine Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner that detailed claims many will find abusive toward ex-girlfriends. The major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – saw no reason to tell viewers about it on their flagship Thursday night newscasts. On their lead Friday morning shows, the…
Fallon Suggests CBS Will Hire Vladimir Putin 'To Appeal To Trump'
NBC’s Jimmy Fallon returned to the subject of CBS and 60 Minutes firing Scott Pelley on Thursday by playing a satirical 60 Minutes intro that featured what he considered to be some of the replacements CBS could try to “appeal to Trump” and included Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Graham Platner Accuser Torches New York Times, Claims She Was 'Set Up'
Late on Thursday, the New York Times came out with a story by Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer that featured GOP operative Lyndsey Fifield making accusations against progressive darling and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, including how “she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab…
Ex-NBC Boss Rips Weiss: 'What the Hell Is Going on with This Lady?'
Appearing as a guest late Wednesday on MS NOW's The 11th Hour, former NBC News chairman Andy Lack slammed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for her efforts to reform the 60 Minutes show, including the recent firing of Scott Pelley, displaying an almost sexist attitude toward Weiss as he imagined how 60 Minutes founder Don Hewitt might have responded.
Jon Stewart Wonders 'Is America Aligning With The Axis Powers?'
While hosting Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Wednesday, Jon Stewart unleashed some foreign policy analysis so ridiculous that it makes one wonder what planet he has been living on for the past 12 years. While interviewing New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells, Stewart wondered if America is now “aligning with the Axis” powers, while Wallace-Wells channeled…
Hostin, Swisher Have Dust Up Over Confronting Trump on Press Insults
Thursday was author and podcaster Kara Swisher’s last day filling in for co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View and she went out with some sparks. Swisher clashed with co-host Sunny Hostin on the role of White House beat reporters when one of their own was directly called out and insulted by President Trump. Hostin wanted a swift and stern confront, while Swisher argued for reporters not…
Tapper Spills 14 Mins Fretting Pelley Axing, Cues Up MacFarlane, Moran
CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper leaned on his sanctimonious reputation late Wednesday afternoon as he devoted the first 14 minutes to huffing about CBS News firing longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for his petulant reenactment of Pickett’s Charge, thinking he could eviscerate his bosses and intimidate them in his “house.” For the second of three segments, Tapper…
Kosta On Pratt Support: 'How Did This Country Get So Stupid'
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host of the week, Michael Kosta, unwittingly announced to the world on Wednesday that he lives in a bubble. While discussing former reality show personality Spencer Pratt’s rise in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, Kosta wondered, “How did this country get so stupid?” and concluded it was because nobody reads books anymore. Speaking of books, Kosta later…
'The Black Crowes' FAFO'd Hard After Reprimanding Patriotic Fans
If you’re an old, washed-up, one-hit wonder, you should probably be grateful to still have fans who show up to your concerts. That was definitely not the case with Chris Robinson from The Black Crowes, who performed Sunday in Tampa, Florida, and decided to bite the hand (and country) that feeds him by denouncing fans for chanting, “USA” when the band’s crow mascot was shown dressed as…
Jimmies Attack 'Suck-Ups at CBS' for Firing Pelley to 'Appease' Trump
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and NBC’s The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon denounced CBS for firing 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after his meltdown during an internal meeting where he viciously attacked his new bosses. Both alleged, with no evidence, that CBS is moving dramatically rightward while making the same quip about Pelley being replaced by Stephen Colbert’s replacement…
