Capehart: Trump's Smithsonian Feud Is About Destroying 'Our Democracy'
MS NOW’s Jonathan Capehart freaked out on Friday when he guest-hosted The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell over the latest developments between the Trump administration and the Smithsonian Institute. As Capehart tells it, a recent letter from the Interior Department threatening to cease cooperation with the Smithsonian is evidence that Trump is out to destroy democracy and everything else…
AI, ChatGPT, And Its Anti-Trump Propaganda
Amazing. Or maybe not. Over here at NewsBusters, my NB colleague Gabriella Pariseau headlines.
PBS Campaigns For Democrats: 'It Is About Affordability'
PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart essentially openly campaigned on Friday on behalf of Democrats by offering up visions of a more affordable America should Democrats win in November.
ABC Bashes Trump Iran Comments, CBS and NBC Avoid Good Jobs Report
On Friday, the evening newscasts largely avoided the news of a better-than-expected August jobs report as the U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs. The only mention from any of the network evening newscasts came on ABC World News Tonight in a very brief moment inside a segment that bashed President Trump’s comments on the Iran conflict, which he called “small potatoes.”
The View Announces Ted Cruz to Be the First Political Guest Season 30
In what might have been an accidental announcement on Friday’s Good Morning America, The View co-hosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin said that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) would be their first political guest for Season 30, which starts September 8. It’s a major reversal of their habit from the past couple of years as they’ve come under major pressure from the Federal Communications…
ICYMI: Vance Delivers Powerful Defense of New Media at WH Briefing
Vice President JD Vance took to the White House Briefing Room podium Thursday afternoon in the first Trump-Vance administration briefing since Karoline Leavitt ended her remarkable tenure as press secretary and, with the great Nick Gilbertson from Breitbart in the “new media seat,” Vance used the occasion to offer a stirring defense of alternative media and voices outside the liberal elitist…
Hayes, Glaude Baselessly Speculate About Violent Voter Suppression
Princeton Prof. Eddie Glaude Jr. joined MS NOW host Chris Hayes on Thursday’s edition of All In for another segment of election fear-mongering as the duo tried to analogize the Trump administration with the violent Mississippi Plan of the 1870s.
CNN Leans on New Jersey Governor to Downplay Suspicious Voter Rolls
During Wednesday’s OutFront, CNN host Erin Burnett was irked that the Trump administration had agents with the Department of Homeland Security examining voter rolls and removing noncitizens. While framing it as President Trump willing letting Americans be exposed to terrorism and sex trafficking, Burnett brought on Democratic New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who recently announced her state…
MS NOW’s Peter Alexander Makes Gloria Steinem Death About Republicans
Following the news of the death of feminist Gloria Steinem, MS NOW pulled out the big guests for Thursday’s State of Play as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined for remembrance in live interviews. However, host Peter Alexander’s questions later turned into referendums on the current Trump presidency, especially in his interview with Pelosi, as he…
MS NOW Hosts Love MapQuest for Lake America Renaming Refusal
On Wednesday night, after Google and Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario on their respective maps to Lake America, MS NOW hosts Jonathan Capehart and Ali Velshi proclaimed their newfound love for MapQuest because it refused to change the name of the lake to follow a presidential executive order that officially changed the name amid a U.S.-Canada trade war.
Welch Makes VILE Claim About Vance Kids, Insists GOP Hates Veterans
I’ve Had It co-host Jennifer Welch went on a tour de force of venom early Tuesday by, in less than 15 minutes, asserting she and her viewers care more about Vice President JD Vance’s children than he does, deemed it “Islamophobia” to call out Abdul el-Sayed’s deleted tweets about 9/11, insisted Republicans “don’t give a shit” about veterans, and smeared evangelical Christianity as “weird-ass…
Morning Joe Pushes Ossoff 2028 After Innuendo About Natalie Harp
Democratic Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is up for re-election in two months, but the cast of MS NOW’s Morning Joe is already looking ahead two years to 2028. On Thursday, co-host Jonathan Lemire welcomed The New Republic editor Michael Tomasky to talk about his latest article that hyped Ossoff’s ability to create “conflict,” while highlighting his insinuation that President Trump is having an…
PBS Blames Jim Crow for Lack of 'Universal, Simple Benefit Systems'
The Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey joined PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday to allege that the reason why the United States does not have “universal, simple benefit systems” like universal basic income or single-payer health care is because of the legacy of Jim Crow.
MS NOW's Alexander Blames Trump's ICE for Haitian Immigrant's Suicide
On Wednesday's State of Play, the same MS NOW that routinely ignores the thousands of Americans who are killed each year by illegal aliens (including murders and car crashes) made sure to blame President Donald Trump for the alleged suicide of a young Haitian man after his TPS status was revoked.
