U.S. Constitution
PBS's Marx-Quoting 'Conservative' Urges Strikes To Protest Trump
If there were still any questions that PBS is a liberal network in need of defunding, Friday’s News Hour removed any remaining doubts. In a wild segment, host William Brangham preferred the words of the “nonpartisan” League of Women Voters over an anti-Trump law professor who stated the country is not in a constitutional crisis. Meanwhile, New York Times columnist and…
Mystal Smears The Constitution As 'A Piece Of Crap'
The Nation justice correspondent, frequent MSNBC guest, and all around crazy person Elie Mystal took his book tour to The Breakfast Club podcast on Thursday. The premise for Mystal’s book is the laughable premise that every law passed prior to 1965 is unconstitutional, but also that the constitution is “a piece of crap.”
NBC Hypes Biden's 'Warning,' Skips Try To Amend Constitution By Tweet
During NBC’s recap of the week’s headlines on Saturday’s installment of Today, Joe Fryer hyped President Joe Biden’s “warning about the future” of an oligarchy under incoming President Donald Trump. However, Fryer, like his ABC and CBS network counterparts, ignored Biden’s Friday claim that he could amend the Constitution by simply issuing a declaration and posting it on social media…
MSNBC Falsely Claims Court Held Presidents Get To Violate Constitution
Even after having a full day to digest the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, the Tuesday cast of MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart Reports could not manage to accurately inform their audience of what the Court actually ruled. Instead, guest host Katy Tour and her roundtable of legal analysts claimed the Court’s “circular” and “illogical” ruling held the Constitution gives the…
Stewart Asks If The Constitution 'Got Us Into This Mess'
Jon Stewart welcomed Harvard Prof. Steven Levitsky to Comedy Central and Monday’s edition of The Daily Show to promote his new book, Tyranny of the Minority, where he wondered if the Constitution is to blame for the “mess” the country finds itself in.
After Colorado Ballot Case, Reid Worries About 12-Year Old Presidents
MSNBC’s Joy Reid reacted on Monday to the Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump cannot be kicked off Colorado’s primary ballot with The ReidOut’s signature lack of reason as she warned that the Court has opened the door to 12-year old presidents.
MSNBC's Katyal Mourns Colorado Struggled To Defend Disqualifying Trump
Colorado had such a bad day before the Supreme Court as it tried to defend its decision to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot that not even MSNBC and CNN could pretend otherwise. However, for MSNBC legal analyst, former Obama Solicitor General, and self-described “extremist centrist” on Twitter, Neal Katyal, it wasn’t because their arguments were so bad even the liberals appeared highly…
Colbert Butchers Facts to Accuse Texas of Fomenting Civil War
CBS’s Stephen Colbert used the Tuesday edition of The Late Show to launch into an extended factually-challenged diatribe against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s border policies.
Rich Lowry Educates CNN as It Tries to Smear Founding as Racist
National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry had the unenviable task of having to educate the cast of Friday’s CNN This Morning that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were not intended to perpetuate slavery and that the founding was not racist, but he still managed to perform the task quite well.
CNN Pushes the 14th Amendment as an Option to Bypass Congress
In an interview with Senator Bernie Sanders on his eponymous show Thursday night, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper encouraged Sanders to expound on his belief that President Biden should invoke the 14th Amendment to bypass Congress in the debt ceiling negotiation. Despite the questionable constitutionality of such a proposal and Biden's rejection of it as an option, CNN continued to promote the 14th…
CNN Mourns Constitution Blocking Australian-Style Gun Control
The Wednesday couch discussion on CNN Tonight tried to tackle the question why America experiences more mass shootings than other countries and naturally settled on gun ownership as the answers. The natural solution was drastic, Australian-style gun control, but host Alisyn Camerota would lament that people keep citing the Constitution to oppose such measures, “that’s what we here all…
Happy July 4! WashPost Calls For “Independence From Founding Fathers"
For many, the Fourth of July is a time to celebrate the birthday of this great nation and honor the memory of those who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause of liberty. Or, if you’re Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman, you may have decided to pen an opinion piece titled, “This July 4, let’s declare our independence from the Founding Fathers.”
Reid Attacks Supreme Court For Making Congress Do Its Job
For people who spend most of their time warning of the dangers to “our democracy,” media pundits seem to know very little about how the American government is supposed to function. Take MSNBC’s Joy Reid, for example, as she spent the first five minutes of Thursday night’s ReidOut bewailing the numerous monumental cases decided by the Supreme Court this term.
