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CNN host Brian Stelter mocked Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel for condemning the Jim Comey book on Friday without reading it. "You have go to read the book first," Stelter cracked. But who in America already has the Comey book, when it comes out on Tuesday? It's being discussed ad infinitum by non-readers. He set up a snippet from The Lead on Friday and called it "pretty…
On Thursday, NBC Today co-host Savannah Guthrie grilled Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshawi about his company's culture of sex harassment before he was hired, which she described as an "Animal House" environment. The Uber boss was too polite to suggest that Matt Lauer's team was probably not the ideal set of prosecutors on a hostile work environment.
On the NBC show Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Catholic Church was roasted as a den of pedophiles.
Seth Meyers: "The Vatican recently refused to host an international women's day conference because one of the speakers was a lesbian." Writer Jenny Hagel: "...and because they're too busy hosting a 2,000-year-long pedophile convention."
Meyers mangled the facts. NBC probably shouldn't be…
CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter interviewed New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on Sunday. None of his questions or statements were the slightest bit challenging to Baquet or the Times. They sounded like an interview that Times public relations execs dream about. "Oh Dean, your paper is so true. And so profitable. And yet, they criticize you? Are they out of control?"
On Monday’s CNN Tonight, anchor Don Lemon devoted a segment to questioning a picture of the latest class of White House interns, which is overwhelmingly white. Lemon also showed a picture of Obama’s 2014 interns, which was much more racially diverse. Lemon asked “Are we going backwards?”
Ryan Saavedra of the Daily Wire reports the conversation devolved into alleged Republican Tara Setmayer…
Perhaps the most surprising moment in Anderson Cooper's 26 minutes of Stormy Daniels reporting on Sunday's 60 Minutes was Cooper noting to her lawyer Michael Avenatti that he had a Democratic background. Avenatti boasted that was very old news, that he hadn't done anything political in "over 20 years." Fact check: It's not.
On The View on Wednesday, the ABC crew welcomed TBS political satirist Samantha Bee to promote a special episode on Puerto Rico recovering from hurricane damage. They asked about President Trump, and Bee said it was "worse than I imagined," more "incoherent" and more "mean-spirited." That's pretty rich coming from mean-spirited Bee.
On Monday's edition of The View on ABC, they talked about the liberal "March for Our Lives" protest against the gun-rights movement. Co-host Meghan McCain wonder if the wild language of the child activists like David Hogg calling Republicans "sick f---ers" was counterproductive, and three of her liberal counterparts rushed to Hogg's defense. Whoopi Goldberg argued "whether they're cussing you out…
On his Fox News show on Thursday night, Sean Hannity underlined an obvious point about the current push to publicize "adult entertainment" providers like Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal and their allegations of (consensual) adultery with Donald Trump before he was president. The networks were extremely reluctant to publicize allegations of sexual harassment and even sexual assault when the…