Bill D'Agostino
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Predictably, Friday's cable coverage was abuzz with talk of former FBI Director Comey's new book, which has cashed in on the highly profitable craze for Trump insider dirt. But on Morning Joe, BBC reporter Katty Kay broke ranks when she pointed out that the "pettiness" and "personal edge" of Comey's narration undermined the book's credibility.
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The hype for James Comey’s book tour (set to launch on ABC Sunday evening with an hour-long George Stephanopoulos special) actually began months ago. And while liberal journalists are clearly hoping for Comey to dish the dirt on President Donald Trump, there was a time when they hammered him as a partisan hack whose investigation into then-candidate Hillary…
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Many in the liberal media have blamed the recent alleged chemical attack in Syria on President Trump, citing his vow to pull American troops out of the region as having “emboldened” Assad. Yet the same networks wildly praised the “amazing” and “potentially groundbreaking” 2013 deal in which President Obama entrusted Russian forces with the disposal of…
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Following the revelation on Monday that the FBI had raided the office of Donald Trump’s lawyer, the recent developments in Syria took a back seat on MSNBC’s evening shows. However, Hardball host Chris Matthews found a creative way to tie the stories together: by predicting the President would bomb Syria to distract from the raid.
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On a news day otherwise dominated by talk of the alleged chemical attack in Syria, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace flipped the script on Monday and spent an uninterrupted, commercial-free hour salivating over reports that FBI had raided the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
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Joe Scarborough is deeply concerned about President Trump’s Twitter habits. On Tuesday, the Morning Joe host attempted to take the President to task by reciting a slew of negative words that had appeared in his tweets over the previous 24 hours, after which he suffered a full-scale meltdown over Trump’s most recent tweet storm.
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On Monday, political commentator Charlie Sykes made a guest appearance on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, wherein he disparaged both President Trump and his base. Among his bolder assertions was the claim that the President's base didn't care "whether he actually accomplishes anything," so long as they saw him "fighting."
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On Monday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough stuffed his foot into his mouth with alarming force when he dismissed reports of a caravan of immigrants travelling to the U.S. as “absolutely preposterous.”
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On Sunday, ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos served up a heavy dose of “blue wave” rhetoric, featuring a segment dedicated to the purported Democratic surge, an interview with a Democratic Senator from a red state, and a Republican strategist who had already decided that the GOP would be losing the House in 2018 “by 40 or 50 seats.”
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On Sunday, Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina shut down Face The Nation moderator Margaret Brennan when she implied that he was partially responsible for the current disunity in Washington.
The Congressman appeared on the show in tandem with Senator and fellow South Carolinian Tim Scott to discuss a book they had had co-authored,…