MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough went on a riff Monday morning, arguing that future generations will see Trump rallies with the same “horror” as the Salem witch trials: “If you don’t think people aren’t going to look back at those rallies with the same horror that we now look back on the Salem witch trials, you don’t think that’s going to happen fifty years from now, a hundred years from now? You are…
Dan Rather went on a rant Sunday on CNN, questioning President Trump’s mental stability after he expressed regret that journalists supposedly try to be fair. “As to his mental condition, I know there’s a whole theory that, you know, ‘he’s mentally unstable,’” Rather asserted before saying that while “I’m not qualified to say that, I will say this, that he is constantly engaging in anger, manic…
Veteran newsman Carl Bernstein on Saturday accused President Trump of “homicidal negligence” for how he’s dealt with the pandemic since early in the year. As a guest on CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera, Bernstein cited “the pattern going back to January 28th,” when Trump learned of the threat, and “since then, his response has been homicidal negligence.” He maintained Trump “put his own interests of…
Reacting to President Trump’s remarks about accepting the election results, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman launched an exposition on all the things about Trump which animate Trump haters. On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, Friedman maintained “it’s defcon five” and “this certainly is the most frightening moment in my life.”
Showing his disgust goes beyond Trump and to all things…
On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik lamented how the “mainstream press have to admit we are at a disadvantage” since outlets such as CNN “operates as a journalistic institution.” Meanwhile, “right-wing outlets” such as Fox News, Breitbart and Daily Caller “were founded as political tools” and which “can be just like Donald Trump,” so they “lie,” “smear” and “…
President Trump undermines the media’s power because he lacks “shame” about his lying, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd fretted on his Sunday show. Guest Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, rued how the media have not figured out how to handle Trump’s supposed deliberate policy of misstatements.
Todd then asserted: “As I’ve said, the only way to understand this is to realize he…
Appearing on CNN on Sunday afternoon, veteran White House radio correspondent April Ryan declared “this president, Donald John Trump, has instigated a race war in America.” She charged that Trump “has basically stoked the flames for racist extremists, neo-Nazis, and the alt-right” so “people are now afraid of this president, because he has stoked the racial flames. And let’s call the thing a…
On Friday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch attributed ongoing support for President Trump to widespread racism amongst Americans. “The answer is only one thing: One in three Americans are racists,” Deutsch charged. That third are “terrified” that “the black man or the brown man or the yellow man or woman are going to come and take their jobs and take away their suburbs and scare…
In a segment decrying conservative talk radio outlets which “essentially exist to tear down” Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, CNN host Brian Stelter seriously asked: “Is there an equivalent to that on the left, tearing down Trump?” His guest, Errin Haines, “founding mother” of The 19th, insisted: “There really isn’t.”
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In a segment decrying conservative talk radio outlets which “essentially exist to tear down” Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, CNN host Brian Stelter seriously wondered: “Is there an equivalent to that on the left, tearing down Trump?” His guest, Errin Haines, “founding mother” of The 19th, insisted: “There really isn’t.”
