As President Biden is mired in approval ratings in the 30s, ABC’s This Week on Sunday delivered the developing media spin: Biden is a victim of circumstances, powerless to address the issues dragging him down, such as inflation or the out of control southern border.
Host George Stephanopoulos proposed: “When it comes to inflation, there’s not much the president can do about it?” Guest Maria…
Democrats must scare voters about the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House, if they are to have any chance of surviving the mid-terms, two guests on an insider political TV show contended. The advice was endorsed by of the two hosts on Sunday’s weekly The Circus on Showtime, hosted by political-media insiders John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon, Alex Wagner and Jenn Palmieri.
After…
When President George H.W. Bush replaced Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court with Clarence Thomas, at least Republicans at the time “accepted” the “idea of at least one black seat on the court,” but not anymore, Bill Maher contended. Friday night on his HBO show, he asserted: “I think today’s Republicans would not do that. I think they would be thrilled to have no black seats on the court.”…
The panel on ABC’s The View on Friday declared Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson (KBJ) “overqualified” and contended criticism of her, from Republican Senator Josh Hawley and others, is based on a racist fear of black women.
“She’s outstanding,” Whoopi Goldberg announced before denigrating President Trump’s nominees. “So, you put in Amy Coney Barrett, you put in the other one, you…
If Donald Trump were still president when Russia invaded Ukraine, “we would be in a completely different place,” a much worse place, New York Times correspondent Helene Cooper contended on Sunday’s Meet the Press.
Trump, she argued, “would already have pulled us out of NATO” and “the first thing he would have said is, ‘It’s not our problem. Ukraine is not our problem.’ That’s it. Go off and do…
NBC anchor Lester Holt repeatedly badgered former attorney general Bill Barr to acknowledge the U.S. is marred by systemic racism and racist police, but Barr rejected the premise.
In an NBC News Special which aired Sunday night, Barr said Black Lives Matter was based on a “big lie” since it’s “based on the premise that the main threat to black welfare in the inner city are out of control police…
Minutes after President Biden on Friday announced Ketanji Brown Jackson as his pick for a Supreme Court seat, CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates went into full gush mode, declaring “her credentials, frankly, sounded as if Mount Olympus decided to choose and give her each of the credentials and gave this great, almost a legal deity, of sorts.”
Coates had begun by glowing over how “I’m not…
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on Sunday used her appearance on CNN to tar Republicans against the left-wing “voting rights” agenda as no better than the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Goodwin recalled how “in the last speech he makes...a few days before he dies,” Lincoln talked about “extending the right to vote to African-Americans who had fought in the war. He then loses his…
“If document preservation hypocrisy were an Olympic sport, Trump would easily take home the gold,” CNN anchor Jim Acosta charged Saturday afternoon in citing allegations about how the former president had mishandled documents, including the allegation he flushed some down a White House toilet.
After ridiculing Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz, Acosta suggested “the MAGA…
Brian Stelter, anchor of Reliable Sources, concluded his Sunday show by going “a little bit rogue” with a vociferous defense of CNN, claiming critics who say it’s full of opinion “don’t know what they’re talking about.”
In the wake of CNN President Jeff Zucker’s departure last week, Stelter launched a passionate defense of his network: “The people who say we’re lacking journalism, that we’ve…