David Milliken
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On Thursday’s episode of The 11th Hour, MSNBC showed yet again the extent of their lack of self-awareness. Host Stephanie Ruhle used a discussion with author Ryan Holiday as an occasion to weaponize classical Stoic philosophy, and the memory of the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, for the purposes of the 21st-century left-wing media’s political hang-ups.
Ruhle began by…
MSNBC seems to have found their latest outlet for their Trump-bashing fixation in the far-fetched conspiracy theory that the president’s recent tariff impositions were all a setup for insider trading beneficial to him and his close associates. On Thursday’s episode of The 11th Hour, host Stephanie Ruhle fleshed out this idea on the spot, based on the flimsiest of evidence, and refused to drop…
On their Wednesday episode, ABC’s The View spewed their usual vitriol about the Trump administration, with Joy Behar especially going above and beyond. As the rest of the panel cheered her on, she spun an on-the-spot conspiracy theory, with zero to flimsy evidence, about Trump plotting to declare martial law and make himself a dictator. She threw that piece of fiction out there as though it…
ABC’s The View hosted Senator Cory Booker (D- NJ) Monday morning, following his record-breaking 25-hour yap-fest on the Senate floor the previous week. The panel had very little specific to ask Booker, though, and spent most of their time praising him to the sky, and applauding as he trotted out a few stock Democratic talking points.
Whoopi Goldberg welcomed Booker with this hard hitting…
On ABC’s The View Friday, during the usual shrieking against President Trump, mention was made of Biden adviser Ron Klain’s new book about Biden’s decline while in office. There was some acknowledgement from the panel that maybe Biden was in no shape to run for president by then, but Ana Navarro still maintained that she would rather “have Biden in a coma, over Trump.”
Joy Behar raised the…
On Thursday’s episode of MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Reports, former Romney campaign consultant Stuart Stevens was not content to simply criticize specific things about the Trump administration that he happened to disagree with. Rather, he ran off with wild accusations, calling the administration criminal with zero evidence and offering an alarmist view that “this is not a normal moment.” For her…
On CNN’s Monday episode of Inside Politics with Dana Bash, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker opined that, under the second Trump administration, Democratic leaders who focused on things like attempting to provide government services that their constituents actually wanted were on the wrong path. Rather, in her opinion, they should have been too busy whipping themselves up into a frenzy about a…
MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Monday invited Jason Stanley, Yale University’s so-called “fascism expert” and the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, to mouth off about why he was supposedly moving to Canada. Stanley claimed he was doing so over Columbia University’s “capitulation” to the Trump administration in cracking down on overt anti-Semitism on campus, and cynically used the…
If it had started to seem that CNN couldn’t stoop any lower, they proved that wrong Thursday. That afternoon, the network exploited the memory of one of American television’s most beloved figures as a plug for the taxpayer-subsidized left-wing propaganda machines PBS and NPR as the Trump administration threatened to pull the plug on their funds.
Host Omar Jimenez opened up by quoting a…
If any more proof was needed of how un-self-aware MSNBC really was, Charles Coleman Jr. rose to the occasion while filling in for Monday night’s The 11th Hour. To discuss a reported national security breach of the Trump administration, Coleman ostensibly interviewed Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA.), but in fact just let Swalwell mouth off at will, while completely ignoring the fact that…