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Not surprisingly, Real Time host Bill Maher devoted his opening monologue Friday night to trashing President Trump. He began by talking about how El Paso and Dayton are "still reeling from two disasters: a mass shooting, and a Trump visit." After calling President Trump a "whiny little b**ch," Maher proceeded to put himself in the shoes of a shooting victim who got a visit from President Trump at…
During Thursday's edition of CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon and his panel discussed the controversy surrounding Stephen Ross, the billionaire owner of Equinox and SoulCycle. Despite the fact that Ross also owns the complex known as Hudson Yards that CNN just moved to, Lemon and most of his panel trashed Ross's decision to host a to host a fundraiser for President Trump. Republican guest Doug Heye…
During Wednesday’s edition of Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee rejected the idea that mental illness played a role in the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. According to Bee, “painting mass shooters as mentally ill is unfair to the vast majority of mentally ill people who aren’t stocking up on killing machines.” After describing the mental illness argument as a “lazy assumption,” Bee put up…
Just a week after giving a lecture on the importance of student loan forgiveness, supposed comedian Samantha Bee gave a lecture on gun control during Wednesday's edition of Full Frontal. Bee expressed her desire to "get rid of the guns" before dismissing the idea that mental illness was a contributing factor in the El Paso mass shooting: "being a racist monster isn't a mental illness...in fact,…
Less than 24 hours after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, fill-in host Jonathan Karl interviewed Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week. Karl's interview with Mulvaney came just about an hour after arguing that it was "fair" to blame President Trump for the mass shootings. Karl picked up on that idea during his interview with…
Not surprisingly, CNN host Chris Cuomo devoted his closing argument Friday night to trashing President Trump as a racist and a demagogue. According to Cuomo, the President's tweet highlighting the robbery of Congressman Elijah Cummings's house was just another example of him "being a demagogue" and "giving people that he thinks are predisposed to dislike people like Cummings a curled lip chortle…
While Bill Maher's closing monologue on Friday's edition of Real Time included the usual jabs at President Trump, it also provided Democrats with a reality check. After informing the audience that disappointment with the "left-wing extremism" that "every incumbent since FDR has won if they avoided a recession leading up to the election year," Maher expressed disappointment with the "left-wing…
During CNN Right Now Thursday, host Brianna Keilar and her panel analyzed the CNN Democratic debates. Keilar asked the panel to weigh in on Tulsi Gabbard, who "ripped into Senator Kamala Harris on her record as Attorney General in California." While panelist A.B. Stoddard admitted that Harris "should have been ready for that," she also complained that the moderators did not ask Gabbard about her…
During CNN Right Now Thursday, host Brianna Keilar and her panel analyzed the CNN Democratic debates. In addition to praising Joe Biden's performance, panelist A.B. Stoddard accused President Trump of lying by claiming that he "got those cages from Obama" and agreed with Democratic Senator Chris Coons's description of the family separation policy as "government-sponsored child abuse." CNN…
During Wednesday's edition of The Beat With Ari Melber, the eponymous host shared some newly released audio from the Nixon Presidential Library featuring then-California Governor Ronald Reagan referring to people from African countries as "monkeys" during a conversation with then-President Nixon. While the "monkeys" comment is indefensible, Melber used the audio as an excuse to smear all…