Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | June 13, 2020
Left-wing comedian Samantha Bee jumped fully on board the "defund the police" movement on Wednesday's edition of Full Frontal. After describing the implementation of body cameras as "weak tweaks," Bee proclaimed "there is something we can do. We can defund the police." Bee proceeded to recite left-wing talking points about how "defunding the police means we can scale back police budgets over time…
Ryan Foley | June 12, 2020
At the beginning of Thursday's CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon accused White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow of "white mansplaining" by denying the existence of systemic racism in America. According to Lemon, "If you really want to understand racism in America, just think about your...phone...the factory reset is whiteness." Lemon went on to contend that "once you think about it like that, if you…
Ryan Foley | June 10, 2020
Appearing on Tuesday's edition of PBS NewsHour, Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine, talked about how "one of the active debates we had over the past week was about the use of the word 'looting' to describe the destruction of the property." According to Pearlstine, "the feeling among the black journalists at The Los Angeles Times, who frankly educated the rest of us that looting…
Ryan Foley | June 8, 2020
Sunday's edition of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver featured the eponymous host going on a profane rant against the police. He praised a man who called into an LA Police Commission Meeting and told Chief Michel Moore to "suck my d*** and choke on it" as "this generation's Robert Frost." Oliver himself directed the phrase "suck my d*** and choke on it" to people who are "asking why a…
Ryan Foley | June 5, 2020
On Friday's edition of Late Night, host Seth Meyers trashed Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed in The New York Times calling for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and argued that the United States has become an authoritarian regime. Meyers described Cotton's op-ed as "chilling" and claimed "he lied repeatedly about the demonstrations." Speaking about Cotton and Republicans, Meyers declared "…
Ryan Foley | June 4, 2020
CNN host Chris Cuomo spent his closing argument Wednesday night dismissing the calls for peaceful protests and an end to the rioting and looting plaguing America's cities. According to Cuomo, "people don't have to protest in only the ways that Trump and his followers like. What they call 'peaceful' means 'passive,' 'be quiet, go home.'"  Cuomo proceeded to ponder whether "Trump wants these people…
Ryan Foley | June 2, 2020
Monday's edition of Erin Burnett OutFront concluded with the eponymous host interviewing longtime CNN journalist Bernard Shaw; who was brought on to reflect on the network's 40th anniversary. However, he ended up spending most of his airtime trashing President Trump. According to Shaw, "the critical focus of history will judge Donald Trump as a presidential aberration. Walking from the White…
Ryan Foley | June 1, 2020
Left-wing comedian Bill Maher closed Friday's edition of Real Time by comparing President Trump to a murderous Nigerian dictator: "he is the worst leader the world has seen since Idi Amin stopped eating the voters." Maher's references touches upon rumors that the late Nigerian dictator Idi Amin was a cannibal. Maher spent the rest of his monologue going after Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom he seemed to…
Ryan Foley | May 30, 2020
The liberal media have used President Trump's tweet announcing that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" as the latest excuse to compare him to the late segregationist leader George Wallace. Appearing on The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell Friday, Joy Reid proclaimed that Trump "essentially challenged sort of a George Wallace." She also compared Trump to "one of the most violent…
Ryan Foley | May 29, 2020
As he reported from an out-of-control protest in Minneapolis that had morphed into a full-blown riot Thursday night, MSNBC's Ali Velshi stood in front of a burning building. Rather than characterize what was happening as a riot, Velshi proclaimed: "this is mostly a protest...It is not, generally speaking, unruly." Velshi added a caveat: "but fires have been started and there's a crowd that is…