Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | May 6, 2019
Appearing on Meet the Press Sunday, Princeton University professor and frequent MSNBC guest Eddie Glaude urged Congressional Democrats to "uphold their Constitutional responsibility," clearly implying that he was talking about starting impeachment hearings. After arguing that Congressional Democrats "have to assert the role and responsibility of the Congress for oversight," Glaude began making…
Ryan Foley | May 3, 2019
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert devoted his opening monologue Wednesday night to trashing Attorney General Bill Barr. Colbert closed his opening monologue by commending Senate Democrats for their questioning of Barr; beginning with Senator Mazie Hirono; praising her for taking whacks at Barr's "piñata of perjury." During her remarks, Hirono listed Rudy Giuliani and Kellyanne Conway as "people…
Ryan Foley | May 3, 2019
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert devoted his opening monologue Wednesday night to trashing Attorney General Bill Barr. He compared Barr's four-page summary of the Mueller report to “a dolphin with a sack of crap” and reacted to Barr’s description of Mueller’s letter critiquing him as “a bit snitty” by saying “your four-page summary was a steaming pile of snit.”  After playing a clip of Barr…
Ryan Foley | May 2, 2019
During a two-minute monologue on MSNBC's Deadline: White House Wednesday, NBC News National Affairs Analyst John Heilemann trashed Attorney General Bill Barr and suggested that he should be impeached. Heilemann contended that since the release of the Mueller Report, "everything he's done has been pure political hackery and filled with lies, filled with misrepresentations." Heilemann also accused…
Ryan Foley | May 1, 2019
During a discussion about white privilege and Mayor Pete Buttigieg on The View Tuesday, co-host Joy Behar tried to argue that even poor "white guys who don't have a lot" have white privilege: "even though you're having a hard time, you still have a privilege if you're white, even if you're poor only because of the things I just said. If you have some money, you can buy a house wherever you want.…
Ryan Foley | May 1, 2019
The ladies of The View praised South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg for admitting he has white privilege during an appearance on The Daily Show.  Co-host Joy Behar praised Buttigieg for merely "acknowledging" his white privilege, describing his acknowledgment as a "huge step," and praising him for having the "self-awareness that you're privileged just because of…
Ryan Foley | April 30, 2019
Not surprisingly, the ladies of The View decided to politicize the shooting that took place at a synagogue in Poway, California over the weekend.  Co-host Joy Behar had the most outrageous analysis; laying the blame for the tragedy at the feet of President Trump. After slamming President Trump for his most recent statement about Charlottesville, Behar criticized the President for talking out of "…
Ryan Foley | April 29, 2019
On Sunday's edition of her weekly syndicated show Full Measure, host Sharyl Attkisson discussed the results of a poll conducted by Scott Rasmussen that reflects very negatively on media credibility. During an on-screen interview with Attkisson, the pollster highlighted the most shocking result of the poll: "78 percent of voters say that...what reporters do with political news is promote their…
Ryan Foley | April 29, 2019
Sharyl Attkisson began the latest edition of her weekly syndicated show Full Measure with an in-depth report on the growing distrust of the media. Attkisson went through the results of a poll conducted for Full Measure by pollster Scott Rasmussen, which had some devastating results for media credibility.  A plurality of those surveyed, 42 percent, saw national political news coverage as "…
Ryan Foley | April 27, 2019
During Friday’s edition of Real Time With Bill Maher, the eponymous host and his panel weighed in on the Kate Smith debate. The legendary singer has become a target of the PC police because “she sang a horrible racist song in the 30s.”  Former NBC Sportscaster Bob Costas advised against writing her “out of history posthumously” and argued that “we make the mistake of assuming that our cultural…