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During Friday's edition of Real Time With Bill Maher, the eponymous host weighed in on the government shutdown. According to Maher, "Trump was very mad that he didn't get his, you know, Lego wall set for Christmas." Maher expressed his wish that "Democrats don't cave" and argued that their position should be "Trump is holding this country hostage, you don't deal with terrorists," effectively…
During Friday's edition of Real Time With Bill Maher, the eponymous host repeatedly tried to get his guest, Republican Governor of Ohio turned CNN Contributor John Kasich, to call President Trump a "dangerous menace." Kasich refused to comply with Maher's request but he did agree with Maher that "he's doing some things that I think are dangerous." Kasich repeatedly talked about how he did not…
During Friday's edition of Hannity, host Sean Hannity played clips of media figures falling hook, line, and sinker for a Buzzfeed report alleging that President Trump asked his attorney Michael Cohen to lie under oath that later turned out to be faulty. The montage featured "liberal media pundits" "breathlessly, hysterically" predicting President Trump's imminent impeachment, with many comparing…
During Thursday's edition of The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham contrasted the media's coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's request that President Trump delay the State of the Union address because of the partial government shutdown with their coverage of President Trump asking Pelosi to delay an overseas trip due to the shutdown. Ingraham played a montage of "the media cheering just…
During Monday's edition of Erin Burnett OutFront, the eponymous guest and one of her guests, Joan Walsh, freaked out over light-hearted comments made by President Trump at an event for the Clemson Tigers at the White House Monday. Addressing the winners of the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship, President Trump asked "do we have no food for you because we have a shutdown, or do…
During Sunday's edition of The Next Revolution With Steve Hilton, the eponymous host played a montage of Sunday show hosts asking guests if they thought President Trump was a Russian agent, in light of a new New York Times report. State of the Union host Jake Tapper asked Virginia Senator Mark Warner "do you think President Trump is wittingly or unwittingly an agent of Russia?" George…
A group of Democrats have gathered in Puerto Rico to meet with lobbyists and attend a production of the Broadway production Hamilton. However, by watching TV on Sunday, most Americans probably would have no idea. Of the five Sunday talk shows, only Face The Nation bothered to cover the Democrats' convocation in Puerto Rico; which takes place in the midst of a partial government shutdown. Host…
During Thursday's edition of MSNBC's All in With Chris Hayes, the eponymous host delivered a monologue arguing that the immigration debate has never been about the wall. According to Hayes, "the wall originated as a device to jog the President's memory, to make sure to remind him to cater to the most xenophobic part of the base of the Republican Party because there is a cluster of people in the…
During Thursday's edition of All In With Chris Hayes, the eponymous host joined a long list of cable TV personalities who have smeared President Trump's supporters or anyone supportive of building a wall on the southern border with Mexico as racist. According to Hayes, "Donald Trump is at the border and shutting down the government...because he almost certainly correctly thinks his political…
During Thursday's edition of Hannity, host Sean Hannity dug into the archives; playing clips of media figures referring to the surge of illegal immigrant children at the border as a "humanitarian crisis" back in 2014. Hannity contrasted their coverage in 2014 with their coverage of a similar situation today; which they dismiss as a "manufactured crisis." Hannity explained that "somehow in 2014,…