Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | January 11, 2019
During Thursday's edition of Hannity, host Sean Hannity pointed out how the "hate Trump Democrats" and the "hate Trump media" have engaged in collusion by deciding to dismiss the situation at the southern border as a "manufactured crisis." After playing clips of Democrats dismissing the massive flow of illegal immigrants at the border as a "manufactured crisis," Hannity talked about how "their…
Ryan Foley | January 10, 2019
During Wednesday's edition of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and his panel reacted with scorn to President Trump's Oval Office address. Scarborough described the government shutdown as a "Seinfeld shutdown," adding that it is "all about nothing."  Co-host Mika Brzezinski interrupted Scarborough to describe the Trump Presidency as "a Seinfeld Presidency."  Brzezinski had compared President…
Ryan Foley | January 9, 2019
During Tuesday's edition of The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, the eponymous host asked historian Jon Meacham to address a tweet he sent out earlier in the evening, featuring a quote from Georgia Governor Clifford Walker at a 1924 Ku Klux Klan Convention, who argued that America should "build a wall of steel, a wall as high as Heaven."  Meacham concluded the tweet with the hashtag #…
Ryan Foley | January 8, 2019
During Monday's edition of Morning Joe, Panelist John Heilemann attempted to explain why Republicans have decided to stand behind President Trump in the midst of the government shutdown caused by a stalemate over the President's much-promised border wall: "the concern of a lot of Republicans is they can see that Trump is driving them off the cliff but they look at the short term and they fear not…
Ryan Foley | January 8, 2019
During Monday's edition of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and his panel predicted that the Republican Party will be "reduced to dust" if it continues to stand behind President Trump amid the government shutdown. Scarborough asked "why does this party continue marching over the cliff like lemmings behind a guy...whose approval rating is about 40 percent on an issue where 75 percent of Americans…
Ryan Foley | January 7, 2019
During Sunday's edition of Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter and his panel discussed a book by former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson that argues that the paper has become too anti-Trump.  New York Times columnist Frank Bruni did his best to justify the paper's negative coverage of the President: "he's a singular President, he was a singular candidate, no one has lied like him...…
Ryan Foley | January 5, 2019
  During Thursday's edition of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough brought up the well-worn topic of invoking the 25th Amendment.  According to Scarborough, "if we had a cabinet that was filled with people with more character...if we had a House and a Senate that took their job seriously, there would be people going up to the White House this morning saying, Mr. President, questions abound whether…
Ryan Foley | January 4, 2019
During Thursday's edition of The View, the panel reacted to a clip of Wednesday's Tucker Carlson Tonight, where the eponymous host pointed to studies showing that "when men make less money than women, women generally don't want to marry them." Carlson went on to point out that men making less money leads to higher out-of-wedlock birthrates and "all of the disasters that inevitably follow."  Co-…
Ryan Foley | January 3, 2019
During Wednesday's edition of The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld delivered a monologue addressing Utah Senator-elect Mitt Romney's op-ed offering scathing criticism of President Trump's character.  According to Gutfeld, "Mitt's still mad about Trump and The Washington Post and CNN will let him cry on their shoulder...it's tempting for Mitt. It feels good to get hugs from a media that once branded you…
Ryan Foley | December 31, 2018
During Sunday's edition of Up With David Gura, guest host Yasmin Vossoughian and her panel discussed comments made by John Kelly during a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. After describing the Trump administration as "a bunch of complicit people who are all there for their own reasons," panelist Elie Mystal expressed disagreement with Kelly's assertion that he had compassion for the…