Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | May 9, 2020
The panel on Saturday's edition of AM Joy wasted no time blaming the NRA as well as President Trump for the shooting of African-American Glynn County, Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery. Vanderbilt University Professor Jonathan Metzl pointed the finger at "all the rhetoric coming out of the NRA...and the GOP has created terminology like Stand Your Ground or what I write about in my book, the Castle…
Ryan Foley | May 8, 2020
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert sat down with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for nearly the entire show Thursday night and the interview was loaded with softballs. Towards the end of the interview, Colbert brought up a survey finding that the Cuomo brothers (Chris and Andrew) were "tied as the most desirable men in New York." Colbert proceeded to ask Cuomo "as an older brother, can you abide…
Ryan Foley | May 5, 2020
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert devoted his opening monologue Monday night to trashing the Trump administration's response to Coronavirus. Colbert accused President Trump of "willfully endangering the lives of Americans" by encouraging the reopening of the economy, citing a New York Times article claiming that "Trump Administration Models Predict Near Doubling of Daily Death Toll by June."…
Ryan Foley | May 2, 2020
As he interviewed former Attorney General Eric Holder Friday, Real Time host Bill Maher resurrected his paranoia about President Trump refusing to leave office if he loses the election. When Holder informed Maher that law enforcement officials "have the ability" to remove President Trump from office if he refuses to leave, Maher questioned whether "they have the will" to do that because "police…
Ryan Foley | April 30, 2020
Liberal comedian Samantha Bee sat down with Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Wednesday's edition of Full Frontal. Bee began the interview by proclaiming "I know that running for Vice President must be a very full schedule for you" and asking "how are you going to balance being the V.P. but also being the Attorney General?" After making it clear that she wanted "so bad" for that scenario to play…
Ryan Foley | December 28, 2019
Friday's Cuomo Prime Time featured a segment with three guests making their predictions regarding "what to watch for in the coming year." CNN contributor Wajahat Ali predicted that "the death rattle of white supremacy" will be one of the biggest stories of 2020 before painting Trump's election as a result of white supremacy: "what we saw from 2016 with the election of Trump, every study has shown…
Ryan Foley | December 27, 2019
On Thursday's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough held a panel discussion focused on "what it would take for evangelicals to turn on President Trump." The New Yorker's Michael Luo, who wrote a piece with that title, contended that white evangelicals support President Trump because of "a fusion of cultural beliefs, religion and culture that mix together...particularly actually around the sense that…
Ryan Foley | December 23, 2019
Sunday's edition of Reliable Sources featured a ten-minute segment painting Republicans and President Trump as liars and trashing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. No member of the panel had more ridiculous analysis than Russian chess champ Garry Kasparov. Host Brian Stelter brought up Kasparov's opinion piece on the CNN website titled "I lived in the post-truth Soviet world and I hear its echoes in…
Ryan Foley | December 21, 2019
During Friday's edition of The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham and Fox News Contributor Raymond Arroyo discussed how "all hell broke loose" when Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch appeared on Fox & Friends and uttered the phrase "Merry Christmas." Arroyo read aloud some tweets from Playboy's Amee Vanderpool and CNN's Brian Stelter while Ingraham brought up a tweet from CNN national…
Ryan Foley | December 20, 2019
Left-wing comedian Samantha Bee traveled to Hong Kong to meet with pro-democracy protesters committed to holding “China accountable for their actions,” airing her interviews on Wednesday’s edition of Full Frontal. A bewildered Bee confronted one of the protesters: “this is a photograph of you with Marco Rubio and you look happy. Please explain.” The protester explained that the Florida Senator…