Bill D'Agostino
Bill D'Agostino | April 1, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Sunday, ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos served up a heavy dose of “blue wave” rhetoric, featuring a segment dedicated to the purported Democratic surge, an interview with a Democratic Senator from a red state, and a Republican strategist who had already decided that the GOP would be losing the House in 2018 “by 40 or 50 seats.” 
Bill D'Agostino | April 1, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Sunday, Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina shut down Face The Nation moderator Margaret Brennan when she implied that he was partially responsible for the current disunity in Washington.  The Congressman appeared on the show in tandem with Senator and fellow South Carolinian Tim Scott to discuss a book they had had co-authored,…
Bill D'Agostino | March 29, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have long bemoaned President Trump’s frequent use of Twitter to opine on political matters. But on Thursday, the Morning Joe hosts seemed almost perturbed that the President had thus far refrained from tweeting about the Stormy Daniels scandal since her appearance on 60 Minutes.
Bill D'Agostino | March 28, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Wednesday marked the historic day that MSNBC Contributor John Heilemann would hold Morning Joe panelists to a standard of honesty rarely seen on the show. When hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski interpreted a transparently inconsequential poll as a portent of a Trump defeat in 2020, Heilemann objected, soundly dismissing both the poll and their…
Bill D'Agostino | March 26, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Following the highly anticipated 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels, panelists on Monday’s Morning Joe changed their tone on the scandal, approaching the story with a heretofore unseen level of skepticism. MSNBC contributor John Heilemann complained that the interview ‘fell short,’ while host Joe Scarborough and George Washington University Law…
Bill D'Agostino | March 24, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. As anticipated, on Saturday CNN provided wall-to-wall coverage of the highly promoted March for Our Lives in Washington, DC. The march was portrayed as a revolutionary grassroots movement by left-leaning journalists, who coincidentally happened to share the views of the march’s organizers and speakers. 
Bill D'Agostino | March 23, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Since the Stormy Daniels story broke, network and cable news have given the scandal near-daily attention, with CNN even devoting over half of its total primetime coverage one evening to the porn star’s lawsuit against President Trump. Her appearance on 60 Minutes, which is set to air on March 25, has been hyped enthusiastically by the media, and it…
Bill D'Agostino | March 21, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters.  On Wednesday, Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski was repeatedly struck speechless with adoration during an interview with former CIA Director John Brennan.  Brennan had scored points with Brzezinski and her compatriots in the past with his verbose tweets attacking the President, some of which Brzezinski had displayed on screen for viewers to…
Bill D'Agostino | March 20, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Tuesday, a Morning Joe panel comprised entirely of liberals conducted a saccharine softball interview with Tom Steyer, the founder of the Need To Impeach campaign which has been running ads on MSNBC for months.
Bill D'Agostino | March 19, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Monday, Deadline: White House absentee host Nicolle Wallace found a sufficiently emotive replacement in Peter Alexander, who managed to suggest within the first four minutes that President Trump’s tweets constituted obstruction of justice.