Two journalists on CNN’s Reliable Sources fretted about the media focus on Democratic infighting over the $3.5 trillion social infrastructure bill instead of highlighting all the great things in the huge bill. “There’s this narrative that it’s Democrats dividing over this. I actually think this is just Democrats deciding how they’re going to actually get this done,” Time magazine senior…
Chastising former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, on Sunday’s This Week on ABC, left-wing radio and online talk host Roland Martin declared “too many Republicans chose power and riding with Donald Trump, as opposed to patriotism and America.”
Martin, once an analyst for CNN, was reacting to Christie’s recent comment declaring the election over and urging the end to election conspiracy talk…
Reacting to National Review editor Rich Lowry’s point that the Supreme Court’s procedural ruling letting stand a Texas abortion law did not overturn Roe v Wade, a guest on MSNBC declared such a take should not be allowed on TV. NYU law professor Melissa Murray asserted “that take is absolutely absurd and really has no business being broadcast on mainstream television.”
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MSNBC Joy Reid ended her Friday night show by railing against Republicans for daring to show restraint in spending taxpayer money. Citing Republican “cruelty” in not spending more on school lunch programs, she showed special contempt for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision blocking, as unconstitutional, President Biden’s moratorium on rental evictions: “Yay! Three-and-a-half million Americans could…
President Biden’s handling of Afghanistan is a success, Matthew Dowd contended on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday where he also lamented how it has taken attention away from “the assault on own democracy.” Dowd, the former chief political analyst for ABC News, complained to host Brian Stelter “the press has a tendency to judge things by anecdotes,” but “data for the last week shows Joe Biden has…
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday featured a guest who charged “the politics of Republican redistricting really reflects a kind of ugly logic of removal” where “they’re trying to disappear certain voices and populations.” Cristina Beltran, associate professor at New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, asserted “Stephen Miller couldn’t do it or Trump couldn’t do it,” but now…
On CNN on Saturday afternoon, Jim Acosta blamed Republican politicians for COVID-19 deaths, particularly Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “Instead of the Delta Variant, why not call it the DeSantis Variant?” the anchor, known for his hostility to President Trump when he covered the White House, asked. With a matching image on screen, Acosta suggested “we could sell beer koozies that say ‘Don’t…
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday brought aboard Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who survived the 1978 Jonestown massacre, to equate the “cult of Trump” with the mass murder-suicide of about 900 followers of Jim Jones in Guyana. “I wanted to hear her thoughts about the comparison, the notion of the cult of Trump,” Stelter set up the interview, touting how “she did not mince words.”
Speier, who was…
Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein gained attention on Sunday for claiming on CNN that former President Trump is “our own American war criminal.”
But his over the top invective against Trump is nothing new, as a quick trip through the CNN archive shows. In 2017, he declared of Trump’s decision to remove the FBI director, “this is a potentially more dangerous situation than Watergate…
Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. on Sunday argued the news media “should move on from” caring about attracting just as many Republicans as Democrats to read or view their reporting. Picking up on a column he wrote last week, Bacon contended the “core mission” of the media is to present “facts” and “an evidence-based view of the world.”
He then proceeded to show how his ideas of facts…
