Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | July 4, 2020
What was supposed to be a medical discussion on Friday's edition of CNN Newsroom transformed into a full-blown partisan attack on President Trump. When introducing CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Celine Gounder, host Kate Bolduan urged her guest to take "the politics out of it" and focus on "the science and the data" when discussing the risks of the President's outdoors celebration of Independence Day at…
Ryan Foley | June 29, 2020
CNN's Brian Stelter kicked off Sunday's edition of Reliable Sources by asking "what is the cost of lies?" Stelter noted that those were the first words of the HBO mini series "Chernobyl," which dramatized the 1986 nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union. After describing "secrecy, state deception, and endemic lying" as the main themes of Chernobyl, Stelter proceeded to compare the Soviet Union to…
Ryan Foley | June 26, 2020
During the 1:00 PM ET hour on CNN Thursday, host Brianna Keilar went on a rant against the Trump administration: "This is a nation in crisis. We are watching leaders who are in denial and it's killing Americans." She called President Trump "deliberately negligent" and claimed that he "knowingly puts Americans at risk by holding indoor rallies and events and by cutting funding for Coronavirus…
Ryan Foley | June 25, 2020
During a monologue about the epidemic of "harassment and prejudice at home, school, and work" faced by transgender people, Full Frontal host Samantha Bee complained that "even in some women's movements, trans women are left out by trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFS, who hatefully argue that trans women aren't real women." Bee specifically singled out JK Rowling, whom she referred to…
Ryan Foley | June 23, 2020
During a short segment on Monday's edition of The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer and his panel repeatedly trashed President Trump as a racist and managed to invoke yet another Trump-Nixon comparison. Blitzer began the segment by talking about how "the Trump White House is going to new lengths tonight to defend the President after he publicly used a racial slur to describe the coronavirus." The…
Ryan Foley | June 20, 2020
Delivering a report from the White House on Friday’s edition of The Situation Room, CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta scolded White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for saying that she would not be wearing a mask at President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ironically, as Acosta criticized McEnany, who described the decision to wear a mask as a “personal choice,” the CNN…
Ryan Foley | June 18, 2020
After expressing glee about NASCAR removing the confederate flag and HBO removing "Gone With the Wind," Full Frontal host Samantha Bee delivered a monologue about how "while some racist sh** is going away, one thing that isn't is the way the Republican Party punishes black and brown voters for just wanting to vote." According to Bee, "Republicans work incredibly hard to make voting difficult;…
Ryan Foley | June 16, 2020
CNN host Chris Cuomo closed Monday's edition of Cuomo Prime Time by highlighting the Supreme Court's decision declaring that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act "doesn't just make it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a person's sex. It also forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity." While Cuomo cheered the decision as a "stunning defeat for the Trump…
Ryan Foley | June 15, 2020
During an interview with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Sunday's edition of This Week, host George Stephanopoulos attempted to back his guest into a corner: "the President's convention acceptance speech is now scheduled for Jacksonville on August 27th, which is the 60th anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday, when a KKK mob attacked mostly black civil rights protesters. Is it…
Ryan Foley | June 14, 2020
Bill Maher closed Friday's edition of Real Time with a hyperbolic rant directed at Republicans on Capitol Hill. Referring to a leaked conversation where former House Speaker Paul Ryan said "we're a real family here," Maher described Republicans as "a crime family." Maher quickly devolved into sexually charged commentary, theorizing that the most loyal clientele for prostitutes are "successful,…