Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | August 1, 2019
Full Frontal Samantha Bee devoted her opening monologue Wednesday night to promoting student loan forgiveness. According to Bee, "erasing debt wouldn't just help the lives of people burdened by it, it would also help our economy. Research has shown that when people get their student loans forgiven, they move, get new jobs, and ultimately get more money." The TBS host dismissed the concerns of…
Ryan Foley | August 1, 2019
While Full Frontal host Samantha Bee briefly weighed in on the Democratic presidential debates, she devoted most of her opening monologue Wednesday night to promoting student loan forgiveness. Bee informed her audience that "almost 45 million Americans are saddled with student loans totaling almost $1.6 trillion. That's an expensive cover for four years of sh***y frat parties." It did not take…
Ryan Foley | July 30, 2019
During his closing argument Monday night, CNN host Chris Cuomo brought up the shooting in Gilroy, California and how the shooter promoted a "white supremacist book from the late 1800s" on his Instagram page right before the shooting. Cuomo painted a picture of an epidemic of hate crimes, white supremacist groups, racist rallies, and white supremacist propaganda before attempting to lay the blame…
Ryan Foley | July 29, 2019
Reacting to President Trump's tweets targeting Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, CNN Political Commentator Van Jones declared that "the President of the United States is failing kindergarten right now. I mean, literally, a kindergartener would be booted out, parents would be called, if...you had a student, even at six years old, talking about people this way, talking to people this way."…
Ryan Foley | July 27, 2019
During Cuomo Prime Time Friday, a discussion on the battle for the African-American vote took place.  CNN Political Commentator Bakari Sellers trashed President Trump by comparing him to segregationists and labeling him as a racist: "there are a lot of us who wouldn't take anything from Lester Maddox, there are a lot of us who wouldn't take anything from George Wallace, there are a lot of us who…
Ryan Foley | July 27, 2019
During Cuomo Prime Time Friday, a discussion on the battle for the African-American vote took place.  Just a week after belittling Tucker Carlson as a "WASPy white male," host Chris Cuomo used a similar line of attack against President Trump, claiming that he, "as an older, white Anglo-Saxon male...Protestant" might be "the perfect messenger" to "go after the outrage and the disaffection of the…
Ryan Foley | July 26, 2019
CNN host Chris Cuomo devoted his closing argument Thursday night to trashing President Trump for bringing back the death penalty. The CNN host argued that the death penalty was racist; providing statistics showing that the death row population has about the same amount of blacks and whites before arguing "half of homicide victims are African-American but the death penalty is way more prevalent…
Ryan Foley | July 26, 2019
CNN host Chris Cuomo devoted his closing argument Thursday night to trashing President Trump for bringing back the death penalty. He opened by declaring "this President wants to start killing people again on the federal level in the name of justice." Cuomo tried using religion to make the point that the death penalty is morally wrong: "this new appeal to vengeance sounds powerful, but is taking a…
Ryan Foley | July 25, 2019
As NewsBusters has previously reported, CNN admitted that Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not provide any new ammunition for Democrats' efforts to impeach President Trump but that did not stop some on the network for continuing to call for his impeachment anyway. Like her counterparts on cable news, Samantha Bee also called for impeachment in spite of Mueller's lackluster appearance on Capitol…
Ryan Foley | July 25, 2019
Full Frontal host Samantha Bee began her opening monologue Wednesday night by announcing that she watched Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony on Capitol Hill “with mixed emotions,” including “hope that this would push Democrats to finally do something about Trump, fear that they wouldn’t and sadness that I had to look at Matt Gaetz’s Funko POP! head for hours.”  She also trashed Rudy…