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The most recent edition of HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver focused heavily on climate change. The episode featured an appearance from Bill Nye, the Science Guy, who had some harsh words for conservatives skeptical of the Green New Deal. Nye warned that "by the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees. What I…
Not surprisingly, Sunday's edition of Reliable Sources focused on the so-called "Constitutional crisis." Host Brian Stelter opened the segment by declaring that "democracy in the United States is being tested." Stelter asked CNN Political Commentator and Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell to sum up the past week in a headline. She chose "the frog has been boiled" as her headline,…
Shortly after urging First Lady Melania Trump to dump the President, Real Time host Bill Maher urged "another former model who's married to a super-rich Republican monster," Rupert Murdoch's wife to leave her husband. Maher told the women: "you two have a lot in common. Your husbands are ruining the world." Maher proceeded to trash Rupert Murdoch and declare that "the axis of evil in the world…
On Real Time Friday, host Bill Maher closed his satirical segment "New Rules" by urging First Lady Melania Trump to dump the President, arguing that her doing so would enable President Trump to "implode on his own." Maher pleaded with the First Lady: "Melania, the world needs you. President Hellboy has proven to be impervious to facts, reason, shame, and the law, but maybe if you left him for…
On New Day Thursday, co-host John Berman asked CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley to compare the current "Constitutional crisis" to Watergate. Berman complained that "one of the things missing so far is Howard Baker," a "prominent Republican...saying enough." Brinkley agreed: "you need a real ardent conservative...somebody who is fiercely loyal to Donald Trump break the way that Barry…
During an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night, The Art of the Deal co-author Tony Schwartz said that if he could rename The Art of the Deal, he would call it The Sociopath; arguing that President Trump meets the Google definition of a sociopath "without any question." Schwartz and host Anderson Cooper were talking about The New York Times' publication of President Trump's tax…
CNN host Don Lemon reacted with glee Tuesday when The New York Times published details from President Trump's tax returns from 1985 to 1994. As the tax returns showed that President Trump suffered enormous losses during that time period and paid little to no income tax because of it, Lemon called President Trump "our con man in chief," after declaring that "the President of the United States is a…
MSNBC host Ari Melber appeared on The Late Show Tuesday night. Not surprisingly, the Mueller probe came up; with Colbert asking Melber what "the people over at the People's Republic of MSNBC" think of impeachment. Melber responded: "I think there is substantial evidence in the Mueller report that the President committed crimes in office." Melber seemed to believe that the Democrats have not…
On Tucker Carlson Tonight Tuesday, YouTube personality Dave Rubin reacted to the harassment of pro-life protesters by a Pennsylvania State Representative. Rubin pointed out that "he used Periscope, which is a Twitter video app, to broadcast that video. Now, you're not allowed to dox people according to the Twitter terms of service. So it's not just that the Democrats won't say anything...and it'…
As NewsBusters has previously reported, the networks ignored the outrageous story about Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims harassing an elderly pro-life protester outside of a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood clinic and threatening to dox her. Cable news was not much better. Only Fox News bothered to give the story airtime. On Tucker Carlson Tonight, one of the handful of Fox News shows to cover…