Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | April 12, 2019
On an episode of The View in May 2018, co-host Joy Behar asked former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper if the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign. Clapper definitively stated "no, they were not." He went on to declare that “they were spying on, a term I don’t particularly like, but on what the Russians were doing.” Based on his appearance on The View, it seemed like Clapper had…
Ryan Foley | April 11, 2019
Discussing Attorney General William Barr's testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, the panel on The Situation Room repeatedly used the terms "dog whistle" and "bullhorn" when describing his assertion that there was spying on the Trump campaign leading up to the 2016 Presidential Election. CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash admitted that "he is saying what happened," adding "there was…
Ryan Foley | April 10, 2019
The "great debate" on Tuesday's edition of Cuomo Prime Time focused on Rep. Ilhan Omar's tweet describing White House adviser Stephen Miller as a white nationalist. The conversation deflected into a debate about the meaning of the word "nationalism."  CNN Political Commentator Steve Cortes described nationalism as "pride in this country and shared values" including "tolerance, free enterprise, (…
Ryan Foley | April 8, 2019
The panel on ABC's This Week Sunday expressed their reservations about President Trump's decision to nominate former Presidential candidate Herman Cain and former economic adviser to the Trump campaign Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve Board; with a particular focus on Cain. According to Yvette Simpson of Democracy for America, "add it to the...file of...Donald Trump appointing people who...…
Ryan Foley | April 6, 2019
On Real Time Friday, comedian Chelsea Handler talked about how she had a "mid-life identity crisis once Trump won" and mentioned that she "had to pay a psychiatrist" to listen to her "bitch about Donald Trump for about the first three weeks." She then compared the election of President Trump to the death of her brother when she was nine years old; mentioning that she felt a "huge emotional…
Ryan Foley | April 6, 2019
Friday's edition of Real Time With Bill Maher contained the usual amount of Anti-Trump venom one would come to expect from the HBO program. For starters, author Salman Rushdie compared America under President Trump to a third-world dictatorship: "I've spent a certain amount of my life in third-world countries, which have had military dictatorships and very corrupt civilian dictatorships...It's…
Ryan Foley | April 5, 2019
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert delighted as his guest, actor John Lithgow, read aloud some poetry from his book Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse.  Lithgow ended up reading two stanzas from the last poem in the book, which focuses on the aftermath of the Mueller report. The poetry definitely buys into the conspiracy theory that Attorney General Bill Barr has worked to cover up the actual…
Ryan Foley | April 3, 2019
It looks like the ladies of The View have fallen in love with openly gay South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has formed an exploratory committee to run for President as a Democrat in 2020. Co-host Joy Behar opened the segment by touting a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll highlighting that "a majority of Americans have...no problem with a gay candidate." Behar then asked a follow-up question: "…
Ryan Foley | April 1, 2019
Following Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan's interview with self-described Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, New York Times columnist and CBS News Political Analyst Jamelle Bouie dismissed the idea that Sanders wants to radically transform America into a socialist country: "it's not as if Bernie Sanders is calling for...democratic control of the means of production, right? Like he's not…
Ryan Foley | March 30, 2019
After highlighting that the top ten countries on the UN's "world happiness rankings" are "socialist-friendly," Real Time host Bill Maher continued advocating for socialism by noting that all of the aforementioned countries have "some form of universal health care, all have free or almost free higher education, all have strong unions, pensions, and social safety nets."  Maher suggested referring…