Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | August 25, 2018
During Thursday's edition of MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson, host Hallie Jackson and her panel engaged in a discussion about a New York Times report describing Secretary of Education Betsy Devos's plans to allow schools to use Federal funds to buy guns for their teachers.  According to panelist Yamiche Alcindor,  "Some advocates are very worried about the racial impacts that this will have. You…
Ryan Foley | August 22, 2018
During Tuesday's edition of Hardball With Chris Matthews, the indictment of California Congressman Duncan Hunter for campaign finance violations came up, with host Chris Matthews making sure to point out that Hunter was a Republican as well as the second member of Congress to endorse President Trump.  Matthews gleefully pointed out that the first member of Congress to endorse President Trump,…
Ryan Foley | August 21, 2018
During Monday's edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, host Tucker Carlson highlighted the media's hysterical reaction to ICE's detention of illegal immigrant Joel Arrona-Lata as he drove his wife to the hospital for a C-Section. After playing a clip of Acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello describing Arrona-Lata as "far from an innocent victim. This person was wanted by foreign authorities for murder…
Ryan Foley | August 19, 2018
During an interview with New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet and The Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron on Saturday’s edition of The Axe Files With David Axelrod, host David Axelrod did his best to get the two men to bash President Trump on multiple occasions throughout the interview. At one point, Axelrod tried to use the ethnic backgrounds of Baquet and Baron as he sought to…
Ryan Foley | August 19, 2018
During Saturday's edition of The Axe Files With David Axelrod, host David Axelrod sat down with New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet and The Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron. Axelrod asked the duo how concerned they were about the safety of their reporters in light of the fact that President Trump refers to some of the media as "the enemy of the people," playing a clip from one…
Ryan Foley | August 17, 2018
During Wednesday's edition of Anderson Cooper 360, washed-up Watergate  journalist  Carl Bernstein condemned the President's decision to revoke the security clearance of Brennan, joining the chorus of media personalities sounding the alarm bells that a dictator and an authoritarian resides in the White House:  "this is what dictators do. This is a dictatorial exercise of power that should…
Ryan Foley | August 17, 2018
During Wednesday's edition of MTP Daily, the panel overreacted to the President's revocation of Former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance.  Guest host Katy Tur read aloud a tweet from Brennan alleging that President Trump wants to "suppress freedom of speech & silence critics."  In an effort to advance Brennan's narrative, Tur mentioned that "the President has tried to revoke the…
Ryan Foley | August 16, 2018
During Wednesday's edition of The Lead With Jake Tapper, the panel found itself in a little bit of shock after learning that President Trump had revoked the security clearance of Former CIA Director John Brennan, who has previously called President Trump treasonous in his new capacity as an MSNBC Contributor. Host Jake Tapper suggested that the announcement was strategically timed to distract…
Ryan Foley | August 15, 2018
During Tuesday's edition of CNN's New Day, co-host John Berman interviewed Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), one of the President's most vocal critics.  He could not resist asking her to weigh in on President Trump's reference to Omarosa as a "dog," in addition to bringing up his references to Rep. Wilson and Omarosa as "wacky." Berman asked "Do you see a racial tinge to those comments like you…
Ryan Foley | August 14, 2018
During Monday's edition of Hardball With Chris Matthews, host Chris Matthews conducted a lengthy interview with former White House employee and reality TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman. At one point during the interview, Matthews praised Newman for "boldfacedly" walking into the Situation Room with a recording device, asking her "how did you pull it off?" He also could not have been happier to…