Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | June 8, 2018
The panel on Thursday's edition of The Daily Beat with Ari Melber spent more than ten minutes overreacting to comments made by Fox News Sean Hannity on his show Hannity Wednesday night.  Hannity jokingly advised witnesses in the Mueller probe, who have been asked to turn in their phones to Special Counsel Robert Mueller: "Use bleach bit, remove the sim cards and then take the pieces and hand it…
Ryan Foley | June 5, 2018
During the premiere episode of CNN's Cuomo Prime Time, host Chris Cuomo engaged in a lengthy back and forth with Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, now a member of the Trump legal team. Part of that discussion focused on President Trump's pardons of Dinesh D'Souza, Scooter Libby, and Joe Arpaio and his potential pardon of Martha Stewart.  According to Cuomo, "It seems like you want to send…
Ryan Foley | June 3, 2018
The panel on Saturday's edition of MSNBC's AM Joy seemed to agree with a recent assertion by a Virginia congressional candidate that President Trump represents the greatest threat to our democracy.  According to MSNBC Counterterrorism Analyst Malcolm Nance, "Donald Trump believes in autocracy, he does not believe in Republican Democracy as it is represented or Parliamentary Democracy throughout…
Ryan Foley | June 1, 2018
During Thursday’s edition of CNN’s At This Hour with Kate Bolduan, CNN Political Commentator Keith Boykin went on a rant against President Trump, saying “Donald Trump exists to divide us. Everything he does is divisive.”  Boykin also effectively blamed President Trump for comedian Samantha Bee’s decision to refer to his daughter Ivanka as a “c***”: “I think the larger point here that is missing…
Ryan Foley | May 31, 2018
During Tuesday's edition of CNN Tonight With Don Lemon, host Don Lemon echoed the left-wing talking point that President Trump somehow bears responsibility for Roseanne Barr's tweet about Valerie Jarrett, saying that "we have to stop pretending that this President has nothing to do with it, that he's not emboldening racists and racism and giving them a platform and making it okay."
Ryan Foley | May 25, 2018
Thursday morning's programming on MSNBC devoted quite a bit of time to trashing President Trump's reaction to the new NFL policy requiring football players to either stand for the National Anthem on the field or stay in the locker room.  The media particularly found themselves hysterical over President Trump's suggestion that if players don't want to stand for the National Anthem, "they shouldn't…
Ryan Foley | May 24, 2018
During Wednesday's edition of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough took some shots at Mark Penn, the former Clinton pollster who wrote an op-ed in The Hill titled "Stopping Robert Mueller to Protect Us All."  Scarborough tried to impugn Penn's motives for advocating an end to the Russia investigation, wondering "What is Mark Penn selling coming to the defense of Donald J. Trump?" and repeatedly…
Ryan Foley | May 22, 2018
During Monday's edition of MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle, reporter Mariana Atencio interviewed some members of the Santa Fe High School baseball team, including two who got shot during Friday's mass shooting that killed ten people.  She tried to get them to become gun control warriors like many of the teens who survived the mass shooting in Parkland, asking one of them: "We saw the teens in…
Ryan Foley | May 21, 2018
While interviewing a Republican Congressional Candidate on Sunday night's edition of Kasie DC, MSNBC host Kasie Hunt tried to bait her into calling the President a racist by bringing up his comments referring to the MS-13 gang members as "animals": "The President earlier this week referred to some immigrants and drug dealers as well as animals, not as people. Do you think that rhetoric is racist?"
Ryan Foley | May 18, 2018
During Thursday's edition of New Day, #NeverTrumper and CNN Commentator Ana Navarro expressed her disdain for President Trump's "dehumanizing" comments referring to MS-13 gang members as "animals." She apparently expects the American public to have a short memory, as Navarro herself had referred to then-candidate Donald Trump as an "animal" in 2016.