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In the cold open of NBC's Saturday Night Live 'comedy' program, the cast briefly and lightly touched on President Biden's State of the Union speech, and then put on actress Scarlett Johansson (wife of cast member/fake news anchor Colin Jost) to portray Sen. Katie Britt as the self-proclaimed "craziest bitch in the Target parking lot."
NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham and Managing Editor Curtis Houck appear every Friday in the 10 am hour on Newsmax’s National Report. On this Friday’s edition, Tim and Curtis discussed the media reaction to the State of the Union speech.
After Senator Katie Britt’s Republican response, PBS turned to Jonathan Capehart to dismiss it, and he did: “After watching senator britt, I am just sitting here thinking what in the Elle Woods was that?”
That’s his catty reference to the Legally Blonde films with Reese Witherspoon as a ditzy blonde lawyer. Capehart trash-talked it next to Biden’s screamfest: “If you have to put the State of…
PBS congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins spoke from her cell phone with her personal opinion: “You may have seen this on the screen. House Republicans were not listening to that speech, by and large. Not just out of defiance, they just seemed not to be paying attention. They were almost only here physically, almost bordering on a disrespectful way, and is something I've never seen to this…
CNN analyst Van Jones was upset at Nikki Haley's withdrawal from the presidential race. How does Biden talk to her donors? "If you want to a year from now, watch Russian tanks rolling through Europe, then, you know, endorse Donald Trump and get on that bandwagon. But understand, you’re going to wake up one morning and you’re going to see horror across Europe, you’re going to have American…
The CBS show 60 Minutes vacillates wildly between puffy interviews (President Biden) and nasty hit pieces (in this case, Moms for Liberty). Scott Pelley's story was set in Beaufort, South Carolina: "A few activists, agitated by conspiracy theories, threatened librarians and board members, calling them "groomers," extreme right-wing hate speech meant to brand opponents as molesters grooming…
On NBC’s Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker’s big interview was with Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, which took up more than 17 minutes in the hour, with around 25 questions…and not a single question was focused on President Biden or the Democrats. After a pile of horse-race questions she asked if Trump was responsible for the January 6 riot, and whether Haley felt he would follow…
PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz worried out loud that Biden was leaning toward 'very harsh' immigration policies -- Trump-like policies -- and that will hurt with "core groups" that got him elected in 2020. But New York Times columnist David Brooks gently disagreed, that Biden doesn't want a "bright line" on the border, since Trump is beating him by 39 points on immigration right now.
