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CNN Reliable Sources host bemoaned all the "doom and gloom" news last week, and downplayed that a pile these problems can be blamed on the Biden administration. Former New York Times reporter compared the bad news to "long COVID" and "people say when you have it you have brain fog. Well, that's sort of what we have now."
On Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher, the HBO host lamented the so-called "Disinformation Governance Board" within the Department of Homeland Security and said it sounds like Orwell's Ministry of Truth.
On Monday's Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Fox host interviewed Juliane Appling of Wisconsin Family Action, whose Madison offices were fire-bombed over the weekend.
On Sunday night, as Mother’s Day wound to a close, MSNBC’s Ayman show put on a panel including liberal comedian Laurie Kilmartin. Host Ayman Mohyeldin was highly amused when Kilmartin suggested she would “make love” to whoever leaked the Alito draft opinion to Politico, and if they were a Republican and she got pregnant, she would “joyfully abort our fetus.”
At the end of her panel discussion, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin told comedian Laurie Kilmartin "I appreciate your insights and your comedy routines, and Laurie, in your case, some of your revelations there." Kilmartin laughed heartily.
On Sunday night's Life, Liberty, & Levin, Mark Levin took an hour to underline the very checkered history of The New York Times and how its reporters served as misinformation spigots for the Nazis, the Soviets, Fidel Castro, and so on. The invasion of Ukraine is nudging old Times veterans to regret their terrible history in covering up Stalin's forced famine in Ukraine.
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple needled Brian Stelter on how he couldn’t handle a professor on his show declaring that CNN was a partisan filter like Fox News.
On Sunday's State of the Union, CNN host Jake Tapper brought on Rep. Liz Cheney on Ukraine and on her role as "vice chair" of the January 6 committee. Democrats are counting on the committee to save its majority in the midterms, but Cheney gushed "I think that it is the single most collaborative committee on which I have ever served. I'm very proud of the bipartisan way in which we're operating…