New study from me: 94% over the last 9 months since the end of the strike and 96% over the last 20 months since Labor Day 2022.
Late Night DNC: 94 Percent Of Late Night Guests Are Liberal
Joe Scarborough: "I hate criticizing the mainstream media...almost a desperation for them to pretend this race is like every other race. And the false moral equivalency is getting pretty bad" Jeffrey Goldberg: "he is saying abnormal things and we're treating them the same"
Yasmin Vossoughian, with a straight face, reports on the fire alarm pulling "'Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote, the congressman regrets any confusion,' just to clarify some things on that."
George Conway tells The Daily Show that after the election "we still have to live with those people [Trump supporters] and we are going to have to deprogram them at some point."
CNN's Sara Sidner and Rep. Tim Burchett got into it on the media and the FD-1023, "I don't have a base. I'm a journalist. I don't have a base, Democrat or Republican...You don't know my politics, sir. You really don't know my politics" Burchett: "Nobody believes that, ma'am"
Stephen Colbert does a campaign ad for Justin Trudeau, telling him "the far-right and flirtations with fascism at the very least is rising across the globe, even in Canada, your Conservative Party leader your opponent there has been called Canada's Trump and I’m sorry about that"
Former CNN reporter Maria Ressa told Colbert "there’s a reason why 60% of the world today is now under authoritarian rule" and that is "social media has...come in, and used free speech to stifle free speech, right?" Um, no.
Later, George Conway tells Kimmel "Somebody tweeted tonight during the debate that...It's like, well, Kamala Harris aborted a 78-year-old tonight. So, Donald Trump did have a point there."
Are we seriously supposed to believe he just slipped on his tea or something in a freak accident? We have a photo of him. |
@MSNBC
Dutifully Repeats Fire Alarm-Pulling Dem's Excuses
It's going to be funny when Democrats accuse the woman WHO IS BEING NOMINATED TO THE SUPREME COURT, of believing women should be confined to the kitchen
NBC's Raf Sanchez declarers "this extreme right Israeli government" may "it has no choice but to launch a major ground offensive inside of Gaza to rescue these Israeli hostages." Didn't know hostage rescue operations were "extreme right"
Andrea Mitchell spreads some fake news, asking Kamala Harris, "Let me ask you, what does Governor Ron Desantis not know about black history and the black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida schoolchildren?"
Ana Navarro reduces DeSantis's Jake Tapper interview to "verb, a noun, and woke" and several months before Iowa, dismisses him as a "vindictive, thin-skinned, awkward, bobblehead"
Ali Velshi wants you to know that "Cuba, Argentina, Turkey, Russia, China, and I hope you are sitting down for this one, North Korea" have better abortion laws than the U.S.
This isn't the point you think it is, Ali.
A thread of the worst moments of PBS's Frontline doc on Clarence and Ginni Thomas. It starts with some ominous warnings of the "far-right" nature of the film's subjects "they are the it couple of the far-right."
Hillary Clinton goes on PBS and compares pro-lifers to the Iranian regime, the Taliban, and Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian women. Of course, Christiane Amanpour agrees, "This pushback on American women's rights at the same time as you're trying to figure a way forward."
Late Night Debate Reaction🧵Time. Stephen Colbert asks, "Follow up question: Can a moderator win a debate?" after Linsey Davis fights with Trump on abortion
Comedy actually happened on The Late Show, albeit unintentionally as Jen Psaki told Stephen Colbert, "MSNBC has a very high standard of what is factual. You have to go through a process before you report things on air to make sure they are factual and you have sources."
Ressa was also on CNN This Morning and said that the idea that the answer to free speech is more free speech "Doesn't work today. Not in the age of exponential lies." Again, Nobel Peace Prize winner
John King marvels, "Jack Smith going to Subway today is a message to Donald Trump. ... Jack Smith with no words and a simple $5 sub in his hand saying 'I'm not going anywhere.'" Dana Bash adds "the imagery was intentional and spoke volume." (2/2)
If you think Samuel Alito's wife flying Revolution-era flags proves the Supreme Court is illegitimate, but think the International Criminal Court is beyond criticism, you should probably go sit at the kids' table
NEW: We sent a letter to the House of Representatives today urging members to vote against a dangerous bill that would impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court for any efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the U.S. and its
BREAKING: Somebody vandalized and allegedly threw Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action’s — an anti-abortion rights group — Madison office, writing w/ graffiti, “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t either.”
Story TK
LOTS of misinfo flying around this site today about International Transgender Day of Visibility, which is not a White House thing and not an Easter thing. Maybe this thread can clear it up >>>
Tara Setmayer says on MSNBC "women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice. The binary choice is democracy or trump and for women, it's our lives or Trump." How subtle
A thread of the worst of late night SCOTUS draft opinion. First off we have James Corden, "And make no mistake, this is the biggest rollback of human rights in modern U.S. history"
Andrea Mitchell asks Pelosi her thoughts on R's flirting with impeachment despite "unfounded allegations that he [Biden] was involved with his son Hunter's businesses" and "you were very cautious" Pelosi replies "with all due respect to your question, this is frivolous"
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu pushes back on ABC's George Stephanopoulous's concerns he isn't listening to Biden, "We've heard President Biden say it doesn't make sense to pursue this right now. Israel should go slow. Why not take that advice? " Bibi responds "Well, I did"
Divorce is supposed to be a solemn thing, a last resort, but for GMA, it's something you do because you've found your true self, or something, and then do Pride Month segments about
Joy Reid hits a misinformation trifecta:
1. Teachers could go to jail for having books on Rosa Parks & Roberto Clemente
2. A sub was fired after for a video of empty shelves (she left out the disinformation part)
3. FL fears white kids learning "not all white people were heroes"
Joy Reid worries that Trump won't be convicted because Florida "has now become a beachhead for racial extremism, Nazism, open Nazism...The Proud Boys have a huge base in Florida." It must be sad to live your life thinking everyone's a Nazi
How would the right feel if DC vs Heller, Citizens United, or Hobby Lobby were overturned? Faith in the judicial branch of govt is totally eroded if the highest court in the land makes a landmark ruling, and then overturns it because of politics.
Bill Maher shuts down former Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor Matt Duss's attempt to add "context" to the Israel-Gaza situation, "The reason there's a blockade is to stop shit like this from happening."
But wait, there's more. In 2021, Maria Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize for "efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace"
Nikole Hannah-Jones again just dismisses critics of her 1619 Project, "I think so much of the criticism is not legitimate critique, it's not coming from people who have engaged with the ideas of the project or the work."
In their report on David Weiss being named special counsel, CBS and Catherine Herridge were the the only ones to bring up the IRS whistleblowers, "An IRS whistle-blower told CBS News the evidence supported more serious tax felony charges."
Blinken: *Tries to be a professional diplomat, saying we look forward to working with the new Italian government on matters of mutual concern*
Biden: Leeeeeeroy Jeeeeenkins!
Pres. Biden raised threats to global democracy last night -- pointing to Italy.
“You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election. You’re seeing what’s happening around the world. The reason I bother to say that is you can’t be sanguine about what’s happening here either”
Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Chelsea Handler thinks an AR-15 has more rights than her vagina and says women are deleting their menstruation apps from their phones
CNN wonders if masks should make a comeback. Dr. Sanjay Gupta: "We're at an inflection point, I think right now...Peter Hotez, for example, he said he’s gone back to masking"
Al Franken guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live and it went how you'd expect. In his opening monologue he goes on about the "existential threats facing our nation" including "just how big a dick Ted Cruz is"
BREAKING: The Supreme Court lifts the federal eviction moratorium. In an unsigned 8-page opinion (with the three liberals dissenting), SCOTUS sides with a group of landlords who argued that the CDC lacked the authority to bar evictions during the pandemic.
So, Vivek says we need to sell out Ukraine in order to focus on China, but that after 2028 we should sell out Taiwan to... you know, I'm starting to think he hasn't thought this through very well or he's simply not that bright
Some unsolicited advice for Macron, Trudeau, etc.: shut up. There's already a constituency in the GOP that is skeptical and even hostile towards NATO. Don't make it worse by running your mouth about issues about our internal debates that don't concern you
Abortion is a fundamental right for all women. It must be protected. I wish to express my solidarity with the women whose liberties are being undermined by the Supreme Court of the United States.
CNN or TMZ? Kaetlyn Polantz informs us that "[Jack Smith] was spotted today by CNN going to Subway for lunch, picking up a sandwich, leaving and not saying a word." (1/2)
Joe Scarborough responds to the latest Clarence Thomas non-scandal by saying "imagine what would happen if it were Justice Sotomayor" and "everybody at this table would be shocked and outrage and had be critical if this were a liberal justice" Who wants to tell him?
On The Sound of Freedom, CNN says child sex trafficking is real, but "these films are created out of moral panics... it specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings." Do you want more QAnon because this is how you get more QAnon.
Between this and the Collins interview from last month, CNN got more than they bargained for |
@CNN
Host Fights With GOP Rep. On Burisma 'I Don't Have a Base, I'm a Journalist'
Earlier Bash claimed "They clearly wanted us to see him and that image to be very different from what we saw in the former president's post , which is that he's a deranged individual." Evan Perez gushed "he stood in line like everybody else" (3/3)
When Lincoln visited Richmond after the Confederate gov't evacuated, a freed slave ran up to him and knelt before him. Lincoln told him to kneel only to God. Look at the man in the statue, he's beginning to stand up as a free man
"Thursday at 7pm, we're tearing this motherf–ker down."
Protestors set a date and time to attempt to tear down the Emancipation Memorial in DC depicting President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed slave.
On the Thomases, Mayer claims "Clarence Thomas is at odds with the Civil Rights movement. He's against affirmative action. Ginni Thomas is at odds with the Feminist movement and she's opposed to equal pay for women."
Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth was on CBS Mornings and lamented "the conversation has become divisive." Co-host Tony Dokoupil, of course, blamed Republicans and the "conservative political agenda" and asked if he would do it again. Whitworth danced around the question (1/3)
All time quote here from Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates, "I didn't speak out against private schools, I spoke out against school choice. School choice and private schools are two different entities."
CBS suggests Florida may ban a book for simply having a black character "Sulwe has been banned in some Florida schools and might be banned statewide under the Stop Woke Act." Left unsaid was that this was Duval County, the same one that had the faux Roberto Clemente controversy
After a clip of George H.W. Bush saying Thomas was the best man for the job, Kennedy answers "Well, I mean, you know, who believes that? Clarence Thomas stands to be one of the great beneficiaries in American life of affirmative action."
After quite a bit of biographical information, the narrator Will Lyman says Thomas was Reagan's "front man" on race and Prof. Randall Kennedy says he was "giving the Reagan Administration cover
On abortion, Jon Stewart claims "Holy [bleep]. She crushed that! This is like, what? This is like one of those Groundhog Day movies where you get to go back and fix the bad way that something happened earlier to the good way"
Mayer says it was "insulting in a way" and Kennedy says "it was just laughable" that Thomas would not take positions during his confirmation hearing, which of course is currently standard operating procedure
In 2016,
@GlennKesslerWP
said anyone criticizing Obama and the size of the Navy was repeating a "zombie claim" and cited Ray Mabus saying "[ship count's] pretty irrelevant. We also have fewer telegraph machines than we did in [WWI] and we seem to be doing fine without that." Oops
China is “outbuilding many of the western navies combined.”
Toshi Yoshihara of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments says by investing heavily in defense industrial infrastructure, China’s navy now builds warships more quickly than the U.S.
The way COVID19 is surging in the South ahead of school openings this month, it’s difficult to imagine how in person classes can go well without requiring Covid vaccinations for all the adolescents, teachers, and staff, as well as masks. Even then it won’t be easy
A thread of late night hosts being confused by doors. First up, Stephen Colbert, "So, he just wants sensible door control...Why don't we burrow under the ground and then just close up the hole behind us, and then nobody can get in there"
Fun Fact: Pierre Poilievre has an immigrant wife and biracial children. Some xenophobe
Colbert Laments To Trudeau That 'Canada's Trump' May Bring 'Fascism'
Can't wait for the prequal episode where John Weaver prepares to lobby against sanctions on Russia only to back out after getting roasted on the internet
Jimmy Kimmel fawns over George Clooney, telling him his New York Times op-ed "may well have, did, actually, change the world. I mean, it had an enormous impact on the presidential election." Clooney, in turn, fawns over Biden, "Biden did something really extraordinary."
BREAKING: The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel, according to a U.S. official and six other people with knowledge of the deliberations. Team effort w
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Let's ignore for a second that you started this, people know now that the way to game the system is to claim asylum. None of reasons given as to why these people are refugees who are being denied rights under US law and international treaties are accurate
A real sentence that was said on MSNBC by Maria Teresa Kumar "yes, he [Ron DeSantis] won, but he highly gerrymandered the state of Florida." Even worse, she follows up by declaring she is aware that you can't gerrymander a statewide office
Andrea Mitchell got triggered by former Boehner and Ryan communications adviser Brendan Buck claiming "I don't have any problem with Patrick McHenry taking away an office space from Nancy Pelosi." She huffs "Well, the fact is they changed the locks while she was in San Francisco"
Is CNN aware that there are voters in Michigan outside of Dearborn? Dana Bash declares "Trump has an advantage and it's actually, if you look at the Israel-Gaza question, the fact that trump has a 20-point advantage in Michigan. I mean, the world is upside down."
So, would you rather have had the slave states have more influence in the House of Representatives thus making it harder to pass anti-slavery legislation?
“The three-fifths compromise was just that, a political compromise, not an assessment of human worth.”
I’m glad this person no longer teaches as the Air Force Academy.
Shorter CNN: Yeah, it's a real issue, but we don't like the actor, so therefore it's bad |
@CNN
: Movie On Sex Trafficking Is a 'Moral Panic' Meant Appease QAnon
Jen Rubin, who has been basically writing the same column every day for the past 7 years, doesn't think Ben Sasse, who has a PhD from Yale, has the intellectual rigor to run a major university
If DeSantis wanted a slippery, right-wing politician for the job, he chose well. Sasse has long been considered bright by the standards of the U.S. Senate, but that does not necessarily mean he is up to the intellectual rigor of a major university.
Not sure admitting you wrote a book to try to rebut campaign narratives does much for you or your network's credibility | ABC's
@jonkarl
Admits He Wrote Anti-Trump Book To Influence 2024 Election
If Scalise can still oppose gun control despite almost being killed maybe Republicans actually do care about victims and just think gun control isn't the answer or Constitutional |
@jimmykimmel
Mocks Scalise For Not Embracing Gun Control After Getting Shot
This is the guy who wrote that gushy piece on AOC in GQ that went out yesterday, so he should probably hold off on criticizing others for not doing "straight news reporting." He also doesn't appear to know what the monarch actually does
ABC, NBC, and CBS all omitted the March for Life in their Friday evening or Saturday morning newscasts, but NBC Nightly News did hype pro-abortion high schoolers avoiding red states "I'm not comfortable being in a state that doesn't value who I am or value my rights as a person"
You geniuses do realize that the NFL has rules that require a newly acquired players to quarantine, right? So, even if Denver did sign him, he couldn't play and by the time he did, the regular guys would be cleared
Economics Prof. Justin Wolfers tells MSNBC Target are either "cowards" or the victims of "economic terrorism. Literally terrorism" Ben Collins rants at Matt Walsh and accuses boycotters of being "terminally online" who can't "process stuff in the real world." Pot, meet Kettle
Michael Fanone says Trump's indictment made him feel "the way that I did when I learned that our military had killed Osama bin Laden." Even Laura Coates was taken back. Later adds "what I say or what Republican lawmakers say is just, you know, shit to take up time on cable news"
Joy Reid claims that Georgia is not allowing people to vote early in the runoff because they need to honor Robert E. Lee's birthday. Back on planet Earth, it's because of Thanksgiving.