Although most liberals are hailing Attorney General Merrick Garland for appointing Jack Smith as Special Counsel to investigate Donald Trump, The Nation‘s Elie Mystal is furious. On MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber on Friday, Mystal raged that Trump should have faced a special counsel and been put on trial long before he could announce […]
The New York Times devoted a 1,700-word story on Friday’s front page to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepping down from her Democratic leadership role after Republicans took back the House of Representatives. Congressional correspondent Carl Hulse proved his usual unctuous self, touting Pelosi as “the dominant political operator, legislative tactician and face of House Democrats […]
CBS News has stopped using its Twitter account for the foreseeable future. The network claims it stopped using its account to “monitor” the situation at Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover. “In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site […]
Former President Donald J. Trump’s Twitter account has been reinstated. Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s account after 52 percent of voters in a Twitter poll he created voted that the former president could come back. Over 15 million users voted in the poll. “The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated,” Musk tweeted. “Vox Populi, Vox […]
The New York Times. Twitter. And CBS. Here are two headlines and one tweet. Headline one is about The Times. The second is about Twitter. The third is a tweet from CBS. The first headline (from Vox) was about the reaction of Times employees to the paper’s publishing an Op-Ed in 2020 by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, in […]
The Friday night “Week In Review” pundits on the PBS NewsHour had an actual disagreement, with Jonathan Capehart scribbling furiously during the more conservative half of the debate. The lead topic was Attorney General Merrick Garland naming another special counsel to hound Donald Trump. While Capehart hailed the move as “huge news” meant to “build […]
The second season of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show debuted roughly this time last year, but there’s still nothing quite like it on TV. The series, spun from a Matt Lauer-like crisis at a broadcast TV staple, put the streaming platform on the proverbial map like House of Cards did for Netflix in 2013. Jennifer Aniston, […]
This year’s midterm elections turned out to be a draw: Republicans gained enough seats in the U.S. House to take the majority for the first time in four years, but lost a seat in the U.S. Senate, leaving Democrats in control. Yet compared to other midterms, when the party in the White House lost far […]
Voto Latino’s Maria Teresa Kumar guest hosted Saturday’s edition of Velshi on MSNBC and declared that a key reason Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won re-election is because he gerrymandered the state. The fact that you can’t gerrymander a statewide office made no difference to Kumar. Addressing the Lincoln Project’s Tara Setmayer, Kumar asked, “is Ron DeSantis […]
On Friday’s The ReidOut, MSNBC’s Joy Reid did not take the news well that the incoming House GOP majority will conduct investigations into Hunter Biden with panelist Stuart Stevens alleging such a move proves the party is akin to a “narco-cartel.” Meanwhile, Reid also accused Evangelicals in the party of trying to make Gov. Ron […]