Alex Christy
CNN’s NewsNight host, Abby Phillip, continued her book tour on Tuesday when she stopped by former MSNBC host Joy Reid’s podcast. In addition to the book, Phillip and Reid discussed NewsNight, conservative guests, and conspiracy theories. While Phillip’s lamentation about media echo chambers may have sounded good, beneath the surface there was much to critique.
Phillip declared, “Conservatives…
CBS’s Stephen Colbert continued his attacks on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday’s edition of The Late Show, calling his recent actions around the impending end to the government shutdown “obviously a failure of leadership.”
Citing an article from CBS, Colbert lamented, “Things are getting chilly up on Capitol Hill. After a small group of Democrats voted with Republicans to end the…
NBC’s most recent edition of Saturday Night Live crossed the line from satire into straight-up fake news as James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character confessed to being a sociopath after the recent incident in the Oval Office where a man fainted. Additionally, Johnson claimed to be pleased that the Supreme Court allowed him to “stop feeding poor people.”
After Jeremy Culhane played the part…
Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.
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Finally, on NBC’s Late Night, Seth Meyers despaired, “Democrats, are you seeing this? Why are you caving to this guy? In a span of, like, five days, he…
Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.
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On Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart raged, “I cannot [bleep] believe it! You had the wind at your back! Election victories all over the…
Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.
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Over on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel claimed, “Democrats refused to sign on to a bill that would force millions of Americans off of their health care and make it…
Despite being a group of people eager to portray the government shutdown as Republicans’ fault, the late night comedians used their Monday shows to attack Senate Democrats for finally realizing they had no leverage and ending the shutdown.
On CBS, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert mourned, “So yes, the shutdown may have been long and painful for millions of Americans, but at least it achieved…
ABC White House correspondent Selina Wang stopped by Saturday’s Good Morning America to put her thumb on the scales for Senate Democrats’ latest proposal to end the government shutdown. While Wang omitted any reason why the deal was not worth taking seriously, she also rolled out former President Joe Biden to claim that President Trump is “deliberately making hunger worse” for people.
Wang…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his wife, executive producer, and co-head writer Molly McNearney, stopped by the Thursday episode of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast to look back on Kimmel’s recent suspension. While the words “Charlie Kirk” were never mentioned once during the nearly 70-minute episode, Kimmel and McNearney claimed they told their children that President Trump was the one…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his wife, executive producer, and co-head writer Molly McNearney, stopped by the Thursday episode of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast to look back on Kimmel’s recent suspension. While the words “Charlie Kirk” were never mentioned once during the nearly 70-minute episode, Kimmel and McNearney claimed they told their children that President Trump was the one responsible for…
