Alex Christy
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NBC’s Seth Meyers hyped on Monday’s Late Night some highly suspect fact-checking from CNN during President Trump’s press conference when he announced he is federalizing Washington, DC’s law enforcement because, for Meyers, the binary choice is between Trump and CNN’s “stat nerds.” Meyers teed up a clip of Trump, “Trump is ordering what he’s calling a federal takeover of Washington, D.C.,…
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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel may be in the middle of his summer vacation away from his TV show, but he still found time to stop by The Sarah Silverman Podcast on Thursday and admit that the Democratic Party has an elitism problem and that there is a certain brand of liberal activist that is “just repulsive.” However, Kimmel failed to recognize that he might be part of this problem. Silverman told her ex-…
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HBO’s John Oliver was greatly upset with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight for using a fictional family as his ideal of a swing voter. This family, known as the Baileys, is a center-right-ish middle class, which for Oliver means that Democrats risk losing their left-wing base. To further attack Schumer, Oliver brought in actors Bobby Moynihan and Edi Patterson to…
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The 2026 midterm elections are still over a year away, but CBS White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe is already looking past that to 2028. On CBS Saturday Morning, O’Keefe traveled to Iowa for a friendly profile of Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego amid speculation he might run for president. O’Keefe would both marvel over Gallego’s ability to speak Spanish and ignore that Gallego wasn’t exactly well-…
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CBS correspondent Adam Yamaguchi unraveled the conspiratorial notion on Friday that President Trump has turned the network into state TV. During a report on Evening News, Yamaguchi ran an uncritical profile that featured a trio of anti-ICE activists and the ways they are trying to thwart the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Yamaguchi quickly got to his first featured…
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New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering. ... Bennett then turned to Capehart, “We spoke to a Republican Congressman, Mike…
Alex Christy |
New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering.  Host Geoff Bennett began with Brooks, “Democrats say this amounts to cheating.…
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Closing out another week of Democratic guests, outgoing The Late Show host Stephen Colbert welcomed California Sen. Alex Padilla to CBS on Thursday to hope that he is successful in giving legal status to illegal immigrants because President Trump’s immigration policy is defined by its purposeful “brutality and cruelty.” Towards the end of their two-segment interview, Colbert wondered, “Both…
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Former Clinton strategist James Carville does a podcast with former Clinton cheerleading journalist Al Hunt, and on their Wednesday recording of Politicon's Politics War Room, they reacted to the redistricting battle currently going on in Texas. While Hunt claimed Republicans are “fighting dirty,” Carville gave the game away and claimed that in order “to save democracy,” Democrats need to…
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NBC’s Seth Meyers was in a good mood for a change during Wednesday’s Late Night. While Meyers accused Texas Republicans of trying “to rig the 2026 midterms” by redrawing the state’s congressional districts, he praised blue states for threatening to do the same, not realizing many are already more gerrymandered than Texas. Meyers teed up a series of clips from the August 5 edition of ABC’s Good…