Alex Christy
The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper rewrote history on Tuesday as he welcomed The Atlantic staff writer Thomas Chatterton Williams to Comedy Central to promote his new book. According to Klepper, it was conservative media that insisted on making Barack Obama “the black president,” not liberals who insisted that disagreeing with Obama was racist.
Klepper began by summarizing the book, “You look…
In a sports-heavy Monday segment, Washington Post columnist, ESPN commentator, and professor Kevin Blackistone declared on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House declared that the state of human rights in the United States is so bad, we are unfit to host the World Cup and the Olympics. Additionally, liberal lawyer Marc Elias attacked Major League Baseball for returning its All-Star Game to Atlanta after…
CBS’s Stephen Colbert returned from two weeks of vacation on Monday, sporting a new mustache and attacking his Paramount bosses for giving President Trump a “big, fat bribe” for settling his 60 Minutes lawsuit. The Late Show host would also continue his faux heroics by suggesting Skydance might pressure or even fire him if their merger with Paramount is approved.
Colbert began his phony shtick…
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart was confused on Monday’s The Daily Show why the GOP’s spending reforms in the Big Beautiful Bill would target the areas of the budget where the most money is spent. Together with economic commentator and author Kyla Scanlon, the duo would conclude that it is easier to cut from people than lobbyists.
Stewart wondered, “The thing that strikes me about this is, whenever…
After riots at a California marijuana farm where ICE conducted an operation arresting 200 illegal immigrants, Los Angeles correspondent Carter Evans repeated on Friday’s CBS Evening News what someone he interviewed about the matter told him, mainly that “she feels like pretty much everyone with brown skin is a target.”
The media’s desire to base journalistic objectivity around what…
The cast of PBS News Hour came together on Friday to decry the “shameful” nature of that day’s layoffs at the State Department. While New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart would claim the move would negatively impact U.S. foreign policy, their reasons for doing so were not convincing.
Host Amna Nawaz began with Brooks, “I do want to ask you…
On Thursday, just a few days before the one year anniversary of President Trump almost being killed, Comedy Central’s Ronny Chieng and The Daily Show’s audience found great amusement in Iran’s recent threats to assassinate Trump, not so much because Chieng actually wants him dead, but because it gave them an opportunity to mock Trump’s physical appearance.
After discussing the latest news with…
Former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric went to bat for her former colleagues on a Wednesday Substack video interview with fellow Substacker Liz Plank. Couric claimed that “for everybody shitting on the mainstream,” they still rely on it for their news and that it is still needed to combat “the shit show that is the Trump administration.”
Alluding to a couple of lawsuit settlements President…
PBS is not only lamenting that its federal funding could be cut; it is also now lamenting that Planned Parenthood’s funding has been eliminated. On Tuesday’s Amanpour and Company, guest host Bianna Golodryga and New York Times reporter Caroline Kitchener lamented not only the GOP’s Planned Parenthood decision but also the three-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade’s demise.
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PBS is not only lamenting that its federal funding could be cut; it is also now lamenting that Planned Parenthood’s funding has been eliminated. On Tuesday’s Amanpour and Company, guest host Bianna Golodryga and New York Times reporter Caroline Kitchener lamented not only the GOP’s Planned Parenthood decision but also the three-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade’s demise.
Golodryga began, “Let's…
