Alex Christy
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Earlier this week, ABC News canned senior national correspondent Terry Moran for posting on social media that White House domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller is “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” a “world-class hater,” and “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” This did not sit well with…
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All three of the main broadcast networks suggested that President Trump’s decision to put on a Saturday parade for the Army’s 250th birthday was a waste of money, but only Friday’s NBC Nightly News went so far as to compare it to “North Korea and Russia.” Kelly O’Donnell reported that the parade would include “7,000 soldiers, 150 Army vehicles, and more than 60 aircraft expected…
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On a Thursday and a rare Friday episode of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the eponymous host insisted that if you just ignore all the burning cars, robberies, and other criminality, “all hell isn’t breaking loose” in Los Angeles. ... The next day, Kimmel echoed the sentiment about burning cars but added, “Here in Los Angeles, every cable news network is still breathlessly waiting for …
Alex Christy |
On a Thursday and a rare Friday episode of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the eponymous host insisted that if you just ignore all the burning cars, robberies, and other criminality, “all hell isn’t breaking loose” in Los Angeles. For Thursday’s show, Kimmel introduced a video, “You know, our announcer, Lou [Wilson], went downtown today where all hell isn't breaking loose. And this is what…
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Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart claimed on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour that he knows the actual reason for President Trump’s response to rioting in Los Angeles and for Saturday’s Army parade in Washington. According to him, it is all part of a scheme that will eventually allow Trump to cancel elections. Capehart recalled, “I think they're creating the political conflict…
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MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera grew up in the 80s, and the media landscape has changed a lot since then, but on her Thursday show, she implied her family’s inability to pay for cable as a child means Congress should not approve President Trump’s rescission package that seeks to defund PBS and NPR. During an interview with ranking member of the House Budgetary Committee, Rep. Brendan Boyle, Cabrera wondered…
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Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to promote season two of Netflix’s FUBAR, but the duo could not resist talking about the LA riots. Both men insisted everything has been blown way out of proportion, but Schwarzenegger also claimed the violence has been the result of politicians not passing “comprehensive immigration reform,” which he partly defined…
Alex Christy |
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to promote season two of Netflix’s FUBAR, but the duo could not resist talking about the LA riots. Both men insisted everything has been blown way out of proportion, but Schwarzenegger also claimed the violence has been the result of politicians not passing “comprehensive immigration reform,” which he partly defined…
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NBC’s Seth Meyers continued his lamentations on President Trump’s response to the Los Angeles riots on Wednesday’s edition of Late Night. As Meyers tells it, Congressional Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, are “collaborating” with Trump to “turn America into a military-style autocracy” and would’ve ratted out the original Tea Party to the British in 1773. Meyers was agreeing with…
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NPR CEO Katherine Maher recently traveled to London for the city’s SXSW festival because, apparently, she thinks London is the place to be when she needs to convince American lawmakers not to rescind her federal funding. While in London, Maher sat down for an interview with CNN International’s Max Foster that aired on his Monday installment of What We Know, where she insisted that NPR wasn’t…