Alex Christy
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CBS’s Stephen Colbert’s habit of inviting guests to The Late Show to tell him what he wants to hear continued apace on Thursday as he welcomed author, former Biden speechwriter, and frequent cable news talking head Jon Meacham to the show to promote his new book and do his usual shtick where he attempts to wax poetic about the dire state of Trump’s America. According to Meacham, the country is at…
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CNN’s Inside Politics host Dana Bash had no evidence on Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security was being untruthful when it said that an ICE agent shot a man in the leg in self-defense during an arrest operation after he joined in with other two other would-be assailants, one of whom was wielding a snow shovel. Nevertheless, Bash tried to cast doubt on the situation, claiming DHS is…
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In 2025, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and his summer guest hosts told a measly 87 jokes making fun of liberals over 156 episodes, or about one liberal joke every two episodes. This year, the trend has continued with Wednesday’s show being the seventh of the year, but the first in which Kimmel told his first two jokes about liberals and even then they were in the context of lamenting that President Trump…
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A bitterly sarcastic Jordan Klepper tried to keep alive the idea that supporting the Iranian protestors is incompatible with seeing nothing wrong in how ICE is operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show on Comedy Central.  Discussing a recent speech President Trump gave, Klepper recalled, “He also gave a speech where he had a message for all the people who…
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On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough continued his network’s inglorious habit of portraying ICE as some sort of cartoon villain. In this case, Scarborough compared ICE to both the Soviet Union and today’s Russia under Vladimir Putin while talking beside footage of an operation at a gas station that he ignored the context of. Earlier in the segment, Morning Joe played a clip that…
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CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel lamented that the Justice Department is “investigating the victims” of the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross. However, neither host provided their audience with the key detail that Good’s wife, Rebecca, told her to “drive, baby, drive” after Good herself was told to get out of the car.…
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As the Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday on a case about transgender sports, MS NOW senior legal reporter Lisa Rubin and professor and podcaster Leah Litman assembled on Ana Cabrera Reports to allege that observing biological differences between the sexes is a right-wing fear campaign and the sort of sex discrimination not allowed by the Constitution. Cabrera asked Rubin, “Transgender…
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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, tried to claim there was some sort of logical disconnect between the Trump administration’s response to the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross on one hand and its threats towards Iran as the regime shoots protestors on the other. Before he got to Iran, Kimmel had a take so hot,…
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CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed incoming Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger to Monday’s taping of The Late Show to discuss how she might react if the Trump administration sent ICE agents or National Guard soldiers to Virginia. Both argued that what the administration is currently doing in places like Minneapolis is simply trying to "instill” or “sow fear.” ... Colbert then wondered about two…
Alex Christy |
CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed incoming Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger to Monday’s taping of The Late Show to discuss how she might react if the Trump administration sent ICE agents or National Guard soldiers to Virginia. Both argued that what the administration is currently doing in places like Minneapolis is simply trying to "instill” or “sow fear.” Colbert began by hailing a lawsuit that…