Alex Christy
CNN/PBS anchor and self-styled journalist Christiane Amanpour recently gave a wild, anti-Trump commencement speech at Harvard where she invoked everything from 1984 to Benito Mussolini, but that may not have been the wildest part of her recent trip to America. On her Tuesday podcast installment of The Ex Files—so named because she co-hosts it with her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin—Amanpour declared she…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed on Tuesday to uncover the true reason for President Donald Trump’s fight with Harvard: Harvard rejecting him back when he was a student. The only problem for Kimmel was his source was disgraced author Michael Wolff.
Kimmel began, “Trump is actively waging war against Harvard University, which seems to be one of the very few institutions with integrity …
The New Yorker executive order Michael Luo recently came out with a book chronicling the history of Chinese-Americans, and on Monday, he went on PBS’s Amanpour and Company to talk about it. During his discussion with Walter Isaacson, Luo would warn that talking about China as a threat in a foreign policy context could lead to the growth of “racial suspicion.”
Isaacson asked, “One of the…
Given recent plane crashes and the power outage at Newark Airport, HBO’s John Oliver decided to dedicate Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight to the state of air traffic control, where he turned back the clock to 1981 to declare former President Ronald Reagan to be the main villain.
Introducing a news clip from 1981, Oliver declared, “And one major challenge for controllers today is that there…
Nearly 16 months ago, NBC’s Seth Meyers told his Late Night audience that Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report, where he suggested former President Joe Biden’s mental faculties were not up to par, was “very gratuitous” and “a [bleep] hit job.” On Monday, Meyers changed his tune and ridiculed the conservative idea that the cover-up of Biden’s mental decline is a scandal because there was no cover-…
On May 19, 60 Minutes’s Scott Pelley went to Wake Forest University to give what was advertised as a commencement speech but in reality was a partisan diatribe warning that President Trump is a threat to all things good and decent. While Pelley urged the graduates to resist Trump, on Friday, colleague John Dickerson urged “all of us” to pay attention to Pelley’s words on CBS Evening News Plus.…
CNN host and Original Sin co-author Jake Tapper took his book tour to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday for a surreal discussion with Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton about former President Joe Biden’s mental decline and who was to blame for the coverup.
Moulton had just recalled how Biden did not seem to remember who he was while the two were in Normandy. While Moulton was on to tout his…
New York Times columnist David Brooks did the not-so-clever trick of insisting he wasn’t saying what he was indeed saying on Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour as he reflected back on Elon Musk’s time at DOGE by comparing him to Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin.
Host Amna Nawaz wondered, “David, how do you look at it? What's his legacy, if we know that yet?”
Brooks declared that, “As a…
The Friday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today both employed Harvard Professor and former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns to attack the Trump administration’s move to “aggressively” curtail student visas to Chinese nationals. As Burns was both networks’ sole expert, much critical information about the administration's concerns was noticably missing.
On GMA, Selina Wang…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel announced himself on Thursday as not be a fan of President Trump’s lawsuit against 60 Minutes, but whatever one thinks of the suit’s legal merits, Kimmel’s claim that the network did not deceptively edit the interview with Kamala Harris to make her look better fell flat.
Kimmel began by dreaming about using Trump’s legal arguments against him, “Trump right now is reportedly…
