Alex Christy
Last Thursday, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle met up with actor Rainn Wilson of The Office fame on his Soul Bloom podcast to discuss, among other things, the lack of trust in the news media. According to Ruhle, history began when Donald Trump decided to enter politics because she argued that he and his allies have spent their time trying to discredit the media in their attempt to…
On Tuesday, it was ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s turn to be the late night comedian who fawned over his Democratic guest.
The guest in question was Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and Kimmel began their interview by telling her, “I think it's fair to say you're the most entertaining member of Congress right now.”
Apparently, Kimmel’s definition of entertaining means making fun of disabled people and…
Actress and expatriate Rosie O’Donnell joined CNN’s Tuesday installment of The Situation Room to promote a new documentary about her, her autistic daughter, and her service dog. Before that, however, host Wolf Blitzer had to discuss politics, which included O’Donnell’s flight to Ireland on behalf of her “non-binary child” and watching President Trump “destroy the country.”
Blitzer wondered, “As…
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle marked the passing of Pope Francis on Monday’s The 11th Hour by welcoming historian Jon Meacham to “juxtapose” how “this anti-immigrant movement has risen up” during Francis’s pontificate.
Before that, however, there is the question of Meacham’s credentials. Ruhle introduced him as “the first canon historian for the Washington National Cathedral,” but the National…
New York Post columnist Douglas Murray joined HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to promote his new book about Israel, but later, during the Overtime segment, Maher couldn’t help but also ask about his native Britain’s supreme court ruling that the definition of a woman is based off of biology and not self-identification. From there, Murray would go on to calmly dismantle Maher’s desire…
If there were still any questions that PBS is a liberal network in need of defunding, Friday’s News Hour removed any remaining doubts. In a wild segment, host William Brangham preferred the words of the “nonpartisan” League of Women Voters over an anti-Trump law professor who stated the country is not in a constitutional crisis. Meanwhile, New York Times columnist and supposed…
If there were still any questions that PBS is a liberal network in need of defunding, Friday’s News Hour removed any remaining doubts. In a wild segment, host William Brangham preferred the words of the “nonpartisan” League of Women Voters over an anti-Trump law professor who stated the country is not in a constitutional crisis. Meanwhile, New York Times columnist and supposed conservative David…
At MSNBC, old habits die hard. On Thursday’s installment of The Last Word, former Mueller Probe prosecutor turned MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann raised the prospect of impeachment for President Trump’s attempts to defund Harvard.
Referencing a Truth Social post where Trump threatened Harvard’s tax-exempt status, host Lawrence O’Donnell told Weissmann that, “There is now an active question…
As the Trump Administration seeks to dismantle DEI initiatives, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed New York Times best-selling author and former president of the progressive think tank Demos, Heather McGhee, to The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to help him make sense of it. During a discussion on Trump’s “shakedown” of elite law firms, McGhee would argue that it is easy for her to call Trump…
As the Trump Administration seeks to dismantle DEI initiatives, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed New York Times best-selling author and former president of the progressive think tank Demos, Heather McGhee, to The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to help him make sense of it. During a discussion on Trump’s “shakedown” of elite law firms, McGhee would argue that it is easy for her to call Trump…
