NBC’s Chuck Todd, hosting Meet the Press, on Sunday took on the Republican plan to roll back the Biden administration’s quest to hire thousands of additional IRS agents. “I have never understood the resistance of extra IRA agents, unless you knowingly cheat on your taxes.” His guest, Republican Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida rejected the premise: “That’s salacious and you know that.”
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Washington Post editor at large and columnist Robert Kagan, on Friday, warned the United States could end as a nation if Donald Trump loses the 2024 election but his supporters think he really won. “He’s going to make it clear to his supporters that if he loses, it can only be as a result of fraud,” Kagan predicted in an interview on Washington Post Live’s weekly First Look show. Then, he…
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd cued up Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, to champion President Biden as fully fit for re-election. Todd: “Is he up for a second term?” Mayorkas maintained: “A hundred percent. Incredibly sharp, incredibly probing, incredible command of the details, probing on the details.”
Todd’s not so tough follow-up: “You have full confidence…
In a surreal moment on Sunday’s This Week on ABC, Jane Coaston chastised Republicans for supporting state efforts to limit abortion as she contended Republicans are the busy-bodies telling people what to do while Democrats believe in leaving people alone: “I think the most important political priority for any political party is to not be the people telling people what to do.”
Coaston, former…
Spurred by Republicans in the Tennessee House voting to expel two Democrats who violated House rules with a disruptive protest on the floor of the chamber, Jon Meacham went on MSNBC on Monday morning to denounce the supposed “anti-democratic” moves which he attributed to Donald Trump’s nefarious influence on Republicans.
“It’s a reminder that what Trump has represented, which is this showmanship…
Lesley’s Stahl began her 60 Minutes profile of Trump-aligned Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene by relaying derogatory names the Georgia Republican has been called: “We looked up some words that have been said about you. ‘Crazy,’ ‘Q-clown,’ “Looney Tune,’ ‘unhinged,’ ‘moron.’”
Not surprisingly, Stahl proceeded to recite the usual litany of criticisms of Greene as a promoter of conspiracy…
Talking with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Jon Stewart contended Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts don’t go far enough, that they are just “a salve” that allows society to avoid fixing “the real problem.”
On Sunday’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, the former host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central who now has a show on Apple TV +, complained about DEI and Critical Race Theory (CRT): “They are to…
MSNBC’s Joy Reid jumped to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after Axios fired a reporter who showed his disgust for the DeSantis administration. “There is a bullying aspect and a lot of trolling,” she asserted of those who work for DeSantis.
The Tampa-based journalist, Ben Montgomery, lamented on Reid’s MSNBC show: “I feel like what Axios did to me has a chilling effect on the entire news…
MSNBC on Friday featured a segment with Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone who, in a column titled “Baseball can no longer ignore Ron DeSantis’s culture wars,” noted how some baseball teams in the 1940s moved spring training out of Florida because of the Jim Crow laws.
Anchor Lindsey Reiser cited all the awful policies Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has enacted or favors, before…
The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Thursday pounced on the usually liberal comedian Bill Maher who dared to criticize those on the left who want statutes of Abraham Lincoln removed. He charged woke advocates “love diversity except of ideas,” asking, “really, Lincoln isn’t good enough for you?”
Goldberg asserted: “Well, that statue was not good enough. Because it showed a slave down at Lincoln’s…
