Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | November 2, 2019
The panel discussion on Friday's edition of Real Time focused on the impeachment inquiry; with a specific emphasis on the events leading up to it. Host Bill Maher and the panel sent much of the conversation defending the "deep state." Conservative panelist Dennis Prager asked Maher "you think he's a fascist?" Maher responded: "I think he wants to be...the number of things he's done that are…
Ryan Foley | November 1, 2019
While Congressional Democrats did their best to make it sound as though they were sad about the impeachment inquiry, MSNBC's Jason Johnson had a different take. Appearing on Deadline: White House Thursday, Johnson declared "I may be in the minority here. I'm not somber today. I'm thrilled...Oh my gosh, democracy is vaguely working for once. You have people who are taking the responsibility and…
Ryan Foley | October 31, 2019
Liberal comedian Samantha Bee began Wednesday's edition of Full Frontal by weighing in on the resignation of Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill. Bee trashed the publications that published nude photos of Hill; describing RedState and The Daily Mail as "two of the vilest, nastiest things to exist on the internet." Bee made sure to include swipes at President Trump in her opening monologue.  After…
Ryan Foley | October 30, 2019
Weighing in on the resignation of Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill Monday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained that her departure from Congress is proof that "the bad guys won here." In addition to recycling the talking points recited by other talking heads about the supposed double standard Hill has to face because of her gender, Hayes's guest for the segment, Fordham University Professor…
Ryan Foley | October 29, 2019
Not surprisingly, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough complained about the language President Trump used during his speech announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Scarborough complained about how "the President of the United States went on talking about how Baghdadi died like a 'dog, a coward...whimpering and sniveling.'" According to Scarborough, "he sounded not like a President of the…
Ryan Foley | October 28, 2019
During a sit-down with David Limbaugh on Sunday's edition of Life, Liberty & Levin, host Mark Levin slammed the media for "not effectively questioning these proposals...ideas...(and)...notions of these leftists...who are running for President on the Democrat side" before asking the author "what do you make of what the media have been doing in the last few years since the Trump presidency?"…
Ryan Foley | October 26, 2019
As he introduced his panel, Real Time host Bill Maher noted how he has "many times read the dictator checklist on our show, the things Donald Trump does that are like a dictator." According to Maher, Trump is a dictator because he "appoints family members," holds "scary rallies, says 'lock up my opponents,' is in it for personal financial gain, (and) loves other dictators." Maher argued that the…
Ryan Foley | October 25, 2019
As NewsBusters has previously reported, ABC World News Tonight was the only network newscast to report on the latest developments in the scandal surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill's relationship with one of her staffers; which has led to a probe from the Congressional Ethics Committee.  Like CBS and NBC, MSNBC completely ignored the news about Hill.  Like ABC, CNN's reporting on the…
Ryan Foley | October 24, 2019
While the alphabet soup networks tried making excuses for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's use of the word "lynching" to describe the Clinton impeachment, CNN host Brooke Baldwin did not give him a pass. She opened the segment on Wednesday's edition of CNN Newsroom by pointing out that "when President Trump equated the impeachment inquiry against him to a lynching, many were quick to…
Ryan Foley | October 23, 2019
The always hyperbolic presidential historian Jon Meacham made an appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball Tuesday, where he weighed in on President Trump’s description of his treatment throughout the impeachment inquiry as a “lynching.” After trashing President Trump as a racist, Meacham proceeded to trash the entire country as racist dating all the way back to its founding: “This is a country that was…