It’s no secret that the gang at CNN aren’t exactly fans of President Trump’s strict immigration policies. But the election of a new American Pope on Thursday has at least some at the network hoping that Leo XIV will be able to get through to Trump in ways that others could not because — wait for it! — he speaks English.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the kind of Pope who speaks English,…
On Saturday’s The Weekend, MSNBC brought aboard predictable Trump critic George Conway to insult the President as a “criminal sociopath,” his administration as “a criminal regime,” and his first administration as “Shitshow One.” Analogizing Trump’s effect on the rule of law as an out-of-control cancer, Conway argued that the death of democracy, long foretold on MSNBC, was now inevitable: “Stage 4…
Liberal journalists snickered that President Trump was off his rocker on Thursday (January 23) when he accused big banks of rejecting some conservative customers, allegedly “de-banking” them because of their politics. “What in the world is he talking about?!” MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle erupted on The 11th Hour.
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On Friday’s (January 24) Squawk Box on CNBC, the Biden-appointed Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Rohit Chopra suggested there was something to President Trump’s complaint about big banks de-banking conservatives. “Here’s what’s interesting,” Chopra said. “When the CFPB put into place a policy view that banks should not be de-banking based on certain characteristics […
On MSNBC's The Katie Phang Show (December 28), Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern blasted the Trump administration and Supreme Court conservatives: “It really seems like this coterie of billionaires and benefactors all sort of entrenching and reinforcing each other’s power and privilege. And if that isn’t an oligarchy, Katie, I’m really not sure what is.”
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On MSNBC's Velshi on December 28, former longtime Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter warned: “This is what we are headed for. It’s not dictatorship. It’s oligarchy, government by the rich.”
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“This is basically the new Gilded Age that we are living in,” MSNBC legal analyst Melissa Murray fretted on Friday’s Alex Wagner Tonight. “It’s not a surprise that the administrative state is under assault. It’s a real problem for these oligarchs and corporations,” she added.
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On Monday, December 23, occasional MSNBC host Rachel Maddow suggested Elon Musk’s success in blocking a massive government spending bill was a dangerous sign that billionaires were about to have the upper hand. She approvingly quoted from The American Prospect’s David Dayan: “This is going to be a constant theme of the next four years. Personal business interests are going to constantly take…
There was an air of despair on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Sunday morning, as an anti-Trump panel expressed outrage about the President-elect’s various lawsuits against journalists and news organizations, but also despair that the liberal media establishment is failing to step up as leaders of the #Resistance, singling out ABC News for its $15 million settlement earlier this month.
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Right on the heels of PolitiFact declaring President-elect Donald Trump’s line about immigrants eating dogs and cats as the “Lie of the Year,” CBS Saturday Morning profiled legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, and how they would somehow suffer because of Trump’s promised mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
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