When a radical who is running for office suddenly experiences a campaign conversion in order to portray himself as more of a moderate, how can voters really trust him? If PolitiFact’s Caleb McCullough is to be believed, it is because he says so. The “he” in question is Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, whose Republican opponent Mike Rogers recently accused him of supporting efforts to defund…
Donald Trump and George W. Bush may be two very different kinds of Republican presidents, but according to CNN political director David Chalian on Thursday’s Inside Politics, Trump’s attack on Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed echoes the “menacing aspect” of Bush’s 2004 campaign against John Kerry for simply pointing out the radicalness in their respective opponents.
Leftists and Democrats say the craziest things, and they can do it without fearing that a practitioner of the “fact checking” arts is going to label them “Pants On Fire” liars on the internet. Occasionally, I will tweet these outrageous statements under the title “Zero Fear of Fact Checkers.”
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Acosta Tells El-Sayed His Critics Are 'Steeped In Islamophobia'
Former CNN reporter and host Jim Acosta is the type of person who claims to believe that journalists need to speak truth to power and hold politicians accountable. However, when Acosta welcomed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to his Friday podcast, Acosta hosted a strategy planning session disguised as an interview as he wondered how El-Sayed would respond to his critics who are “…
GOP’s Mike Rogers Courts Dem Voters Wary of El-Sayed’s Primary Win
Republican candidate for the Michigan Senate Mike Rogers is courting moderate Democrats for his campaign following the narrow victory by Abdul El-Sayed in Tuesday's Democrat primary.
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Joy Reid Spars With Mike Rogers, Claims There's No Porn In Schools
On Wednesday night, for the second time this year, MSNBC's ReidOut host Joy Reid invited a Republican on her show in order to debate them on the issues or controversies of the day. This time Reid's latest victim was former Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI). During the debate that at times got heated, Reid ironically whined about the Republican Party supporting big government and outright lied…
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'It's Their Damn Hormones,' Colbert Alleges Sexism Amid Speaker Fight
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert tried and failed during his Tuesday show to use Republican infighting during the Speaker battle to play the sexism card by suggesting there was a double standard present.
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ABC, NBC Disparage Intelligence Chiefs as Anonymous Reports Collapse
In the days and hours leading up to a hearing of the Senate’s Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBC, and NBC) were giddy at the prospect of two heads of U.S. intelligence agencies fingering President Trump in a plot to shut down the Russian investigation. But after the two and a half hour long hearing, they weren’t kicking themselves for getting their hopes up,…
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Nets ‘Overshadow’ Gorsuch Hearing with Four Times More on Comey’s
Capitol Hill was a hive of activity on Monday. The House Intelligence Committee conducted a hearing with FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers about the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. In the Senate, the Judiciary Committee conducted the first in a series of hearings in the confirmation process of Judge Neil Gorsuch. Both were major events on the hill but…
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CNN Runs To The Defense of Obama White House's $400 Million to Iran
On Thursday's New Day, CNN's John Berman did his best to defend the Obama administration's secret shipment of $400 million to Iran right before the Islamist regime released four American prisoners. Former Rep. Mike Rogers criticized the payment, but Berman countered that "the President...said money was going there...We did not have the details about the plane...the euros — things like that." He…
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CNN’s Smerconish Complains Carly Fiorina Didn’t Smile Enough in Debate
In CNN’s post-debate coverage early Thursday of their 2016 Republican debate, CNN political commentator Michael Smerconish praised Carly Fiorina as possessing “a public speaking gift,” but lamented that she didn’t smile enough during the debate and should “loosen it up a little bit.”
David Gregory Paid $4 Million to Leave NBC News ... Quietly
“Don't go away mad,” an old saying goes, “just go away.” That seems to be the case with David Gregory, who is receiving a grand total of $4 million to end his six-year tenure as host of the NBC News Meet the Press program.
Part of the 43-year-old anchor's contract is a “nondisparagement clause,” which specifies that he is not to speak out against the network, according to an article written…
David Gregory To GOP Congressman: ‘Do You Lament The Republican Part
Meet the Press moderator David Gregory spoke to Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) on Sunday, July 13 and used the opportunity to harass his guest on the subject of immigration in the wake of the ongoing crisis at the border.
During his interview with the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, the NBC host took a swipe at the Republican Party by asking “do you lament the Republican Party’…
Even MSNBC's Brzezinski Shows Doubts About Obama Deal with Terrorists
On Tuesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, normally left-leaning co-host Mika Brzezinski repeatedly showed skepticism toward President Obama's decision to release five high-value Taliban prisoners in exchange for the release of hostage Bowe Bergdahl from the Haqqani terrorist group.
In the absence of Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski introduced the show by recounting some of the correspondence involving…
