MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s special on the Trump/Russia scandal beat Fox News to be the most watched program on cable news regarding overall viewers and in the age 25-54 demographic for the 9 PM hour.
Russia’s state-sponsored TV network Russia Today (RT) tried to target CNN’s Jake Tapper, which prompted him to repeatedly share ugly facts about how Russia treats opponents.
During MSNBC’s MTP Daily, Joy Reid got into a philosophical argument with conservative columnist John Podhertaz and destroyed the conservative argument that health care should be a choice with a blast of reality.
The White House doesn’t want the American people to call the Republican Obamacare replacement that is going to take health care away from millions Trumpcare, but MSNBC has fully adopted the name that the White House hates the most.
Rachel Maddow explains that each day another piece of the Trump/Russia scandal comes together, and the White House denials fall apart.
With all of the Congressional investigations being controlled by Republicans affiliated with the Trump campaign, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow showed why it would be up to the people and the press to find the answers on the Russia scandal that could bring down Trump.
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) made the false claim that news organizations said that there were ties between Trump and the KGB. NBC’s Katy Tur pushed Stewart, but he would not give examples to back up his claims.
Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show is growing so much so fast that she is drawing more viewers than broadcast television networks. Maddow recently finished in top ten among all networks and programs in her time slot.
Things went wrong for Trump when Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was asked about the existence of transcripts confirming the Trump campaign’s communications with Russia. Instead of answering that there are no transcripts, Cotton refused to discuss them.
On MSNBC’s AM Joy, intelligence and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance dropped an insightful shocker. Nance interpreted President Trump’s behavior of that of a target who is getting buggy because they know that they are caught.
With Fox “News” spending so much time faking good news about Emperor Trump, there’s barely any time left to attack Democrats. Just kidding.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is on a roll as her show is growing three times faster than Fox News.
Rachel Maddow obtained a leaked DHS document that revealed that entire rationale behind President Trump’s Muslim ban is untrue BS.
Guys, last night was “the night Trump became president” if you watch D.C. pundits. Yes, because President Trump managed not to vomit on himself or grab any p*ssy on live TV, he is now Presidential.
The early ratings are in for Trump’s first speech to Congress, and former President Barack Obama beat the President big league. Trump drew 17% fewer viewers that Obama did in 2009.
Dems ought to be focused on saving healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Instead, they’re chasing down scandals or they’re making them up.
Instead of driving the newspaper out of business with his attacks, President Trump has caused subscriptions to go wild every time he tweets about the paper, which means that his attacks have the opposite effect from what the President intended.
A fake news story on Tucker Carlson Tonight leads to an international incident with Sweden after Emperor Trump repeats it & then blames Fox.
President Trump tried to punish the press by keeping outlets out of a press briefing who are reporting on his scandals, but the President’s plan backfired as the press has vowed to keep reporting the facts.
Instead, of facing the reality of Trump’s failures, Republicans are turning to their resident crazy uncle, Rush Limbaugh, to blame everything that has gone wrong on an Obama conspiracy.
On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace said that Fox News does not like Trump’s attacks on the media and that Trump’s attacks on the press are worse than anything that President Obama did with his media criticism.
In yesterday’s press conference from Bizarro World, Emperor Trump gave a tip’o’the toupee to the most insidious morning show ever devised.
Smith has had enough of Trump’s insanity.
Conway’s insistence on lying finally drove Lauer to drop a bombshell question, the question that could bring the entire Trump administration down.
Lauer said Conway was making him think Flynn wasn’t freelancing, and had made the Russia calls on behalf of the administration.
The ratings are in, and they are bad news for President Trump. Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression is so popular that it led the program to six-year ratings high and easily bested the ratings for the episode that Trump guest hosted in 2015.
Last week it was Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanding an apology from the Fox “News” Channel. This week it’s Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has nuclear weapons at his disposal.
After Trump had tweeted an inaccurate statement about an interview that the cable news network had just concluded, CNN responded to the President’s false statement by playing the tape and tearing into the President for calling the network fake news.
Deputy Assistant to President Trump, Sebastian Gorka, said that the White House is going to continue calling the media fake news until the press stops being critical of Trump.
Fox News is not only the Trump endorsed cable news network. Fox is also working with the White House to spread fake news that discredits anti-Trump protests.
The days of pretending that what is happening under Trump isn’t “serious†are over; it is time for a concerted media push-back.
Twenty years of Fox “News” Fakery and claiming only it tells the truth, created an Emperor Trump and an audience, both impervious to facts.
The White House tried to blame Donald Trump calling his Muslim ban a ban on the media by claiming that Trump was only repeating what he had heard in the press.
CNN took apart Trump’s attempt to blame Obama for his Muslim ban, as anchor Brianna Keilar came prepared with facts when confronted with Trump talking points.
Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway blew up on Fox News Sunday and went on a rant which compared President Trump and his staff to Jesus all because the White House thinks the media is biased against them.
After just a week you can relax. It’s all alternative facts now that Emperor Trump declared Fox “News” Official State Sanctioned Tee Veeâ„¢.
America is finding out what would happen if a person who only got their info from Fox News ran the country, as Donald Trump is making policy decisions and judgments based on what he sees on Fox News.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo turned a Rep. Chris Collins’ (R-NY) argument for Trump’s bogus fraud investigation into rubble, as he showed how the media should handle President Trump and his supporters.
Alec Baldwin will be guest hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live next month, which means that viewers will be treated to more of the parody that drives President Trump up the wall.
After White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had doubled down on President Trump’s claim that millions voted illegally in the 2016 election, MSNBC’s Katy Tur provided a real time fact check that debunked the White House’s false claim.
On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace confronted White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with photographic evidence to dispute their inaugural crowd size lie.
On Meet The Press, Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to claim that the White House is using “alternative facts.” Host Chuck Todd destroyed Conway’s claim and showed that the media isn’t going to be Trump’s propaganda arm.
We’ve now had 20 years of presidents to judge what FAIR & BALANCED really means and Fox is prepared to help Trump gaslight the entire country
Trump is planning a massive slash on government spending, including privatizing PBS, with the money saved being spent on tax cuts for the wealthy.
After Trump press secretary Sean Spicer demanded an apology from CNN, the network responded by defending their reporter and making it clear that Trump and his administration aren’t going to be able to bully the press.
In a week when Der Googalizer taught ‘Merka about golden showers, another sexual harassment suit against Bill O’Reilly almost disappears.
After Trump had called them “fake news” at his press conference, CNN fired back with a statement challenging Trump to point to the specific inaccuracies in their reporting.
2017 opens on a high note for Friday Fox Follies. Now that she’s NBC bound, Tucker Carlson, the personality I take the most delight in skewering, has been given Megyn Kelly’s show on the Fox “News” Channel. Here’s the GRAND announcement from the whiny man/boy himself, with my [partial] transcription: We began this show at…
Megyn Kelly’s decision to dump Fox News for NBC is a blow to Fox News that has sent their primetime lineup into upheaval and continued the rippling chaos at the cable news leader that goes back to the Roger Ailes scandal.
“I’d be careful about using the word ‘lie.’ ‘Lie’ implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead.â€
When Russian Hacking is outlawed, only outlaws will defend Russian Hacking. OH! WAIT! Never mind.
Once again the top rated basic cable channel proves that if it weren’t for White Privilege, Fox “News” would have no privilege at all.
Sound familiar? Malcolm Nance described the kind of person the KGB sought out to manipulate, “This is who the KGB targeted for recruitment. Egocentric people, who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or who suffer from exaggerated self importance. These are the people KGB wants and finds easiest to recruit.”
Members of the incoming Trump administration are floating ideas that would radically bring changes to the White House Press Corps. All of the suggested changes would benefit Trump by allowing the White House to intimidate journalists into compliance while restricting the free flow of information from the White House to the American people.
Fox “News” knows when it layers fake news on top of fake news it becomes real news to a brain-dead, incurious audience that doesn’t Google.
Too many media outlets had difficulty attributing the Indiana corporate payoff to Pence and it’s a sign they’re still pimping Donald Trump as a hero.
Trump routinely made vague proposals to limit basic elements of press and internet freedom. His intent and disregard for the constitutional free press principle are clear.
After president elect Donald Trump finishes his Fox “News” hires, will there be anyone at the Fake News Network to lie to the Right Wing?
MSNBC has a major conflict of interest as Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough is advising Donald Trump and has not disclosed this fact to viewers. In essence, the MSNBC morning program is giving viewers a dose of pro-Trump propaganda, without providing adequate to disclosure of their relationship with the president-elect.
This week Friday Fox Follies exposes the 2 biggest lies told on Fox, interesting internal internecine insurgencies, and the usual hypocrisy.
The members of the networks expected to negotiate presidential press access during their meeting with the President-elect. What they got was a Trump-style temper tantrum where his disrespect for the free press was on full display.
The New York Times’ Jeremy Peters asked President-elect Donald Trump’s Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway if Trump was breaking any laws, and she accused him of being “negative.”
Television network bosses fueled the public’s distrust of their reporting by going to Trump Tower and holding a secret off the record meeting with President-elect.
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
During an interview on Fox News’s Media Buzz program, Megyn Kelly accused several members of the media of coordinating “hits” on Trump with his campaign, while secretly being in the bag for the Republican nominee.
Chuck Todd had a chance to challenge incoming Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus on a contradictory answer about a potential Muslim registry, but instead the Meet The Press moderator bowed down to the new administration, and gave Trump a free pass.
As the media looks at the scourge of Fake News, Fox “News” pretends it does not traffic in mendacity and blames Macedonian teens instead.
With the election over and the Politically Incorrect President Elect choosing his cabinet, Fox “News” now calls for Political Correctness.
Turning back the clock.
With 4 days before the election, Fox falls for poorly-sourced FBI leaks, elevates Tucker Carlson, and becomes fodder for Megyn Kelly’s book.
Republicans are so far removed from reality that Sean Hannity spread a fake news story on his radio show, and nobody noticed the difference.
As Megyn Kelly garners headlines for her feminism or lack thereof, Rupert Murdoch seems desperate to keep her.
The corporate media doesn’t want a blowout election, so with less than two weeks to go some in the press are pushing a bogus Trump comeback narrative.
Policy has all but vanished from the broadcast nightly network news’s election coverage. The network evening news devoted nearly three times more airtime to discussing Hillary Clinton’s emails than they did to all policy issues.
Megyn Kelly took down Trump surrogate Newt Gingrich while destroying the Republican presidential nominee, and igniting the next phase of the implosion of the Republican Party.
Finding the funniest things on Fox “News” in any given week is the top challenge for Friday Fox Follies. That and not using 20,000 words.
CNN’s Jake Tapper laid to waste a Trump surrogate’s inaccurate attempt to dismiss the allegations of sexual assault against the Republican nominee with one factual correction.
Fox News took their pretending that the sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump don’t exist to a new level by interviewing Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Fox News Sunday and not mentioning the allegations against Trump.
Just when Fox “News” thought its chosen candidate actually had a shot, poor vetting has Trump turning into an unelectable dirty joke.
The Fox “News” Channel was under no obligation to confirm that it is racist to the bone during its 20th Anniversary week, but it did.
Donald Trump has no better friends on Fox than his Foxy Friends, unless you count Bill O’Reilly. Or Sean Hannity.
Donald Trump lost the presidential debate to Hillary Clinton in such a decisive manner that even Fox News can’t find a credible scientific poll that declared Trump the winner.
Fox News is nearly suicidal after Donald Trump was routed by Hillary Clinton in the first presidential debate.
NBC News’s Lester Holt fact checked the first presidential debate without taking attention away from the candidates, and in the process, he delivered for the American people.
Every broadcast and cable news network have announced that they will not be fact checking Donald Trump on screen live during the presidential debate.
Reporting that doesn’t accurately reflect the huge honesty gap between the candidates misleads readers, giving them a distorted picture that favors the biggest liar.â€
The biggest Folly this week (even though it happened last week and Fox has been trying to ignore it ever since) is when Donald Trump dropped his quixotic Birther conspiracy. While Fox “News” was the Birther midwife, it was ex-CEO Roger Ailes that knocked her up. This week Full Frontal gave Samantha Bee 2 delicious…
Rachel Maddow broke some huge good news for Hillary Clinton, as Democrats have an eight-point lead in the early balloting in North Carolina.
Sean Hannity appeared in a Trump promotional ad, and now Fox News has banned him from promoting Trump unless they are paying him to do it
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was “suspended” by CNN today after the network discovered that he was still being paid by the Trump campaign as a strategist.
Here’s a wake-up call for those who were expecting a fair and fact checked debate. Watch MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Joe Scarborough help Donald Trump by arguing that debate moderators should not fact check.
“We got played, again, by the Trump campaign, which is what they do,†but for the media to be angry at anyone but themselves is absurd.
Donald Trump took heat for alleging a conspiracy by the Flint pastor who shut him down, but Fair & Balanced Fox & Friends put him up to it.
The Trump-related Breitbart News used a gorilla on its homepage to illustrate its Donald Trump birtherism story.
Fifteen years ago? Seems like only yesterday
Hell officially froze over when Fox issued an unprecedented apology for having treated Carlson like garbage.
Patriotic Millionaire Chair Morris Pearl slammed Matt Lauer’s performance in a statement and called on NBC to redeem itself with the first debate, which NBC News’ Lester Holt will be moderating.
Rachel Maddow was not allowed to participate in NBC’s candidate forum on veterans’ issues because Donald Trump would have objected to her involvement. CNN reported on why NBC and MSNBC heavyweights were shunned for Lauer: Others within NBC were considered as potential moderators. A source said Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, and Rachel Maddow all came…
During a press conference in Laos, President Obama had some sharp words for the press and called out the media for grading Donald Trump on a curve.
