Does anybody buy the good-guy act at this point? America’s favorite fake-moderate was dragged on to NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, and again tried to promote the dubious idea that Donald Trump and Roy Moore are anomalies in the GOP, as opposed to being an accurate representation of what his party thinks and believes: Ohio […]
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The Case for Preemptive Impeachment
If this past week has not strengthened Tom Steyer’s case for the expedited removal of Donald Trump from the White House, nothing can. It is inevitable that the Mueller investigation will discover the smoking gun of unprecedented illegality in the Trump administration. It is inevitable that Trump will stoop to any depth to retain his […]
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We Won’t Have Mark Halperin to Kick Around Any More
Mark Halperin is probably too disgraced even for Fox News.
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Jimmy Fallon’s Surrender to Donald Trump
His words couldn’t be any more pathetic. You could see the beads of flop sweat on Jimmy Fallon’s face on Sunday Today, as he tried to defend his reluctance to subject Donald Trump to intense ridicule on The Tonight Show: He doesn’t like talking about politics? He prefers to talk about pop culture? Dude, Trump […]
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Thoughts and Prayers for Jimmy Kimmel
Integrity is not good for one’s career prospects on network television. You have to think that ABC executives are beside themselves with anxiety due to Jimmy Kimmel’s courageous condemnations of the Republican Party’s firearms fetish–especially so soon after he called out the GOP’s fixation on snatching health care from millions of Americans. Outside of ABC […]
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The New Fall Season: Will Gore Prompt More Green Programming?
Five years ago today, in an appearance on CNN, Bill Nye observed: I appreciate that we want to show two sides of the story — there’s a tradition in journalism that goes back quite a ways, I guess — but the two sides aren’t equal here. You have tens of thousands of scientists who are […]
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Andrew Lack, Way Off Track, Loves Himself Some Right-Wing Hacks
I bet you Sean Hannity’s next. This week’s announcement that NBC News President Andrew Lack has hired Fox refugee George Will as an MSNBC commentator is not outrageous or infuriating. Actually, it’s morbidly funny–because Lack’s apparent strategy is a guaranteed flop. It appears that Lack thinks he can attract Fox’s longtime viewers by flooding MSNBC […]
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Deplorable Behavior
It’s not going to happen Wednesday, either. Joe Romm of Climate Progress noted last week that if Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz failed to introduce a specific question about climate change at the Clinton-Trump II debate, the question would never be brought up in Clinton-Trump III: We’ve had two debates where the moderators ignored the […]
