Conservatives & Republicans

Before Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson officially became Speaker of the House on Wednesday, there was the seven-person pre-game panel on CNN’s Inside Politics. One of those panelists, senior political analyst Gloria Borger, was forced to concede that despite being “hugely conservative,” Johnson is “not the devil incarnate.”

At a late-night press conference to announce that House Republicans had nominated yet another speaker designate, North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx ABC Capitol Hill correspondent Rachel Scott for asking ridiculous questions; telling who to “shut up” and “go away.” This absolutely triggered the left-wing cast of ABC’s The View, with co-host Sara Haines flipping out completely…

Morning Joe mocks Republican Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, as "Dumb-Moves Comer." This, despite the show having rolled a clip of Comer denouncing as a "dumb move" the decision of eight Republican Congressmen to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, and block his replacement by Steve Scalise.

Last week, when Michael Kosta guest hosted Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, the program blamed everybody except Hamas for the outbreak of war. On Monday, new temp host Desus Nice welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the program and asked her about seemingly everything going on in politics at the moment except for her incendiary accusations at Israel is committing war crimes by…

The PBS NewsHour Monday night pundits lamented the "so-called establishment" of the GOP being "undermined" by right-wingers, going back to Newt Gingrich in 1994. NPR reporter Tamara Keith said most House Republicans want to "burn it all down" and refuse to compromise.

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, "you talk to 98% of the members in the House and the Senate who are Republicans, and they privately hate Trump, hate him! Always have. They get in front of a camera, and they just, they sell their political soul to him."

On her MSNBC show, at a time when Hamas is holding more than 200 people hostage, Katie Phang accuses Republicans of holding Americans hostage.

Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks gathered for their regularly scheduled weekly news recap on PBS NewsHour on Friday by welcoming the failure of Rep. Jim Jordan to become Speaker of the House.

On the Thursday edition of her MSNBC show, Nicolle Wallace says she has a "visceral rejection" of Jim Jordan, whom she mocks as "Jacketless Jim," and asks ex-Republican congressman David Jolly why the 22 Republicans who voted against Jordan for Speaker "hate him."

One of the most ardent leftist economic writers in American media actually claimed that the far left “has no significant influence on the Democratic Party.” And no, he wasn’t being facetious.

The incendiary language from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was one of the things that inspired James T. Hodgkinson’s attempted assassination of multiple congressional Republicans at a baseball practice in 2017. And on Wednesday’s edition of ABC’s The View, said rhetoric was on full display as she suggested, without evidence, that former President Trump wanted her and her MSNBC colleagues…

A COVID-ridden Stephen Colbert hosted Monday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS from home and claimed that the GOP could not vote for Jesus in the quest to find a Speaker of the House because “He was worse than a socialist, he was a Christian.”

Discussing the challenges House Republicans are encountering in electing a Speaker, CNN This Morning co-host Phil Mattingly says that House Republicans are "literally pouring gasoline on themselves and just lighting themselves on fire at this point."

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg was back on ABC’s The View on Monday after her visit with Pope Francis last week. She bragged about taking important lessons away from their conversations and that he’s “a pope for all people.” But according to her, not all people were human and it all came down to politics and only progressives like her and Francis were human beings.