Russia invades Ukraine

The cartoon of a National Public Radio listener is a Very Sensitive Liberal who is easily "triggered." So it's not surprising their "Life Kit" blog-and-podcast project would decide their audience needed a coping guide for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

During a rowdy and contentious panel segment on Sunday’s Meet the Press, panelist and NBC chief Washington correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell made the hilarious claim that she’s a journalist and not a Democrat.

On Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show, regular guest Sarah Kendzior floated the bizarre conspiracy theory that "Trump was installed as the President of the United States in order to weaken the alliances that were preventing Putin from achieving his goals, alliances like NATO."

On Sunday’s episode of This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos used his interview with Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton to continue to obsess over Donald Trump. 

Around the world, multiple sports organizations are excluding Russian teams and athletes from upcoming events. Among them are professional tennis, hockey, skiing, soccer and the International Olympic Committee. The war-mongering Russians are now a pariah on the international sports scene.

On Thursday, Dylan Stableford at Yahoo News thought it was newsworthy to elevate a very Trumpesque tweet from a White House spokesman directed at Trump and Putin. It's deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates, who joined the Biden campaign in April 2019 as Director of Rapid Response (not Rabid Response).

Presidential historian, sometimes Biden speechwriter, and frequent MSNBC Jon Meacham joined The 11th Hour on Friday to recap what turned out to be a very eventful week. For Meacham, the week both the defense of Ukraine and the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court are critically important for democracy, just like winning World War II.

Things don’t really change when it comes to protecting Democratic presidents. At least not on NBC. This week saw Russia invade Ukraine just over a month after Joe Biden gave the green light by saying a “minor incursion” was no big deal. In 2014, Russia invade Crimea and the not-yet-disgraced Matt Lauer chided private citizen Donald Trump for calling the President weak.

With invading Russian forces bearing down on Kyiv and the Ukrainian forces holding out very stoutly against them, Friday’s Psaki Show featured Press Secretary Jen Psaki getting pressed on what the United States was doing to help the situation. Doocy Time really led the way on this front by grilling Psaki on why the U.S. was still open to allying with Russia on other pet projects of liberal…

As Russia brutally invades Ukraine, columnist Gabriella Hoffman explains how extreme Western climate policies are giving Vladimir Putin more power in global politics. Plus a note about the global rarity of gun-rights guarantees.

Two Ukrainian former heavyweight champion boxers are answering President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call to Ukrainian citizens to take up arms and fight back against Russia. The Klitschko brothers -- Vitali (nicknamed “Dr. Ironfist”) and Wladimir, who are both Hall of Fame boxers -- have volunteered their services to stand against Russian forces that have invaded their homeland.

On Friday, Twitchy’s Sam Janney reported on CNN’s Brian Stelter taking to Twitter on Thursday to express his excitement that “a bunch of people watched the horrors of war on CNN.” Stelter touted: “The past 24 hours are a reminder that consumers in an era of YouTube and TikTok still gravitate to trusted, established news outlets during emergencies. They ‘know where to go,’ so to speak.”

If you were one of the five people watching Don Lemon Tonight on Thursday evening you would have seen something that rarely happens: there was actually criticism of the Biden administration's policies. 

Wednesday’s White House press briefing wasn’t smooth sailing for Press Secretary Jen Psaki and deputy national security adviser Daleep Singh with tough questions ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so it was only natural they came back Thursday and faced  hardballs on Biden’s messaging flip-flop on use of sanctions and the refusal to apply them at all to Russian energy industry (perhaps its…