What We Must Learn From Trump Shooting

July 18th, 2024 6:42 PM

We now have, as we would expect, a tsunami of commentary regarding the horrible assassination attempt on Donald Trump. It is not trivial to observe that at least the good news is that just about everyone agrees what happened is very bad and not an encouraging sign about the state of our nation. After that point of agreement, we have many different and diverging opinions about who or what is to…

What Trump Should Say Thursday Night

July 18th, 2024 4:22 PM

When Donald Trump takes the stage Thursday night and accepts for the third time the Republican Party’s nomination for president, he faces an opportunity and a temptation. The temptation is to launch a full-bore attack on Democrats, President Biden, the left and the media. The opportunity is to use the sympathy he has garnered since last Saturday’s assassination attempt to pursue a loftier goal…

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Anderson Slimes GOP As 'Wu Klux Klan' And "Fascists'

July 18th, 2024 12:40 PM

During the Wednesday taping of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Anthony Anderson showed why he was selected to guest host during the week of the Republican National Convention as he compared the GOP to the Ku Klux Klan while labeling the party “fascists.”

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Charlamagne to Colbert: Trump's Rhetoric Is 'Not Even Safe For Him'

July 18th, 2024 9:56 AM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed radio host Charlamagne Tha God to a live edition of The Late Show on night three of the Republican National Convention to irresponsibly suggest that if President Biden, or some other Democrat, wins in November, the Supreme Court will nullify it. He also suggested that Donald Trump’s rhetoric led to his being shot on Saturday, while also attacking the…

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Van Jones: 'A Bullet Couldn't Stop Trump, a Virus Just Stopped Biden'

July 17th, 2024 9:39 PM

The question which many Democrats have hoped would be swept under the rug following the assassination attempt of Donald Trump, has emerged. Are we sure we want Biden? Following a positive COVID test and an announcement canceling part of his campaign tour, Joe Biden was back in the spotlight, and Van Jones, Political Analyst for CNN, finally summed up the plight of the Democratic party. 

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UPDATE: Reid Says Biden's COVID ‘Exactly the Same’ as Trump Being Shot

July 17th, 2024 8:11 PM

The election desperation was palpable during MSNBC’s coverage of Night Three of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. With news just breaking that President Biden was diagnosed with COVID again, co-host Joy Reid tried to suggest that if Biden recovered from the cold quickly, it should be viewed as “exactly the same” as former President Trump surviving an assassination attempt where…

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Nets Cheer Biden in Nevada, Ignore Incendiary Rhetoric Toward Trump

July 17th, 2024 2:41 PM

On Wednesday, the flagship morning news shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC made sure to tout President Biden’s Tuesday afternoon address in Las Vegas to the NAACP convention, but only played up sanguine soundbites calling for a lowering of the temperature of our civic discourse, not those saying Republicans want to “erase..history” and want to take away the “freedom” of black people.

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Colbert, Warren Agree: True National Unity Means Passing Gun Control

July 17th, 2024 1:43 PM

To help him make sense of night two of the Republican National Convention, CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Sen. Elizabeth Warren to a live Tuesday edition of The Late Show, where the duo agreed that true national unity in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump means Republicans dropping their policy preferences and endorsing Democratic priorities, mainly gun…

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Stewart Attacks Holt For Challenging Biden On 'Overheated Rhetoric'

July 17th, 2024 12:35 PM

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned to New York on Tuesday after the security reassessment at their Milwaukee theater changed in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. However, host Jon Stewart did not take well to NBC’s Lester Holt challenging President Joe Biden if he had done any “soul searching” since Saturday because Biden, according to him, has…

NY Times Shrugs Off Lefty Conspiracy on Trump Shots: 'Obscure Voices'

July 17th, 2024 11:02 AM

New York Times politics writer Jonathan Weisman made Sunday’s New York Times with his typically snide take on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in “The Attempt to Kill Donald Trump, Caught in Real Time, Stuns the Country.”  After chiding the fast-moving conspiracy theories on the internet in the age of social media, Weisman brought up but quickly…

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Anderson Smears Tim Scott As 'Uncle Tim or Tom' After RNC Speech

July 17th, 2024 9:52 AM

Due to filming schedules, not all late night comedy shows are reacting live to the Republican National Convention which means that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Anthony Anderson was reacting to night one on Tuesday when he labeled Sen. Tim Scott an “Uncle Tom” for his speech in support of Donald Trump on Monday.

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Morning Joe: Maybe Trump Wasn't Conservative ENOUGH For Shooter!

July 17th, 2024 7:52 AM

On Morning Joe, NBC News law enforcement correspondent Tom Winter, passing along "a bit" of a theory from anonymous law enforcement sources, suggests that perhaps Trump wasn't "conservative enough" for the shooter. Mika Brzezinski opens the show saying that it is "VERY" good to be there: an obvious reference to the fact that the show had been yanked off the air the day before, the first…

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MSNBC Pushes Debunked Conspiracy Theory that Trump Wasn’t Shot, Glass

July 17th, 2024 12:15 AM

Despite the graphic photographic evidence from different angles showing former President Trump was missing chunks of his right ear after being shot in the head during a failed assassination attempt over the weekend, MSNBC host Michael Steele wasted oxygen during the network’s coverage of Night Two of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday to spew debunked fringe conspiracy theories…

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MSNBC: Trump's Bandaged Ear 'a Spectacle' to 'Mine' for Support

July 16th, 2024 8:54 PM

An utter lack of class was on full display on MSNBC Tuesday night as they were kicking off their coverage of Night Two of the Republican National Convention. In his opening monologue for The Beat, host Ari Melber suggested that former President Trump’s bandaged ear – injured after he was shot in the head during a failed assassination attempt – was “a prop” and “a spectacle” being “…