MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2025 Where human discourse begins: 60 Minutes has been earning its stripes in recent weeks. Last night, the program started with a deeply informative look at life among the dying and wounded of Gaza. For transcript and video of the segment, you can just click her … | Continue reading
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2025 But what if the magnates are nuts? We'll start the week with something which may not strike you as crazy. It involves some brand-new claims from one of the persons we've been instructed to trust. Our exploration starts at 7:04 a.m. on Sunday's Fox & Friends … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2025 Last thoughts about two books: In this particular line of endeavor, it's the rare day when you get to consider something uplifting and good. As of this very morning, we've already been dragged back into the part of the world where TV viewers hear someone s … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025 According to YouGov survey: For the most part, the survey was conducted before the recent news about the man who got shipped to the gulag through "administrative error." Respondents didn't know about that. This is one of the questions they were asked: Would … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025 ...could be seen on a "cable news" program: This very week, the tariffs arrived. So did the cable news ratings. With respect to the cable news ratings, we'll let Deadline deliver the mail. We'll perform a bit of editing: Fox News Tops Q1 And March Ratings As … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025 ...when the fellow keeps saying this: We've log recommended pity for the person—for the tragic loss of human potential. That said, it's too late to take away his power. Meanwhile, the person in question simply can't seem to stop saying things like this: Pr … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025 Could it be the ketamine use? People, there he went again! In this morning's New York Times, Linda Qiu fact-checks his latest claim beneath this dual headline: Musk Again Misleads on Social Security Fraud The world’s richest man misstated a statistic from … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2025 ...with respect to that one key word: We thought M. Gessen made a good observation with respect to a small bit of language. The passage comes from a new column in the New York Times. Gessen describes the "arrest" of a student at Tufts. A bit of advice is … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2025 ...few persons seemed to care: It may be time for Chainsaw Charley to stop payment on those checks! We refer, of course, to Elon Musk—to the million-dollar checks he handed out in Wisconsin over the weekend. Along the way, he transitioned from Chainsaw to … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2025 ...Morning Joe turns to sports: It's beginning to seem like Karoline Leavitt's favorite word. That favorite word would be "vicious." In this report for Mediaite, Ahmad Austin transcribes a lengthy exchange involving the person who was shipped to El Salvador … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2025 Also, with this report it starts: With this report from CNN—with this report, it starts: Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monda … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2025 Uninquiring minds may not want to know: According to a new report in Mediaite, there she went again. "Shame on you," the youngster said—though we wouldn't say that she "shouted." The report begins in the manner shown, and it provides the videotape: ‘Shame o … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2025 These are the persons we've chosen: We'll start with a callback to Hotep Jesus. As we noted on Saturday, he's someone the Fox News Channel pays to people one of its "cable news" programs. To our eye, Hotep Jesus is a smiling, genial presence when he appears … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2025 We finally decided to check: Last night, it was the same old thing on the primetime "cable news" propaganda show, Gutfeld!. The misogyny was undisguised; liberal women were too fat. As for Governor Walz, he was gay gay gay gay gay gay, as is routinely the … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2025 When Cain met Peter Navarro: We tried, and we failed, in this week's reports, to do real justice to what we saw last Sunday morning on the Fox News Channel. We refer to what we saw on that morning's Fox & Friends Weekend program. We mentioned the instant "T … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2025 Michelle Goldberg's daring advice: Can a nation like ours long endure? In November 1863, Abraham Lincoln asked. Lincoln emerged from a distant locale. The same is true of a teenage girl who lives in Presque Isle, Maine. Presque Isle is way up there. Despite … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2025 A tale of two arrests: On its face, the first arrest—the first arrest of the two arrests—had an ugly, sinister feel. In its news report on that first arrest, the New York Times seemed to downplay that part of the event. You had to read all the way to para … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2025 It's very Fox News, Hegseth said: Way back then, Pete Hegseth was still in place at his previous post. We're inclined to regard Hegseth as someone who lost his way at some place along the road. He tends to be angry and highly adamant. There's never the sl … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2025 A lowlife performance on Fox: Richard Haass used an interesting word on today's Morning Joe. The word he used was "pathology." In essence, he was referring to the pathology of headlong tribal assault. European literature began with a portrait of that sor … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2025 But then, so does everyone else: We start with a report in today's print editions of the New York Times. It isn't on the paper's front page. We offer this question: Why not? In fairness, the report is found on the front page of this morning's Business se … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2025 This is the best we can tell you: Where in the world is Lawrence O'Donnell? Live and direct from Yahoo Entertainment, this is the best we can do. Don't let that headline scare you: Fans Think The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell Is Getting Canceled [...] … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2025 ...Fox News would have to invent her: Those of us in Blue America are facing a serious problem: As a general matter, it's very hard for us to see ourselves as we actually are. We're convinced that we're the very smart people. As a matter of fact, we aren't … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2025 Can some such nation endure? There he stood, furious again, this time on the tarmac. Except for people programmed by the Fox News Channel, no one believes what he said. We refer to the furious Pete Hegseth, who is today this failing nation's Secretary of D … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2025 Also, what Charlie Hurt said: All last week, we said this about the "deportation" of the "alleged gang members" to the Contral American gulag: The key word there was "alleged." Were the alleged gang members actual gang members? That seems like an obvious qu … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2025 Can we long endure? We'll admit it! Yesterday morning, we were surprised by something we saw. It was 6:49 a.m.—still early on a Sunday morning. We thought we were watching a "cable news" program—but to our surprise, one of the multimillionaire "journalists" … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2025 But who was he talking about? Were some people shipped off to the gulag last week—some people who weren't "gang members?" In the absence of "due process," were all the people who got frog-marched away "killers, rapists, monsters, foreign terrorists?" As w … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025 Or maybe it actually is: Last night, the Nancy Pelosi Botox joke arrived at 10:03. Some may think we've been exaggerating when we say he does this every night. Sorry, Charlie! There he went again: GUTFELD (10/20/25): And finally, U.S. Border officials in In … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025 Running on morally empty: Starting very early on Tuesday morning, we advanced a basic precept: The key word is "alleged." Over the weekend, the Stumblebums had frogmarched hundreds of people off to a Central American gulag. The people in question were "alle … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025 Adventures in sewage flow: The day's good news seems to run like this: Knock on wood, it looks like the Internat Archive may be up and running again. We refer to the invaluable (but generally unused) service which lets an analyst see videotape of every wo … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025 But what if they actually aren't? Karoline Leavitt stood at the podium describing the foreign terrorists. Hundreds of people had been frog-marched away to a Central American gulag. Here's what the youngster now said: LEAVITT (3/19/25): A predatory incursi … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025 Kennedy files save the day: Letting a thousand distractions bloom, did the Maoists engineer this? Did they decide to release "the Kennedy files" to create the latest distraction? In a perfectly sensible news report, the Washington Post starts with this: … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025 So the Fox friends all said: It's just exactly as we told you in yesterday morning's report: The key word there is "alleged." Except in the realm of Fox & Friends, "alleged" is still the key word. We highlight the word in this excerpt from a report from … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2025 Here's what was said last evening: We lost a large chunk of time today. Safely returned to our sprawling campus, we're happy to be able to praise the ongoing work of Chris Matthews. Chris has been doing excellent work in recent Morning Joe spots. Yesterday … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2025 We'll be posting this afternoon: This very morning, we saw what may have been the most morally vacuous conversation ever staged on the planet. The conversation took place—where else?—on this morning's Fox & Friends. We got a very good price from El Salvado … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025 Musk wants Judge Boasberg removed: In fairness to ourselves, we had planned to fulfill our promise from last week. We refer to our promise to report on the comically silly recent action in which Pete Hegseth restored the name of Fort Bragg—even as he seemed … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 2025 "Oopsie" and "Boom," two jailers replied: At one time, dating back three decades, Edwin Chemerinsky was frequently seen, on American TV, as a highly regarded legal analyst. Since 2017, Chemerinsky has been dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. On March 7, … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2025 The commander's alleged "broken brain:" We'd like to be mad at Lawrence O'Donnell. On the other hand, we understand what he's decided to do, at least up to a point. We've praised O'Donnell in recent weeks for his ability to care. While Rachel Maddow conti … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2025 And the band plays on: These savants will go to their graves refusing to deal with the obvious. In the most immediate sense, we refer to the 14-15 minute segment we watched on today's Morning Joe. It was built around the astoundingly tedious topic which was … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2025 Plus, Suzanne Scott opens the can: Last evening, we didn't watch The Last Word. Through the miracle of On Demand, we watched it late this morning. Given our own ongoing ruminations, we thought we ought to comment. We've complimented Lawrence O'Donnell for … | Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2025 But reached no useful end: On Tuesday, the language seemed to be a-changin' with respect to President Trump. In the face of his constantly changing tariff threats, the markets had been crashing for two days. On CNBC, an exasperated Steve Liesman said he m … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2025 ...concerning the minerals deal: We continue to be impressed by the apparent lack of knowledge (and reporting) concerning the "minerals deal." What might be the current shape of that ever-elusive deal? Our renewed interest stems from the highlighted pass … | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2025 The [lunatic claims] of King George: First thing this morning, Joe Scarborough said it. Yesterday, he and Mika chose to watch CNBC as the markets continued to plummet. He said they saw "people saying things on CNBC they don't normally say about this pres … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025 The problem doesn't end there: We swear it! In the course of the next few days, we're going to do it. We're going to walk you through the steps Pete Hegseth recently took to Make Fort Bragg [Be] Fort Bragg Again. Also, to Make Fort Benning [Be] Fort Bennin … | Continue reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025 Yesterday, so did Musk: The times did seem to be a-changin' in 1964. As we noted yesterday, an electrifying new song—it was released in February of that year—made that specific claim: The Times They Are A-Changin’ [...] The line it is drawn, the curse it i … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025 Will anyone else ever ask? Based on BREAKING developments, we postpone our plan to school you about this news report in Saturday's New York Times: Fort Liberty Renamed Fort Bragg, Fulfilling a Trump Campaign Promise Congress had pushed past President Trump’ … | Continue reading
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025 But what did he mean by that? An interesting report appears in this morning's New York Times. By classic reckoning, it's an important report about some basic blocking and tackling regarding the future of Ukraine. It deals with basic blocking and tackling. T … | Continue reading
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2025 Obama's pink underwear: The angriest "cable news" star of them all was thrilled with one part of Tuesday night's address. The following night, at 10:16 Eastern, the angriest child shared his thoughts with his hand-picked panel of dimwitted guests. Here's w … | Continue reading
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025 War on the northern frontier: Way back in 1994, The Madness of King George was a well-received major film. Then too, there's the possible madness that's floating around concerning some of our lakes and rivers, but also concerning our northern border and our … | Continue reading