The White House Correspondents Dinner has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since Stephen Colbert mocked the Bush Administration back in 2006. Back then, the press debated about whether he was too mean to the sitting President while forgetting that the purpose of comedy ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Remember that time Hillary denied she ever said ISIS was rooting for Trump by explaining in detail that she was quoting a terrorism expert who said ISIS was rooting for Trump? That was awesome.  Well today, Andrea Mitchell had that expert, Matt Olsen, on her show, and she pressed ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

This is actually kind of huge, because this isn't being reported as "sources say," it's the "Clinton campaign" on the record saying Elizabeth Warren is "under consideration to be Hillary's running mate. BUT... listen to how it was reported: My reporter's Spidey-sense tingles ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

While campaigning in Wisconsin Monday, Senator Ted Cruz was involved in an incident that has our best political minds at loggerheads. At issue was an awkward moment in which Cruz refuses the offer of dairy-themed headwear from his young daughter, only to then explain that the ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Apr 5, 2016

Here's full video of the Farook family attorneys' bizarre press conference Friday afternoon: ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 17, 2016

Just when you think cable news' insatiable desire to fill every second of its 24 hours has hit bottom, they find a new low. On Friday afternoon, the landlord of the apartment that San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived in with their 6-month-old baby opened ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 17, 2016

The conservative media reaction to Hillary Clinton's belated apology over the email "scandal" has been a predictable mix of mockery and "It's about time!" Once in a while, though, these folks can surprise you, as Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade did Wednesday morning. In case you ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

On Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a lengthy interview to MSNBC's Andea Mitchell, part of a new phase in the Democratic frontrunner's campaign for president. As expected, a major focus of the interview was the white-hot email "scandal" that has contributed ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has continued to take criticism for not taking questions from the media, even after she took questions from the media twice last week, so naturally, former Demon Sheep employer and Republican ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

During Monday's White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest was peppered with questions about the recently-announced absence of Saudi Arabian head of state King Salman's absence at this week's Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit at the White House and Camp David, ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues her brilliant buzz-building swing to Iowa, the political media has created a subplot involving New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his supposed snub of Clinton on Sunday's Meet the Press. De Blasio -- Hillary's former ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

There's no semi-regular occurrence in television news that infuriates the hell out of me more than a prank phone call winding up on the air. When you understand the processes that are in place to stop that kind of thing from happening, especially at the network level, to see the ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

This is the world we live in, post-midterms. Democrats got their asses beat like rented donkeys by running away from President Obama, and are now convinced that they can rescue Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) from the same fate by overruling the president on the Keystone XL Pipeline. ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Nov 9, 2018

If there were any real standards in the news media, Andrea Mitchell and her MSNBC show 'Andrea Mitchell Reports' would be taken off the air immediately for interrupting a serious political interview with news regarding the arrest of a pop singer. But real standards in the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

Recently, I've been badgered on Twitter by several overzealous cranks who've asked me whether I've become a professional Glenn Greenwald troll. This is especially bizarre considering how this question emanated from real-life anonymous trolls who fail to exhibit the courage of ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

While President Obama has stopped campaigning for President in order to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney has decided to pretend to stop campaigning while actually continuing to campaign and do lots of photo ops of him pretending to help the disaster ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

• By Guest Contributor
  Feb 17, 2016