Back in the glory days of “Saturday Night Live,” before the show became an interchangeable trudge of Alec Baldwin’s mean-spirited Donald Trump impersonations, those productions used to be awfully funny – filled with sharp wit and good-natured swipes at offenders of all political persuasions and pomposities. (Memo to SNL and… CONTINUE
The Cable News War
For cable news, Donald Trump is no longer the gift that keeps on giving. At first he was, but now big change is in the air – and it’s all because of the President. When Mr. Trump initially announced his candidacy for President, the curiosity factor drove millions of Americans… CONTINUE
Trump’s Media War Gets Him (and Us) Nothing
Tuesday night, President Trump delivered a spirited, televised speech to an energetic crowd of supporters in Arizona. It came with the type of rhetoric we’ve grown accustomed to: lashing out at political opponents (on both sides of the aisle), doubling-down on past statements, bragging of an unprecedented number of presidential accomplishments, and… CONTINUE
CNN Investigative Journalism: Policing Internet Videos
Last Sunday, President Trump continued his weekly tradition of posting adolescent, self-defeating statements on Twitter, by tweeting an Internet video of him fake-pummeling famous wrestling promoter, Vince McMahon. The scene came from Trump’s brief stint with World Wrestling Entertainment a few years back, and it had been modified by an anonymous… CONTINUE
Rubio Destroys Trump at the Debate; Will it Matter?
It took a long time, but Donald Trump’s GOP primary competitors finally figured out that battling for second place was an ineffective campaign strategy. With all but one of the early states going to Trump, and national polls showing more to soon follow, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz understood that… CONTINUE