Author: Press Room
When life gives you lemons… Don Lemon has thrown his support behind Matt Lauer after following the former “Today” show host’s colossal 2017 fall from grace. The former CNN anchor, 58, has remained friends with Lauer after several women accused him of sexual harassment and rape, prompting him to lose his prestigious NBC job. Appearing on the “Hollywood Raw” podcast on Wednesday, Lemon told hosts Dax Holt and Adam Glyn that Lauer, 67, has the potential to make a successful comeback in the podcast world. “I think that if he could come back to digital, he can set his own course.…
Liberal parents are now the ones clashing with their conservative sons after the election, according to a New York Times article published Sunday. “When Eli brought a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat home from college this summer, [Alex] Behr threw it into the corner of his bedroom. They argued about guns, immigration and abortion, struggling to do so without permanently damaging their relationship,” the article read. It continued, “’facts don’t matter to you,’ [Alex] Behr wrote in a moment of frustration during one text exchange about Mr. Trump’s legal battles. ‘love you. have a good day.’” In a twist from the old dynamic…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio got into a tense exchange with NBC’s “Today” show on Tuesday after one of the network’s hosts repeatedly asked him about President Trump’s sweeping Jan. 6 pardons. Following a quick introduction, NBC immediately played a 2021 clip of Rubio condemning the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. “Vladimir Putin loved everything that happened here today because what happened is better than anything he could have ever come up with to make us look like we’re falling apart,” he said at the time. After the video ended, NBC host Craig Melvin asked Rubio what message the…
“CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King sparked controversy after questioning why there weren’t “many people of color” during President Trump’s inauguration ceremony on Monday. The anchor made the remark while offering commentary on the swearing-in ceremony as politicians, Supreme Court judges and dignitaries filtered into the US Capitol Rotunda. “I do not see many people of color. Does anybody else besides me observe that?” King said. “I’m fascinated by why that is?” Norah O’Donnell, who anchored the network’s coverage, then noted that the inauguration coincided with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day before listing some prominent black leaders in attendance. Megyn…
Left-wing cable news channel MSNBC is back to foaming at the mouth about Donald Trump. Anchors Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid went off the deep-end while covering Inauguration Day, both aghast at the prospect of a democratically elected president making good on his policy promises that decisively swept him into office. “How is this happening in America?” Maddow asked incredulously at the sight of Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem seated beside Apple CEO Tim Cook at the inauguration ceremony, Mediaite reported. “How is this happening? Why are people with tons of money up on the dais with cabinet…
CNN’s revenue tanked roughly $400 million in three years, according to financial metrics shared at the network’s defamation trial on Friday. During the case, which concluded Friday, awarding Navy veteran Zachary Young $5 million in damages, a forensic economist revealed that the ratings-challenged network brought in roughly $2.2 billion in revenue in 2021, $2 billion in revenue in 2022 and $1.8 billion in 2023. The decline represents a $400 million or 18% drop over three years, and provided a rare look into the company’s financials, Mediaite reported. The economist Robert Johnson, who dug into the tax documents in order to…
Time magazine’s new inauguration-issue cover features Donald Trump briskly clearing President Biden’s belongings from the desk in the Oval Office with his arm, sending Biden’s signature aviator sunglasses flying. The illustrated cover is the fourth for the magazine by artist Tim O’Brien, who has previously depicted Trump either seated at or floating above the famous resolute desk in a sequential series using ever-rising water levels as a metaphor for chaos or tumult in his first presidential term. The initial cover in the series was published in February 2017, a month after Trump’s first inauguration, accompanied by the text, “Nothing to…
Republicans roasted Attorney General Merrick Garland on social media after a video of him doing a victory lap while leaving the Department of Justice became viral. In the clip, which was posted on Friday via X, a celebratory Garland walked and thanked cheering department staffers while the outgoing AG exited out of the building. But, in response, prominent critics of Garland blasted the attorney general and his record. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) ripped Garland in a fiery X post. “Merrick Garland has left @TheJusticeDept for the FINAL TIME,” Donalds said. “His DOJ attacked political opponents. His DOJ was unprecedentedly weaponized. …
Paramount Global executives have held internal talks about settling a lawsuit filed by President-elect Donald Trump over CBS News’ interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report. Paramount, the parent company of CBS, is hoping to close its planned merger with Skydance Media in the coming months but has been sued by Trump for allegedly favorably editing the “60 Minutes” sit-down with Harris just before the election In recent months, it has become clear that Trump’s dissatisfaction with CBS News is proving to be a major hurdle, and it will likely need to pony up concessions to win…
Liberal talk show host Bill Maher argued that liberals who usually politicize tragedies are silent when Democratic leaders are to blame. Many California residents, including celebrities, have lost their homes in the Pacific Palisades area as wildfires continue to rage there and elsewhere in Los Angeles County, burning more than 27,000 acres, destroying over 10,000 structures and killing at least 25 people, according to local officials. While LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom have taken some criticism for their management before and during the devastating fires, Maher argued in a TMZ interview that more critics need to speak out and hold…
CNN is apparently plotting to exile star anchor Jim Acosta — a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump — to the “Siberia of television news” in a bid to “throw a bone” to the incoming commander-in-chief, according to a former colleague. The network’s boss, Mark Thompson, this week called in Acosta to propose shifting his show, “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta,” from 10 a.m. to the graveyard midnight slot, ex-CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status News newsletter. “The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news,” Darcy wrote. Acosta was caught “off guard,” Darcy said —…
The co-founder and co-CEO of Daily Wire criticized Joy Reid for claiming that conservative host Ben Shapiro is funded by “oligarchs” — while the anti-Trump MSNBC host rakes in millions from the left-leaning network’s mega-bucks parent company. Jeremy Boreing, who along with Shapiro launched Daily Wire in 2015, reacted to a clip of the anchor’s analysis of President Joe Biden’s farewell address on Wednesday — in which he bizarrely warned of an “oligarchy” taking over the country. “Joy Reid lives in such a bubble she doesn’t know there is an actual audience for conservative ideas, and she is so economically…