Campbell Brown, former anchor and reporter for CNN and NBC, blames TV news outlets for the rise of Donald Trump: I really would like to blame Trump. But everything he is doing is with TV news’ full acquiescence. Trump doesn’t force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does […]
President Obama will make his final White House Correspondents Dinner appearance tonight, which will be carried by CSPAN and all the cable news channels. Larry Wilmore (“The Nightly Show”) is the comedian who has to follow him. That used to be a much better spot before the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations hired an entire […]
I’m happy to say that Senate Joint Resolution 39, which would have legalized religious bigotry against LGBT people in Missouri, died in a House committee last night. As my guest Tony Messenger (who has railed against it in his columns for the Post-Dispatch) pointed out, the law was so poorly written that it would have […]
A few months ago, I overheard two guys at work discussing why Hillary Clinton will not be president. Their entire argument came down to the fact that she would be indicted for charges related to using her private e-mail server. I couldn’t help myself. I jumped in and asked, “Who is going to indict her?” The […]
Last week, I wrote a critique of Robert Reich’s critique of Bernie Sanders skeptics. One of his points (that I debunked) is to quote polls that say Sanders will beat any Republican candidate in the general election by even larger margins than Hillary Clinton would. As I pointed out, polls in April aren’t very valid in predicting […]
Jamelle Bouie recognizes that Bernie Sanders’ candidacy strongly resembles those of previous insurgent Democrats like George McGovern, Bill Bradley, and Howard Dean. Each of them ran campaigns that excited liberals, but couldn’t expand beyond that base, and their impact waned quickly after they lost. However, Bouie says, Sanders’ appeal to young voters could have a […]