Here is The New York Times: Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate, has been dropped from his role as a CNN political commentator amid controversy over recent remarks in which he seemed to erase the role […]
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Franklin Graham: GET THE VACCINE!
Here is Franklin and Wolf Blitzer: Graham says he would be glad to help the Biden administration reach anti-vaxxer evangelicals.
Kinzinger: “Maybe” five members of the GOP actually believe in the “Big Lie”
Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger, one of the few Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection on the U.S. capitol on January 6, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that “maybe” five members of his party actually believe Donald […]
What’s going on?
This weekend on CNN:
Chris Cuomo: Police reform and gun control will come when “white people’s kids start getting killed” and Black people start forming militias
Watch here. After Cuomo finished his monologue, Michael Smerconish and Van Jones joined him on air to talk about this. You can listen to their conversation here. A taste: Smerconish: I thought your commentary was brilliant and depressing and you’re […]
CNN does a documentary on an evangelical anti-vaxxer
CNN’s Elle Reeve apparently wanted to do a story on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine. So she went to Tony Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This is what she came up with: A few thoughts: The fact […]
An anti-vaxxer changes her mind
Here is CNN: I am going to guess this woman is an evangelical based on her use of the term “holy crud” and her reference to friends that “really poured into me.” But I could be wrong.
It’s March 4th
Let’s see what happens:
Brooke Baldwin is leaving CNN
Say it ain’t so, Brooke! Watch: I wonder if she is leaving because of this.
Some quick thoughts on the CNN documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President”
I’ve always been a Jimmy Carter fan, so I was eager to watch Mary Wharton‘s documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President” last Sunday night. On one level, it did not disappoint. I knew very little about Carter’s relationship with […]
Trump does not want to talk about COVID-19. Those who do talk about COVID-19 are “dumb bastards”
More than 220,000 dead and numbers surging again. Watch the President of the United States in Arizona: Watch a longer clip here for additional context.
Blitzer vs. Pelosi
Watch this showdown over the stimulus bill. Both of them want the last word: So now CNN is an “apologist for the Republican position?”
Michelle Obama tells it like it is
The Biden campaign makes the most of the success of Sunday’s night’s inspiring CNN documentary on Michelle Obama. This is the closing argument: Thank you. Of course not everyone on the right is happy about this:
Watch the “My Pillow” guy try to defend his miracle cure for COVID-19
Just watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHtC4KIXmEk&w=560&h=315]
Thursday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? They are still coming for Jesus: As I said in an earlier tweet…. the left is coming after Jesus and the apostles next. Not the statues but the historic faith of Christianity https://t.co/wO8INqFk0v — […]
What happened in Gettysburg this weekend?
Jimmy, a friend of friends who works in a local ministry to drug and alcohol abusers, was in Gettysburg this weekend. Here, in his own words, is what happened: Over the last 2.5 years, I have been in a […]
The Usually Mild-Mannered Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the Governor of Georgia: “It’s Inexcusable”
I wrote about this earlier today. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W9mZRNZwVE&w=560&h=315]
Zakaria: Government Ineffectiveness is the “New Face of American Exceptionalism”
Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9WWSXNH6cY&w=560&h=315]
On Matt Gaetz, Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump, CPAC, and the Coronavirus
This video piece by John Avlon is very revealing: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROF98nO9k0&w=560&h=315]
Thoughts on a Discouraging Weekend
I was on Fall Break this weekend and probably spent way too much time reading and watching the news, following the Values Voter Summit, and tweeting. With the exception of the beautiful central Pennsylvania weather, I leave the weekend pretty […]