The final debate of the 2020 presidential election cycle is tonight in Nashville, with the second nationally televised meeting between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden set to begin at 9 p.m. Et/6 p.m. Pt at Belmont University.
NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker will moderate the debate, which will be simulcast across a total of 16 broadcast and cable networks and available on several streaming services and digital platforms. You can also watch the livestream on Deadline (courtesy of PBS NewsHour) here:
Like the first debate on September 28 in Cleveland — which drew 73.1 million viewers across the networks, the third-highest total ever — tonight’s debate will be 90 minutes without commercial interruption, with the subject matter (chosen by Welker) across six 15-minute segments to include fighting Covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the proceedings, has tweaked...
NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker will moderate the debate, which will be simulcast across a total of 16 broadcast and cable networks and available on several streaming services and digital platforms. You can also watch the livestream on Deadline (courtesy of PBS NewsHour) here:
Like the first debate on September 28 in Cleveland — which drew 73.1 million viewers across the networks, the third-highest total ever — tonight’s debate will be 90 minutes without commercial interruption, with the subject matter (chosen by Welker) across six 15-minute segments to include fighting Covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
The Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the proceedings, has tweaked...
- 10/23/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a little TV event taking place tonight that you might have heard about. President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will square off in their first debate of the 2020 election season. Deadline is offering the C-span livestream above, but there are numerous other ways to watch.
Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the 90-minute tussle starts at 9 p.m. Et from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. The Fox News Sunday host already has laid out what tonight’s topics will be, in no particular order: the Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities and the integrity of the election.
All the major broadcast and cable news networks and their radio and online outlets will carry the feed, while it will be shown on online platforms ranging from Roku to Twitter.
Here’s a...
Moderated by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, the 90-minute tussle starts at 9 p.m. Et from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. The Fox News Sunday host already has laid out what tonight’s topics will be, in no particular order: the Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, Covid-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities and the integrity of the election.
All the major broadcast and cable news networks and their radio and online outlets will carry the feed, while it will be shown on online platforms ranging from Roku to Twitter.
Here’s a...
- 9/30/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The namesake host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has some rules for the Democratic Party to memorize as they ramp up for a 2020 rematch with President Donald J. Trump. “I want all Democrats to memorize these two words: Message Discipline,” Maher said with the tones of a weary teacher addressing a remedial class. “Republicans win for two reasons: teamwork and cheating. And they’re really good at both.”
The 2020 presidential race, the Mueller Report, and the ongoing Trumpifcation of the national conversation were meaty topics for the night’s episode although the most memorable gag was directed at Roy Moore of Alabama and the legal limits that affect his viability as a elected public servant. “It looks like even if Roy Moore won, he would not be able to serve his term,” Maher said, “because the Senate is within one mile of a school.”
Maher’s description...
The 2020 presidential race, the Mueller Report, and the ongoing Trumpifcation of the national conversation were meaty topics for the night’s episode although the most memorable gag was directed at Roy Moore of Alabama and the legal limits that affect his viability as a elected public servant. “It looks like even if Roy Moore won, he would not be able to serve his term,” Maher said, “because the Senate is within one mile of a school.”
Maher’s description...
- 6/1/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Journalist Connie Chung penned an open letter supporting Christine Blasey Ford, while for the first time publicly sharing her own experience with sexual assault.
Chung addresses the letter, published Wednesday in the Washington Post, to Ford, who gave testimony on Thursday to the Senate that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school in 1982. While Ford’s assault happened 36 years ago, Chung says her trusted family doctor molested her 50 years ago and she “kept my dirty little secret to myself.”
“The exact date and year are fuzzy. But details of the event are vivid — forever seared in my memory,” Chung writes. “Am I sure who did it? Oh yes, 100 percent.”
She says the assault happened in the 1960s when she was in college, when she went to the doctor for birth-control pills, an Iud, or a diaphragm. What started as a routine gynecological examination...
Chung addresses the letter, published Wednesday in the Washington Post, to Ford, who gave testimony on Thursday to the Senate that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school in 1982. While Ford’s assault happened 36 years ago, Chung says her trusted family doctor molested her 50 years ago and she “kept my dirty little secret to myself.”
“The exact date and year are fuzzy. But details of the event are vivid — forever seared in my memory,” Chung writes. “Am I sure who did it? Oh yes, 100 percent.”
She says the assault happened in the 1960s when she was in college, when she went to the doctor for birth-control pills, an Iud, or a diaphragm. What started as a routine gynecological examination...
- 10/3/2018
- by Rachel Yang
- Variety Film + TV
Broadcast journalist Connie Chung said on Wednesday that she had been a victim of sexual assault at the hands of a family doctor roughly 50 years ago.
Chung said that the incident occurred during the 1960s when she visited the doctor at his home to receive an Iud. Chung said that the physician — the same one who delivered her as a child in 1942 — used the opportunity to sexually assault her.
“While I stared at the ceiling, his right index finger massaged my clitoris. With his right middle finger inserted in my vagina, he moved both fingers rhythmically,” Chung wrote in the Washington Post. “He coached me verbally in a soft voice, ‘Just breathe. ‘Ah-ah,’ mimicking the sound of soft breathing. ‘You’re doing fine,’ he assured me.”
Also Read: Lana Del Rey Tells Kanye His Support of Trump 'Is a Loss for the Culture'
“Suddenly, to my shock, I had an...
Chung said that the incident occurred during the 1960s when she visited the doctor at his home to receive an Iud. Chung said that the physician — the same one who delivered her as a child in 1942 — used the opportunity to sexually assault her.
“While I stared at the ceiling, his right index finger massaged my clitoris. With his right middle finger inserted in my vagina, he moved both fingers rhythmically,” Chung wrote in the Washington Post. “He coached me verbally in a soft voice, ‘Just breathe. ‘Ah-ah,’ mimicking the sound of soft breathing. ‘You’re doing fine,’ he assured me.”
Also Read: Lana Del Rey Tells Kanye His Support of Trump 'Is a Loss for the Culture'
“Suddenly, to my shock, I had an...
- 10/3/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Senate Judiciary Committee grilling of Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford hit electric level of drama when Dem Senator Richard Blumenthal began his at-bat quoting Gop Sen. Lindsey Graham, who wrote in a book, about prosecuting rape cases, “I learned how much unexpected courage from deep and hidden place takes for a rape victim or sexually abuse child to testify against an assailant.“
“If we agree on nothing else today, I hope we can agree on a bipartisan basis how much courage it has taken for you to come forward…You have earned America’s gratitude,” he says as Ford wept.
And, when Ford said, for the third or fourth time, that it would help her more closely identify the date Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her if she knew when Mark Judge, who she said was in the room during the assault, worked at the local Safeway grocery store. That’s...
“If we agree on nothing else today, I hope we can agree on a bipartisan basis how much courage it has taken for you to come forward…You have earned America’s gratitude,” he says as Ford wept.
And, when Ford said, for the third or fourth time, that it would help her more closely identify the date Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted her if she knew when Mark Judge, who she said was in the room during the assault, worked at the local Safeway grocery store. That’s...
- 9/27/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Had it not been for Donald Trump smearing George Washington on live TV yesterday, former Trump aide Michael Caputo might well have taken the meltdown of the day honors. “Enough! Enough!” he loudly interrupted a fellow panelist on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 during a discussion of the latest sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh. “I don’t get invited on here to be called out by you like this!”
Watch the exchange below.
Doing the calling out – as Caputo, a frequent Trump surrogate on CNN, saw it – was USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers. Caputo had started off by asking why accuser Julie Swetnick was attending high school parties when she was a sophomore in college. Why would she wait until now to come forward?
“Yeah,” added a sarcastic Jeffrey Toobin, “and why do these women wear short skirts, aren’t they just asking for it?”
Powers then did indeed call...
Watch the exchange below.
Doing the calling out – as Caputo, a frequent Trump surrogate on CNN, saw it – was USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers. Caputo had started off by asking why accuser Julie Swetnick was attending high school parties when she was a sophomore in college. Why would she wait until now to come forward?
“Yeah,” added a sarcastic Jeffrey Toobin, “and why do these women wear short skirts, aren’t they just asking for it?”
Powers then did indeed call...
- 9/27/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On Wednesday night, Anderson Cooper discussed Ivanka Trump's surprise drop-ins at numerous meetings of her father's with Michael D'Antonio, a Donald Trump biographer, and political commentator Kirsten Powers.
- 9/7/2017
- by Joseph A. Wulfsohn
- Mediaite - TV
The Golden State Warriors have not made a final decision on whether they will accept an invitation to meet with Donald Trump at the White House to commemorate their NBA championship, but if they do, count Andre Iguodala out. The Warriors small forward was asked by USA Today’s Sam Amick whether he would accept an invitation from the White House, to which he responded “hell nah.” He continued by saying that racism has gotten worse in America since Trump took office. Also Read: CNN's Kirsten Powers Slams Trump Surrogate Over 'Gendered' 'Hysterical' Comment (Video) “I think it’s just the ignorance,...
- 6/14/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers ripped Trump surrogate Jason Miller on Tuesday night for calling Sen. Kamala Harris “hysterical,” implying that the comment was sexist. “It’s just women that are usually called hysterical,” said Powers. “How was Sen. Harris hysterical? I don’t really understand that. I mean, she was asking some tough questions,” Powers responded after Miller made a comment that Harris was “hysterical” during Jeff Session’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. “From my perspective — my, I would say, objective perspective — I mean it was … it didn’t seem like there was any effort to try to get.
- 6/14/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Kirsten Powers will make her CNN debut Monday night on “Anderson Cooper 360” after it was announced this afternoon that the political analyst is leaving Fox News. Powers joins CNN as a political analyst and will continue to write columns for USA Today. She was typically used by Fox as a political commentator, appearing on election nights, presidential debates in addition to both daytime and primetime special programming. In 2015, Powers got into a heated exchange of words with Bill O’Reilly about racism in America on “The O’Reilly Factor.” Also Read: Bill O'Reilly, Kirsten Powers Go Nuts in Argument Over Racism In a.
- 8/22/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Despite the early numbers for the first Democratic debate on CNN, many took issue with the televised event's apparent lack of coverage regarding important political topics. Namely Isis, as Bill O'Reilly stressed during his appearance on Fox News' Outnumbered Wednesday afternoon. And when fellow guest Kirsten Powers seemingly overlooked O'Reilly's criticism with her own assessment of the debate, the O'Reilly Factor host exploded.
- 10/14/2015
- by Andrew Husband
- Mediaite - TV
Larry Wilmore is so enamored by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that he superimposed himself into a shouting match the Fox News primetime star had with guest Kirsten Powers Tuesday. “I can’t take this anymore. If O’Reilly can’t find a brother to have on his show, then I’m going to invite myself on,” Wilmore said during Wednesday’s “Nightly Show” before playing a clip of Powers arguing with O’Reilly over racism in America. “Hold on Kirsten, I got this,” Wilmore said before going back in time to appear beside O’Reilly and Powers to respond...
- 6/25/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Bill O’Reilly and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers got into a heated argument about racism in America on “The O’Reilly Factor” Tuesday. The Fox News host brought Powers and conservative commentator Monica Crowley onto the show to debate the prevalence of racism in American society, with O’Reilly maintaining that there’s more “racial harmony” in America than in most of the other countries he’s visited. “The world is being told by anti-American haters that we are a rank racist society,” he said. “And that is a lie.” Also read: The Fight Over Fox News: Roger Ailes...
- 6/24/2015
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Bill O'Reilly put the Fox News slogan to the test on “The O'Reilly Factor” on Thursday, but never really came to a definitive conclusion. After a viewer said that he was tired of seeing “smug liberals like Kirsten Powers and Alan Colmes” on the network, O'Reilly jumped to their defense. “Fair and balanced is the Fox News motto. If the liberal view were not represented, we'd be liars, so that's ridiculous,” he said. O'Reilly then asked “Fox & Friends” host Heather Nauert how many liberal contributors the network had. See video: Fox News’ Bob Beckel Analyzes ‘The Bachelorette': ‘She's a Slut’ (Video) She.
- 8/8/2014
- by Jason Hughes
- The Wrap
Fox News Channel finally announced the replacement program with which it will fill the void left when Megyn Kelly moved to primetime — Outnumbered. It’s kind of like The View, in that it’s a panel of women taking on the day’s top news/pop culture headlines — only with an Fnc spin in that it’s got one rotating slot for a guy, who’s, you know, outnumbered. The announcement comes the same day The View announced it had talked all of its current and former co-hosts — including the ones who left under a cloud — to return to the show May 15 to say so-long to Babs Walters, who is retiring as show on-air Den Mom, though she’s continuing as show exec producer. Outnumbered debuts Monday, April 28 at 12 Pm Et; Fox Report Weekend anchor Harris Faulkner and Fox Business Network’s Sandra Smith are among the panelists named today.
- 4/16/2014
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly suggested that women may have an inherent “downside” that would prevent them from being an effective president, in a segment on “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday night. “There’s got to be some downside to having a woman president, right? Something — something that may not fit with that office, correct?” O’Reilly asked Fox News contributor and USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers and Republican strategist Kate Obenshain. “Hmm, I’m gonna say no, Bill,” Powers responded. See video: President Obama Dukes It Out With Bill O’Reilly In Heated Pre-Super Bowl Interview (Video) “Let me ask you this,...
- 2/28/2014
- by L.A. Ross
- The Wrap
There's no sugarcoating it: the Obamacare rollout has been a fiasco so far. But what kind of long-term effects will it have on American politics? On The O'Reilly Factor Tuesday night, Charles Krauthammer suggested it could bring about the end of American liberalism, and on Wednesday, while Kirsten Powers didn't go quite that far, she conceded to Bill O'Reilly that it's a "major setback" for the liberal cause.
- 11/14/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers and guest Tony Sayegh sparred over the past and future of the debt ceiling on Fox News Monday morning, with Sayegh and host Martha MacCallum arguing that the threat of default was the perfect spur for President Barack Obama and Congress to negotiate new spending practices, and Powers arguing that budget concessions had already been made and that the Republicans were negotiating in bad faith.
- 10/7/2013
- by Evan McMurry
- Mediaite - TV
In the wake of Monday's tragic mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Fox News' Gregg Jarrett invited contributors Kirsten Powers and Lauren Ashburn on Happening Now to offer their thoughts on how the media has handled the story and its aftermath. With coverage of the shooting almost entirely faded from view just four days later, Powers suggested America may have finally become "numb" to mass shootings that have become all "too routine."...
- 9/20/2013
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Megyn Kelly continues her rise in the ranks of Fox News Channel anchors, as the network Tuesday (Sept. 17) announced a revised primetime lineup that includes her new show, "The Kelly File."
Starting on Monday, Oct. 7 (all times Eastern), the very popular "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren" moves to 7 p.m.
"After 11 1/2 years number one at 10 p.m," Van Susteren says in a statement, "and driving home near midnight, I am 'to the moon' thrilled at a new challenge (and a new drive! Half the year I won't even need headlights!)."
"On the Record" replaces "The Fox Report With Shepard Smith," which is going away -- but Smith isn't. He is scaling back his regular Fnc slots to just 3 p.m., now home to "Studio B With Shepard Smith."
That hour now becomes "Shepard Smith Reporting." In addition, he's taken on a whole new role, as managing editor of...
Starting on Monday, Oct. 7 (all times Eastern), the very popular "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren" moves to 7 p.m.
"After 11 1/2 years number one at 10 p.m," Van Susteren says in a statement, "and driving home near midnight, I am 'to the moon' thrilled at a new challenge (and a new drive! Half the year I won't even need headlights!)."
"On the Record" replaces "The Fox Report With Shepard Smith," which is going away -- but Smith isn't. He is scaling back his regular Fnc slots to just 3 p.m., now home to "Studio B With Shepard Smith."
That hour now becomes "Shepard Smith Reporting." In addition, he's taken on a whole new role, as managing editor of...
- 9/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
On Wednesday night's O'Reilly Factor, Laura Ingraham suggested President Obama's comments about Hillary Clinton during a Tonight Show appearance may mean a Hillary 2016 candidacy could get a big boost from the White House. Kirsten Powers and Kate Obenshain agreed that Clinton will be the likely Democratic nominee, should she run, with Powers remarking, "I don't know why anyone would bother to challenge her."...
- 8/8/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers got some heat for her comments over the weekend that conservatives are only now concerned with black-on-black crime to 1) distract from the Trayvon Martin case, and 2) to "stick it to the black community." Powers defended her remarks to Bill O'Reilly, after assuring him that she was not talking about him. O'Reilly challenged her by saying the outrage was fueled not...
- 8/1/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers sparred with the panel of Fox News Watch on Saturday afternoon over the specter of black crime, which conservatives have been using as a foil for the media's alleged obsession with the racial elements of the Trayvon Martin shooting. Powers accused the right of being insincere in their sudden handwringing over black-on-black crime now that the subject can be invoked every time the Martin case comes up.
- 7/20/2013
- by Evan McMurry
- Mediaite - TV
Friday afternoon, Fox host Jon Scott was joined by contributors Judith Miller and Kirsten Powers, who analyzed the enormous amount of media coverage surrounding the George Zimmerman verdict since it was handed down last weekend. After reviewing some of the headlines from "media-watching websites" including Mediaite's own piece on Charles Barkley's reaction, Scott asked his guests how they think the media have "behaved" since Zimmerman was acquitted.
- 7/19/2013
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Kirsten Powers doesn't often agree with Bill O'Reilly, but occasionally it's fun to see them harping on something condemnable in harmony. Thus was the case tonight, when Powers agreed with O'Reilly that Rolling Stone's decision to put accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover was beyond despicable. She found it "terrible" and "kind of sick" that they would try to feed into the coolness of a suspected terrorist.
- 7/18/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Zap2it: Of late, you've been very active in criticizing the media and the Obama administration. How do you see your role as Fox News commentator and a columnist?
Kirsten Powers: I feel like I have tried to be honest and to really be a journalist. It's interesting, I'm an opinion journalist. I'm allowed to be opinionated, but I try to be really fair. I try to do my research and consider both sides and get the facts. But, at the same time, my worldview is overwhelmingly liberal, so that will obviously filter how I see things.
Zap2it: Do you think fairness in reporting is more attainable than objectivity?
Kirsten Powers: Yeah, I think so. And I try to admit when I'm wrong, too. Sometimes I get something wrong, and I try to own that. (Fox News political commentator) Brit Hume says, "There's nobody that doesn't have bias,...
Kirsten Powers: I feel like I have tried to be honest and to really be a journalist. It's interesting, I'm an opinion journalist. I'm allowed to be opinionated, but I try to be really fair. I try to do my research and consider both sides and get the facts. But, at the same time, my worldview is overwhelmingly liberal, so that will obviously filter how I see things.
Zap2it: Do you think fairness in reporting is more attainable than objectivity?
Kirsten Powers: Yeah, I think so. And I try to admit when I'm wrong, too. Sometimes I get something wrong, and I try to own that. (Fox News political commentator) Brit Hume says, "There's nobody that doesn't have bias,...
- 7/15/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Though many applauded Texas Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis for her filibustering of an anti-abortion bill, Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers took to Twitter to argue against Davis' stance.
Powers has never been a reporter who is afraid to speak her mind, and she made her opinion on late-term abortions very obvious in a several-hours-long Twitter conversation. Choice examples of Powers' tweets include:
-- "pls explain to me how ending the life of a healthy 20+ week old baby is "fighting for human rights"
-- "If an abortion clinic can't find a doctor with admitting privileges to a hospital then it should be shut down"
-- "someone dies in every single abortion. do you realize that? which means shld they survive, a dr. shld be able to admit them"
-- "I doubt all the healthy 20+ week old baby girls being aborted feel very protected by Wendy Davis."
-- "So I assume...
Powers has never been a reporter who is afraid to speak her mind, and she made her opinion on late-term abortions very obvious in a several-hours-long Twitter conversation. Choice examples of Powers' tweets include:
-- "pls explain to me how ending the life of a healthy 20+ week old baby is "fighting for human rights"
-- "If an abortion clinic can't find a doctor with admitting privileges to a hospital then it should be shut down"
-- "someone dies in every single abortion. do you realize that? which means shld they survive, a dr. shld be able to admit them"
-- "I doubt all the healthy 20+ week old baby girls being aborted feel very protected by Wendy Davis."
-- "So I assume...
- 6/29/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
With all the scandals going on in Washington right now, President Obama embarking on a trip to Africa has been met with some outrage. O'Reilly Factor guest-host Laura Ingraham and Republican guest Kate Obenshain found it to be outrageous, while Kirsten Powers dismissed this as a non-scandal, since similar trips were taken under the Bush administration and with everything else going on, "this is the least of our problems."...
- 6/27/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Fox News Channel contributor Erick Erickson, The Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers, and Red Eye host Andy Levy battled on Monday over whether The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald should face criminal prosecution for publishing the information he was given by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Their exchange highlighted some of the inconsistencies the members of the media's commentary class have been struggling to resolve since the controversy surrounding the Nsa leaks began.
- 6/24/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers dissented from the majority opinion on this Saturday's Fox News Watch, refusing to condemn Snowden as a "naive narcissist" along with the rest of the panel, and much of the media. After Judy Miller and Jim Pinkerton had welcomed Snowden to celebrityhood and compared him to disgraced communist spies, respectively, Powers stood up for the Nsa leaker, saying, "His complaint is completely valid."...
- 6/22/2013
- by Evan McMurry
- Mediaite - TV
To some in the news business, Fox News chief Roger Ailes looms large, viewed with a combination of fear, loathing, fascination and (at least in cable-news-ratings terms) envy. But when it comes to staffing Fnc and its sister cablenet, Fox Business Network (Fbn), a relationship with Ailes is often the secret ingredient.
Thursday (June 20), Fnc announced that it has hired longtime media reporter Howard Kurtz, who has anchored CNN's weekly media-criticism show "Reliable Sources" since 1998. He has also been the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for The Daily Beast and Newsweek.
Fox News also recently re-upped with right-wing political firebrand Sarah Palin, no fan of what she calls the "lamestream media." The former Alaska governor and 2008 Gop vice-presidential candidate made her reappearance on the network on Monday's "Fox & Friends."
Contacted via email for comment on Kurtz joining her in the Fnc stable, Palin wrote, "Well, no one can accuse a...
Thursday (June 20), Fnc announced that it has hired longtime media reporter Howard Kurtz, who has anchored CNN's weekly media-criticism show "Reliable Sources" since 1998. He has also been the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for The Daily Beast and Newsweek.
Fox News also recently re-upped with right-wing political firebrand Sarah Palin, no fan of what she calls the "lamestream media." The former Alaska governor and 2008 Gop vice-presidential candidate made her reappearance on the network on Monday's "Fox & Friends."
Contacted via email for comment on Kurtz joining her in the Fnc stable, Palin wrote, "Well, no one can accuse a...
- 6/20/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Kirsten Powers sat down with Bill O'Reilly tonight to debate the effectiveness of the United States waging drone warfare. Powers' main sticking point was that drones are being sent to take out terrorists without much regard for the casualties of innocent civilians. O'Reilly contended that civilian deaths are inevitable in any war, and in response to Powers arguing people turn to terrorism when their families are randomly taken out by drones...
- 6/20/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
The Daily Beast opinion writer Kirsten Powers took to her column on Friday where she pulled no punches in attacking the media and political establishment in Washington D.C. over the transparent effort to defame Nsa leaker Edward Snowden. In that piece, Powers dissected the attacks on Snowden’s background and character and called out the evident pro-government damage control campaign motivating them.
- 6/14/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
These aren't happy days at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Obama White House has been handling a bundle of controversies lately -- from the fallout from the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11; to the IRS targeting conservative and other groups for scrutiny; to the seizing of the phone records of Associated Press reporters and Fox News Channel correspondent James Rosen (who also had his email accounts accessed); and now revelations that the Nsa has been archiving the phone records of millions of Americans.
One reason the West Wing is on edge is that mainstream news outlets are jumping aggressively on these stories -- something that hasn't always happened in the recent past.
For Fox News political analyst Kirsten Powers, it's about time.
"They [the White House] make reporters send quotes for approval," she tells Zap2it. "They do interviews through email. This is what the White House Press...
The Obama White House has been handling a bundle of controversies lately -- from the fallout from the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last Sept. 11; to the IRS targeting conservative and other groups for scrutiny; to the seizing of the phone records of Associated Press reporters and Fox News Channel correspondent James Rosen (who also had his email accounts accessed); and now revelations that the Nsa has been archiving the phone records of millions of Americans.
One reason the West Wing is on edge is that mainstream news outlets are jumping aggressively on these stories -- something that hasn't always happened in the recent past.
For Fox News political analyst Kirsten Powers, it's about time.
"They [the White House] make reporters send quotes for approval," she tells Zap2it. "They do interviews through email. This is what the White House Press...
- 6/13/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Bill O'Reilly was fired up tonight over Democratic congressman Jim McDermott using the testimony of tea party group leaders targeted by the IRS to dismiss the whole thing as political theater, and a contentious follow-up interview today he had with Fox's Megyn Kelly. Kirsten Powers agreed that McDermott went over the line, telling O'Reilly that the congressman's behavior was "appalling."...
- 6/6/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Judith Miller and Kirsten Powers appeared on a Fox News panel with host Jon Scott on Friday — to examine how the mainstream media outlets are handling the issues of the Justice Department's actions against the Associated Press and Fox News reporter James Rosen. While the media were once complacent, both agreed, and applauded, that they now seem to be waking up to reality.
- 5/24/2013
- by Meenal Vamburkar
- Mediaite - TV
In the tense hours overnight from Thursday, April 18, to Friday, April 19, after Boston Marathon bombing suspects and brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsnarnev engaged in a shootout with police -- and after the murder of MIT police Officer Sean Collier -- Jake Tapper essentially was CNN.
"I was anchoring," he tells Zap2it, talking on Thursday (May 16), "from something like 1:30 in the morning till 9:30 in the morning. That was a crazy night."
With photos of the suspects circulating, Tapper stayed on his iPad, following news and social-media reports and listening to the local police scanners, via a link provided to by followers to his popular Twitter feed, @jaketapper.
"I reached out to the CNN news desk," he recalls, "and said, 'Is anyone listening to this?' This is one in the morning. 'Is anyone listening to this? Something serious is going on.'"
Throughout the entire incident, which resulted...
"I was anchoring," he tells Zap2it, talking on Thursday (May 16), "from something like 1:30 in the morning till 9:30 in the morning. That was a crazy night."
With photos of the suspects circulating, Tapper stayed on his iPad, following news and social-media reports and listening to the local police scanners, via a link provided to by followers to his popular Twitter feed, @jaketapper.
"I reached out to the CNN news desk," he recalls, "and said, 'Is anyone listening to this?' This is one in the morning. 'Is anyone listening to this? Something serious is going on.'"
Throughout the entire incident, which resulted...
- 5/21/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Bill O'Reilly tonight took on the Benghazi hearings in Congress today and, in particular, how much Democrats on the House committee were going out of their way to defend Hillary Clinton and President Obama. Kirsten Powers and Kate Obenshain piled on the Democrats for aiding in a potential cover-up, though Powers was a little more hesitant about calling it a cover-up, suggeting that it could have been simple incompetence instead.
- 5/9/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
The top story on Saturday's edition of Fox News Watch concerned the media's treatment of the gun control debate, and in particular Megyn Kelly's interview with NRA executive Wayne Lapierre Thursday. Contributor Kirsten Powers commended the Fox host for grilling Lapierre on his organization's opposition to policies like expanded background checks and magazine limits that gun control advocate believe could save lives.
- 4/6/2013
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Bill O'Reilly tonight continued to talk about the case of a Florida university being investigated for a class exercise in which students were ordered to stomp on the word "Jesus" and one student was disciplined for refusing to engage in the activity. Kirsten Powers agreed with O'Reilly on the offensiveness of the class exercise, calling it "insensitive," "intolerant," and a "bad advertisement, unfortunately for liberalism" at universities.
- 3/28/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Bill O'Reilly opened his show tonight reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, acknowledging that while he supported it when he believed Sadaam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, he remains convinced that there were better ways the U.S. could have gone about carrying out the mission. When he brought on Kirsten Powers and Kate Obenshain to weigh in, O'Reilly said that the government needs to decide for future conflicts if it is worth spending so much "blood and treasure" on.
- 3/21/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Kirsten Powers sat down with Bill O'Reilly tonight over the question of whether the pro-choice abortion argument can be applied to gun control. O'Reilly brought up a recent town hall confrontation where Democratic congressman Jim Moran was grilled by a gun rights advocate making a feminist argument that supporting the rights of gun-owners is "pro-choice" when it comes to the ability of women to defend themselves. Powers rejected the choice argument, and clashed with O'Reilly over whether gun bans threaten the safety of women.
- 3/13/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
During an America's Newsroom political panel on Fox today, liberal contributor Kirsten Powers and her conservative colleague Tony Sayegh got into a pretty tense argument over President Obama's fiscal reforms and whether he can bring together both parties for a new plan. Towards the end of the discussion, Sayegh suggested that Obama has yet to fully endorse a reform plan to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," which elicited a loud sigh from Powers, who clearly objected to such a characterization.
- 3/11/2013
- by Andrew Kirell
- Mediaite - TV
Fox News' Happening Now took on the media reaction to Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster Friday afternoon, with host Jon Scott asking contributors Kirsten Powers and Judith Miller on the characterization of the nearly thirteen hour stand as a "political stunt." Scott mentioned MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, who dismissed the filibuster as a "fundraising stunt" near the end of his Wednesday night show and the Wall Street Journal editorial that urged Paul to "calm down."...
- 3/8/2013
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Kirsten Powers sat down with Bill O'Reilly tonight clearly prepared to rebut him over allegations he made during his shouting match with Alan Colmes last night over whether or not President Obama has offered any specific spending cuts. Powers had in her hand a document from the White House website showing Obama had proposed specific Medicare cuts, and despite O'Reilly's protestations, she told him, "Bill, you are a hundred percent wrong."...
- 3/7/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
Hours before the sequester spending cuts were set to take effect, Fox News' Bret Baier assembled a panel to discuss whether President Obama's dire warnings about furloughs were a bit of an exaggeration as well as whether he's unfairly blaming Republicans. Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers criticized the president for exaggerating the extent of the cuts when "there will be people who lose their jobs."...
- 3/2/2013
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Bill O'Reilly tonight took on two big recent issues that he argued were part of an overarching acceptance of the nanny state: a judge not prosecuting a mother for taking cocaine while pregnant, and New York governor Andrew Cuomo pushing for no restrictions on abortion in New York. O'Reilly told both Kirsten Powers and Kate Obenshain that these are clear signs the United States is becoming a "barbaric" nation.
- 2/21/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
During a discussion on Fox News Channel regarding the president’s recently leaked proposal to reform the nation’s immigration system, The Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers expressed some exasperation with President Barack Obama’s critics. Powers said that Obama was criticized for having an ill-defined plan to reform the health care system, but he has also been criticized for introducing a plan to reform the immigration system.
- 2/18/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Kirsten Powers And Panel Hit Media Hard On Sotu: They Fawn Over ‘Every Stupid Idea Barack Obama Has’
Fox News Watch, Fox's media bias program, took on the media coverage of the State of the Union and Marco Rubio's awkward water bottle moment in his response. Kirsten Powers went after President Obama the hardest, criticizing the media for fawning over every single speech Obama says and derisively saying that being a liberal is more than just liking "every stupid idea" the president has.
- 2/16/2013
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
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