Larry O'Connor

Ana Navarro: CNN ‘very balanced’ they have ‘commentators like me’

On today's episode of The View, Meghan McCain tried valiantly to walk the fine line between criticizing President Trump's choice of words when he called fake news the "enemy of the American people" and at the same time pointing out that, indeed, there appeared to be a significant anti-Trump bias at most mainstream media outlets.

NY Times newest editorial board member doesn’t seem to like ‘Dumba** F***ing White People’

Meet Sarah Jeong. She's the newest member of the New York Times editorial board. She also has a history of saying pretty vile, racist things on Twitter.

What Jim Acosta and CNN don’t understand about the angry crowds at Trump rallies

The people staring back at Acosta with contempt have no voice on their network. Their voices are not just silenced, they are propped up as strawmen and summarily burned to a char by the same people who insulted them and ignored them all through the election.

Tapper: ‘Unpatriotic’ to oppose Mueller investigation

"I mean, imagine if somebody tried to prevent the investigation into how Pearl Harbor happened from going forward, you would say that person is not being not patriotic."

Jim Jordan is running for Speaker on a “Drain the House swamp” populist message

Rep. Jim Jordan is running for Speaker of the House on a populist message, but when the only votes that count are 218 members of the Republican caucus, will a "power to the people" campaign actually work?

If only James Comey had been fully truthful about the FBI’s handling of the Trump campaign, Part 2

"So spying, electronic surveillance, use of Clinton-financed Russian campaign propaganda... everyone up to speed? OK. Now, in the spirit of full transparency, there's more you need to know.

When Michael Cohen’s lawyer was calling James Comey a deceitful liar, he didn’t get much TV time.

Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, is all over the media today because he's released a secretly recorded tape of then-candidate Donald Trump handling a "bimbo eruption." Davis knows all about "bimbo eruptions" because he was part of the Bill Clinton administration which invented the practice of keeping women who had incriminating evidence against a candidate or president quiet and paid-off.

The press conference Comey could have given after Trump’s ‘wiretap’ tweets

When President Trump first tweeted about Trump Tower wiretaps, imagine if James Comey had told us the full truth at that time. If we knew then everything we have learned in the past several months, things might have been very, very different.

Obama in 2017: Public shaming of Russia over hacking won’t do anything

While Democrats, the American media and many Republicans admonish President Trump for not publicly shaming Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki over his nation's hacking of political computer systems during the 2016 election, it's helpful to remember what Trump's predecessor did and said about this very issue.

Trump needs to remember that Russian meddling is not the same as collusion

In our current era of media hyperbole, hysterical over reaction wins the day over thoughtful analysis. It takes great effort to look at any given event and see it for what it is and, more importantly, what it isn't.

Journalists demand Fox News defend CNN despite barrage of insults from CNN personalities

Nunes: ‘Ridiculous’ Mueller indictment ignores Russian efforts to hack GOP

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) slammed Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 Russians accused of hacking activities during the 2016 presidential election because it only focuses on efforts to disrupt operations of Democratic Party campaign apparatuses.

Andrew Breitbart’s iconic ‘War’ declaration finds context in Trump era

You've seen or read or heard of the iconic "War" declaration attributed to the late Andrew Breitbart. You've no doubt seen the hashtag on social media declaring a certain action or statement or moment a symbolic example of Breitbart's #War.

Mark Levin unloads on #NeverTrump in light of SCOTUS decisions, Kennedy vacancy: ‘Shame on them’

Radio talk show host and former Reagan Justice Department official Mark Levin had a lot to say about the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and President Trump's judicial track record now that Justice Neil Gorsuch's first full year on the Supreme Court is complete.

Dem candidate for Maryland Governor Ben Jealous is too extreme for MSNBC

Democrats in Maryland just nominated a political novice who endorsed Bernie Sanders and championed the Black Lives Matter movement to run against Larry Hogan, the most popular governor in America. Ben Jealous, the former President of the NAACP, defeated the Democrat establishment candidate Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker on a Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders-endorsed platform.

Crowds don’t chant ‘MSNBC Sucks’ and that tells you how Americans view journalism

Despite what many denizens of the greenrooms of cable news outlets and editorial staff meetings at the New York Times and Washington Post might believe, the American people aren't stupid. And the proof is in the amusing "CNN Sucks" chant that accompanies President Trump at his rallies across the nation.

It’s Bernie’s party now

After Tuesday's stunning primary results is now safe to say that the Democratic Party is the party of Bernie Sanders. In fact, Democrat voters and the Democratic Party's leadership has gone so far from the vision and ideals of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the founders of the Democratic Republicans which became today's Democratic Party, that they really should now change their name to the Democratic Socialist Party.

Papadopoulos, Flynn guilty pleas connected to dismissed anti-Trump FBI officials

It turns out that two of the most anti-Trump FBI officials outed in the Justice Department's Inspector General report also happened to be key figures in the guilty pleas of George Papadopoulos and Lt. Gen Mike Flynn.

Early FBI contacts with Trump campaign officials analyzed; ‘Efforts to manufacture evidence’

Lee Smith at Real Clear Investigations has a lengthy analysis of the early contacts with Trump campaign official prior to the official launch of the FBI's counterintelligence probe known as "Crossfire Hurricane."

Colbert joins mob attacking Sarah Sanders

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was rudely thrown out of a public restaurant this weekend garnering sympathy and support from most Americans with any sense of decency and class. So it's no wonder that late night host Stephen Colbert threw his hat in with the ugly mob set on dividing our nation along partisan political lines.