POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)

NOMINEES: 

1. Scott MacFarlane: It Wasn’t the Shooting of Trump That Horrified Me, It Was His Supporters

“For those of us there [assasination attempt], it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. This was — I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because, you could, you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.”
— CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane on The Chuck ToddCast podcast, July 16. 

2. Sunny Hostin: CBS’s Firing of Stephen Colbert Is the “Dismantling of Our Democracy”

“It’s very clear that if it [CBS canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert] is political, this is the dismantling of our democracy. This is the dismantling of our Constitution….If the comedians are being attacked, then that means our Constitution is being dismantled.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, July 22. 

3. Alan Cumming: America Under Trump = Concentration Camps and “Crimes Against Humanity on a Daily Basis”

“America, how are you doing? No, really, how are you doing? I mean how, are you doing aside from being a country that has just reintroduced concentration camps, taken healthcare away from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also to finance an armed militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnapping and crimes against humanity on a daily basis? Aside from all that, are you okay?”
— Substitute host Alan Cumming on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, July 21.

 

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