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

NOMINEES: 

1. Rachel Maddow: Trump Is “Consolidating Dictatorship In Our Country”

“Life in the United States is profoundly changing. It’s profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”
— Host Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, August 4. 

2. Vladimir Duthiers Fears a European-Style Colonization of the Moon 

Co-host Vladimir Duthiers: “We know how the age of colonialism worked on this planet. Should we be trying to colonize [the moon] and saying that there’s a keep-out zone that not other countries can participate in having?” 

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Well, the real problem with the colonization history in Western civilization is that there were people already there, right? There are no moon beings that we’re displacing.”
— CBS Mornings Plus, August 6. 

3. Stephen Colbert to Kamala Harris: Would You Like to Say “I Told You So?” 

“I will always treasure your debate with Trump….That was one of the greatest rhetorical performances I’ve ever seen. You smoked him like a ham….You warned everyone about the future under our present president. You said he would prosecute his political enemies, he would cut Medicaid and Medicare, he would ignore court orders, he would alienate our allies, he would give massive tax cuts to the rich. And I know you’re not here to say, ‘I told you so,’ but would you like to?”
— Host Stephen Colbert to former Vice President Kamala Harris on CBS’s The Late Show, August 1. 

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