ABC’s 90-minute town hall with President Trump drew fewer viewers than NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” ESPN’s NBA Playoff telecast and Fox News prime-time programming, The Hill reports.
Tonight, Joe Biden will appear on a CNN town hall event.
Quote of the Day
“This is not like embedding with the Marines in Fallujah. It is like you are taking your family with you to Fallujah.”
— ABC News White House correspondent Jon Karl, quoted by National Journal, on covering indoor Trump rallies.
Jim Carrey Will Play Biden on SNL
NBC said that Jim Carrey will play Joe Biden on the coming 46th season of Saturday Night Live, which begins on October 3, the New York Times reports.
Fox News Says Trump Was ‘Ambushed’ at Town Hall
Fox News accused ABC News of ambushing President Trump at a televised town hall with undecided voters in Pennsylvania and host Laura Ingraham suggested “the DNC may as well have put the whole thing on.”
Alan Dershowitz Sues CNN for $300 Million
Alan Dershowitz filed a $300 million defamation lawsuit against CNN on Tuesday, arguing that the network spread a “false narrative” by reairing a clip of his comments during Trump’s impeachment trial that omitted a portion of his statement, The Wrap reports.
Trump Says He’ll Be on Fox & Friends Weekly
President Trump announced on Fox & Friends that he will be coming on the show once a week — mostly, on Mondays — until Election Day, NBC News reports.
It was news to the show’s hosts.
Said Steve Doocy: “Thank you very much. You may want to do it every week but Fox is not committed to that. We’ll take it on a case by case basis.”
#Unfit
Just released: #Unfit, a documentary featuring George Conway, Anthony Scaramucci and Bill Kristol.
“For the first time, mental health professionals go on the record, in an eye–opening, science–based assessment of the behavior and stability of Donald J. Trump.”
#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- George Conway, Anthony Scaramucci, Bill Kristol (Actors)
- Dan Partland (Director) - Art Horan (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
Facebook Network Circulates Voting Misinformation
Popular Information: “Facebook has permitted a large network of Facebook pages and groups — with names like Trump’s Deplorable Army, To The Death Media, and One Angry Conservative — to spread disinformation about voting in the 2020 election to millions of people.”
“The network operates by funneling traffic to Conservative Brief, an obscure right-wing website. Conservative Brief does not engage in any original reporting. Instead, it distorts reports from mainstream sources to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the upcoming election.”
“Over the last 90 days, the network of pages that promote Conservative Brief has generated 30.65 million engagements… That’s more engagement than the main New York Times Facebook page generated over the same period of time (26.48 million).”
Michael Cohen to Launch Podcast
Michael Cohen, out this week with the best-selling book Disloyal, on Monday will launch a weekly podcast, “Mea Culpa.”
Cohen told Mike Allen he will set out to “dismantle the Trump legacy.”
He added: “I’m interviewing someone very special.”
CNN’s Jeff Zucker Offered Trump a Weekly Show
Tucker Carlson released an audio conversation between CNN President Jeff Zucker and Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in March 2016.
Zucker said that he wanted President Trump “to do a weekly show” and even offered advice ahead of a GOP primary debate on the network.
However, Zucker didn’t want to formally make the offer in email: “I’m very conscious of not putting too much in email, as you’re a lawyer, as you understand. And, you know, as fond as I am of the boss, he also has a tendency… If I call him or I email him, he then is capable of going out at his next rally and saying that we just talked and I can’t have that, if you know what I’m saying.”
He added: “I have all these proposals for him. I want to do a weekly show with him and all this stuff.”
How Political Sources Play the Anonymity Game
Tom DeFrank writes that years ago, an anonymous source gave him incredible insights on the 1988 presidential election on background — but warned DeFrank that when the story came out, he’d have to publicly deny it as “total bullshit.”
That source? George W. Bush.
Bill Clinton to Launch a Podcast
Former President Bill Clinton will launch a podcast in early 2021, Deadline reports.
Trump Attacks Laurene Powell Jobs
President Trump is coming after Laurene Powell Jobs, the philanthropist billionaire who owns a majority stake in The Atlantic.
Said Trump: “Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he left her on a failing Radical Left Magazine that is run by a con man (Goldberg) and spews FAKE NEWS & HATE. Call her, write her, let her know how you feel!!!”
Trump’s Favorite Channel Employs Kremlin-Paid Journalist
Daily Beast: “If the stories broadcast by the Trump-endorsed One America News Network sometimes look like outtakes from a Kremlin trolling operation, there may be a reason. One of the on-air reporters at the 24-hour network is a Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.”
Trump Slams Reporters Over Fallen Soldiers Comments
President Trump lashed out at the journalist behind this week’s explosive report that claimed he had disparaged fallen American soldiers, calling the reporter a “slimeball.”
Trump also went after a Fox News reporter after she backed up some details of a bombshell story saying she should be fired.
Politico: “Trump’s ongoing public effort to contain the fallout from the bombshell report entered its third day after the president on Friday attempted to repudiate the allegations in two press conferences and on social media, including having current and former administration officials speak out as character witnesses.”
Trump Reverses Decision to Shutter ‘Stars and Stripes’
President Trump reversed a decision to cut funding to Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has served American soldiers since the Civil War, USA Today reports.
QAnon Is a ‘Collective Delusion’
BuzzFeed News: “The editors at BuzzFeed News have become uneasy about using conspiracy theory to describe QAnon, which has grown to encompass a whole alternative world of beliefs and signals. The copydesk has to stay on top of language and note when terms become stale and reductive; QAnon has shifted, and so should how we write about it.”
“QAnon is a collective delusion, and that’s what BuzzFeed News will be calling it from now on.”
Does Anything Matter Anymore?
Susan Glasser: “The rest of the news in Trump’s America, two months before Election Day, is equally gutting: twenty or so U.S. states have rising cases of COVID-19, and, as many schools and universities reopen, the numbers are expected to grow. On many days, more than a thousand Americans die as a result of the pandemic. By comparison, in the worst week of the Vietnam War, just more than five hundred American personnel died… All told, American deaths from COVID-19 are approaching two hundred thousand.”
“Mass unemployment continues, and many companies are bracing for new, more permanent layoffs. Food banks are overwhelmed. Congress, stuck in an impasse between House Democrats and Senate Republicans, has failed to pass a new round of economic relief, and the initial aid package for small businesses and the unemployed has run out. The national debt as a share of the economy has reached its highest level since the Second World War.”
“None of this, apparently, has any electoral consequence. In fact, looking at the polls, you would be hard-pressed to discern that anything of consequence is happening at all.”
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