Mediaite Newsletter

	Potential Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland: Tough on Crime, Soft on Guns? by Ronn Blitzer Merrick Garland, expected to be President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court according to the Associated Press and others, has quite the resume. Read More »

	Reports: Merrick Garland Likely Supreme Court Nominee by J.D. Durkin Although Reuters said on Wednesday that "likely" President Barack Obama will nominate Sri Srinivasan for the Supreme Court in a press conference scheduled for later this morning, the Associated Press -- and many other news outlets -- indicated that the likely candidate will be Merrick Garland. Read More »

	Cruz Campaign Accuses Fox News of Bending Its Rules for Donald Trump by Alex Griswold The Ted Cruz campaign was a bit miffed at Fox News Wednesday morning when Donald Trump called in for a Fox & Friends interview, something they were told Cruz was not allowed to do. Read More »

	Donald Trump Likely Lost Delegates in Illinois Because of Bigoted Supporters by Alex Griswold Donald Trump likely lost delegates in Tuesday's Illinois Republican primary because his supporters were unwilling to vote for delegates with foreign names. Read More »

	Chris Cuomo Says Donald Trump Threatened Lawsuit to Have Him Placed Back in the Womb by Tommy Christopher There's something a little bit different about New Day host Chris Cuomo's interviews with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Although he doesn't always get different results, Cuomo tends to chew harder on Trump's answers than other interviewers, and isn't afraid to blow through two commercial breaks in order to keep Trump from running out the clock. Read More »

	Donald Trump Announces He Will Skip Upcoming Fox News Debate: 'Haven't We Had Enough?' by J.D. Durkin "You hit me with it yesterday... so I'm not going to do the debate," said Trump. Read More »

	Obama to Announce Supreme Court Pick at 11 A.M. ET This Morning by Rachel Stockman President Barack Obama will make history Wednesday morning by announcing his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court at 11 am at the White House Rose Garden. Read More »

	Trump Finally Reveals the Foreign Policy Advisor He's Consulting: 'I'm Speaking With Myself' by J.D. Durkin "So, I know what I'm doing... my primary consultant is myself -- at the appropriate time I'll tell you who those people are," he told Brzezinski. Read More »

	You Will Wish Kimmel's New Reality Show 'Trumpus Room' Was Real by Tommy Christopher Celebrity political endorsements are a curious thing, especially Republican celebrity endorsements, but doubly-especially celebrity Donald Trump endorsements. On Tuesday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, the latter phenomenon was fodder for a hilarious promo for a mock reality show called "Trumpus Room." Read More »

	Trump Spox Defends Denying Entry to Reporters: ‘Glorified Bloggers’ Trying to Start Trouble by Josh Feldman Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson defended the campaign's decisions to deny reporters access to events, including a Politico reporter tonight. Read More »

	Politico Reporter Denied Entry to Trump Election Night Event by Josh Feldman A Politico reporter was denied entry to Donald Trump's election night event, likely due to his recent critical coverage. Read More »

	Trevor Noah Mercilessly Mocks Hillary for Screwing Up So Much by Josh Feldman Trevor Noah opened tonight's Daily Show by mercilessly mocking Hillary Clinton for a series of ridiculous "unforced errors" on the campaign trail. Read More »

	Embattled Trump Campaign Manager Trashed on Twitter After Being Praised at Victory Rally by Josh Feldman During his victory night speech in Florida earlier, Donald Trump singled out campaign manager Corey Lewandowski for praise amid media scrutiny of his recent actions. Read More »

	Hillary Targets Trump in Victory Speech: We Need President Who Won’t 'Embarrass' Us! by Josh Feldman Without referring to him too much, it was clear that Donald Trump was the main target of Hillary Clinton's victory speech tonight after winning Ohio and Florida. Read More »

	How and Why the Conservative Media Sold Its Soul To Facilitate Trump’s Nomination by John Ziegler To fully understand how and why the “conservative” (I use that term loosely) media willingly enabled this hostile takeover of the Republican Party; you primarily need to comprehend what a fraud the entire industry is... Read More »

	Campaign Pranksters Heckle Kasich, Rubio Speeches Dressed as Trump Supporters by Josh Feldman John Kasich's Ohio victory rally tonight was disrupted by what sounded like a Donald Trump supporter... Read More »

	John Kasich’s Name Might Not Appear on the Pennsylvania Ballot by Christopher White Read More »

	O'Reilly: Trump Won Florida Because People See Him as More 'Authoritarian' by Josh Feldman Bill O'Reilly popped into Fox News' live election night coverage tonight to say that he thinks Donald Trump won Florida because people see him as "authoritarian." Read More »

	Marco Rubio Drops Out of the Race by Josh Feldman Marco Rubio announced in a concession speech tonight that he's dropping out of the presidential race after losing to Donald Trump in Florida. Read More »

	WATCH: Donald Trump Speaks to Supporters on Mega Tuesday by Mediaite TV Donald Trump will be speaking to his supporters in just a while tonight, as more results from Tuesday's elections come in. Read More »

	Trump Retweets Fans' Attacks on Megyn Kelly Again, Calls Her 'Crazy Megyn' by Josh Feldman Election night do not stop Donald Trump from revisiting long-standing feuds, and he retweeted a few fans tonight who trashed Megyn Kelly and Fox News. Read More »

	Cruz: Trump Has 'Given Us No Reason to Believe That He Respects the Constitution' by Josh Feldman In the lead-up to Mega Tuesday, Ted Cruz spoke with radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier tonight about Donald Trump and how he's shown no indication he respects the Constitution. Read More »

	Delegates? Brokered Conventions? We Explain What It All Means by Ronn Blitzer Read More »

	Beck Rips Carson for Throwing in With Trump: You’ll Be in 'Dustbin of History' by Josh Feldman Glenn Beck really unloaded on Ben Carson today for throwing in with Donald Trump and cementing his place "in the dustbin of history." Read More »

	Mitch McConnell: I Spoke to Trump, Asked Him to Condemn Rally Violence by Josh Feldman Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell revealed today that he spoke with Donald Trump over the phone about the recent violence breaking out at Trump rallies and the rhetoric that may have contributed to it. Read More »

	Breitbart is Hitting Its Former Employees with Cease and Desists Now by Lindsey Ellefson Between snarky send-offs to staff members that were posted "accidentally" and a refusal to stand by their allegedly assaulted reporter, it's not looking good and they know it. Read More »

	Make Foreign Goods Great Again: Most of Trump’s Favorite Stuff Isn’t Made in the USA by Lindsey Ellefson Much of what he talks about at the rallies that draw huge crowds is how eager he is to bring jobs back from Mexico and China to America. Read More »

	Bill Clinton Calls Bernie Sanders 'The Blame Candidate,' Hillary 'The Responsibility Candidate' by Tommy Christopher Things got nasty on the campaign trail Tuesday as former President Bill Clinton stumped for Hillary Clinton in Chicago, and made some harsh, probably ill-advised comments to reporters there. Asked why Hillary Clinton, who narrowly leads Bernie Sanders in the state, isn't doing better than she is in Illinois, he appeared to blame the media. Read More »

	Limbaugh Suspects If GOP Denies Trump or Cruz, Jeb Will Be Handed the Nomination by Josh Feldman Rush Limbaugh predicted today that if the Republican party successfully robs either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz of the nomination, Jeb Bush will end up being the GOP nominee. Read More »

	CNN Leads in Primetime Viewership for Two Weeks out of Last Three by Mediaite Staff CNN led cable networks in primetime viewership last week, March 7-13, and in the week of Feb. 22-28 -- making them the most watched cable network during the primetime block (Monday-Sunday, 8pm-11pm) two out of the last three weeks. Read More »

	Woman Kills Home Intruder and Media Are Actually Outraged at Her! by Christopher White Read More »

	There Is a Real Bill in Congress Now to Recognize Magic as 'National Treasure' by Josh Feldman There is a real, actual piece of legislation in the House of Representatives right now to recognize magic as a great art form and national treasure. Read More »

	Florida Sec of State Refutes Complaints About Trump Not Showing Up on Some Ballots by Josh Feldman There were a few complaints on Twitter earlier from people who said they didn't see Donald Trump's name on the ballot, but the Florida Secretary of State clarified exactly what was going on to CNN today. Read More »

	Todd Starnes Blames Obama for Trump Rally Unrest: 'What About Ferguson, Baltimore?' by Ken Meyer Fox's Todd Starnes took to the Interwebs yesterday to lash out at President Obama and everyone else for suggesting that it's Donald Trump's fault that his rallies have become prone to violence. Read More »

	Trump Supporter Baffles CNN’s Baldwin With Birther Rant Against Rubio, Cruz, and Obama by Josh Feldman A Donald Trump supporter on CNN this afternoon baffled CNN's Brooke Baldwin as he went on a bit of a birther rant. Read More »

	Melissa Harris-Perry Changes Tune on Possible Move to Fusion: 'Kind of a Fun Place' by Rachel Stockman On Friday, Mediaite's Joe Concha wrote a column saying that former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry had signed a deal with the Fusion Network to get her own show. Read More »

	What One Question Would Jerry Springer Ask Trump? Easy: 'Have You Ever Been a Woman?' by J.D. Durkin Jerry Springer -- yes, that Jerry Springer -- has been doing the cable news rotation all day now that the political world has descended on his native Ohio. Read More »

	Rubio Now Unsure He Can Commit to Backing Trump as GOP Nominee by Josh Feldman After a weekend marred by violent protests and Republicans partly blaming Donald Trump for it, Marco Rubio indicated in an interview yesterday he's unsure that he can support Trump as the nominee. Read More »

	Trump Volunteers Have to Promise Never to Insult Him for the Rest of Their Lives by Alex Griswold Donald Trump fans have to sign a contract promising to never insult the candidate for the rest of their lives if they want to volunteer for the campaign's phone bank. Read More »

	Harvard Law School Changes Historic 'Racist' Seal Because Students are Offended by Alberto Luperon Read More »