mika brzezinski

Keenan Thompson played an uncomfortable U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch this weekend lampooning MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, whose wedding the Maryland congressman officiated last month.

If we are serious about trying to change society away from the oppression of patriarchy, now is the time for all good and intellectually honest media workers to hold their nerve, stay focused and not start making excuses and applying double standards when they see someone they had admired go down.

The president has said his tweeting is a way around the media, but using tweets to insult people does not benefit him, or his agenda, says Cal Thomas.

The press occasionally getting under a president’s skin is certainly nothing new, as evidenced by a review written by Washington Post music critic Paul Hume of President Harry S. Truman’s daughter.