Chase Whiteside

The whole show-business concept that places paid partisan yakkers on television is corrupt and venal and deserves burial in a shallow grave. The yakkers populate the news shows not because they add much in the way of substance to our political knowledge, but because they’re a cheap form of on-air talent for television’s 24/7 programming needs...

By dividing their partisan contributors between Republicans and Democrats, TV creates the illusion of impartiality and inclusion. The contributors take the job because it’s easy—anybody can fill the air with platitudes and generalization... They hit their marks, fill the dead spaces with palaver, keep the commercials from bumping into one another, and sit at attention until called on...

What transpires during the paid contributor segments isn’t journalism. It isn’t politics. And it’s rarely even entertaining. I’d call it the worst sort of tasteless soy filler... There’s no reason outside of pragmatism that justifies their continued employment on the news shows.

New video! Meet Ricardo, an undocumented immigrant who works in a Trump Hotel.

Night after night on Fox News and at campaign rallies across the country, Donald Trump and other Republican candidates are showcasing horrible crimes from immigrants, to create a flattened profile of the “scary” immigrant to run against. But of course that's not what most immigrants are like -- most immigrants work hard and just want a shot at the American Dream, even those who work in Donald Trump’s buildings. It’s time to shift the focus back to them.