During a trip to the Kara Tepe Syrian refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, actress Susan Sarandon tried the tired talking point that Syrian refugees are like the Virgin Mary and Joseph sojourning from Nazareth. Sarandon was describing her encounter with a 16-year-old refugee girl who had recently given birth.
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December 19, 2015, 8:35 PM EST
CNN’s Jake Tapper hit the nail on the head when he said the reason the DNC has held a limited number of presidential debates is because of one reason – to protect and help Democratic presidential candidate frontrunner Hilary Clinton.
"I don't know anybody in Washington who disagree with that. The idea that the number of debates has been limited, and they’ve been scheduled on Saturday nights, when viewership is the smallest, the audience is the smallest."
December 15, 2015, 5:01 PM EST
On Sunday's This Week, they concluded the show with a feminist tribute. ABC’s Cokie Roberts sat down with feminist legend Gloria Steinem for what should’ve been an interview on her first book in over 20 years, My Life on the Road. Instead, it was a celebration of her life. George Stephanopoulos gushed that Steinem “sat down with our own pathbreaker, Cokie Roberts, for a look back at 50 years of change in feminism and journalism.”
Roberts began by suggesting today’s young women don’t appreciate the Old Guard enough:” “Gloria Steinem, loved and hated by millions, grew up in a world modern Americans wouldn't recognize. Women were legally denied jobs and credit and shut out of prominent positions. But instead of accepting that world, she led a movement to change it.”
December 14, 2015, 3:02 PM EST
Even though their ethics guide states, that “reporters and editors should refrain from commenting in a partisan way about candidates or policy issues,” cat-meme giant BuzzFeed is letting those ethical guidelines fall to the wayside when it comes to coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
December 12, 2015, 1:22 PM EST
In honor of Planned Parenthood's National Day of Solidarity, Teen Vogue wanted to do something to show their gratitude toward the abortion giant and “how hard they work to keep all of us healthy,” by giving them free advertisement…I mean, a warm and heartfelt article on stories told by 10 different women and their experiences with (heartfelt endorsements of) with Planned Parenthood.
December 11, 2015, 1:40 PM EST
Kurt Russell has fought fires in the movie Backdraft, Chinese gangs in Big Trouble in Little China, American outlaws in Tombstone, crime bosses in Escape From New York and the Russian hockey team in Miracle. Now, he’s taking on the liberal media.
Russell was recently interviewed by Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere about his upcoming film Hateful Eight – directed by the very controversial Quentin Tarantino. Wells wasted no time trying to turn an entertainment piece into a political battle about gun control.
December 4, 2015, 10:10 PM EST
Girls actress Lena Dunham is certainly preoccupied with all things related to lady parts. Dunham is venturing into nail fashion – more specifically, nail art showcasing...you guessed it -- "little boobs, butts, and vaginas"! Talk about keeping it classy.
November 30, 2015, 10:24 PM EST
Leave it to a humorless lefty to find patently offensive something that is a cult classic for millions of Americans who grew up in the 1980s: John Hughes’s “Sixteen Candles.”
November 30, 2015, 10:07 PM EST
It’s been a while (not really) since we’ve heard any crazy comments from our favorite ambulance chaser-turned-congressman from Florida, but now he’s going full-on birther mode when it comes to Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential bid by calling Cruz “ineligible” because he was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father.
Speaking on Alan Colmes’ radio show last week, Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson let us in on his nefarious plan:
November 29, 2015, 9:05 PM EST
Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman called for a boycott of Donald Trump’s businesses because he says they are supporting “racism and neo-fascism.”
"It's time for a boycott of Trump's businesses - and a public calling out of those who choose to work with him," Shachtman tweeted.
November 27, 2015, 7:47 AM EST
Since Stephen Colbert took the reins from David Letterman at The Late Show on CBS, he’s been proving to be serving comedy and commentary for the blue half of America. Kyle Smith of the New York Post penned a piece titled “Colbert’s Late Show has become propaganda for Democrats.”
Smith blamed the host for his interviews: “The pattern is familiar: When a Democrat is the guest, Colbert is Barbara Walters. When a Republican is on, he turns into Tim Russert.”
November 26, 2015, 8:21 AM EST
It certainly looks like Planned Parenthood is trying their hardest to distance themselves from being seen as a selfish money-making bloody abortion mill to one that has a woman's interests at heart – mainly through breast examinations -- and are relying on such media outlets to relay this "message" in a way that can only be described as free advertising. How can an article count as free advertising? Let me count the ways.
Last week, the Huffington Post posted an "article" titled, "Early Detection Key to Fighting Breast Cancer and Planned Parenthood Can Help." First clue this is a pro-Planned Parenthood advertisement disguised as an article? The title.
November 24, 2015, 9:51 AM EST
Transgender advocates are boycotting the forthcoming movie Zoolander 2 because its trailer features its moronic male model characters being confused by androgynous model named "All." Ben Stiller's Zoolander asks if the model is male or female. When the reply is "All is all," Owen Wilson's airheaded character asks “I think he’s asking is do you have a hot dog or a bun?”
Protester Sarah Rose complained over this as "an over-the-top, cartoonish mockery of androgyne/trans/non-binary individuals. This is the modern equivalent of using blackface to represent a minority."
November 23, 2015, 12:34 PM EST
The New York Times wrote a staff editorial about the Mormon Church and their refusal to baptize the children of same-sex couples. The headline was “Stung by Edict on Gays, Mormons Leave Church."
In an earlier story, the Times found that nearly 1,500 people resigned during a “mass resignation” on November 14. There are nearly 15 million members in the Mormon Church, so if 1,500 resignations constitute a “massive drove,” they may want to rethink their math – that’s only about 0.0001 percent of the church which “resigned," many of them what you would call inactive or fallen members of the church.
November 22, 2015, 8:16 AM EST
If you want to talk about what contributes to the manufactured “war on women” argument, look no further than the lefties at Mic.com. They're going to politicize the period. Forget about ISIS -- we women have our own bloody battle to deal with and Mic is putting it to the forefront with an article titled, “Meet the Women Who Want to Lead a Menstrual Revolution.” They even lament the injustice that "menstrual products aren’t covered by food stamps in the U.S."
November 21, 2015, 6:56 PM EST
Apparently the NBC News political team ’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Carrie Dann thought it would be a good idea to compare the fear and “political freak out” of the Ebola crisis in 2014 to the Paris terror attacks of 2015.
How could such a comparison be made? Easy. Todd and his crew are practically mocking the fear, concerns and suspicions Americans have of Syrian refugees entering the country to the same fear and “panic” displayed during the Ebola scare. Of course, a deadly disease is one thing, allowing ISIS terrorists posing as refugees is a totally different level of fear.
November 20, 2015, 10:10 PM EST
Sometimes art comes too close to imitating life. The movie Made in France was set to be released last weekend, but the plot was suddenly too disturbing. It's being pushed to 2016. It’s about a Muslim journalist who uses his background to permeate a mosque in the Paris suburbs and eventually hooks up with would-be terrorists planning to “sow chaos in the heart of Paris.”
November 18, 2015, 8:39 AM EST
These days it seems as though anti-gun advocates will go to any length to promote their agenda try and cast the Second Amendment in a bad light.
Case in point. Have you ever heard of "gun porn?" If not, don't worry, I never heard of it either until now. It’s "described as photos of guns that display them in the same carefully posed and lighted manner as the models in traditional pornography. The magazines include glossy covers with sexy young women armed and ready to shoot."
November 15, 2015, 11:08 PM EST
Bryan Cranston, the actor probably most known for playing a meth kingpin in the AMC drama Breaking Bad, thinks President Obama’s time in the White House will later be looked upon as “very favorably,” mainly because of what he did with ObamaCare. “I think his legacy will be looked upon, maybe not right now, but in years to come, I think it will be looked upon very favorably because of what he was able to do with the healthcare initiative, ObamaCare.”
November 11, 2015, 9:37 PM EST
It used to seem like weathermen/weatherwomen were the only ones who could be wrong half the time and still keep their jobs. Well, I'm now beginning to think that same rationale applies to the reporters at Politico - specifically, Kyle D. Cheney.
Cheney is the Politico reporter who started a media meltdown over a story he filed last week on Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson.