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Former Consumer Product Czar in WashPost: Regulate Bullets
By Matt Philbin | January 7, 2016 | 2:19 PM EST

Ann Brown thinks you’re stupid, and that’s not just because she’s a former chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (motto: “Saving American from Themselves for More Than 40 Years.”) No, it’s because even though you reject liberal gun control measures, she’s sure you’d be A-okay with liberal bullet control measures.

Writing in The Washington Post January 6, Brown called for the federal regulation of ammunition, noting correctly that Obama’s new raft of executive actions on guns had little “chance of achieving even a small reduction in this carnage.” 

CNN Frets Over NRA Pressing Police Not to Destroy Confiscated Guns
By Brad Wilmouth | January 7, 2016 | 1:46 PM EST

Wednesday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN ran a report by correspondent Drew Griffin fretting over NRA-inspired laws in some "conservative" states that forbid police departments from destroying confiscated guns, with such laws aiming to encourage the police to sell the weapons and use the funds raised to help pay for law enforcement activities.

Networks Air 4-to-1 Favorable Coverage of Minimum Wage Hikes in 2015
By Sam Dorman | January 7, 2016 | 11:27 AM EST

When it comes to raising the minimum wage, networks minimize balance and maximize bias.

After a year of protests clamoring for a $15 minimum wage, Christian Science Monitor reported that 14 states and several cities increased minimum wages or planned to in 2016. Several more cities and states are expected to consider a $15 minimum wage with ballot or legislative initiatives, according to USA Today.

 
Priests for Life: Churches Must Decry ‘Killing the Public’ in 2016 Election
By Katie Yoder | January 7, 2016 | 11:20 AM EST

Churches must not be afraid to speak out against abortion in the 2016 election, according to one prominent pro-life group.

On Wednesday, Priests for Life hosted a press conference on abortion in light of the upcoming 2016 elections at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event centered on the question “How political can the Catholic Church be?” under its tax-exempt status and highlighted that “restrictions on political activity by churches are misunderstood” -- even by the media.

Angry ABC Raged at Obama Birther ‘Nonsense,’ Blase on Cruz Birtherism
By Scott Whitlock | January 7, 2016 | 11:20 AM EST

In 2011 and 2012, the journalists at Good Morning America railed against birther claims relating to Barack Obama, assailing the conspiracy theory as “bizarre” and “nonsense.” Yet, the same program lacked outrage on Thursday as Donald Trump promotes a form of birtherism against Ted Cruz. 

Scarborough's Strange Fascination With Rubio's 'Go-Go Boots'
By Mark Finkelstein | January 7, 2016 | 8:49 AM EST

Someone remind me: isn't there a term for people with this sort of fixation? Joe Scarborough just can't stop looking at and talking about Marco Rubio's footwear, ever since a photo recently appeared of Rubio sporting a pair of boots.

On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough repeatedly circled back to the subject, managing to work it into a number of conversations. For example, when Mika Brzezinski cited a report that Rubio has shifted his message from optimism to "doom," Scarborough jumped in: "what? Did he break a heel?"

'2 Broke Girls' Airs Juvenile 2 Penises Episode
By Karen Townsend | January 7, 2016 | 2:24 AM EST

Descending down the rabbit hole of desperate shock vulgarity in prime time television, the episode named “And the Not Regular Down There” of CBS’ 2 Broke Girls answers the burning question – why does Max’s new boyfriend hesitate to have sex with her? – with sophomoric humor. 

Conan: Trump Reminds Him of Mussolini; ‘I Like That Mussolini Thing He Does’
By Curtis Houck | January 7, 2016 | 2:23 AM EST

Near the top of the Wednesday monologue of his eponymous TBS show, Conan O’Brien joked that Donald Trump reminded him of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in the way he sculpts his hair and interacts with crowds. Upon pretending to form his hair into more like Trump’s, O’Brien remarked: “I like that Mussolini thing he does. He looks out at the crowd. He's got this guy on his head.”

Networks Fail to Cover TransCanada Filing Lawsuits Against Obama for Rejecting Keystone
By Curtis Houck | January 7, 2016 | 12:40 AM EST

Along with skipping on Wednesday night the successful congressional vote to repeal ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC also declined to dedicate a second of airtime to the Canadien energy company TransCanada filing lawsuits against the Obama administration for having rejected the Keystone XL pipeline.

NBC’s ‘The Mysteries of Laura’ Discovers a New Sexual Threesome
By Dylan Gwinn | January 7, 2016 | 12:30 AM EST

Because the politics of sex in the modern American family unit were not already bizarre enough, Wednesday night’s edition of NBC’s The Mysteries of Laura introduced a new and even more disconcerting male-female arrangement. Or, male-female-male arrangement, I should say.

Conservative Politics May Be Hurting Curt Schilling’s Hall of Fame Chances
By Dylan Gwinn | January 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM EST

Being a conservative got you down? Maybe people are looking at you weird? Not holding the elevator when they see you running up? Co-workers preventing you from being copied on all those invites to office parties? Voters trying to keep you from being enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

ABC’s Llamas to Cruz: ‘How Can You Be a President’ If You ‘Hate’ Democrats, ‘Culture of Washington’
By Curtis Houck | January 6, 2016 | 10:40 PM EST

While interviewing Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz for the Wednesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight, Republican campaign correspondent Tom Llamas demanded Cruz explain how he could “be a president and hate the Democrats and hate the culture of Washington so much and be effective.”

Pundit: Woman-Hating, Limbaugh-Loving Republicans Have No Business Making Bill Clinton’s Sex Life a Campaign Issue
By Tom Johnson | January 6, 2016 | 9:32 PM EST

Give columnist Paul Waldman credit for coming up with a real grabber of a lead: “Get ready, America: we're about to take a long and unpleasant journey back down Bill Clinton's pants.” Less amusing is the rest of Waldman’s Monday American Prospect piece, which trashed Republicans for raising the 42nd president’s sexual behavior as an issue in the current campaign.

Waldman jeered at GOPers for “pretend[ing] to…care so deeply about women” while being “the party that wants to keep women from being able to sue for discrimination on the job, the party that wants to keep insurance companies from having to provide coverage for birth control, the party that wants to make abortion illegal, the party whose favorite media figure, Rush Limbaugh, positively luxuriates in his hateful misogyny.” Moreover, argued Waldman, reporters’ fascination with Clinton’s sex life demonstrates that “the right's charges of endemic liberal media bias” are “laughable.”

Matthews Insists Hillary's a Centrist Democrat; She 'Doesn't Want to Be a Socialist'
By Ken Shepherd | January 6, 2016 | 9:29 PM EST

During a segment on tonight's Hardball centered around Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders's criticism on the campaign trail that Hillary is insufficiently liberal and a flip-flopper on key issues, host Chris Matthews insisted that the architect of single-payer Hillarycare is a down the middle centrist, at worst slightly center left.

Networks Punt on ObamaCare Repeal, Planned Parenthood Vote Passing Congress
By Curtis Houck | January 6, 2016 | 9:14 PM EST

On Wednesday night, the major network evening newscasts all failed to cover the first full, successful congressional vote to repeal of ObamaCare and defund of Planned Parenthood that will go to President Obama’s desk where he’ll likely veto the measures seeking to undo his health care law and strike federal funding from the nation’s largest provider of abortions. Providing a more balanced contrast, FNC’s Special Report had a full segment.