Offering his thoughts on Tuesday’s With All Due Respect concerning President Obama announcing his executive actions on gun control, Bloomberg TV/MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin declared that he was “touched by” the President’s tears and was “proud of his ability to show” his emotions on something that’s “a national crisis that needs to be addressed.”
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By Curtis Houck | January 5, 2016 | 8:42 PM EST
By Tim Graham | January 5, 2016 | 8:32 PM EST
MSNBC knows who listens to NPR. For years, they’ve advertised their programming on the NPR website. But in a new listing of “What Mattered in Media 2015,” NPR TV critic Eric Deggans dissed the Lean Forward Network. It was a big story when Brian Williams “got sent back to the minors."
By Ken Shepherd | January 5, 2016 | 8:22 PM EST
In his much-hyped exclusive sit-down interview with Hillary Clinton, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews treated the former secretary of state to a softball chat that was heavily dominated by Donald Trump.
The toughest portion of the interview was when Matthews pressed Clinton to explain the difference between your garden-variety Democrat and self-avowed socialists like Bernie Sanders. All in all, however, it was a neatly-wrapped late Christmas present for the Democratic frontrunner.
By Matthew Balan | January 5, 2016 | 6:43 PM EST
Tuesday's CNN Newsroom gave a platform to left-wing commentator David Love, who asserted in a Monday column for theGrio.com that "if Black Lives Matter protesters were to take over a federal building armed to the teeth with firepower — and they certainly would not do this — they would wind up dead or in prison for life on terrorism charges." Love criticized the handling of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon: "It seems that this country has a double standard. I would say it's a color-coded system when it comes to defining terrorism."
By Mark Finkelstein | January 5, 2016 | 6:28 PM EST
Not merely does Chris Matthews claim that Hillary Clinton was "shocked" to learn that Bill was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Matthews can't imagine anybody thinking she wasn't shocked.
On today's With All Due Respect, Matthews said "I don't think anybody thought that she wasn't shocked when this Monica thing came about. You just look at her face in the old clips. You can see she couldn't believe it had happened." Of course. After all, Monica is on record in the Starr Report saying that Bill confided to her that he had "hundreds" of affairs before the age of 40. That's on top of the hundreds of affairs that Dick Morris says Clinton had while in the White House. So naturally Hillary "couldn't believe" that Bill would fool around with a zoftig intern. Right.
By Tom Blumer | January 5, 2016 | 5:31 PM EST
At the Associated Press, Wisconsin-based reporter Scott Bauer, who has spent the better part of the past five years describing Badger State Governor Scott Walker as "polarizing," has been given the opportunity to get involved with 2016 presidential campaign coverage. Walker convinced voters to unite behind him to lead Wisconsin by significant majorities three times in four years (with victory margins of 5.8 percent, 6.8 percent, and 5.7 percent, respectively), including a recall election orchestrated by sore-loser union-backing Democrats.
Leftists and Democrats rarely earn negative descriptors in Bauer's reports, while Republicans and conservatives receive them routinely. Now that he has been tasked to cover Ted Cruz, Bauer has been using a scattershot approach, employing a plethora of negative terms, apparently in search of one or two which will cast the the Texas Senator in the most negative light possible.
By Ken Shepherd | January 5, 2016 | 5:30 PM EST
Being early January it's both the dead of winter and New Year's resolution season. A common one is to lose some weight in the cold winter months to be ready for the beach in the summer. But as goes the Washington Post's Wonkblog, they've got a rather different resolution: health magazines should "Ban the Bikini Body."
By Karen Townsend | January 5, 2016 | 5:09 PM EST
Whether the talking points come from liberal politicians, like President Obama, or the usual suspects in Hollywood, you WILL be subjected to the drama of climate change extremists - even in primetime television shows like CBS’ Supergirl.
In Supergirl’s version of Planet Krypton’s destruction, we learn it fell victim to global warming and Aunt Astra returns to ask for Supergirl Kara’s help to stop the same thing from happening to Planet Earth.
By Kyle Drennen | January 5, 2016 | 4:27 PM EST
During special coverage of President Obama’s announcement of gun control executive orders on Tuesday, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing applauded the commander-in-chief playing on people’s emotions to win support for his unilateral action.
By Ken Shepherd | January 5, 2016 | 4:20 PM EST
Towards the end of her January 4 piece for the Daily Beast hailing President Obama's controversial and arguably illegal move to essentially legislate new gun controls via presidential fiat, liberal journalist-turned-pundit Eleanor Clift justified the action by complaining that gun-related deaths in the U.S. now outpaced automobile accidents.
By Katie Yoder | January 5, 2016 | 4:04 PM EST
Planned Parenthood has yet another celebrity supporter to add to its list: Jennifer Lawrence.
For Glamour’s February 2016 cover story, editor-in-chief Cindi Leive spoke with the 25-year-old celebrity. During the interview, Lawrence defended Planned Parenthood and declared that the taxpayer-funded organization is “so much more [than abortion].”
By Alatheia Larsen | January 5, 2016 | 3:39 PM EST
Even when NASA states a weather pattern has not been caused by climate change, the media still can’t help bringing it up.
On Jan. 5, CBS This Morning invited Jeffrey Kluger, climate change evangelist and the editor at large for Time magazine, to explain what is “going on” with the “extreme weather” caused by El Niño.
By Jack Coleman | January 5, 2016 | 3:31 PM EST
Bill Press is perhaps best known as one of the early hosts of the influential cable show Crossfire, but he's also a longtime radio talker and columnist for The Hill politics website.
In his most recent column, misleadingly headlined "Shining a Spotlight on media," Press joins a chorus of praise for the movie Spotlight that chronicles the efforts of a Boston Globe reporting team to uncover the sexual abuse scandal that enveloped the Catholic church in the early 2000s.
By Clay Waters | January 5, 2016 | 2:52 PM EST
No more worrying about the corrupting effect of money in politics at the New York Times – as long as the loot is used to fight gun rights, state by state. Before President Obama’s executive actions on gun control announced Tuesday morning, Times reporter Eric Lichtblau helped paved the way, celebrating a billionaire’s vast political reach on Monday’s front page in “Battleground Shifts In Debate On Gun Control -- Obama Is Set To Act – Buoyed With New Cash, Groups Notch Small Wins vs. N.R.A.” The moneyman in this case would be former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
By Katie Yoder | January 5, 2016 | 2:44 PM EST
Planned Parenthood is revealing its influence on the media yet again – this time in its annual report.
In late December, Planned Parenthood released its 2014 – 2015 annual report. Under “Top Achievements,” the abortion giant boasted how it “reshaped the narrative about sexuality through popular culture” – from using celebrities like Scarlett Johansson to scheming with People and MTV.