Bryan Preston

Networks Ignore Rape Threats Hurled At Pro-Life Texas State Senator
By Matt Vespa | July 3, 2013 | 11:01 AM EDT

As Texas State Senator Wendy Davis continues to be fawned over by liberals for her filibuster of SB 5, Texas’ latest abortion law, the media have also given her political cover by omitting key details about the bill. It would have banned abortions at 20-weeks and forced clinics to undergo modifications to be reclassified as a surgical centers. After all, a late term abortion is surgery at that point. 

Instead, ABC and NBC decided to focus on how this bill will shut down abortion clinics. CBS opted to settle with Davis’ opinion about the bill’s impact on women’s health. You can guess how she thought about that angle.

Hollywood's Double Standard: 'Redacted' Praised, '24' Has to Move Left
By Ken Shepherd | February 5, 2008 | 11:16 AM EST

The writers' strike is giving conservative fans of "24" a temporary reprieve from a maddening, preachy plots planned in the new season. So argues Bryan Preston at Hot Air, noting that Hollywood praises liberal anti-military, anti-war on terror fare like "Redacted," while it can't abide a pro-American, pro-war on terror far like "24," despite the latter being vastly more successful as a commercial enterprise than the former.Preston notes that Day 7 of "24" opens by featuring lead character Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) defending his actions before a congressional committee that will doubtless rail against his methods in obtaining intelligence from terrorists. He notes this merely gives fictional liberal senators air time to echo arguments "24" fans here time and again from real life liberal politicians and the mainstream media (emphasis mine):

Undecided Voters at Dem Debate Were Left-wing Activists
By Ken Shepherd | November 20, 2007 | 12:31 PM EST

As we at NewsBusters have noticed, the media often pass off professional or semi-professional liberal activists as average Joes and Janes.