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Ebony Editor: Would Liberals Turn on Bill Cosby if He Supported Black Lives Matter?

By Jack Coleman | December 31, 2015, 8:50 PM EST

Maybe it can be chalked up to a tendency toward reflection at year's end and not the emergence of a refreshing pattern. This past Sunday on Meet the Press, one of the last people you'd expect to point out that "it's not always policeme ...

Welcome Candor From Director Spike Lee: 'It's Not Always Policemen' Shooting Black People

By Jack Coleman | December 29, 2015, 12:20 PM EST

Only Nixon could go to China, according to one of the more enduring political truths of the last half-century. Just as only a man of color with undeniable credibility in the black community can publicly utter an undeniable truth-- it's not only polic ...

Grasping at Straws, Ed Schultz Blames Citizens United Ruling for Trump's Popularity

By Jack Coleman | December 25, 2015, 11:09 PM EST

As Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) gradually fades among liberals after its decade-long stint atop their stack of pathologies, a newly diagnosed condition known as Completely Unhinged over Citizens United (CUCU) is supplanting it. Even though BDS is unlik ...

MSNBC Reporter Trumpets 'Fact' That Illegals Should Be Granted Citizenship

By Jack Coleman | December 22, 2015, 8:29 PM EST

Whenever a liberal includes "fact" at the start of a sentence, rest assured that whatever follows is usually more accurately described as opinion-- and dubious opinion at that. This amusing phenomenon could be seen last night on Rachel Maddow� ...

Eleanor Clift Rushes to Defend First Amendment Rights of Jihadists

By Jack Coleman | December 19, 2015, 9:37 PM EST

President Obama is doing all he can to prevent ISIS from propagandizing via the Internet, and Democrat presumptive heiress Hillary Clinton has a plan along the same lines, according to McLaughlin Group regular and  Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift. But ...

Thom Hartmann: Trump, Cruz Trying to Recreate WWII Era Nazi-Japanese 'Death Cults'

By Jack Coleman | December 18, 2015, 7:01 PM EST

If Donald Trump or Ted Cruz are elected president, we're all going to die. So suggests liberal radio host Thom Hartmann in a premise notably unhinged even for a liberal radio host. Don't claim you were never warned. Hartmann, among the most infl ...

New Film to Depict What Ted Kennedy 'Had to Go Through' at Chappaquiddick

By Jack Coleman | December 16, 2015, 3:11 PM EST

Nearly five decades after Mary Jo Kopechne died in a car driven by Ted Kennedy, Hollywood is preparing a movie about the incident that appears more sympathetic to him than to her. Kopechne, a 28-year-old former campaign worker for Kennedy's late brot ...

NY Daily News Editor Offers Lame Defense for Inflammatory Front Pages

By Jack Coleman | December 13, 2015, 9:11 PM EST

Look no further than the front page of the New York Daily News for evidence of the desperate state of newspapers today. Whereas the motto of broadsheet rival New York Times is "All The News That's Fit to Print," the motto of the Daily News ...

Alan Colmes Comically Shows Why Liberals Can't Be Trusted on Guns

By Jack Coleman | December 9, 2015, 9:09 PM EST

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes, longtime Hartford resident Mark Twain once observed. If you're skeptical of what a liberal is saying about guns, wait even less time for your doubts to be confirmed. Radio ho ...

Ed Schultz Denigrates Constitution as Old 'Piece of Paper' That is 'Totally Outdated'

By Jack Coleman | December 8, 2015, 12:13 AM EST

Got a soft spot for the oldest written constitution in the world, the one for which every president upon taking office must swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend? Then you're clearly a "jackass" according to Ed Schultz, who joins a ...

Hartmann Peddles Fallacy of Food Stamps as Among 'Best Ways' to Stimulate Economy

By Jack Coleman | December 6, 2015, 8:54 PM EST

You're Definitely A Liberal When... Assertion #7,546-- You claim with a straight face that taxpayer-funded food stamps are wondrously stimulative for the economy.  It's been so long since this one crossed my path that I'd begun to believe i ...

Regardless of Cause, GOP Will Get Blamed for Shutdown, House Dem Tells Ed Schultz

By Jack Coleman | December 3, 2015, 6:54 PM EST

A government shutdown over federal funding for Syrian refugees and Planned Parenthood is unlikely, albeit slightly, Congressman John Yarmuth assured Ed Schultz. But if this occurs, Yarmuth added, Republicans will get blamed for it-- regardless of whether ...

Ed Schultz: 'Clearly a Connection' Between GOP Rhetoric and Planned Parenthood Murders

By Jack Coleman | December 1, 2015, 7:53 PM EST

Ed Schultz condemning others for "hateful rhetoric"-- hypocrisy doesn't get more sublime than that. Schultz, you probably remember, vilified Laura Ingraham as a "right-wing slut" on his radio show in 2011, resulting in a two-week ...

Clarence Page Can't Distinguish Between Expelling Student Agitators and Shooting Them

By Jack Coleman | November 30, 2015, 6:17 PM EST

What better way to wind down from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend than with a serving of absurdity from a long-entrenched member of the liberal media elite. The comical leftover in question comes courtesy of  Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page durin ...

Ed Schultz Gets It Wrong On Ben Carson Getting It Wrong on Jefferson and the Constitution

By Jack Coleman | November 28, 2015, 9:54 PM EST

Ed Schultz should stick with his shtick as perpetually irritated working-class hero rather than ridicule others for their alleged ignorance of American history while at the same time displaying his flimsy grasp of it. Since ending his radio show last year ...