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Meacham Book on 41 Hostile to Reagan and Blames Gingrich for ‘Ugly’ Politics

By Brent Baker | January 3, 2016, 10:24 AM EST

Reviewing Newsweek veteran Jon Meacham’s biography of former President George H.W. Bush, Thomas J. Duesterberg observed in The Weekly Standard that Meacham portrays the 41st President ‘s life through a liberal prism. For instance: “The policies of Ronald ...

How Cozy: Obama Campaign to NYT to WSJ to USA Today and Now to CBS

By Brent Baker | December 30, 2015, 11:55 PM EST

Michael Simon, who headed the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign’s targeting and analytics team, has joined CBS Radio, the Tom Taylor Now radio industry e-mail newsletter reported last week in an item highlighted on DCRTV.com. Taylor relayed how “Sim ...

Washington Examiner’s ‘Mainstream Media Scream’ with the MRC’s Assessment

By Brent Baker | December 29, 2015, 1:45 AM EST

Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner ’s Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I provide an explanation and recommend a ...

Trump ‘Attacking Bill Clinton’ Exasperates NBC’s Andrea Mitchell

By Brent Baker | December 28, 2015, 10:35 AM EST

You could hear it in her voice. Hosting Meet the Press on Sunday, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell was clearly exasperated by Donald Trump daring to warn Hillary Clinton he would raise Bill Clinton’s “penchant for sexism” if he campaigns for her. Mitchell was so ann ...

A Lump of Coal from Steve Hayes Who Puts Media at Top of His ‘Naughty List’

By Brent Baker | December 26, 2015, 1:04 PM EST

“At the very top of my naughty list” for the year, the Weekly Standard ’s Stephen Hayes announced on the Christmas Day edition of FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier, are “the mainstream media.”   Hayes cited how “the coverage of President Obama and Hill ...

Christmas Shopping Funny Video: ‘As Seen on TV’ Products

By Brent Baker | December 24, 2015, 12:00 AM EST

An amusing video collection as we enter the last shopping day before Christmas: From ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live last week, clips from some of the wackiest product offers in TV ads. Kimmel dubbed it the “As Seen on TV Gift Guide” with the “must-see items of 2 ...

USA Today Reporter Announces He’s Decided to Purchase a Handgun

By Brent Baker | December 22, 2015, 4:36 PM EST

Headline atop the page two “Voices” column in Tuesday's USA Today by Trevor Hughes, the Denver-based correspondent for the newspaper: “How I came to decide to buy a gun.” (Online: “ Why I decided to buy a handgun.”) “After months of soul-searching, I ...

Chuck Todd Smears Scalia: ‘I Couldn’t Help But Think of Al Campanis’

By Brent Baker | December 13, 2015, 5:11 PM EST

Seemingly unable to tell the difference between a man who affirmatively asserted racist assumptions about the physical abilities of a whole race and a man doing his job by pressing lawyers about a contention in a brief, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd ...

ABC’s Gibson Defends Clinton, Declares There’s Nothing to Benghazi or Her E-Mails

By Brent Baker | November 18, 2015, 8:23 PM EST

Demonstrating there’s no space between liberal politicians and major media figures – once they feel free in retirement to express their true views which guided their news judgments during their careers – long-time ABC News correspondent and anchor Charlie ...

FX’s Fargo Shows Reagan Bringing Man to Tears with Shining City on a Hill Speech

By Brent Baker | November 17, 2015, 9:57 AM EST

Previewing last Monday’s episode of FX’s Fargo, set in 1979, I highlighted a promotional clip in which a man declared “I’m not shaking” Ronald Reagan’s hand because Reagan “made a movie with a monkey. It wouldn’t be dignified.” In fact, the November 9 epi ...

FX’s Fargo: ‘Wouldn’t Be Dignified’ to Shake Ronald Reagan’s Hand

By Brent Baker | November 9, 2015, 7:37 PM EST

A promo run at the end of last week’s Fargo, to plug tonight’s (Nov. 9) new episode on FX, showed Ronald Reagan, in 1979, shaking hands at a campaign stop as a character out of his earshot declared: “I’m not shaking his hand.” Asked why not, the man expla ...

Actress Jill Hennessy Hails ‘Accomplished’ Hillary and ‘Tremendous’ Sanders

By Brent Baker | October 16, 2015, 9:42 PM EDT

Another Hollywood liberal infatuated by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Actress Jill Hennessy (IMDb page), best-known for starring roles on NBC’s Law & Order and Crossing Jordan, hailed Hillary Clinton: “I just think she has accomplished more than ...

SNL Host Schumer ‘Discouraged’ By Audience’s Lack of Enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton

By Brent Baker | October 11, 2015, 1:12 AM EDT

Comedian Amy Schumer got a surprise during Saturday Night Live when the Manhattan audience didn’t display much enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton. In her monologue on the October 10 program, she set up a series of jokes by relaying how “I just met Hillary – y ...

New Daily Show Host: No FNC Bashing, But Same Old Liberal Politics

By Brent Baker | September 29, 2015, 2:12 PM EDT

On the Monday night debut, with a new host, of Comedy Central’s Daily Show, Trevor Noah didn’t display previous host Jon Stewart’s obsession with the Fox News Channel, but he did continue Stewart’s liberal politics. Noah, who promised at the top of the Se ...

Colbert Lectures Cruz from the Left on Reagan: ‘He Raised Taxes’ and Favored ‘Amnesty’

By Brent Baker | October 7, 2015, 11:54 AM EDT

Proving he’s a liberal first and a comedian second, Stephen Colbert, who had a very friendly session last Friday with socialist Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, was more hostile on Monday night to the political positions of Republican pre ...