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NBC Churns Out Full Story with Soft Piano Music Looking at Obama's Year in Photos

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 1:50 PM EST

Closing out 2015 on the Thursday morning newscasts, NBC’s Today churned one of its most fawning pieces on President Obama as NBC News correspondent Ron Allen reviewed Obama’s top photos by White House photographer Pete Souza while hushed, soft piano music ...

NBC’s Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 12:01 PM EST

With New Year’s Eve upon us, NBC’s Today dedicated a segment in its 9:00 a.m. hour on Thursday to looking back at the year in news, politics, and entertainment. Not surprisingly, the liberal network made no mention of the Planned Parenthood baby parts vid ...

Carson Daly: Important for Him to Get Married ‘to Have the Sacrament of Marriage’ in Catholic Church

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 7:40 PM EST

Discussing his marriage to longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter while guest-hosting Wednesday’s Today, Carson Daly offered a rather surprising reason for finally getting married to Pinter after having been together for the past decade. Speaking of how tying th ...

WashPost’s Robinson: Trump Is ‘Driving a Truck Bomb into the Middle of the Republican Party’

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 2:51 PM EST

While the left constantly goes after conservatives for any and all rhetoric they view as inciting violence, they almost never follow their own prescriptions and that was certainly the case on Tuesday night as MSNBC’s The Last Word featured liberal Washing ...

CBS Touts Hillary Receiving Question from Young Boy at Rally on Equal Pay; ‘Pay Perspective’

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 12:11 PM EST

With the year winding down and the news cycle slowing (aside from the weather), Wednesday’s CBS This Morning found it proper to reserve 59 seconds for fawning over Hillary Clinton receiving a question on Tuesday from a young boy about equal pay. Spinning ...

Hewitt Schools Lemon on Need for Trump, GOP to Educate Millenials on Bill Clinton Sex Scandals

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015, 8:00 PM EST

A week after he cut the mic of conservative guest Kurt Schlichter for bringing up Bill Clinton’s history of sexual misconduct, CNN's Don Lemon found himself trying to shut down another guest during Monday’s CNN Tonight when conservative radio host an ...

Guthrie Briefly Tries to Tell Trump That Bill Clinton's Extramarital Affairs Were Only ‘Alleged’

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015, 3:46 PM EST

During his latest phone-in interview Tuesday morning, Donald Trump appeared on NBC’s Today where co-host Savannah Guthrie attempted to convince Trump that former President Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs (and specifically what occurred with Monica Lew ...

ABC and NBC Tout Clintons Strolling in NYC, Decline to Explain Clinton Sex Scandals

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 1:03 AM EST

On Monday, the major network evening newscasts all alluded to Donald Trump criticizing Bill and Hillary Clinton by bringing up Clinton’s numerous bouts of sexual misconduct from the 1990's, but chose not to remind viewers of what those scandals actua ...

NYT Theater Critic: ‘Grumpy Guys’ in GOP Would ‘Be a Lot Looser’ If They Were Like Drag Queens

By Curtis Houck | December 28, 2015, 5:37 PM EST

Reviewing the new drag queen-centered Broadway show Kinky Boots in Monday’s New York Times, critic Ben Brantley chose to dedicate a few paragraphs to the bizarre suggestion that the show should make one think “that maybe all those grumpy guys who populate ...

WashPost Columnist Whines Black Character Isn’t Main Hero in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015, 12:44 AM EST

READER WARNING: The following post contains spoilers pertaining to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.--------------------------------------------------------------------- Writing in the December 24 print edition of The Washington Post, Style section columnist ...

CNN and MSNBC Rush to Excuse Cruz Girls Cartoon; ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Weird’ for Cruz to Fundraise Off It

By Curtis Houck | December 24, 2015, 12:40 AM EST

After the Wednesday editions of CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today attempted to excuse the disgusting Washington Post cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as moneys, various hosts and guests throughout the day on CNN and MSNBC followed suit by chiding the ...

ABC Skips WashPost Smear on Cruz Girls; CBS, NBC Excuse It as a ‘Feud,’ Part of ‘Increased Scrutiny’

By Curtis Houck | December 24, 2015, 12:37 AM EST

The morning after Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes published (then unpublished) an illustration depicting Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s daughters as toy monkeys, calling them “fair game” since they appeared in a campaign ad, ABC’s Goo ...

Networks Block Out Over 10 Minutes for Harping on Trump’s Comment About Hillary Losing in 2008

By Curtis Houck | December 23, 2015, 2:05 AM EST

Just over two weeks after the major network evening newscasts spent 24 minutes obsessing on December 8 over Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., the three programs returned on Tuesday night to devote ten and a half minutes to Trump’s ...

Disgusting: Washington Post Cartoonist Depicts Cruz Children as Toy Monkeys; ‘They Are Fair Game’ [UPDATED]

By Curtis Houck | December 23, 2015, 7:58 AM EST

Update, 9:10 p.m. Eastern: Following near instant outrage from across the political spectrum, The Washington Post removed both the cartoon and the two-paragraph explanation of Ann Telnaes’s cartoon depicted Ted Cruz’s daughters as toy monkeys.  Informing ...

CNN Panel Explodes When Conservative Brings Up Clinton Sex Scandals from 1990s; Gets Mic Cut

By Curtis Houck | December 22, 2015, 6:13 PM EST

The lead segment in the 3:00 p.m. Eastern hour of Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom featured quite the display of verbal fireworks as conservative writer Kurt Schlichter angered fill-in host Don Lemon when he invoked the Clinton sex scandals of the 1990's with ...