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CNN Staff Laugh at Al Franken Hating Ted Cruz
As Minnesota Democratic Senator Al Franken appeared as a guest on Wednesday's New Day to plug his book, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, CNN co-host Alisyn Camerota and other CNN staff off screen were inspired to laugh out loud at the liberal Senator joking about hating Republican Senator Ted Cruz. After the two discussed that Franken's staff are under orders to talk the retired comedian out of…
Lefties Go After Barron Trump's Reax to Griffin's Severed Head Stunt
The controversy over Kathy Griffin holding up a bloodied severed head of Donald Trump — an action which has led to her removal from CNN's New Year's Eve programming — reportedly spilled into the President's family when TMZ reported that the Trumps' 11-year son "Barron was in front of the TV watching a show when the news came on and he saw the bloody, beheaded image." TMZ says: "We're told he…
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MSNBC’s Tur Lost Sleep Over Trump Twitter Typo, Fears Nuclear War
On Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur was freaking out over President Trump’s overnight Twitter typo, even to the point of absurdly warning that the commander-in-chief’s use of social media could lead to a nuclear war.
Rapper Attacks Trump: ‘We All Know a Racist Is in Office’
On Tuesday Rapper Nasir Jones (better known as Nas) attacked Donald Trump as a racist and linked former President Ronald Reagan to forces that “ruthlessly destroyed the black community.” In a May 30 piece for MassAppeal.com, the hip-hop star bizarrely boasted “I don’t pay attention to politics at the moment. For what? There’s no reason. For me, it doesn’t make any sense. We all know a racist is…
AP: U.S. Paris Climate Accord Pullout 'Doesn't Look Good For Earth'
Seth Borenstein's Saturday dispatch at the Associated Press on how it "Doesn’t look good for Earth" if the United States under President Trump "quits" the 2015 Paris climate is about as fakey as fake news gets. It's also sloppy and inconsistent in its terminology, and misleading about the nature and timing of what former President Obama's pledge would require the U.S. to do — while letting…
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MSNBC Panel Gush Over Franken; Attack Mike Lee
Prior to his appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to sponsor his new book, co-host Mika Brzezinski praised Senator Al Franken as following in the steps of previous US political titans Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. The interview that then followed was one of softballs and grounders as the panel incessantly gushed and awed over the Senator’s presence. It was a sharp contrast to the reception later…
About Time! CNN Fires Griffin from NYE Show After Nasty Trump Picture
On Wednesday afternoon, CNN announced that it has fired far-left lewd comedienne Kathy Griffin from her long-running New Year’s Eve show after Griffin took a page from ISIS’s playbook 24 hours earlier by holding up a bloodied (but fake) severed head pretending to be President Trump.
Doubling Down on Bias: NY Times Abolishes Internal Reader's Advocate
Michael Calderone at HuffPost reported The New York Times is abolishing its office of “Public Editor,” established in the wake of the Jayson Blair fake-news scandal in 2003. Liz Spayd, the current staffer in that office, is effectively done, after only one year in the job, instead of an expected two-year term.
Once again, it is highly ironic that the nation’s top newspapers rage about the…
Mason Will Be Interim ‘CBS Evening News’ Anchor Post-Pelley [UPDATED]
Deadline: Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, and others reported early Wednesday morning that longtime CBS News correspondent, CBS This Morning: Saturday co-host, and regular fill-in personality Anthony Mason will receive the interim CBS Evening News anchor job following Scott Pelley’s firing.
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'The View' Begs Chelsea to Run for President In 2020
Chelsea Clinton is making her rounds in the media this week to promote her new children’s feminist book, (that includes a special cameo of her mother!), aptly titled "She Persisted." After one fawning interview on NBC’s Today show Tuesday, Clinton was ready for another cushy interview on Wednesday’s The View.
CBS Only Offers Secs on Griffin, Obsessed Over GOP Staffer
While NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday devoted full reports to comedian Kathy Griffin’s widely-condemned mock beheading of an effigy of President Trump, CBS This Morning could only afford a 36-second news brief on the topic. By contrast, when an Republican congressional staffer criticized the behavior of the Obama daughters at a White House event on her private Facebook…
This Is Not a Joke: USA Today Offers ‘Pride Month’ Podcast Picks
The media have consistently demonstrated their nearly monolithic pro-LGBT slant and this week, USA Today's website used its weekly podcast recommendations to promote LGBT-related content. Published under their “ENTERTAiN THiS” section, the May 29 article (and updated May 30) wa titled, “Podcast picks ahead of Pride Month.”
Nets Spend 10 Mins on Trump Typo Tweet
At midnight on May 31, President Trump tweeted the enigmatic “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” Despite that fact that everyone, including journalists, make typos, the media pounced. On just the morning news shows of ABC, CBS and NBC, there was a baffling ten minutes of coverage devoted to speculating about what Trump meant by this cryptic word that in context was clearly supposed to…
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Brzezinski: Kathy Griffin Story 'Gross' and 'Not Worth Doing'
Many Americans were horrified to learn last night of the news that comedian Kathy Griffin had posted a tweet depicting herself with an effigy of the bloody, severed head of President Trump. In a world now full of real-life beheadings instigated at the behest of Islamic terrorists, drug cartels, and others, one would think that such a story might be considered “newsworthy.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski…
