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MRC’s Noyes: Media Plays ‘Definitional Games’ with Terrorist Attacks
The Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes appeared on Fox Business Network’s Risk and Reward on Tuesday and called the media out for playing games with terrorist attacks. “So they have to stop trying to play games with this and definitional games and deal with this,” he explained to host Liz MacDonald, “You know, put all 78 together, and you got yourself a major terrorist threat that has been going…
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Rachel Maddow Embraces Previously Forbidden Term 'Illegal Immigrant'
Something else to add to the growing list of Things That Have Changed since the election to end all elections -- Trump-hating MSNBC is now trumpeting a term that the president has long been comfortable stating but MSNBC most assuredly had not until after Trump became president.
The wording in question -- "illegal immigrant" -- is usually verboten on the left and anyone who dares utter it is…
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CNN, MSNBC Link ‘Subdued’ Spicer Briefing to Damaged Psyche from SNL
CNN and MSNBC each did their parts on Tuesday afternoon to advance the narrative that Saturday Night Live has claimed White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s scalp as their own, hyping that Tuesday’s press briefing showed how Melissa McCarthy’s impersonation has harmed him.
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Friedman Wrongly Claims Only One Attack in US by Foreign Terrorists
Appearing as a guest on Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman incorrectly claimed that there has only been one case of a foreign-born terrorist staging an attack in the United States when there have, in fact, been a significant number of cases. Friedman: "Of course we want people vetted. I mean, but who said the vetting system had failed us? What is the…
Joss Whedon: GOP Has ‘Declared War On Our Children’
It’s all over for America’s kids now. At least that’s Joss Whedon thinks as he took to twitter, on Tuesday, to declare his rage the GOP for confirming Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. The angered Avengers director condemned the confirmation: “Rejecting DeVos was the GOP’s easiest way to say ‘Mr Prez, let’s take this slow, we got 4 yrs’. Instead they declared war on our children.”
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Nets Cheered On Democrats’ Failed Effort to Dump DeVos
Before Vice President Mike Pence delivered the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to confirm President Trump’s Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos during the noon ET hour on Tuesday, all three network morning shows heralded Democratic senators pulling an “all-nighter” in an attempt to obstruct her confirmation.
NYT's Gillis, Man on a Climate Mission, Mocks GOP Crazies
New York Times reporter Justin Gillis is a man on a mission to save the planet from the depredations of global warming (rebranded as “climate change”). The activist environmental reporter was at it again in the paper’s Tuesday Science section, “Cooling Language About a Warming Earth" (too ideological even for the news pages?). Gillis, who regularly pushes the idea of a looming environmental…
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Media Ignore Embarrassing Gaffe by Nancy Pelosi
During a press conference Monday morning, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referred to President Trump as “President Bush.” In a frustrated spiel, Pelosi stumbled over her words as she called out “President Bush” for being unreasonable since his “inauguration.”
Former Time Editor Cheers Magazine Creating Controversy
On Monday morning, the hosts of Morning Joe discussed the current cover of Time magazine, which features Trump’s Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon. The conversation was prompted by Joe Scarborough, who discussed the allegations made in The New York Times that Trump did not realize his executive order had given Bannon more power. Walter Isaacson, CEO of Aspen Institute and former Time magazine editor…
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CNN Hosts Enamored by ‘Remarkable’ Video of Obama Kite-Surfing
On Tuesday morning’s CNN Newsroom, new co-hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow repeatedly expressed their amazement at “extraordinary” and “remarkable” video from the British Virgin Islands of former President Barack Obama kite-surfing.
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CNN Airs Sob Story in Support of ObamaCare, Ignores Harmful Effects
On Tuesday, CNN's New Day profiled a West Virginia family who can afford to care for their paralyzed son due to recieving health insurance through ObamaCare. Although an unfortunate circumstance, the story was a blatant case of media bias in favor of maintaing the law. At the end of the story, correspondent Miguel Marquez inserted his opinion and said preserving Obamacare is "a cause worth…
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Nets Can't Get Enough of 'Athletic' 'Smiling' Obama Kitesurfing
Just like they did when he was President, the morning news networks Tuesday gushed over pictures of Obama vacationing, as if he was some kind of Hollywood celebrity. ABC, CBS and NBC couldn’t get enough of the former president kitesurfing in the Virgin Islands with Virgin mobile billionaire Richard Branson, oohing and ahhing at his athleticism and relaxed demeanor.
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CNN: Americans Should Be More Worried About Lightning Than Terrorism
Tuesday on CNN’s New Day, host Alisyn Camerota argued with Republican Representative Sean Duffy over Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Duffy contested that the ban was a good thing because it gave the U.S. “a pause” to evaluate our current vetting process to see if it was capable of keeping out potential terrorists. Camerota…
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'Hardball:' Anti-Border Wall Super Bowl Ad Was ‘Weird,’ ICE Watching
During a rare moment of candor on Monday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews and a majority of his panelist actually came down hard against the 84 Lumber ad that aired during the Super Bowl, and which many believe was an anti-Donald Trump ad. “That is so weird because it seemed to me when I saw it, they are going to recruit people here without papers,” said Matthews after reading a statement…
