Delicate NYT Editorial Calls GOP Senator 'Thug' for 'Pinata' Metaphor
Don’t know much about...metaphors? The New York Times was shocked and appalled that a Republican senator predicted any Obama Supreme Court nominee would be treated like a piñata, and said such “violent imagery” made Sen. John Cornyn a “thug, threatening harm,” in a Friday editorial, “Republican Threats and the Supreme Court."
Rubio Schools CNN’s Cuomo on Uselessness of Climate Regulations
When CNN host Chris Cuomo tried to trap Sen. Marco Rubio with a by asking him to prove he wasn’t a climate change “denier,” Rubio responded with a truth no climate alarmist wants to admit about carbon regulations “it won't do anything for our environment.”
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Nostalgic Matthews Relives the ‘Thrill Up the Leg’ from Obama
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Thursday night reminisced about the “stellar” Barack Obama from 2008 and how the Democrat gave him a “thrill up the leg.” Matthews finally conceded that such excitement couldn’t live up to expectations. He also added, “Hillary can’t match that.”
NPR Finds Journo to Hail Obama as 'Greater Terrorist Hunter' President
When NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep isn’t offering gentle interviews to President Obama and comparing him to Abe Lincoln when interviewing his aides, he goes out and interviews journalists who say that Obama is “the greatest terrorist hunter in the history of the American presidency.”
The journalist was Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who's written a very long 20,000-word opus on "…
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NBC’s Tur Blasts Trump on Violent Rallies, Michelle Fields Incident
The usually even-keeled NBC News Trump correspondent Katy Tur seemed to have had enough on Thursday night as following the Republican presidential debate, Tur took to MSNBC to air a multitude of concerns about the growing number of violent incidents at Trump rallies to go along with Tuesday’s alleged bruising of Breitbart’s Michelle Fields by Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
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Matthews: Cruz 'Very Hard to Listen To,' He 'Whines All the Time'
After noting that tonight's GOP was thoroughly substantive and devoid of cheap shots and insult comedy, MSNBC's Chris Matthews whined to guest Robert Costa of the Washington Post that Ted Cruz's voice was "very hard to listen to" and that the Texas Republican "whines all the time."
CNN Fails to Ask Trump About Incident with Staffer and Michelle Fields
On Thursday night, CNN and its four moderators made no attempt to ask Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his three opponents about the purported incident Tuesday night involving Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields that left Fields bruised on one of her arms.
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CNN's Burnett: Do Those Comparing Trump to Hitler 'Have a Point?'
As Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott appeared as a guest on Thursday's Erin Burnett Outfront to discuss the upcoming GOP presidential debate, host Burnett actually asked him of those who attack Donald Trump by comparing him to Adolf Hitler: "Do they have a point?"
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Matthews: 'Fair' to Assume 'Anything' About Motive of Rally Assault
Wrapping up a segment regarding the arrest of an elderly white North Carolina man for sucker-punching a Trump rally protester, MSNBC's Chris Matthews held back from saying the motive must be racism but concluded that "anything you want to assume about it is fair at this point."
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Networks Finally Cover Michelle Fields Incident with Trump Staffer
Two days after Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski allegedly forcefully grabbed the arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC finally noticed this disturbing incident just as a Trump protester was sucker punched at a rally on Wednesday night. All told, the three network evening newscasts combined for two minutes and 18 seconds reporting on how…
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NBC Gushes Over 'Dreamy' 'Heartthrob' Canadian Prime Minister
In a segment sounding more like Access Hollywood than the evening news, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt hyped that "heads [were] turning" and "the White House abuzz" with the visit of Canada's new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Reporter Ron Allen continued the gushing, calling the young liberal PM "Canada's Obama" at "just 44 with a young family," and even describing the politician as "…
CNN Tags Killer of American in Israel as Palestinian in 20th Paragraph
Those not well-versed on events in the Middle East and how the international press routinely distorts its coverage there might think from the following headline at CNN.com yesterday — "American fatally stabbed in Israel terror attack that wounds 10 others" — that the state of Israel carried out the brutal attack which killed Vanderbilt Universtity student and U.S. Army veteran Taylor Force. Of…
NewsBusted: Hey, It Worked for Iran, Didn't It?!
"President Obama will travel to Cuba soon: Foreign policy experts say the visit is an important step toward Cuba’s getting the bomb." – NewsBusted's Jodi Miller.
'Fact Checkers' Side with Hillary: Sanders 'Stood' with Minutemen
Multiple political “fact checkers” have weighed in on Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, especially when Hillary Clinton claimed Bernie Sanders “stood with the Minutemen vigilantes in their ridiculous, absurd efforts to quote, ‘hunt down immigrants.’”
What is Mrs. Clinton quoting? Did the Minutemen ever shoot an illegal alien dead? “Hunt down immigrants” surely evokes the notion or murder. AP’…
