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NewsBusted: This Wasn’t the Golf Summit the President Was Here for!
April 27th, 2016 9:15 PM
“President Obama went to Saudi Arabia for the Persian Gulf Summit. Aides say he was disappointed because when he agreed to participate, he thought it was the Persian Golf Summit.” - NewsBusted’s Jody Miller
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Telemundo impulsa baños de género neutral
Latino
April 26th, 2016 9:40 PM
Un informe sobre la violencia que estalló en una escuela de Los Ángeles por la habilitación de un baño de género neutral rezumaba parcialidad en la forma en que la presentó Telemundo, la cadena hermana de NBC, al ofrecer las opiniones de tres dirigentes, activistas y estudiantes a favor y sólo un oponente.
On CNN.com, BET Editor Hypes 'Political Goddess' Beyonce
April 26th, 2016 5:26 PM
BET's Clay Cane touted Beyonce's "transformation" and "musical revolution" in a Tuesday op-ed piece on CNN.com. Cane gushed over the pop singer's new album as her "most important piece to work to date," and asserted that she has become a "political goddess" who has "shattered the limits" of expression for black women.
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HBO's Gumbel to NBA, NFL: Punish North Carolina for Its 'Bigotry'
April 26th, 2016 11:36 AM
On the April 19, 2016 edition of Real Sports, HBO's Bryant Gumbel urged the top executives of the NBA, NFL, and the NCAA to penalize North Carolina over H.B. 2, which he underlined has been "labeled the most extreme anti-LGBT measure in the country." Gumbel claimed that the new law "uses the guise of bathroom concerns to deny certain rights to gay and transgender people, and effectively green…
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CBS Hails Obama Meeting Trans Person; Touts UK Travel Warning to NC
April 23rd, 2016 9:27 PM
In lieu of a story on the 2016 election, Saturday's CBS Evening News featured a full report promoting the United Kingdom's travel advisory for Mississippi and North Carolina in light of religious liberty laws and gushing over President Barack Obama's town hall in London that featured "an emotional statement of personal identity" from a transgender person.
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Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Boosted on Telemundo
Latino
April 23rd, 2016 9:30 AM
A report on the violence that erupted at a Los Angeles school that provided a gender neutral bathroom dripped with bias as told by Telemundo, with the NBC-sister network featuring three officials, activists and students in favor, and only one opponent of the measure.
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PBS's Brooks: NC Bathroom Law 'So Bad Now I Have to Praise Trump'
April 22nd, 2016 11:33 PM
On Friday's regular "Shields and Brooks" segment on the PBS NewsHour, pretend conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the North Carolina bathroom law -- which tries to protect women and girls from men intruding into women's restrooms in state buildings -- as he declared that the law is "so bad now I have to praise Donald Trump" for the GOP candidate's criticism of the law on…
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NBC Touts 'Bathroom Ban' in North Carolina, 'LGBT-Friendly' Trump
April 22nd, 2016 10:20 PM
NBC Nightly News on Friday returned to hyping the new bathroom law in North Carolina. Hallie Jackson zeroed in on President Obama's slam of the "transgender bathroom ban," as she put it, during a trip to the U.K. She also spotlighted Donald Trump's "criticism" of the legislation, and underlined that "Trump's considered one of the more LGBT-friendly Republican candidates," even though he "hasn't…
Literally 'Inside' Amy Schumer: Imagines Congress Doing Her Pap Smear
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April 22nd, 2016 12:33 AM
Inside Amy Schumer began its fourth season tonight on Comedy Central, and apparently the "Inside" part of the show title is literal. If there's one thing Amy Schumer wanted everybody to know in the premiere, it's that she is obsessed with her vagina.
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Bloomberg's Heilemann: 'In His Gut, Trump's a Social Liberal'
April 21st, 2016 6:09 PM
From bathrooms to abortions, Bloomberg's John Heilemann believes that in his heart, Donald Trump is a social liberal. Heilemann made his assertion on today's With All Due Respect in the context of discussing Trump's comments on a Today town hall this morning in which he was critical of the North Carolina transgender bathroom law, and said he'd have no problem letting Caitlyn Jenner choose any…
Cross-Dressing Reporter Attacks 'Conservative Loudmouth' Schilling
April 21st, 2016 12:16 PM
Justin Moyer contended that ESPN's firing of former baseball pitcher Curt Schilling "seemed destined" in a Thursday article for the Washington Post, which detailed the supposed "radicalization" of the former Phillies player turned "conservative loudmouth." Moyer spotlighted how "Schilling went fangs out" after Tweeting out a controversial image that "many deemed transphobic." However, the…
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ABC's 'Once Upon a Time' Features Lesbian Kiss with Dorothy from Oz
Culture
April 18th, 2016 5:05 PM
ABC's Once Upon a Time aired a lesbian kiss last night to much fanfare and excitement from the LGBT crowd and producers said its inclusion in a show popular with kids was "important."
Slate Writer: Eventually, Vatican Will Accept Same-Sex Marriage
April 15th, 2016 9:29 PM
Media coverage of Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia typically noted that it reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage. Slate’s William Saletan acknowledges the literal truth of that reporting, but suggested in an April 8 article that the document contains seeds that will sprout into Vatican acceptance of same-sex unions, though he admits that process “might take centuries.”…
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Hillary Complains to Debate Moderators About No Abortion Questions
April 14th, 2016 11:12 PM
In the penultimate segment of Thursday’s CNN Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton diverted from the discussion topic about the Supreme Court vacancy to chastise CNN and all of the previous debate hosts for not asking both her and her opponents about the issue of abortion (since it’s an issue that’s such a firm plank of the Democratic Party).