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Heilemann: Let's Hope Bill Clinton Doesn't Know What Snapchat Is

September 29th, 2015 8:05 PM
You know the saying: once is a fluke, twice is a trend. Yesterday, Stephen Colbert and First Lady Michelle Obama shared a laugh over Bill Clinton's "passion." On today's With All Due Respect, responding to Mark Halperin's report that Bill Clinton "keeps saying he doesn't know what Snapchat is," John Heilemann quipped "let's hope not, for his sake." For those who might not be familiar, Snapchat…
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CNN's Costello Boosts Planned Parenthood's Talking Points as 'Facts'

September 29th, 2015 2:08 PM
On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello treated Planned Parenthood's own talking points about "three percent" of its services are abortions as "facts." Costello emphasized that "$500 million in federal funds goes to Planned Parenthood. None of that money...pays for abortions....Planned Parenthood says only three percent of their services are dedicated to abortion. The group says 97 percent of…
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Berman to Fiorina Spox on PP Vids; Shouldn't She 'Admit' She's Wrong?

September 29th, 2015 7:22 AM
Filling in for Anderson Cooper on Monday’s AC360, John Berman chided Carly Fiorina spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores over Fiorina’s outspoken criticism of Planned Parenthood in the wake of their aborted baby parts video scandal with the CNN host imploring Flores to consider admitting that her boss “is getting it wrong” about the content of the videos.
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Tactless Williams, Matthews Knock Catholic Dogma During Papal Mass

September 28th, 2015 5:09 PM
Brian Williams and Chris Matthews couldn't resist the opportunity to harp on the lack of married and women priests in the Catholic Church, as MSNBC provided live coverage of Pope Francis's open-air Mass in Philadelphia on Sunday. Williams pointed out that one of the archbishops at the Mass is "from a family, [but] he cannot go home to one. He cannot have one, and be...of service to the Catholic…
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NBC Hypes Fiorina ‘Facing New Scrutiny’ Over Planned Parenthood

September 28th, 2015 11:38 AM
Following a contentious interview on Sunday’s Meet the Press, on Monday’s Today, NBC continued to harp over Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina’s recent statements condemning Planned Parenthood and their practice of harvesting fetal body parts. During a report on the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, reporter Peter Alexander proclaimed “[f]acing new scrutiny of her own,…

'Kardashians' Shows Emotional Devastation of Bruce Jenner's Transition

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September 28th, 2015 2:17 AM
This week's episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians: "It's Good to be Home" shows the emotional toll it takes on a family when the husband and father suddenly decides he wants to become a woman. Of course you know that Bruce Jenner left his wife of almost 25 years, Kris, to transition into "Caitlyn." All we hear about is how "stunning" and "brave" Jenner is for being transgender, but behind…
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CNN's Zakaria: U.S. Christians Wrong to Have 'Heated Debates' on Sex

September 27th, 2015 11:49 PM
On Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS, host Zakaria opened the show complaining about American Christians having "heated debates over abortion, abstinence, contraception, and gays," as he argued that Christianity is primarily supposed to be about "be[ing] nice to the poor."
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NBC NN Scolds Carly Fiorina for Discussing 'Doctored' PP Videos

September 27th, 2015 10:49 PM
Hours after 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina sparred with NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd over the Planned Parenthood videos, Sunday’s NBC Nightly News similarly went to bat for the abortion provider against Fiorina as White House correspondent Kristen Welker scolded Fiorina for promoting videos with “doctored and unrelated footage.”
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Carly Fiorina Battles Chuck Todd Over Planned Parenthood Videos

September 27th, 2015 12:44 PM
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd attempted to lecture Carly Fiorina over her past statements regarding Planned Parenthood but the Republican presidential candidate repeatedly stood her ground. Throughout the combative interview over the authenticity over videos that purported to show a baby that survived an abortion Todd tried to press Fiorina on whether she was “willing now to…
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Former MLB All-Star Says "Vote No" to Men in Girl's Bathrooms

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September 27th, 2015 9:31 AM
During his time as a major leaguer former Astro and Rice Owl Lance Berkman was affectionately known as “Big Puma” to the Houston faithful, a comical ode developed by Berkman himself to get people to stop calling him “Fat Elvis.” However, after Berkman’s recent statement in defiance of the latest transgender insanity forced upon society, Berkman is likely to be known around Houston City Hall by a…
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Ron Reagan: 'Judaism, Islam, Christianity, They Hate Women'

September 26th, 2015 12:21 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, during a discussion of the Catholic Church's refusal to allow women to become priests, liberal commentator Ron Reagan obnoxiously charged that "all of those monotheisms," specifying "Judaism, Islam, Christianity," are "terrified of" and "hate women" and  "hate genitals." Moments later, he mocked these religions as encouraging…
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Matthews Harps On 'How Bad It Was' in Catholic Church's Recent Past

September 26th, 2015 11:00 AM
MSNBC's Chris Matthews revealed his loathing for a part of his Catholic upbringing on Wednesday's Hardball, and ended up mangling the theology behind a beautiful and ancient Church ritual for new mothers. Matthews turned to Catholic dissident Sister Simone Campbell for her take on Pope Francis's visit. Sister Campbell touted her liberal "Nuns on the Bus" campaign as a supposed way to "take the…
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MRC's Tim Graham: Media Avoid Pope Talking Abortion, Persecution

September 25th, 2015 11:57 PM
NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham appeared Friday night on The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV to discuss the Pope and President Obama. First they discussed the U.S. News website trying to argue the pope “echoed” Obama in attacking Christianity in his speech to Congress. That wasn’t true, Graham said.

Law Prof: Christian Right Throwing ‘Tantrum’ Over Gay Marriage

September 25th, 2015 9:41 PM
Variations on the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome” are common on both the right and the left (a Google search for “Clinton Derangement Syndrome” yielded roughly 180,000 results). Therefore, it wasn’t surprising to see Indiana University law prof Steve Sanders modify Charles Krauthammer’s famous coinage in order to trash religious conservatives. “The Christian right is deep in the grip of gay…