NYT's Stacked Deck of Snark: Liam Stack Attacks 'Angry' Hannity
March 31st, 2017 11:19 AM
New York Times reporter Liam Stack sticks out among even the liberal journalists at the paper for his anti-Trump Twitter feed, which was called out by the paper’s own Public Editor. Snark and sarcasm permeated every paragraph of his take on the Sean Hannity and Ted Koppel dust-up, in which the veteran liberal journalist and CBS Sunday Morning contributor suggested that conservative opinion shows…
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Whoopi Wrongly Insists Fox Pushed Birtherism; Network Debunked It
March 29th, 2017 8:54 AM
On Monday's The View on ABC, as the group discussed Ted Koppel's recent interview with Sean Hannity in which he accused the conservative FNC host of being bad for the country, liberal co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Joy Behar all wrongly accused Fox News of promoting birtherism conspiracy theories against President Barack Obama. Ironically, a Nexis search reveals many examples of FNC…
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Liberal Ted Koppel Smears Sean Hannity as ‘Bad for America’
March 27th, 2017 1:10 PM
With no sense of irony, longtime liberal journalist Ted Koppel on Sunday embraced the idea that it’s Sean Hannity and conservatives in the media who are “bad for America.” The CBS Sunday Morning senior contributor investigated why “we Americans occupy alternate universes” when it comes to facts and our media choices. Unsurprisingly, the partisan journalist mostly blamed this on the right and didn…
CNN, FNC at Odds Over Report Hannity Pulled Gun on Williams
March 17th, 2017 6:51 PM
In the last 36 hours, CNN and the Fox News Channel (FNC) came to blows following a report by CNN media reporter Dylan Byers that FNC host Sean Hannity whipped out a gun and pointed it at Juan Williams following a heated debate last year on the set of his eponymous show.
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Howard Kurtz: Trump Tax Reveal 'Big-Time Blunder' by Rachel Maddow
March 15th, 2017 6:43 PM
During the Wednesday morning edition of the America's Newsroom program on the Fox News Channel, co-anchor Bill Hemmer discussed the release of part of Donald Trump's 2005 income tax return with Howard Kurtz, who called the incident “a big-time blunder” by Rachel Maddow, who devoted her entire eponymous MSNBC program on Tuesday night to the two pages of information provided by liberal reporter and…
'Hyperpartisan Washington Post' Attacks 'Evidence-Free' Levin, Hannity
March 15th, 2017 12:30 PM
Our colleague Jeffrey Lord penned a new piece for The American Spectator on Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan denouncing the conservative media for pushing lies and conspiracy theories instead of real information. The online headline for Sullivan was “Pro-Trump media sets the agenda with lies. Here’s how traditional media can take it back.”
To Sullivan, there is the “…
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Levin: 'Schizophrenic' Media 'Can't Even Get Their Stories Straight!'
March 7th, 2017 10:48 AM
Monday evening conservative radio host Mark Levin shot back at the media, after several networks and pundits mocked him as a “conspiracy theorist” who propagated stories from anonymous sources. This came after Levin talked about reports that the Obama Administration had eavesdropped on Trump's associates before the election, reports Levin asserted, he got from the mainstream media itself. “…
Slate Brands Colmes 'Buffoon,' 'Liberal Weakling' Hours After He Died
February 27th, 2017 10:53 AM
This post goes straight into the "Just When You Didn't Think They Could Sink Any Lower (But They Always Manage)" file. At Slate.com on Thursday, staff writer Isaac Chotiner took the occasion of Alan Colmes's death only hours earlier to criticize him as a "buffoon and patsy," and as "Fox News’ Original Liberal Weakling."
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Alan Colmes Remembered by Fox News Colleagues as 'Good,' 'Decent Man'
February 23rd, 2017 5:04 PM
For many years, liberal pundit Alan Colmes often provided the “balanced” part of the Fox News Channel motto of being “Fair and Balanced.” That came to abrupt end when the 66-year-old former stand-up comedian, radio host and co-host of the Hannity & Colmes weeknight news and interview program passed away after a brief illness on Thursday.
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Dear America: You Have Disappointed Jorge Ramos.
February 18th, 2017 2:57 PM
The star anchor at Univision and Fusion has penned yet another moral preen of a column, this time, scolding America for having elected Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. But the only thing that Ramos managed to signal here, beyond progressive virtue, was precisely how out of touch he is with the country he purports to lecture.
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Jorge Ramos se contradice en entrevista con Sean Hannity
February 17th, 2017 2:00 PM
El presentador del Noticiero Univision Jorge Ramos compareció para otra entrevista con Sean Hannity a ser transmitida en la cadena Fox. El resultado fue una madeja de inconsistencias y contradicciones al compararse las palabras de Ramos ante Hannity con expresiones previas:
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Jorge Ramos Goes on Hannity and Contradicts Himself
February 16th, 2017 5:15 PM
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos made yet another appearance on Fox News' Hannity, and reeled off an interview that was an exercise in contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Piers Morgan Mauls Media’s ‘Un-American’ Attempt to ‘Destroy’ Trump
February 16th, 2017 3:49 PM
The media’s attacks on Donald Trump have been so out of control that even former CNN host and Piers Morgan is calling them out on it. On Wednesday’s edition of FNC’s Hannity the current U.S. editor of The Daily Mail eviscerated the American press’s attempt to “attempt to delegitimize, sabotage and destroy the Trump presidency before it’s even
FOX Has Bill O’Reilly 'Killing Hannity' on ‘The Simpsons’
January 8th, 2017 10:17 PM
For the second time this season, Bill O'Reilly is a topic of ridicule on The Simpsons. This time, Bill gets some free press for his Killing book series (Killing Jesus, Reagan, Lincoln, Kennedy, etc.), but at the expense of a fellow conservative, natch.