MSNBC Panel Attacks Palin, ‘Evil’ WH, White People in Roseanne Segment

Condemning Roseanne Barr’s ugly, racist tweet from Tuesday morning about former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett should be relatively simple. However, the panel on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House took things further. In the show’s B-Block, the panel linked the fired ABC star’s comments to Sarah Palin on the 2008 campaign trail, “borderline evil” people in the White House “hurting this…
Curtis Houck

NYT's Tom Friedman: In Midterms 'You Have to Vote for a Democrat'

A transcript is below but you really, really have to watch the video of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on Tuesday's Morning Joe begging the viewers to vote Democrat in the midterms to get a full sense of his angst. His obvious desperation was written all over his face and was so over the top as to cause him to drop any pretense of non-partisanship (as if he had any) and urge everyone who…
P.J. Gladnick

Michelle Wolf Hits Sanders’ 'Ugly Personality' in Netflix Show Debut

Slamming White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during April's White House Correspondents’ Dinner was apparently not enough for liberal comedian Michelle Wolf, so she continued her barrage on Sunday night as part of the premiere of Netflix's The Break. Wolf, who was criticized for attacking the White House official’s “looks” at the dinner, was careful to state that she was not…
Randy Hall

Breathless Trashing of Trump Memorial Day Tweets on 'The View'

Try to follow the internal logic of the Left on patriotism. On Tuesday, ABC’s The View devoted the first 15 minutes to denouncing tweets by President Trump and Ivanka Trump on Memorial Day weekend as “tone deaf” to the sacrifices of the war dead and their families. This came just days after the panel's liberal majority denounced the NFL for a new policy penalizing any kneeling during the national…
Tim Graham

Denouncing Trump on ‘Animals’, Vicente Fox Calls Trump a 'Horse'

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has been left with mud on his face on no less a network than Univision, after his latest denunciation of U.S. President Donald Trump for calling criminal MS-13 gang members “animals” backfired badly.
MRC Latino Staff

MSNBC: Romney Is in Battle Against ‘Far Right’

MSNBC reporter Garrett Haake on Tuesday spun Mitt Romney’s Senate primary battle as a struggle against the “far right.” Regarding Romney’s recent (and 2016 criticisms) of the President, Haake described: “But this idea of trying to drive a wedge between Romney and Trump is something that those on the far right may try to exploit tonight.” 

Scott Whitlock

NBC Reporter Slams ‘Insane’ Media Hype of Teacher Grading Trump Letter

Appearing on Tuesday’s Megyn Kelly Today, NBC reporter Stephanie Gosk blasted her media colleagues for making far too much of a retired English teacher who “graded” a letter sent to her from President Trump, nitpicking the document over grammar mistakes and capitalization. The journalist warned that the press was so focused on criticizing Trump that they were “not seeing the forest through the…
Kyle Drennen

NPR Airs Harvard Professor: 'White Fear Being Weaponized' Under Trump

Havard Professor Khalil Muhammad claimed on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday that President Donald Trump is a "really big part of the problem" for a spate of recent incidents where "white people [call] the police on people of color for insignificant reasons," as host Lulu Garcia-Navarro put it. Muhammad summaried the issue as "a problem of white fear being weaponized." Garcia-Navarro wondered if "the…
Matthew Balan

Steyer Compares His Impeachment Crusade to Civil Rights Movement

Tom Steyer, the billionaire liberal donor spending millions to try to impeach President Donald Trump, blasted his Democratic critics in a Politico podcast on May 29. Steyer said many things in the Off Message political podcast hosted by Isaac Dovere — including comparing Democratic pushback against his impeachment efforts to opposition to the civil rights movement, said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-…
Julia A. Seymour

Nets Applaud ‘Historic’ Irish Abortion Vote as ‘Women’s Rights’ Win

Women matter, but only if they’re already born – at least according to the networks on Ireland’s recent abortion vote. On Friday, May 25th, Ireland voted to repeal the country’s Eighth Amendment that banned abortion. In many of their segments, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) framed the repeal as a win for “women’s rights” against a “highly restrictive” law.  

Katie Yoder

Martin Short: ‘History Books’ to Focus on ‘Shame of Trump Supporters'

It's so odd to watch a liberal celebrity say one thing “for the sake of unity,” and then take it back a few sentences later.
Corinne Weaver

Excited CBS: Ready for the ‘Warren 2020' Bumper Stickers?

The 2020 primaries may be two years away, but the journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday are already excited about a potential presidential run by Elizabeth Warren. The co-hosts talked to the liberal Senator and promoted her as an opponent of Donald Trump. After introducing “one of the Democrats’s leading voices,” John Dickerson touted: “A recent poll in New Hampshire shows Warren would be…
Scott Whitlock

ABC Fawns Over Rapper Common, Ignores Violent, Misogynistic Lyrics

During a glowing softball interview with controversial rapper Common on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday, the hosts applauded the singer for serving as a spokesman for Starbucks training on racial bias, but failed to question him about his violent and misogynistic lyrics. In sharp contrast, NBC anchor Megyn Kelly blasted the coffee chain’s decision to partner with the performer.
Kyle Drennen

CNN Hosts Cheer on Cocky Teacher Who Graded Letter from Trump

On Tuesday's New Day on CNN, co-hosts Alisyn Camerota and John Berman lauded a retired school teacher who took the time to grade a letter she received from President Donald Trump's White House and posted a copy on social media after mailing it back. As the teacher in question, Yvonne Mason, appeared as a guest on the show, Berman hailed her "gumption" and declared that "I love what you do here,"…
Brad Wilmouth