NYT’s Kristof Laments Media ‘Addiction’ to Trump ‘Car Wreck’

Appearing on Monday’s MSNBC Live With Stephanie Ruhle, left-wing New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof promoted his latest piece for the paper, warning of a media “addiction” to covering the “car wreck” of Donald Trump’s presidency. He confessed that journalists “blew it in 2016" and feared the President’s agenda was being implemented while his press colleagues were being distracted by “the…
Kyle Drennen

Donald Glover Portrays Shootings and Riots in ‘This is America'

Hollywood wants people to see America as a dystopia – or so it seems in one new music video. In a music video released by Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) called This is America, the artist came together with four other rappers to apparently reveal the bleakest aspects of America. Feted by the media as “powerful” and a “masterpiece,” the May 5 video portrays riots, violence, a church choir…
Corinne Weaver

GLAAD Media Awards Winner Calls America a ‘Leaderless Country’

Its startling to see who is considered influential in the media and entertainment industry. At the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City on May 5, director Ava DuVernay spoke about the importance of activism in art. The filmmaker, who just finished a film for Disney (A Wrinkle In Time) called the United States a “leaderless country” and indirectly hit at current politicians for what she considered…
Corinne Weaver

Hypocrite Scarborough Demands GOP Apologize to U.S. for Enabling Trump

Monday’s Morning Joe was firing on all cylinders, full of liberal hot takes and hypocrisy from their faux conservatives and Republicans. Chief among them was co-host Joe Scarborough, who demanded that Republicans defending and enabling President Trump “not only owe an apology to this nation, they owe an apology to their children,” which is amusing considering Scarborough’s personal history with…
Curtis Houck

CNN Hypes 'Anger' at Trump NRA Speech from France, Britain

On Sunday's CNN Newsroom, early morning anchor Natalie Allen repeatedly freaked out over President Donald Trump citing the failures of gun control in Europe in his address to the NRA as the CNN host hyped anger expressed from French and British political figures. She employed words like "preposterous" and "bizarre" to deride the President's speech.
Brad Wilmouth

ABC: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Taliban Set to Backdrop of ‘Trump’s America’

ABC’s Nightline on Friday donated over seven minutes of air time to hype the new season of The Handmaid’s Tale as a Taliban-esque dystopian fantasy set “against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s America.” Reporter David Wright breathlessly explained how the show as “The new American regime is a theocracy that oppresses women in particular. They're not allowed to read or write or think for themselves…
Scott Whitlock

'I'm a Fan!' CNN's Carpenter Hails Porn Star and Her Lawyer

ABC's The View replaced Meghan McCain on Monday with CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter, who worked on Ted Cruz's presidential campaign in the last cycle. But Carpenter lined right up with Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Whoopi Goldberg in defending Stormy Daniels for doing a comedy skit with Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live. She even proclaimed Daniels is taking on Trump better than…
Tim Graham

Facebook Inadvertently Connected Terrorists, According to CBS

While Facebook spends so much time trying to “curb hate speech” and ensure neutrality, it seems to have missed one thing: ISIS terrorists using the platform for their own devices. According to CBS and The Telegraph, Facebook “inadvertently help[ed] Islamist extremists connect and recruit new members.”  
Corinne Weaver

NY Times Leads Sports Section with Indian Mascots -- in Europe

You’re a New York Times sports editor at the end of an eventful weekend. The NBA and NHL playoffs are heating up (admittedly without any New York teams). The Yankees are firing on all cylinders, as are their arch-rivals in Boston. The Mets are, well, the Mets. There was PGA golf at the Wells Fargo tournament. There must still be issues worth discussing around the Giants’ and the Jets’ draft picks…
Matt Philbin

Nets Fret: Trump’s CIA Pick ‘Referendum on Country’s Use of Torture'

Eager to tear down another one of President Trump’s nominees, on Monday, all three network morning show’s seized on a Washington Post article claiming that the President’s nominee to be CIA Director, Gina Haspel, considered withdrawing over the weekend, before her upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. Hosts and correspondents breathlessly hyped the story and worried about Haspel’s role in the…
Kyle Drennen

Rosie O'Donnell Sloppily Over-Donates to Five Democrats

Anna Sanders at the New York Post reported that left-wing actress/comedian Rosie O’Donnell “made illegally over-sized campaign  donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings." That includes Trump-trashing Rep. Adam Schiff. Federal Election Commission rules limit the total any one person can give to an individual candidate at $2,700 per…
Tim Graham

ABC: Star Wars Day Gets 6X Coverage of Lowest Unemployment Since 2000

The force might have been with ABC on May 4, but interest in the U.S. labor market certainly wasn’t. That night World News Tonight with David Muir spent a meager 15 seconds announcing the April jobs report which showed the lowest unemployment rate since 2000. That 3.9 percent was what other journalists called a “wow number” that could even help re-elect President Donald Trump.
Julia A. Seymour

Ramos to O'Rourke: Isn't Ted Cruz A Race-Traitor?

Once again, Univision's Jorge Ramos goes to a favorite trope of his- suggesting that Hispanics who don't follow ideological suit are race-traitors.
Jorge Bonilla

FNC's Huntsman Hits Pro-Life Guest from the Left on Abortion

For a news network that is often caricatured as right wing, Fox News Channel peppered a pro-life guest with an awful lot of questions that were skeptical of Iowa's new law that bans abortion at about six weeks pregnancy. In fact, Fox and Friends Sunday co-host Abby Huntsman even cited one poll alleging a majority of Americans want most abortions to be legal, and did not mention that other…

Brad Wilmouth