Media Ignore Anti-NRA Dallas Organizer's Violent Criminal Past

Once again, protests against the NRA at its annual convention, this time in Dallas, have been pathetic. Turnout has been "shockingly small." One event had "maybe 100 (people), half of whom were journalists." An actress involved in the protest movement attended — accompanied by allegedly armed security guards, who illegally "chase(d) Texans out of a public park simply because they asked if she…
Tom Blumer

‘Family Guy’ Lampoons Millennials in Just the Right Way

The May 6 episode of Fox’s Family Guy titled “HTTPete” took great pleasure in lampooning a favorite target – Millennials. In order to reverse lagging sales, Peter Griffin’s employer realizes he must reach out to Millennials to capture their market.
Karen Townsend

'Political Bully' Calls Refugees 'Gangsters & Thugs on 'Madam Sec'

Well, this is a timely coincidence. Within a week of the Trump administration announcing that it will end the 1999 temporary protected status for Hondurans, CBS’s Madam Secretary features the Secretary of State fighting for refugee status of Honduran children against a "political bully." I guess the show has more foresight than I thought, though still not enough to let their Hillary icon or…
Lindsay Kornick

Daily News Attacks 'Church of the Gun' Attendees at NRA Convention

On the occasion of the annual NRA convention, in Dallas, New York Daily News sports writer Mike Lupica charges that President Donald Trump and his NRP friends are now living in fear of the high school students advocating against the Second Amendment. Without once mentioning mental health as a major cause in mass shootings, Lupica attacked Trump, Vice-president Mike Pence and congregants of the "…
Jay Maxson

At Convention, NRATV Mocks CNN Apple Ads: 'This Is a Bitter Lemon'

Andrew Kugle at the Washington Free Beacon reported the NRATV channel had great fun with CNN's pompous apple-and-banana commercials at the NRA convention in Dallas. On Friday, Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim tweeted a video clip of the CNN mockery.
Tim Graham

NYT Makes Page 1 Tribute to 'Maverick' McCain vs. Trump, 'Hard-Right'

The front of Sunday’s New York Times featured political reporter Jonathan Martin’s tribute to the ailing Sen. John McCain: “At Home, McCain Shares Memories and Regrets.” It has some charming moments, but comes off hypocritical, given the paper’s back and forth feelings for McCain, praising him when he was a threat to more conservative Republicans during the 2008 party primaries, condemning him…
Clay Waters

Slate, With Unemployment Rate at 3.9 Percent: It's 'Meaningless'

You had to figure that a left-leaning journalist somewhere would denigrate Friday's news that the nation's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell below 4 percent for the first time since 2000. Jordan Weissmann, in a Slate.com column beginning with a headlined contention that "The Unemployment Rate Is Meaningless," came through.
Tom Blumer

Pro-Gun CNN Guest Complains Host Failed to Challenge Anti-Gun Kasky

On New Day Sunday, CNN did something it does not typically do in that it actually allowed a pro-gun guest to be on and argue against the type of gun control pushed by liberal activists. Although Georgia gun dealer Hal Shouse was allowed to complain to CNN host Christi Paul about her failure to challenge anti-gun activist Cameron Kasky the day before, the segment also suffered from audio…
Brad Wilmouth

CNN Declares 'Day 470' of White House ‘Credibility Crisis’, Not Media

It’s well known that CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter is no fan of President Trump. He even goes as far as to question’s the President’s mental stability and was overjoyed when the rest of the media were pushing their hot takes too. During Sunday’s Reliable Sources, he opined about how the White House was in day 470 of what he called a “credibility crisis.” And despite how the show is…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Rabble Rousers in Puerto Rico Dominate May Day Coverage

From coast to coast, along with everywhere else the American flag flies, May Day is typically an occasion for protest marches by leftists and assorted malcontents. That was certainly the case this year in the U.S. Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico, where protesters (accompanied by unrepentant convicted domestic terrorist Oscar López Rivera) were the focus of attention by both Univision and…
MRC Latino Staff

AP's Scott Bauer Fails to ID Party of Dem Charged in Racial Incident

Despite relatively recent Associated Press Stylebook changes mandating that elected officials' political party "should be routinely included" in stories about them, the wire service appears to be backsliding. On Saturday, I noted the wire service's failure – before being shamed into a partial remedy — to tag DC politicians engaged in public anti-Semitic outbursts and conspiracy theories as…
Tom Blumer

Captain Truth? Brian Stelter Toasted by Columbia Journalism Review

Every one would love a puff piece written about them, and Pete Vernon wrote a very puffy piece on CNN's Brian Stelter for the Columbia Journalism Review. The article's theme was Stelter was a strictly fact-based objective journalist forced into editorializing by Donald Trump's war on the facts and truth. It's like one of those Apple vs. Banana ads, a perfect CNN infomercial. Vernon virtually…
Tim Graham

CNN Gives Hogg & Kasky Forum to Bash NRA, Pro-Gun Candidates

After President Donald Trump spoke to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday, CNN has not surprisingly reacted by bringing on liberal gun control activists and given them a mostly unchallenged forum to promote their agenda and bash gun rights supporters. On Friday night, Anderson Cooper spoke with Parkland student activists David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, and, the next morning, host…
Brad Wilmouth

CNN Highlights Police Brutality Video After Ignoring Attacks on Cops

On Saturday, CNN was true to form in showing more interest in stories that reflect negatively on how police officers do their jobs while ignoring those that show law enforcement work sympathetically. After ignoring two cases of attacks on law enforcement that were covered by other networks, CNN did find time today to run two reports on video showing a Miami cop kicking a suspect in the head after…
Brad Wilmouth