LA Times: 'Many Foreign Leaders' Say Trump Leads 'America In Retreat'
The Los Angeles Times reads like a Democratic rag with this headline: “Trump claims he's boosting U.S. influence, but many foreign leaders see America in retreat.” Naturally, that means “many foreign Obama fans and socialists don’t like where Trump is leading.” It took three Times reporters to assemble this “news” report, that China leads the climate-change crusade and Russia has taken over…
Tim Graham
Rabbi to Singer Lorde: ‘Jew Hatred Has No Place’ in 21st Century
It’s ironic how liberal celebrities preach tolerance and acceptance but apparently possess neither. After singer Lorde announced her decision to cancel her concert in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and World Values Network took out an ad in the Washington Post to criticize her for her decision. While the ad went after Lorde, it also targeted the media in New Zealand, which influenced Lorde to…
Corinne Weaver
NYT’s Passive Coverage of Iranian Protests Draws Mockery, Outrage
As the protests in cities and towns across Iran enter their sixth day, the New York Times has caught a lot of flak in the wake of its passive, often misleading initial coverage of the political uprising, as people rebel against the oppressive state, and shout slogans blaming the government for focusing on Hezbollah and Palestine while ignoring issues at home. The paper’s Tehran-based reporter…
Clay Waters
Joy Behar: U.S. on ‘Slippery Slope’ to Becoming Iran
The hosts at The View are not strangers to comparing President Trump to dictators and terrorists. They spent several shows in 2016 and 2017 comparing the Republican agenda to terrorism, and claiming that Trump was turning America into the Taliban.
Kristine Marsh
ABC Spends New Years Eve Wailing About Trump’s Threat to 1st Amendment
ABC on Sunday spent the final day of 2017 whining about the term “fake news” and insisting that Donald Trump is a threat to the First Amendment. With no mention of the network’s demonstrably fake reporting, This Week guest host Martha Raddatz complained, “There was an attack on the media, on the First Amendment that we have not seen before, really, in this country... and the profound effect that…
Scott Whitlock
MRC’s Bozell: ‘CNN Is Trying to Trademark Debauchery as Its Brand’
Reacting to the bizarre and cringe-inducing image of a CNN reporter wearing a gas mask as she held an orange bong, Brent Bozell on Tuesday quipped, “CNN is trying to trademark the debauchery as its brand for New Year's Eve coverage. I mean that quite seriously.” The MRC president appeared on Fox Business and reminded everyone of CNN’s embarrassing history of New Years coverage. https://www.…
NB Staff
NYTimes: Trump Deregulation Responsible for Business Confidence
At least one liberal media outlet has grasped the link between President Donald Trump and economic growth in 2017. According to a shockingly positive Jan. 1 New York Times report, Trump’s ongoing commitment to deregulation was responsible for 2017’s “wave of optimism.”
Aly Nielsen
More Bias in the Morning: Hoda Kotb’s Worst Quotes
Following the firing of Matt Lauer over sexual harassment allegations, on Tuesday, NBC officially named Hoda Kotb as his permanent replacement on the Today show. While fellow co-host Savannah Guthrie and the rest of the morning show crew celebrated the announcement with a champagne toast, there’s good reason for conservative viewers to be concerned over the liberal bias Kotb has brought to the…
Kyle Drennen
Nets Fret Trump Lauding Iranian Protesters, Should Be Quiet Like Obama
On Monday evening, the broadcast networks began paying more attention to the anti-government protests in Iran, with ABC's World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News for the first time finally running full reports on the events. But ABC's piece also characterized President Donald Trump as "adding fuel to the fire" by tweeting out support for the protesters.
Brad Wilmouth
CBS Tries to Use Berlin Wall To Discredit Trump Wall, Israeli Barriers
It seems someone at CBS thought it was a good idea to send correspondent Mark Phillips all the way to Germany and do a full report about the Berlin Wall just to suggest that all walls are bad, and therefore undermine President Donald Trump's push for a border wall, as well as Israel's security barrier which has likely saved thousands from being murdered by suicide bombers.
Brad Wilmouth
Politico: Tiny Alcohol Tax Cut 'Dire'; Big Tax Cut Won't Do Much
At Politico, consistency has never been a strong point. Somehow, the just-signed tax law supposedly won't have that much of an effect on Americans' economic behavior, but there's no doubt that the bill's tiny cuts in taxes on alcoholic beverages will bring about disastrous results.
Tom Blumer
Bob Woodward Warns of 'Self-Righteousness and Smugness' of Media
On Sunday’s State of the Union on CNN, they interviewed Watergate legends Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Woodward warned that he sees “self-righteousness and smugness” in the media ridicule of President Trump, but Bernstein demonstrated media self-righteousness in declaring everyone know the press is “the last bastion of truth that makes democracy function.”
Tim Graham
'Shameless' to Anti-Gay Pastor: ‘I’ll Beat the F*ck Out of' You
Here's hoping Showtime's Shameless decides to leave worn-out tropes in 2017. They certainly closed out the year with a bang, with their New Year's Eve episode "Frank's Northern Shuttle Express" having Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) continue to shuttle "brown people" into Canada for a better life while bringing back cheaper drugs for Americans.
Amelia Hamilton
London Review of Books Mocks MSM Embrace of Trump-Russia Collusion
Despite cracks beginning to emerge in the mainstream media such as the CNN legal analyst declaring last week that Trump is right about the FBI, they continue to cling for the most part to their beloved orthodoxy that there was collusion between Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign. It is this near religious belief that was mocked in the January 4 London Review of the Books. That…