Pundit: Like Almost All GOPers, Trump Practices ‘Voodoo Economics’

How is Donald Trump “not a normal Republican”? Let New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait count the ways. Trump is “crudely ethno-nationalist,” wrote Chait in a Tuesday post, and he’s “personally ignorant and undisciplined in a manner that sets him apart not only from traditional Republicans but most human adults.” That’s pretty much it for Trump’s deviations from orthodoxy, according to Chait, who…
Tom Johnson

Actor Patrick Stewart: 'I'm Moving to America to Fight Donald Trump'

As NewsBusters has previously reported, many actors and other liberals in the entertainment industry have gone out of their way to criticize Donald Trump since the Republican was elected president on November 8. The latest addition to this list is British actor Patrick Stewart, who is best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise and…
Randy Hall

The Revolution Moves to the Bathroom

WASHINGTON — As I find myself happily on the far side of middle age, I had assumed that I was now exempt from at least some of the cultural battles roaring through American society. How wrong I was. I recently found myself, despite my utter insouciance toward gender politics, suddenly hauled onto the battlefield, notwithstanding I am a full-bodied adult male somewhat advanced in years. Let me…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

HYPOCRISY: 7X More Coverage for Sessions Debacle than Holder Contempt

If you ever doubted that the media see the news through a partisan prism, consider this: in less than two days, ABC, CBS and NBC devoted nearly 7 times as much coverage to Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian Ambassador in his role as a U.S. Senator than they did when then-Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress in June 2012.
Mike Ciandella and Rich Noyes

MRC’s Bozell: Media Must Report All the Facts on AG Sessions’ Meeting

On Friday afternoon, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell released a following statement regarding the media coverage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his interactions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
NB Staff

EWTN Pro-Life News Show to ‘Untangle Lies’ of Abortion Industry

In the past, the liberal media have either spun or omitted their coverage of abortion and the pro-life movement. But now there’s a new media source to turn to: EWTN’s Pro-Life Weekly. On Friday, the EWTN Global Catholic Network, together with Susan B. Anthony List, will launch a half-hour weekly program to engage viewers with pro-life news while promoting a culture of life. Beginning March 3, Pro…
Katie Yoder

AP Touts Label of Conservative Author as a 'White Supremacist'

After longtime conservative author, columnist, and think tank scholar Charles Murray was chased on Thursday from far-left Middlebury College by an angry mob, the Associated Press felt more than comfortable smearing Murray as a supposed “white nationalist.”  
Curtis Houck

Fox Showcases MRC Study on ‘Phenomenally Negative’ Trump Coverage

On Friday, a new Media Research Center study by Mike Ciandella and Rich Noyes made the rounds on multiple Fox News Channel (FNC) and Fox Business Network (FBN) programs, topped off by a Noyes appearance on FBN’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast.
NB Staff

MSNBC Panelists Ask Blumenthal About Sessions's Trustworthiness

Friday on Morning Joe, Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal spoke about Jeff Sessions’ recusal. The hosts pressed and tried to coerce him into discrediting Sessions. The panelists asked Blumenthal what his opinion of the Attorney General’s current credibility was, as well as his and others’ capability to trust Sessions amid perjury speculation. To say the least, this was curious…
Alexis Thomasi

Gleeful Gayle King on Sessions Story: ‘Drip, Drip, Dripity Drop!’

CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King could barely contain joy on Friday as she talked about Jeff Sessions recusing himself from any investigation into Russia’s connections with the 2016 election. Talking to John Dickerson of Face the Nation, she enthused, “It is like a song out of Empire. That drip, drip dripity drop where we just heard the President say, ‘No one I know has had contact.’” 
Scott Whitlock

Not Surprised: Alec Baldwin to Co-Author Satirical Trump Book

In addition to lampooning the Donald on SNL, progressive actor Alec Baldwin has announced plans to co-author a satirical book about the president. Titled “You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump,” the book is a joint project between Baldwin and novelist Kurt Anderson. While Anderson will be the primary author,…
Sarah Stites

NBC Eager for Obama ‘Comeback’; Touts Kennedy Award, Book Deal

Taking time away from the network’s daily bashing of the Trump administration, on Friday’s NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell spent over three minutes hoping for Barack Obama’s “comeback” to the public spotlight and gushing over the former president receiving an award from the Kennedy family.
Kyle Drennen

MTV Star Declares Abortion ‘Murder,’ ‘Extermination’

Both Hollywood and MTV are in cahoots with America’s largest abortion provider. But that isn't stopping one star from speaking out in defense of the unborn. In a string of recent tweets, MTV personality Jessica (Jess) McCain argued against abortion as a witness to unborn babies. “[P]regnancy isn’t a sickness, abortion isn’t a cure,” she urged her 38,000 followers Thursday. 
Katie Yoder

Chris Hayes: For Blacks, America's a Gulag, BLM Are Founding Fathers

MSNBC host Chris Hayes has a new book coming out on March 21 called A Colony In a Nation. In a supportive summary published in The Week magazine, Ryan Cooper reports shocking arguments: that somehow Black Lives Matter are the new Founding Fathers in a America that's a tyrannical state, like a Soviet gulag for black people.

Tim Graham