Pelley Frets GOP Health Plan Could Strip Millions from ObamaCare Plans
CBS’s 60 Minutes scored a sit-down on Sunday with House Speaker Paul Ryan, conducted by host Scott Pelley, in which he sought to corner Ryan from the left on the repeal of ObamaCare supposedly putting millions of Americans at risk for no healthcare and whether or not President-elect Donald Trump says as many “bizarre things” in private as he does when tweeting.
Curtis Houck
NBC’s Sad Goodbye to Castro: ‘Tears of Sorrow,’ ‘Cries of Patriotism'
NBC’s Nightly News on Sunday offered the most gushing coverage of Fidel Castro’s funeral, mourning the “tears of sorrow and cries of patriotism.” Reporter Morgan Radford referred to Castro as a man with a “complicated legacy.” Yet, she never explained what that meant or mentioned the dictator’s decades of oppression and violence. Instead, Radford got caught up in the drama of the funeral,…
Scott Whitlock
‘Gilmore Girls’ Creator Considering Abortion Plot in This ‘KKK World’
The Gilmore Girls creator is advertising a main character’s possible abortion – playing into a new, dark Hollywood trend.
Katie Yoder
Nets Hype ‘Diplomatic Firestorm’ After Trump’s ‘Controversial Call’
On Monday, the networks continued their freak-out over President-elect Donald Trump accepting a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan. The CBS, NBC, and ABC morning shows all fretted over the “diplomatic firestorm” sparked by the “controversial” move.
Kyle Drennen
On CBS, Priebus Refuses to Accept Dickerson's Spin on Illegal Voting
A very smug John Dickerson asserted on Sunday's Face The Nation that Donald Trump was just flat out wrong in his assertion that millions of people voted illegally in California. In fact, Dickerson tried but failed to get incoming White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus to agree with him that Trump is somehow lying about this matter. Nice try, John, but Priebus wasn't biting. After Reince took…
P.J. Gladnick
Liam Neeson Resigns from Club Over 'Shockingly Offensive' Abortion Ad
After facing outrage due to an Amnesty International ad calling for the “repeal of the eighth” amendment to expand abortion rights in Ireland, actor Liam Neeson has stepped down as president of his childhood boxing club. Locals and Catholic groups were angered by Neeson lending his voice to the film that some called “shockingly offensive,” according to Yahoo Movies UK.
Callista Ring
NY Daily News' Lupica: Giuliani Lacks Temperament for State
It’s open season on President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees and potential nominees. Left-stream media are pouring it on, hoping to derail any and all of them. New York Daily News one-time/sometimes sports writer Mike Lupica is one, blitzing Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a potential Trump pick for secretary of state. Giuliani is one of the Left's – and Lupica's – favorite targets right now…
Jay Maxson
NYT Headline Puts Castro to Rest: ‘A Man So Large in a Box So Small’
New York Times reporter Kirk Semple reported on Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro’s funeral fnd retained the paper’s soft-soap treatment of Castro’s tyrannical rule: “In Subdued Ending, Cubans Put Castro to Rest." The online headline even quotes one of his Cuban fawners: “Cuba Puts Fidel Castro to Rest: ‘A Man So Large in a Box So Small.’” Ugh. Semple's article praised Castro's "socialist…
Clay Waters
'Westworld' Warps Creation of Adam In Season Finale
The finale of the first season of Westworld went out in its usual bloody, sensual mess, only this time, we got 90 minutes of it. But the tenth episode touched on a new subject that has previously been overlooked: the existence of God. Since this is a science-fiction show created by liberal writers on an even more “progressive” HBO network, it’s about as bad as you can expect.
Lindsay Kornick
'Family Guy' Slams God as a 'Dick,' Portrays Jesus as a Dad
Seth MacFarlane strikes again at Jesus on Family Guy, and just in time for Christmas…how thoughtful. Clearly MacFarlane is harping on the idea that Jesus was married and had children. Along with that garbage, they also poke fun at His sacrifice and make God seem like a “dick” for sending Jesus to die for our sins.
Justin Ashford
AP, as Castro's Ashes Interred: A 'Near-Religious Farewell'
A funny thing happened on the way to delivering Fidel Castro's ashes to their final resting place. According to an Associated Press photo caption, soldiers had to "push the jeep and trailer carrying the ashes of the late Fidel Castro after the jeep briefly stopped working during Castro’s funeral procession near Moncada Fort in Santiago, Cuba."
FoxNews.com had a sense of the symbolism: "The…
Tom Blumer
MSNBC Sees MSM Turning Whites Vs. Immigrants; Frets 'Collaborators'
On Saturday's AM Joy on MSNBC, during a discussion of recent instances of apparent Donald Trump supporters being recorded in public places being rowdy and sometimes saying racist things to strangers, former CNN correspondent Maria Hinojosa complained that the "mainstream media" have caused whites to be afraid of immigrants. And, moments later, guest Tim Wise -- identified as an "anti-racism…
Brad Wilmouth
NY Times Falsely Claims No Soldiers Died Due to Bergdahl's Desertion
In a December 2 dispatch covering Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's request for a presidential pardon appearing at Page A18 in Saturday's print edition, New York Times reporter Charlie Savage insisted that President-Elect Donald Trump's 2015 campaign rally assertion that U.S. soldiers had died searching for Bergdahl after his desertion was false. Savage even claimed that allegations made by soldiers serving…
Tom Blumer
Pence Nails Double Standard in Media Over Trump's Taiwan Call
Hardly a news cycle passes without another phony controversy conjured by the left in a flailing effort to discredit Donald Trump before he takes office. The latest mock-outrage du jour stems from Trump's inexplicable refusal to observe the subtleties of diplomatic protocol by taking a phone call from another world leader without first getting it vetted through a State Department still run by the…