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CNN Plays Up 'Bizarre' Rubio's Mocking of WashPost on Twitter
CNN's At This Hour on Tuesday spotlighted Senator Marco Rubio's attack on the Washington Post on Twitter. An on-screen graphic hyped how "Rubio Launches Bizarre Tweetstorm Against Media." The Florida Republican mocked the "genius line" in the liberal newspaper that "claims that I'm a bit at sea in terms of [my] next step politically." Rubio added, "Ummmm, not really. I have only said like 10,000…
May 17th, 2016 5:05 PM
BuzzFeed to Obama: Too Many ‘Straight White Men’ on Supreme Court
In an interview streamed on YouTube and Facebook Live on Monday, Buzzfeed News legal editor Chris Geidner grilled President Obama over his nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court: “...a large part of your legacy on judicial nominations has been diversifying the federal bench....You had an opportunity with this nomination to, for the first time in the nation’s history, if the justice…
May 17th, 2016 4:09 PM
Scientist: Ruffalo 'Should be Ashamed' of Spreading Fake Flint Science
Liberal actor and climate alarmist Mark Ruffalo is scaring Flint residents into not bathing or washing their hands, without cause.
Virginia Tech professor Dr. Marc Edwards ripped Ruffalo as an “A-List Actor But F-List Scientist” on May 16, 2016, for “pseudoscience and false alarms” created by Ruffalo’s activist group, Water Defense.
May 17th, 2016 3:53 PM
HuffPo Writer Calls Phyllis Schlafly a ‘Toxic Gender Traitor’
It is not enough for a Huffington Post contributor to write a hit piece on someone who challenges the Equal Rights Amendment. She made sure to throw in a slur.
On Monday, HuffPo’s Kimberley A. Johnson urged feminists of all stripes to embrace and push for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). She blamed its failure to pass in the 1970s on a “toxic gender traitor by the name of Phyllis Schlafly.”
May 17th, 2016 3:53 PM
Kelly Destroys NYT on Clinton: ‘Shame’ Them Into Covering Bill’s Women
Fox’s Megyn Kelly on Monday said that if the New York Times doesn’t want to cover Bill Clinton’s problems with women, the so-called paper of record should be “shamed” into doing so. Appearing on Fox and Friends, Kelly highlighted the Times’s efforts to go after Trump’s issues with women: “They ought to do the same to her. Because Trump's allegations about Hillary's past with women and the role…
May 17th, 2016 3:20 PM
NatGeo: Hell, Eternal Punishment Are Outdated
Hell’s glory days could be over, according to National Geographic. The idea of eternal punishment is not as chic as it was in olden days.
In a NatGeo story published last week, senior science correspondent Mark Strauss explained a “campaign to eliminate hell” headed by a “new generation of evangelical scholars” who take issue with the idea that sinners are doomed forever.
May 17th, 2016 3:06 PM
Levin Slams on Media Over Trump, Ignoring Treatment of Sailors by Iran
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin opened his Monday program by excoriating the media for their proverbial leap “into the sewer” by obsessively covering the Sunday New York Times piece on Donald Trump’s treatment of women and instead ignoring revelations that there’s disturbing details being withheld from the American people about the capture of U.S. sailors by Iran in January.
May 17th, 2016 2:50 PM
Hillary Clinton Joins ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast on ‘Ellen'
Hillary Clinton: secretary of state, presidential candidate and, now, ghostbuster.
Entertainment Weekly just announced that Clinton will be joining the all-female cast members of the upcoming Ghostbusters film on The Ellen DeGeneres Show airing May 25.
May 17th, 2016 2:48 PM
Nets Love Talking About Flint...Until Dem Mayor Accused of Corruption
The broadcast news networks couldn’t get enough of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan – until a leading Democrat in town became the target of a corruption lawsuit. Despite spending 1 hour and 42 minutes discussing the Flint since the story broke onto the national stage in December, 2015, the evening news shows of ABC, CBS and NBC have completely ignored reports that Flint’s Democrat mayor…
May 17th, 2016 2:42 PM
Networks Yawn At Pastor Admitting to Whole Foods Cake Hoax; CNN Covers
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts punted on covering an openly-homosexual pastor dropping his lawsuit against Whole Foods on Monday, after accusing the grocery chain of including the word "fag" on a cake he ordered from a location in Austin, Texas in April 2016. Jordan Brown disclosed that "the company did nothing wrong" in a statement, and apologized to the "LGBT community for…
May 17th, 2016 2:20 PM
ABC's Cokie Roberts Invokes Jim Crow, Claims Trump 'Created Hatred'
Appearing as a guest on Monday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin to promote her book, Capital Dames, ABC News veteran Cokie Roberts -- also of NPR -- complained that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump "created a lot of hatred and hostility" after "a half century of us trying to bring people together" as she invoked the Jim Crow South and blamed reports of children making racist insults on…
May 17th, 2016 2:13 PM
At AP, Good Economic News Gets Promoted, Bad News Gets Buried
In mid-April, as I noted in a NewsBusters post, the Associated Press, apparently desperate to find any kind of good economic news that might offset the impact of an awful national industrial production report from the Federal Reserve, cited a positive manufacturing survey from just one state to claim that "goods production in the U.S. could be stabilizing."
Lo and behold, yesterday that same one…
May 17th, 2016 1:50 PM
CBS Worries About ‘Risks’ of Trump’s ‘Aggression’; ‘Smart or Stupid?’
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday worried about the “risks” of Trump’s “aggressive” attitude towards Hillary Clinton. Charlie Rose pondered as to whether it was “smart or stupid.” Journalists don’t often worry about the fate of Republican candidates. Yet, Face the Nation host John Dickerson appeared on the show and fretted over journalists being manipulated: “So what [Trump] does is…
May 17th, 2016 12:32 PM
Whoopi: Why Didn't Anyone Warn Hillary If Emails Were 'So Classified'?
On Tuesday’s The View, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar teamed up against Fox News Channel’s Jedediah Bila to defend Hillary Clinton’s record on her email scandal by arguing that it was no big deal. Behar began by alleging the FBI “found nothing” on her server, despite the fact that the investigation is still underway. From there, Goldberg jumped in to rant about how Clinton’s staff should’…
May 17th, 2016 12:19 PM