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Scarborough: 'I'll Never Vote' for Trump If Muslim Ban Maintained
Of everyone in the MSM, Joe Scarborough has been widely seen as the most ardent Trump supporter--starting from the day Donald descended that escalator with Melania. Scarborough would argue he was merely offering dispassionate political analysis--saying that Trump's chances should be taken seriously while others were disdainfully dismissing him. But for those of us who watched Joe day in and day…
May 5th, 2016 8:14 AM
Unauthorized: Ernie and Bert, Tested for Sexually Transmitted Disease
Uh oh. It looks like someone’s in trouble for suggesting beloved Sesame Street stars Bert and Ernie were wise to check for sexually transmitted disease.
Mately, a company that creates at-home HIV/STD testing kits, used the kid-friendly Muppet duo in a new campaign aimed at spreading sexual health and sexual disease awareness.
May 5th, 2016 6:41 AM
Fox's 'Empire': Reagan Dumped All Mentally Ill Patients Out on Street
In Wednesday’s installment of the Lyons family saga, Lucious (Terrence Howard) explains why he lied about his mother's death. And he blamed former President Ronald Reagan along the way for the fact that his mother was out of a mental health facility.
May 5th, 2016 12:29 AM
Fox’s ‘Rosewood’ Redefines Family as One Woman and Two Men
On Wednesday night’s episode of Fox’s Rosewood, titled “Sudden Death and Shades Deep,” a woman being interrogated in the murder investigation of her boyfriend redefines the definition of family. She tells Detective Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz) she was in a relationship with two men, you see – the deceased and his friend/working partner – and, while she acknowledges that this is weird, hey, it works…
May 4th, 2016 11:48 PM
Gates of Iron(y) Block ‘The Path’ on Immigration
HULU's new series The Path picked up right where it left off last week in regards to the illegal immigration debate. As helicopters circle the compound creating a sense of imminent danger to the Honduran refugees, the leaders of the Meyerist movement are stuck with the unenviable choice to hand them over to authorities or stand on principle. The principle, of course, being that these poor…
May 4th, 2016 11:32 PM
ABC, CBS Tout Clinton Election Machine in Time for the General
With conventional wisdom pointing to both the Democrats and the Republicans having presumptive nominees the media is hyping a major fight brewing between the parties. ABC spent their Wednesday evening newscast touting how prepared the Clinton election machine was for a general election bout. “Tonight, Hillary Clinton launching her first general election attack … Backing it up with a new video,”…
May 4th, 2016 9:15 PM
Matthews, Guest Mock Hillary Clinton Scandals as Boring ‘Garbage’
MSNBC viewers were treated to two hours of Hardball Wednesday night following Donald Trump being anointed the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and while previewing the believed match-up of Trump and Hillary Clinton, host Chris Matthews and a guest mocked Hillary Clinton scandals as “garbage” and conservatives invoking the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi as deranged.
May 4th, 2016 9:04 PM
Amanda Marcotte: Cruz Endorses Spanking, Exposes Right’s ‘Cowardice’
Not long before Ted Cruz left the presidential race, he inadvertently performed what Salon’s Marcotte suggests was a public service by clarifying that right-wingers are entitled authoritarians who readily inflict pain on kids.
Last weekend at an Indiana campaign rally, a boy in the audience yelled “You suck!” at Cruz, to which Cruz replied, “In my household, when a child behaves that way they…
May 4th, 2016 8:37 PM
CNN's Dana Bash: We Do Ask Donald Trump Tough Questions!
Just minutes after the Cable News Network aired an interview with Hillary Clinton conducted by anchor Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash -- the channel's chief political correspondent -- angrily responded to the claim by the front-runner for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination that no one in the media had asked GOP nominee Donald Trump “the tough questions.”
“I was jumping out of my skin”…
May 4th, 2016 7:28 PM
CNN's Hill: Gingrich 'Perfect' for GOP Since 'Not Woman,' 'Not Black'
On Wednesday's Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield on CNN, after host Banfield suggested that it might be a disadvantage for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump to choose Newt Gingrich as his running mate because "He's not a woman, and he's not black or a minority," far-left CNN political commentator Marc Lamont Hill jumped in to crack that "He's perfect! He's perfect for Republicans," inspiring…
May 4th, 2016 6:50 PM
Bob Woodward: Conservatism in ‘Crisis,’ ‘Does Not Sell’ With Voters
Appearing on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward declared that the defeat of Ted Cruz in the Republican primary revealed that “Conservatism in America, in the Republican Party, is in a crisis. It just does not sell.” He argued that Cruz lost because “his ideas have not taken hold and they were totally overwhelmed by the Trump campaign.”
May 4th, 2016 5:19 PM
Hillary Uses Softball Sitdown to Demand Media Not Go Soft on Trump
Hillary Clinton gave her first interview following Donald Trump being anointed as the presumptive 2016 Republican presidential nominee Wednesday afternoon and in the midst of a classic softball, scandal-free interview by CNN's Anderson Cooper, Clinton demanded her liberal media friends “make the tough decisions” and “get serious” in attacking Trump.
May 4th, 2016 4:49 PM
CNN Plays Up 'Incredible' Trump, But Hypes 'Toxic' Platform
On Wednesday, CNN's New Day touted Donald Trump becoming the apparent Republican presidential nominee, but quickly spotlighted many of the most controversial components of his campaign. David Gregory trumpeted the "incredible accomplishment for Donald Trump," but soon added that the billionaire is "an incredibly divisive figure — huge negatives, toxic policy proposals." The Daily Beast's Jackie…
May 4th, 2016 3:53 PM
Fusion News Director: Trump 'Illness' Killed Republican Party
An opinion piece labeled as ‘news’ written by none other than Fusion’s News Director, Kevin Roose, has pronounced the Republican Party dead. Betraying his own glaring partisan/ideological prejudices, Roose ascribes the “terminal decline” of the GOP to the “2009 formation of the Tea Party” before going on to attack Donald Trump as “the illness that led to the Party’s demise.” The problem with…
May 4th, 2016 3:43 PM