Axelrod, Borger: Cruz Can’t Unify GOP After Calling McConnell a 'Liar'

Not long after Midnight Eastern time on Wednesday after Super Tuesday, CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod and senior political analyst Gloria Borger repeatedly lectured fellow panelist and former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter by telling her that Cruz would be unable to best unite the Republican Party in November since he’s called Senate Majority Leader Mitch…
Curtis Houck
March 2nd, 2016 1:26 AM

Ted Cruz Mocks Stephanopoulos: Hillary Is ‘Your Former Boss’

Appearing on ABC’s live Super Tuesday coverage, Ted Cruz openly mocked former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos. A skeptical Stephanopoulos questioned Cruz’s path to the nomination, despite his wins in Oklahoma and Texas: “Marco Rubio is staying in the race. John Kasich is staying in the race. Ben Carson is staying in the race.” 
Scott Whitlock
March 2nd, 2016 12:10 AM

NBC’s Holt Hopes Voters Will Remember Hillary's Gender in November

NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt led the network’s prime time Super Tuesday coverage in which he twice attempted to promote the belief that voters should come to the realization that they have the opportunity to elect the first female president after electing the first African-American in 2008: “[E]ight years ago, we were talking about wow, we may see the first African-American President.…
Curtis Houck
March 2nd, 2016 12:02 AM

DeLay Schools Chris Matthews on GOP Convention

With Donald Trump securing first-place wins in most primaries on Super Tuesday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews set about to cast Trump as the inevitable nominee and to paint the GOP as acting in an illegitimate fashion were it to attempt to thwart a Trump nomination should he head into Cleveland having won most state primaries. But as his guest Tom DeLay tried to explain, the rules dictate that the…
Ken Shepherd
March 1st, 2016 11:59 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: The Media Hypocrisy About Trump

For many years now, the liberal media have lamented that our democracy is badly compromised by a rapacious band of  billionaires manipulating government policy and elections and frustrating the will of the people. Just four years ago, the networks became a megaphone for the “Occupy Wall Street” argument that the “99 percent” were tired of being dominated by the “One Percent.” So when Donald…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
March 1st, 2016 11:23 PM

Rose Chides Rubio for Insulting Trump Voters with 'Con Artist' Slam

Speaking to Marco Rubio during CBS News’s Super Tuesday coverage, CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose knocked Rubio for attacking Trump in the lead up to his numerous victories across the country and insulting Trump voters by referring to their candidate as “a con artist.”
Curtis Houck
March 1st, 2016 10:50 PM

Brian Williams Thinks Pulled Pork Is a Texas BBQ Tradition, Apparently

OK, so this isn't bias, but it is a funny little gaffe. Apparently New Jersey native Brian Williams thinks pulled pork is a Texas barbecue delicacy. It's not. Texas BBQ is known for beef brisket. For her part, fellow MSNBCer Rachel Maddow, who hails from California, politely corrected him.
Ken Shepherd
March 1st, 2016 10:09 PM

MSNBC Hypes Kasich: He ‘Occupies the Dignity Lane’

MSNBC on Super Tuesday hyped John Kasich as the moderate hope, the only man occupying the “dignity lane.” Brian Williams touted the Ohio governor as bearing “the label as every Democrat’s favorite Republican in 2016.”  Analyst Nicolle Wallace said the Kasich campaign feels “like they are running their own race. And that is the only Republican campaign about which you could say that. They have not…
Scott Whitlock
March 1st, 2016 10:00 PM

Curt Schilling: Hillary Should be ‘Buried Under a Jail Somewhere'

Curt Schilling will not be muzzled. While speaking on the The Drive, with Danny Parkins and Carrington Harrison on Sports Radio 610 in Kansas City, the MLB analyst and outspoken conservative answered a few questions on politics after talking some baseball.
Bruce Bookter
March 1st, 2016 8:47 PM

CNN’s Van Jones: Obama Had ‘More Enthusiasm’ ‘Than Any Human Ever’

As Super Tuesday election results started to roll in, CNN’s Van Jones rejected any enthusiasm comparison between 2016 Hillary Clinton and then-candidate Barack Obama eight years ago. After Michael Smerconish noted that Clinton has a problem firing up voters, Van Jones shot back, “I just think with regard to Sanders, I don't think he's saying he has more enthusiasm than Barack Obama in 2008.” …
Scott Whitlock
March 1st, 2016 7:59 PM

Trump's Rejection of Racist Endorsers Omitted on Univision, Telemundo

The portrayal of Donald Trump as a racist continues full bore on Univision and Telemundo.
Edgard Portela
March 1st, 2016 7:38 PM

CBS Hails Super Tuesday as ‘The Last Chance’ to Stop Trump and Clinton

Less than an hour before polls closed in the first three states on Super Tuesday, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley declared that it marked “likely the last chance for challengers to catch the frontrunners, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.”
Curtis Houck
March 1st, 2016 7:34 PM

NYT Movie Critics Revel in 'Watching a White Academy Squirm'

New York Times movie critics Manohla Dargis, A.O. Scott, and  Wesley Morris blessed readers with an even sillier than usual Oscar racism recap in Tuesday's paper: “Watching a White Academy Squirm.” 
Clay Waters
March 1st, 2016 7:21 PM

ABC’s ‘The Fosters’ Kill Romeo & Juliet

On Monday night’s episode of The Fosters, titled ‘EQ’, the show dealt with the urge that most people feel after watching an episode of the ABC Freeform drama: suicide.
Dylan Gwinn
March 1st, 2016 7:13 PM