Joe and Mika Mock Cruz's 'Staged' Delivery, Even When Defending Wife

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski had a jolly old time mocking Ted Cruz on today's Morning Joe. After playing a clip of Cruz refusing to say whether he'd support Trump given The Donald's attack on his wife, Joe imagined Cruz rehearsing his words before a mirror. Scarborough went on to approvingly cite David Axelrod, who had said that Cruz seems "staged" even when defending the honor of his…
Mark Finkelstein

Press, Reacting to Dismal Consumer Spending News: Better Days Ahead

For the past month, the conventional wisdom about the U.S. economy has been that consumer spending and "(not really) robust" job growth will continue to prop up the economy, even as weaknesses in manufacturing, trade and other areas continue to present problems. President Obama bragged in early March that the economy is "pretty darned good now." Today, the first of those two pillars got pulled.…
Tom Blumer

Despite Complete Lack of Solid Sources, Networks Push Cruz Smear Again

Despite the fact that there’s a complete lack of solid sourcing in the sleazy National Enquirer allegations against Ted Cruz, all three networks on Monday morning reported on the story again, offering an additional three minutes and 44 seconds. This is on top of 11 minutes and 43 seconds devoted to the sketchy claims from Friday through Sunday. In total, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening…
Scott Whitlock

Establishment Endorsements Don't Make Ted Cruz an Insider

It is time to address the canard that endorsements for Sen. Ted Cruz from establishment Republicans damage his credibility as an outsider. It is opportunistic and lazy thinking.
David Limbaugh

Ex-NYT Editor's Pratfall: 'Hillary Clinton Is Fundamentally Honest'

The leftist British newspaper The Guardian has signed former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson as a regular columnist on the presidential election. Already, she’s pleasing the Left with ridiculous columns, such as the brand-new one, headlined “This may shock you: Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest.” It’s only shocking because it’s like claiming: “This may shock you, but the sky…
Tim Graham

Al Jazeera Hacks 500 Jobs

What’s Arabic for “schadenfreude?” It was only two months ago that Al Jazeera announced Al Jazeera America was closing shop – a blow to the dozens of New York Times-types that made up its audience. Now the parent network, owned by the government of Qatar, is itself cutting its staff by 500. (Cutting the jobs, not the people. We think.)
Matt Philbin

Only AP Fails to Describe Brussels Attack Suspect As a Journalist

Media outlets around the world are reporting that Faycal Cheffou has been arrested for his alleged involvement with last week's terrorist attacks in Belgium. Media outlets around the world are reporting that Faycal Cheffou was a journalist — except for the Associated Press.
Tom Blumer

NBC’s ‘The Carmichael Show’: Gentrification ‘Sounds Good To Me’

It turns out a TV show actually exists out there that presents topics near-and-dear to the heart of radical leftists --and yet!-- does it in a humorous way that leaves you not feeling nauseous.
Dylan Gwinn

Avlon: FNC, Right Appease 'Crocodile' Trump So He 'Eats You Last'

Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, Daily Beast editor-in-chief and CNN political commentator John Avlon painted Fox News and the conservative media as "appeasing the crocodile" of Donald Trump "hoping that it eats you last" as he also blamed Trump's rise on Republicans chasing moderate "RINOs" out of the party.
Brad Wilmouth

Tony Blair Called It: Brussels Follows from 'Flabby Liberalism'

Tony Blair was even more right than he knew. Hours before the ISIS attacks on Brussels that killed 31 and wounded 270, the former British Prime Minister sat down with the BBC. They reported: "Tony Blair has warned against 'flabby liberalism' and says there needs to be a tougher centre ground approach to issues such as tackling extremism and responding to the refugee crisis."
Jeffrey Lord

NY Times Oddly Ambivalent About Calif. Stopping Campus Anti-Semitism

The New York Times’ Ian Lovett reported Sunday on the University of California condemning anti-Semitism in its university system, especially in relation to the anti-Israeli BDS movement infesting college campuses. The problem has been festering for years -- and so has the Times’ oddly ambivalent response to the outbreaks of anti-Semitism on left-wing college campuses. While the paper is eager to…
Clay Waters

Google's Defense of No Easter 'Doodle': 'Well, We Did One in 2000'

Three years ago, Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters noted how Google was subject to a torrent of criticism for devoting its March 31 special-occasion redesign of its logo, otherwise known as a "doodle," to the 86th anniversary of farm workers' leader Cesar Chavez's birthday. March 31 was also Easter Sunday that year. Finkelstein noted that even hardened MSNBC liberal Mika Brzezinski sided with…
Tom Blumer

AP Hides Truth About Death of Moderate Muslim Asad Shah in Scotland

Perhaps it would be understandable if U.S. media outlets chose not to cover the death of Asad Shah in Scotland. After all, it occurred overseas, and only one person has died. But the Associated Press did decide to cover the story and post it at its subscribers' U.S. news sites. As such, the AP has a duty to reveal what is known at the time its reports appear. Thus far, it has failed miserably.…
Tom Blumer

Blogger: Conservatives Clueless About Obama’s ‘What Works’ Comment

Conservatives have objected in droves to a remark President Obama made this past week during his visit to Argentina. Addressing a gathering of young adults, Obama said, “In the past there’s been a sharp division…between capitalist and communist or socialist…but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works.” The right’s hostile response, contended The…
Tom Johnson