WashPost Promotes 'Comedians Feeling the Bern' for Socialism
Washington Post political reporter Ben Terris provided the latest puff piece to the Democrats on the top of Friday’s Style section – which inspired more puffery on CBS Friday morning. “COMEDIANS ARE FEELING THE BERN,” blasted the headline in all caps. “Why has the most humorless presidential candidate garnered mad support from the normally apathetic stand-up scene?”
Guess what? The “cool kids”…
November 7th, 2015 4:14 PM
Carson, Carly, Donald, and the Insulting Media
For the good part of a day America was being fed a story about Ben Carson that wasn’t true. Was Carson deliberately lying? Clearly not. One can quibble over the wording in his book, or even criticize him for imprecision or a foggy memory, but in fact there was no “there” there.
The ladies of The View slammed Carly Fiorina for having a "demented" look, which set up a new showdown on that chat…
November 7th, 2015 2:48 PM
New Republic Writer: Conservatives Don’t Care About Carson’s ‘Honesty’
In a Friday article, Brian Beutler expressed a combination of disgust and resignation that the ideological “absurdity” and supposedly dubious autobiographical “veracity” of Ben Carson don’t matter to conservatives.
Beutler acknowledged that Carson’s poll numbers may take a hit because of the flap over the West Point “scholarship,” but wondered, “Could Carson’s supporters prove so uninterested in…
November 7th, 2015 11:26 AM
CBS: Manning Part of 'Widespread Failure' in Security Clearances
Friday's CBS Evening News previewed an upcoming 60 Minutes exposé on the "widespread failures in the system that grants top-secret security clearance to federal employees and contractors." Scott Pelley pointed at Bradley Manning as a prime example of "how top-secret clearances fall into dangerous hands." Pelley featured several clips from his interview of Manning's former supervisor in Iraq, who…
November 7th, 2015 11:11 AM
Puff Daddy Huffs: Obama, How Have Blacks Gotten 'Drastically Better'?
Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, one of the wealthiest hip-hop moguls, with an estimated fortune over $735 million, is calling out Obama for not giving back to the black community, the same black community that helped President Obama get into office.
Combs said: “We got Obama into office, the give back, the deal, where are the things in our community that have gotten drastically better?…Let’s stop…
November 7th, 2015 10:59 AM
ABC: Fiorina's 'PP Harvests Fetal Body Parts' Statement Only a 'Claim'
On Friday's The View, as CNS News's Mark Judge reported, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar went ballistic when GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina stated that Planned Parenthood is "harvesting baby parts through late term abortion." Part of Goldberg's response as she serially talked over Fiorina: "You know that’s not true. Carly, you know no one’s harvesting baby parts." Behar chimed in: "That…
November 7th, 2015 10:42 AM
House Conservatives Call Out the Networks for Their Bias
Last week, a Media Research Center study documented how ABC, CBS and NBC were using loaded labels to paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American political mainstream. Now, several leading conservative Congressmen have sent us statements blasting the networks for their slant. “Only in this town does doing what you told voters you said you were…
November 7th, 2015 10:35 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: Liberals Losing the Culture Wars?
The libertine Left has done a lot of boasting over the last several years about the inevitability of History vanquishing every corner of American social conservatism. Election Day 2015 was a terrible day for these revolutionaries, as so often it is when it’s the American people, not liberal elites, making the decisions. Let's assess the damage.
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
November 7th, 2015 8:00 AM
NPR, PBS Shamelessly Ignore 2015 Elections in 'Week in Politics'
National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service have attempted on Fridays to run a “Week in Politics” segment and PBS even has a long-standing show called Washington Week. But on Friday, all these programs discussed a “week” utterly without any analysis of the 2015 elections.
Try to imagine how the media would have covered it if the transgender “equal rights” initiative won in Houston…
November 7th, 2015 7:11 AM
NBC’s ‘Truth Be Told’ Lumps Christian Faith With Astrology
Only in Hollywood would writers come up with a story that uses a classroom chicken to prompt a discussion about religion. Yes, NBC’s Truth Be Told does just that in the episode “Psychic Chicken.” A dead chicken, to be precise. It goes downhill from there.
November 6th, 2015 11:39 PM
MRC Crashes MSNBC's Democratic Presidential Candidates' Forum
One of the Media Research Center's famous "Don't Believe the Liberal Media" signs made a live appearance on MSNBC on Friday — minutes after Rachel Maddow completed a forum with the three remaining Democratic presidential candidates. Chris Matthews got Maddow's take on the how the forum went and the candidates' answers/reactions. The sign appeared right between the two liberal TV personalities…
November 6th, 2015 11:12 PM
Friday Night Funny: 'Last Man Standing' Jabs Democrats
In the opening scene of the episode "The Dad Hat" on the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing, Tim Allen is at it again with his signature one liners against liberals. In a lesson about patience, his character Mike Baxter is teaching his grandson, Boyd, how to make a fishing lure. But the more important lesson has already been learned by Boyd.
November 6th, 2015 10:14 PM
NBC Boosts Politico's Retracted 'Fabrication' Headline on Carson
On Friday's NBC Nightly News, Chris Jansing touted Politico's scoop about Dr. Ben Carson's "scholarship" claim about West Point, underlining how the liberal outlet "call[ed] Carson's story a 'fabrication.'" However, Jansing's report aired more than two hours after Politico removed the "fabrication" term" from their headline." The journalist later hyped that it's "hard to overstate how much Carson…
November 6th, 2015 9:50 PM
CBS Morning Crew Whacks Carson and Jeb, Puffs Bernie the 'Policy Wonk'
On Friday’s CBS This Morning, Republicans took a publicity beating in two stories, but when it came time for Bernie Sanders, it was all giggles and light chatter about whether he had a sense of humor or not.
November 6th, 2015 9:19 PM