Lefty Pundit: GOP Practices Idea-Free ‘Politics of Anger’

In mid-July, The Huffington Post announced it would cover Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as entertainment news. Waldman might like that policy extended to GOPers in general, since he thinks they’re more about sound-and-fury theatrics than ideas or legislative accomplishments. “Today's Republicans,” wrote Waldman in a Sunday American Prospect column, “truly have created not just a politics…
Tom Johnson
September 28th, 2015 8:27 PM

Anti-Trump Protest Turns Into Real Life Slapstick Comedy

Have you ever enjoyed a good bellylaugh watching Mack Sennett or Charlie Chaplin slapstick comedies? Of course, such movies were carefully produced. Such comedy perfection could only happen in reel life but not in real life. Well, meet Stephanie Mercades, the inadvertent star of a real life slapstick comedy. Before viewing her hilarious performance as an utterly inept anti-Trump protester, we…
P.J. Gladnick
September 28th, 2015 7:50 PM

Hillary: I'll 'Impose Much Harsher Restrictions' Under Dodd-Frank

Wait a second: wasn't it just this month that Hillary's handlers announced they were going to have her show a warm 'n fuzzy side, with more "heart?" So who was the genius who coached Clinton to announce that as president she would "impose much harsher restrictions" on financial institutions under Dodd-Frank? She'll "impose much harsher restrictions?" Brr! Isn't that the Stone Cold Hillary…
Mark Finkelstein
September 28th, 2015 6:48 PM

CNN Changes Democratic Debate Rules to Easily Include Joe Biden

While the Democrats running for their party's nomination for the 2016 presidential election are far fewer than those on the Republican side, the Cable News Network is doing its best to add another candidate to its two-hour prime-time debate: Vice President Joe Biden. In fact, according to an article by Mark Preston -- executive editor for CNN Politics -- Biden will be invited to participate in…
Randy Hall
September 28th, 2015 6:39 PM

An IBD Editorial Does the Beat Press's Job With Hillary's Scandals

If the establishment press was treating Hillary Clinton's private server/email and other controversies as the genuine scandals and the national security nightmares that they really are, we'd be getting daily or near-daily updates on the latest developments. It really isn't too much to ask. After all, outlets like the Associated Press frequently capsulized the latest Watergate developments during…
Tom Blumer
September 28th, 2015 5:32 PM

Tactless Williams, Matthews Knock Catholic Dogma During Papal Mass

Brian Williams and Chris Matthews couldn't resist the opportunity to harp on the lack of married and women priests in the Catholic Church, as MSNBC provided live coverage of Pope Francis's open-air Mass in Philadelphia on Sunday. Williams pointed out that one of the archbishops at the Mass is "from a family, [but] he cannot go home to one. He cannot have one, and be...of service to the Catholic…
Matthew Balan
September 28th, 2015 5:09 PM

NY Times: No Room to Review Mark Levin Book, But...Kim Kardashian Yes!

Some of us have shaken our head at the usual New York Times reaction to a Mark Levin best-seller. It tops their best-seller list without the Times ever reviewing it. This has held for the new book Plunder and Deceit, now at number 2 on their chart this Sunday. But it was hilarious/appalling to see the quality of tomes they’re reviewing instead. In Sunday’s Times Book Review, it was....the book…
Tim Graham
September 28th, 2015 4:33 PM

Time Mag on Planned Parenthood Videos: ‘Fury' 'More Than Facts'

A snide Time magazine chided the organization behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos, insisting that “fury often matters more than facts.” In the October 5 issue, Alex Altman profiled David Daleiden and lectured, “In the midst of a political storm, fury can often matter more than the facts. An activist with an agenda can shape policies that affect millions.” 
Scott Whitlock
September 28th, 2015 4:10 PM

Salon: GOP Presidential Nominees ‘Stolidly Faith-Deranged Candidates'

Liberals trashing on religion goes together like Monday morning and coffee: it’s just the norm. From the momentous visit to America by Pope Francis to the recent CNN Republican debate where some candidates had the audacity to mention their personal religious convictions, faith and religion has been just too prevalent these days for some lefties. Jeffry Taylor of Salon is one. “These are trying…
Erin Aitcheson
September 28th, 2015 3:48 PM

NBC Reporter Interrupts Huckabee's Planned Parenthood Speech

What a coincidence -- or not. The moment GOP candidate Mike Huckabee began slamming Planned Parenthood at the podium at this year’s Values Voters Summit, an NBC journalist interrupted. So loudly that some in the crowd began whistling and shouting at her to quiet down. We know because we were there.
Katie Yoder and Kristine Marsh
September 28th, 2015 3:27 PM

CNN's Cuomo: Carson is 'Pandering to a Xenophobic Religious Minority'

CNN's Chris Cuomo painted a cynical picture of Dr. Ben Carson on Monday's New Day, as the newscast covered Jake Tapper's interview of the Republican presidential candidate from Sunday. Cuomo contended that Carson's recent stance against Muslims becoming president of the United States was a calculated move towards a supposedly extreme part of the GOP: "The problem is the candidate...seems to be…
Matthew Balan
September 28th, 2015 2:56 PM

Ben Carson Slams Media for Twisting 'Muslim President' Comment

At the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. Friday, GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson slammed the media as elitists who “just don’t get it.” He explained how the media use their position of power to mislead the public by sharing a recent anecdote where a reporter took his words out of context.
Kristine Marsh
September 28th, 2015 1:31 PM

Nets Skip PP Throwing Condoms at Carly; Hype Other 'Scary Moment'

Which is “proof” that “you have to be ready for anything in politics”: a curtain falling down or Planned Parenthood activists throwing condoms? The curtain, according to the broadcast news shows. A local ABC affiliate reported Planned Parenthood protesters threw condoms at Carly Fiorina Saturday while she spoke at an Iowa Hawkeyes tailgate party. Not one of the broadcast news shows from ABC, NBC…
Katie Yoder
September 28th, 2015 1:22 PM

Pelosi on Planned Parenthood: I Won't Admit 'These Videos Are Real’

On CNN’s State of the Union, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was asked by Jake Tapper if she had seen any of the undercover videos that showed Planned Parenthood executives casually talking about selling body parts of aborted babies. In true Pelosi fashion, she replied that “I don’t stipulate these videos are real,” and just as President Obama hears news first from the media, Pelosi told…
Melissa Mullins
September 28th, 2015 1:03 PM