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On Thursday’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the host played a clip of Carly Fiorina pushing back at a voter criticizing American Muslims by insisting “We judge people as individuals.” Even as O’Donnell thought she was providing a lesson for Donald Trump, former MSNBC host Alex Wagner wanted to deny her any credit as long as she's somehow comparable to George Wallace (a Democrat) and still…

Craig Shirley has already written two terrific history books about Ronald Reagan, chronicling  the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns. Now he has delivered the trifecta: Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan. After spending considerable time at the Reagan Library and conducting interviews with those who knew Reagan best, Shirley presents a narrative about Reagan’s…

As I noted on Friday, the New York Times has become the de facto head cheerleader for Truth, the movie which purports to tell the story behind CBS News's 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service in the early 1970s aired in September 2004. The Old Gray Lady has hosted a TimesTalk video in which one of the film's lead actors, Robert Redford as Dan Rather,…

On Friday's Wolf show on CNN, during an interview with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, substitute host Jim Sciutto cited a quote from State Department Spokesman John Kirby accusing Israeli security forces of using "excessive force" against Palestinians as he charged that Israelis have been using "live fire" to shoot at "unarmed protesters."

Just a few weeks ago, comedian Margaret Cho ranted on Twitter in defense of Planned Parenthood that “God created abortion” and “It's not a child -- it's a bunch of cells. And the definition of 'child' is not yours to decide. It's the woman's.” But in the October 25 edition of People magazine, Cho expressed her desire to kill molesters and  animal abusers like Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback…

A week ago (late on a Friday afternoon, naturally), the Obama administration released food stamp enrollment figures for July. Despite millions of Americans finding work during the past several years, the data continued a national trend of little to no meaningful decline in enrollment. Seasonally adjusted Household Survey employment is now 148.8 million, slightly above its prerecession November…

Another Hollywood liberal infatuated by Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Actress Jill Hennessy, best-known for starring roles in NBC’s Law & Order and Crossing Jordan, hailed Hillary Clinton: “I just think she has accomplished more than most people accomplish in about five lifetimes.” But she was quick to also trumpet Bernie Sanders: “I find him really inspiring. I think he’s tremendous.”

The New York Times has not merely climbed aboard the bandwagon of Truth, which exalts the fraudulent September 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report about President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service. It's now serving as the film's de facto lead apologist. The most recent example demonstrating how deeply in the tank the Old Gray Lady has gone is Stephen Holden's Thursday film review…

It has happened many times in the past. A story is covered by numerous websites but which is ignored by the mainstream media because it doesn't fit with their political agenda. However, rarely has there been such a blatant example of this Web/MSM dichotomy in coverage as what happened this week in view of the fact that it involved a major presidential election issue. Hillary Clinton claimed her…

Finally getting his chance to interview Hillary Clinton on Friday’s The Lead, CNN anchor Jake Tapper didn’t exactly measure up as while he did what other reporters failed to do in asking Clinton about her relationship with Sidney Blumenthal, he cozied up to her on the recent marking of her and Bill’s 40th wedding anniversary plus sarcastically asking he could “get your e-mail address.”

The past few weeks haven’t been easy on The Daily Show’s new host, Trevor Noah.  Not only have ratings for the show plummeted -- as shown by a whopping 33 percent decrease in viewership from this time last year -- but the South African host has been accused of the most cardinal of sins among comedians: stealing jokes. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Trevor’s joke about being a “racism…

Thursday's CBS Evening News was the sole Big Three network morning and evening newscast to report on the death of Ken Taylor, the former Canadian ambassador to Iran who helped six Americans escape during the 1979 hostage crisis in Tehran. As of Friday morning, ABC's Good Morning America and World News Tonight, along with NBC's Today and NBC Nightly News, have yet to cover Taylor's death.

Dartmouth has a complicated history with Native Americans. The Dartmouth Indians used to be the nickname of all Dartmouth sports clubs. That is, until 1974 when the university decided the nickname was offensive. Yet, despite their clown show of an administration, many Dartmouth students and organizations still have a liking for the nickname.The most recent evidence of this comes in the form this…

While the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all prominently touted on Monday President Obama’s defense of Hillary Clinton on her e-mail scandal in a 60 Minutes interview, none of the three dared to report later in the week how the Obama administration largely walked it back by declaring that Obama believes Clinton’s private e-mail server “does not pose a threat to national security” “based on what…