'Daily Show' Mocks ‘Crazy-Ass’ Alabama Law Protecting the Unborn
Last July, Alabama amended House Bill 494 to allow attorneys to represent the rights of the unborn child in cases where a minor was seeking an abortion. Predictably, the media certainly reacted negatively, calling it heinous, absurd, and insane.
On the Jan.15, “Daily Show,” correspondent Jessica Williams interviewed both sides – an Alabama civil rights attorney in favor of the law, Julian…
Kristine Marsh
Daily Show Mocks ‘Crazy-Ass’ Alabama Law Protecting the Unborn
The right to life is a real side-splitter for lib show.
Kristine Marsh
Boston.com Fires Scribe Who Dredged for Laughs in Plan to Kill Boehner
Boston.com and associate editor Victor Paul Alvarez have parted ways, according to fierce crosstown rival Boston Herald, after Alvarez wrote a glib and snarky account of an alleged plan by an Ohio bartender to poison House Speaker John Boehner.
Here's how it was reported in the Herald --
Jack Coleman
CBS Blames Cancellation of Muslim Prayer at Duke on Franklin Graham
On Friday, CBS This Morning reported on news that Duke University had cancelled plans to have a Muslim call-to-prayer projected from the school’s famous bell tower at the Duke Chapel and, while Duke suggested that there were “several factors” that led to the decision, the segment prominently tied it to Rev. Franklin Graham and subsequent threats against them.
CBS News correspondent Julianna…
Curtis Houck
ABC Fawns Over 'Heroic' Jimmy Carter: Still 'Going Strong'
Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos on Friday fawned over Jimmy Carter. Though much of the interview with the "heroic" ex-president focused on his humanitarian work, Stephanopoulos also prompted Carter to push his liberal agenda.
Scott Whitlock
SBA List Prez: New Congress Shows ‘Abortion-Centered Feminism Is Dead’
The death movement is dying, according to pro-life activists, Congress – and even the media’s censorship.
Just a week before the 42nd annual March for Life, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List and its super PAC partner Women Speak Out, spoke at the Washington, D.C. National Press Club Jan. 15 on “The Political Punch of the Pro-Life Movement in the 2014 Elections and…
Katie Yoder
NY Times Runs Full-Page Ad for Scientologists, Not Jihadist Critics
It’s fascinating to see The New York Times promoting a new left-wing documentary hit for HBO by noting the Church of Scientology has bought a full-page ad in The New York Times to fight it. (See page A-11.)
Reporter Alex Cieply did not have the integrity to note that the Times will take money from the atheists and the Scientologists, but won’t allow a full-page ad to attack Islamists (they…
Tim Graham
Omission Watch: Leftists Stage 'Die-In' Over Obama Library In Chicago
Will the networks cover?
On Tuesday, residents of Chicago’s South Side staged a die-in at Hyde Park Academy High School. But unlike recent demonstrations, these civilians were not protesting any verdict or police action. Instead, they were protesting the University of Chicago’s bid for the Barack Obama Presidential Library.
Laura Flint
NBC's Snow Serves Up a Travel Promo for Cuba
Interesting: Cuba's Bureau of Tourism sponsored a three-minute promo on today's Morning Joe. Oh, wait, no. That was NBC itself, in the person of Kate Snow, with a smiley, unrelentingly upbeat segment promoting the glories of tourism in Cuba that will now be possible for Americans under President Obama's executive order relaxing former restrictions.
Snow's segment—entitled 'Bienvenidos a Cuba'…
Mark Finkelstein
Even Media Can't Believe John Kerry's Musical Apology to the French
In the kind of response that sounds like a joke -- even to liberal journalists -- Secretary of State John Kerry brought Seventies pop star James Taylor (now almost 67) to sing his old chestnut "You've Got a Friend' to the French as a show of support after President Obama blew off the "historic" rally of world leaders last Sunday.
Following the lead of ABC and CBS from Thursday morning, NBC Nightly News cheered President Barack Obama’s newest initiative that would require private businesses “to guarantee” their employees “at least seven” paid sick days and affect 43 million Americans.
While senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing interviewed the owner of a Maryland carpet company opposed to the President’s…
Curtis Houck
NYT's Peters: GOP 'Callous, 'Cruel', and 'Unforgiving' to Illegals
The New York Times' long-standing support for amnesty for illegal immigrants -- and its contempt for the Republican Party's continued opposition -- leaped out of Thursday's front-page story by Jeremy Peters, a reporter whose hostility to the GOP is well-documented.
Clay Waters
Spike Lee Offers F-Bomb Rejoinder to Oscar Snub of 'Selma'
It was a matter of minutes or maybe hours before Obama-boosting black film director Spike Lee was quoted in disgust that the black professionals who made Selma were overlooked for the Oscars, both for director Ava du Vernay and for actor David Oyelowo. (The film was nominated for Best Picture, and Golden Globe winners John Legend and Common were nominated for Best Song.)
Marlow Stern of the…
Tim Graham
Andrea Mitchell: ‘Cold War Will Be Over' on Friday with Cuba Changes
During Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell enthusiastically promoted the new and “dramatic changes” set to go into effect on Friday that will allow Americans to more easily trade with and travel to/from Cuba as causing the Cold War to end.
In leading off her report, Mitchell announced to viewers: “In Havana, dramatic change after more than a…