Chris Hayes: Trump Not ‘Burdened by Caring’ About Outcome of Summit

MSNBC’s live coverage of the Singapore summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un amounted to little more than an airing of grievances about the President. Right out of the gate, commentators commenced hurling scornful remarks about Trump’s supposed incompetence and apathy, until All In host Chris Hayes eventually asserted Donald Trump was not “burdened by caring” about the…

Bill D'Agostino

CBS: Trump Going into Summit More of a ‘Deal-Breaker’ than Deal-Maker

Just a few hours before President Trump was scheduled to sit down with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un for a historic summit for peace and denuclearization on Monday, CBS correspondent Bianna Golodryga chided the President’s ability to negotiate in the United States’ best interest.
Nicholas Fondacaro

‘Hardball’ Panel: ‘Wannabe Despot’ Trump Likes Kim More Than Allies

Less than two hours before the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews and panelists Elise Jordan and Bobby Ghosh declared that President Trump is a “wannabe despot” who wants to “fulfill his fantasy” by ruling the country with an iron fist while having more affection for dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong-un than U.S. allies.
Curtis Houck

Estrella TV Is ‘All-In’ for Democrat Win in Mid-Terms

When it comes to baking in dubious, over-the-top editorial lines into the news, Los Angeles-based Spanish-language network Estrella TV consistently takes the cake. The latest example took place in an Estrella report on the political panorama for this November’s mid-term elections.
Kathleen Krumhansl and Ken Oliver-Méndez

CNN Pushing 'Happy as Hell' Transgender Jockey

CNN's feature on a jockey engaged in so-called "transitioning from male to female" is part of a larger and ongoing agenda by the network to push the LGBT transgender agenda. Matt Majendie wrote the story on Victoria (previously Vince) Smith, who was inspired by Caitlyn Jenner to become a woman.
Jay Maxson

Polio Reappears in Venezuela, With Virtually No Mentions of Socialism

Venezuela's descent under Bolivarian socialist President and de facto dictator Nicolas Maduro has achieved yet another grim milestone. This time it's the return of polio, on top of other previously eradicated diseases including diphtheria, tuberculosis, measles, and malaria. The return of polio has caught the attention of some in the international press in the past few days, but only one of over…
Tom Blumer

NYT's Convenient Deference to Pope to Push Left-Wing Climate Advocacy

More strange new respect for religion -- or at least religious figures who advocate left-wing issues – in Sunday’s New York Times. Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Rome on Pope Francis’s “climate change” crusade and his lecture of corporations in “Pope Urges Oil Executives to Act on Climate: ‘There Is No Time to Lose.’” (Christian conservative opponents of gay marriage and abortion still…
Clay Waters

Twitter Downgrades Farrakhan Account for Sermon on ‘Satanic Jew’

After decades of anti-Semitism and other racism, Rev. Louis Farrakhan’s sermon on the “Satanic Jew” has prompted Twitter to unverify the minister’s social media account.
Gabriel Hays

MSNBC Touts Boston Globe Calling Border Security ‘New Trail of Tears’

On her 2:00 p.m. ET hour show on Monday, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur highlighted a controversial article in Sunday’s Boston Globe that compared enforcement of immigration law along the U.S. southern border to the Trail of Tears, a forced migration of Native Americans in the 1830s that caused many deaths.
Kyle Drennen

Network Newscasts Quiet as Maher Roots for Ruin

Far-left HBO host Bill Maher admitted on Friday he’s rooting for an economic disaster, but most  media outlets have been silent in response to his shocking comments. In contrast, journalists pounced on Rush Limbaugh’s 2009 comments on Barack Obama’s liberal agenda: “I hope he fails.” 
Scott Whitlock

AP Deems Six Years 'A While' in Coverage of SCOTUS Case on Ohio Voting

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-980_f2q3.pdfMonday afternoon, the Associated Press covered the just-released Supreme Court decision on Ohio's voter-roll purging procedures. Both the APNews.com tease and reporter Mark Sherman's content misled readers by stating that the Court, in upholding those procedures, had declared that "States can target people who haven’t cast ballots in a…
Tom Blumer

Facebook Struggles with Latest Attempt to Fight ‘Fake News’

Facebook is seemingly trying to once again wade into the news business, judging by job listings posted on the site.  
Ashley Rae Goldenberg

NYT Stealth Edits Article After Slamming Wealthy ‘Pigs’

Saturday, the New York Times published an article about the future of commercial space travel. Detailing the business plans and operations of Axiom Space, Featured Story Writer Sheila Marikar took the opportunity to toss in a couple of insults directed at the uber-wealthy.
Alec Sears

Andrew Garfield Upset at SCOTUS Ruling: ‘We Need to Change Everything’

It’s always refreshing when an actor decides to say what he thinks about American politics – especially when that actor is British. Not.  
Corinne Weaver