Bad Calls of 2017 Sports: We're All White Supremacists!

As America transitioned from the Obama Administration to the Trump Administration nearly a year ago, conservatives found -- much to our surprise -- that we are racists! We are as stunned now as we were in 2009 when, after Obama's inauguration, a Newsweek headline declared, "We're all socialists now." Throughout 2017, liberal sports media figures informed us time and time again that we're all…
Jay Maxson

Politico Investigative Reporter Hammers Critics of 'Bombshell' Article

Josh Meyer, a senior investigative reporter for the Politico website, was a guest on the weeknight program Fox News @Night on Tuesday to defend his article against accusations from former Obama administration officials who attempted to discredit his report and smear Politico.
Randy Hall

NYT Will Not Fire Glenn Thrush Despite Sexual Misconduct Claims

Late Wednesday afternoon, The New York Times decided that it would not fire Glenn Thrush following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, citing “dozens of interviews with people both inside and outside the newsroom” and that Thrush will seek workplace “training” to supplement his “counseling and substance abuse rehabilitation.”
Curtis Houck

Bernie Bro Joe Bemoans Tax Bill: ‘The Rich Are Getting Richer’

With the passage of the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax cut bill looming, most of Wednesday’s Morning Joe was devoted to portraying the legislation as not just bad policy (which would be par for the course on MSNBC), but a threat to America’s survival, prosperity, and democracy. “Conservative” co-host Joe Scarborough put on his Marxist cap to make the case that “the greatest threat to American-…
Chris Reeves

Liberal Pundits: By Passing Tax Bill, GOP Is 'Looting' America

On Tuesday, Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall called the bill "a heist," while Vox's Matthew Yglesias charged that "moral and political responsibility for the looting ultimately rests on the shoulders of the GOP members of Congress who decided that the appropriate reaction to Trump’s inauguration was to start smashing and grabbing as much as possible for themselves and their donors rather than…
Tom Johnson

A Huge Dow Milestone: NBC, ABC Ignore, WashPost Downplays

For the first time in its 121-year history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 5,000 points in a single year, according to CNBC. The major stock index set that record Dec. 18, following a 140-point rally and a new record closing high. CNBC.com also noted that there had been 70 closing highs for the DJIA in 2017.
Julia A. Seymour

Time Celebrates Dem Win in Alabama...Unlike the 2010 GOP Win in Mass.

Time reporter Molly Ball offered a post-election valentine to Doug Jones and his Democratic backers in an article titled “Change in the Heart of Dixie” in their Dec. 25/Jan. 1 issue. One interesting and constant omission in Ball’s piece was the role of The Washington Post in its very-helpful-to-Democrats investigative reporting on November 9 on Roy Moore’s odd dating habits (and on one occasion,…
Tim Graham

Paul Ryan Tears Down Media Bias Against Tax Bill

After being asked on Wednesday’s NBC Today if he was “living in a fantasy world” regarding new tax reform legislation, on ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan called out the liberal media for spreading disinformation about the legislation and fact-checked their Democratic Party talking points.
Kyle Drennen

Acosta Blasts Tax Reform: GOP Could Suffer ‘Unintended Consequences’

Moments after the final passage of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta dumped cold water on the new law, declaring that Republicans could suffer “unintended consequences because there were hardly any hearings on this, because there wasn’t much discussion in the public” concerning the “deeply unpopular” bill.
Curtis Houck

'Post' Movie Produced By Lefty Group Behind 'Inconvenient Truth'

This year for Christmas The Washington Post is getting a rosy movie named after itself. The Post film, due out Dec. 22, dramatizes the paper’s 1971 decision to publish the Pentagon Papers which revealed the White House had been lying about the Vietnam War. The film was produced by Participant Media, a media company funded by left-leaning donors that often creates left-wing films.
Aly Nielsen

NYT's Goldberg Likens GOP Tax Cut to 'Post-Soviet Kleptocracy'

On Tuesday's All In show on MSNBC, during a discussion of Congress passing the Republican tax cuts, New York Times columnist and frequent MSNBC guest Michelle Goldberg likened the plan to "post-Soviet kleptocracy" and asserted that it amounts to "stealing from the the rest of us, stealing from the majority." She went on to call it an "insult" to both the poor and elderly, and predicted that "this…
Brad Wilmouth

Nets Bury Obama’s Derailment of Efforts to Fight Cocaine Trafficking

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning, all three networks buried a blockbuster report by Politico that exposed just how far the Obama administration went in order to secure a deal with Iran over nuclear weapons. ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to cover what Politico blasted in a headline: “The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook.” 
Scott Whitlock

The Nation: Right-wingers Make Athletes Pay Price for Dissent

A progressive writer whose been pushing for the collision of sports and politics for nearly a decade says President Trump focuses on black athletes as high-profile symbols of “people to hate,” and his right-wing echo chamber follows his lead.
Jay Maxson

Mitchell Lauds 'Prescient' McCarthy Movie Showing TV News 'Courage'

In Sunday’s Washington Post, the bragging newspaper couldn’t just run an article on the new “fact-based” movie about its Seventies heyday. The Post gang of movie critics made a list of the ten best Journalism Movies and recruited journalists to tout them. The purplest prose about heroic journalistic activists came from NBC’s Andrea Mitchell touting the myth-making movie about CBS News called Good…
Tim Graham