Morning Joe: Trump's 'Pocahontas' Remark a 'White Nationalist' Appeal
Tuesday’s Morning Joe opened with sixteen solid minutes of discussion about the most pressing news story of the day – President Trump calling Senator Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” yesterday at a ceremony honoring Navajo World War II veterans. The show’s liberal panelists not only wholeheartedly swallowed Warren’s argument that the word “Pocahontas” is a racial slur, but also came up with an…
Chris Reeves
Gutierrez Out: Goodbye And Good Riddance
Luis Gutiérrez, the 13-term Illinois congressman who once compared convicted FALN terrorist Oscar López Rivera to George Washington and who described the murder of Kate Steinle by an illegal immigrant as “a little thing”, has announced his retirement from Congress.
Jorge Bonilla
MSNBC Guest: Trump Using ‘Pocahontas’ Line Was ‘Sad Day’ for America
Boston Herald Washington chief Kimberly Atkins revealed during Monday’s The 11th Hour just how “really stung” she was by President Trump’s Pocahontas comment about Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) to the point that this one comment made for a “bad” and “sad day” for America. Really.
Curtis Houck
Salon: Four Reasons Why Hillary Should Run Again in 2020
She lost what most had considered a guaranteed nomination in 2008. In 2016 she spent twice as much as Donald Trump on her campaign, was endorsed by almost every newspaper in the country, and had a solid wall of full support from the mainstream media which constantly recited that Trump had "no path to 270." And yet HIllary Clinton lost the election. So what conclusion would you draw? Well, if you…
P.J. Gladnick
Media Thrilled That ‘Complicit’ is ‘Word of the Year’ Under Trump
On Monday, Dictionary.com announced that it’s 2017 Word of the Year was “complicit,” citing left-wing accusations that anyone not fighting against the Trump administration was endorsing hate or racism. Liberal media outlets like The Washington Post and MSNBC gleefully seized on the dubious ranking as an exemplification of the Trump era.
Kyle Drennen
D.C. Transit Rejects Christmas Ad, Once Ran ‘Why Believe in a God?’ Ad
The Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. is arguing that freedom of religion doesn’t mean freedom from religion. On Tuesday, the Archdiocese of Washington filed a legal action in federal court against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) after it refused to run ads for the archdiocese’s annual “Find the Perfect Gift” Christmas initiative on D.C. public buses. In the past,…
Katie Yoder
Clinton: We Need to ‘Empower’ Women Who Share Sexual Assault Stories
In an interview with The Washington Post Tuesday, Hillary Clinton basically admitted she holds a double standard on when to believe women’s stories of sexual assault. In the most recent episode of The Post’s podcast, “Cape Up” host Jonathan Capehart sat down with Clinton to discuss her book and all of the accusations against those in the media, entertainment and politics that have been…
Kristine Marsh
Bernie Sanders Nominated for Best Spoken Word Album Grammy
In the world of music, it’s the year of hip-hop, rap and Bernie Sanders -- at least according to the Grammy nominations. Nominations for the 60th annual Grammy Awards were released on November 28. Among the pop stars and rappers, the Recording Academy nominated Vermont senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. No, Sanders didn’t drop a rap album about socialism, but he did release…
Corinne Weaver
Better Late Than Never: Really?
The English poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer, is generally credited with coining the phrase that has been updated in modern English to read, "better late than never." It means to do something or to arrive later than expected may not be good, but it is better than not at all. That may not be true in the case of former President Bill Clinton's enablers and apologists for his sexual…
Cal Thomas
Olbermann Says Trump's Done, He's 'Retiring from Political Commentary'
Keith Olbermann has proclaimed with all his usual bluster that he is “retiring from political commentary in all media venues” now that he is secure in the knowledge that President Trump’s time in the White House “will end prematurely and end soon.” Many people don’t believe this claim, just as it was wise to doubt Bill Moyers and Cher when they said they were retiring, and then un-retired.
Tim Graham
MSNBC Scoffs at Thoughts of Turning Attention Back to Warren’s Lies
MSNBC journalists on Tuesday scoffed at any thought of actually considering the lies told by Elizabeth Warren regarding her alleged Native American heritage. Host Andrea Mitchell quickly played this comment by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “I think Senator Warren was very offensive when she lied about something specifically to advance her career. I don't understand why no…
Scott Whitlock
Wolf Blitzer Praises Inaccurate CBO's 'Pretty Good Track Record'
One of the liberal media’s tactics for criticizing tax cuts is to complain about increased deficits.
That was the tack CNN lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer used on Nov. 27, while interviewing Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma about the GOP tax plan.
Aly Nielsen
Brian Williams Fears ‘Danger’ of Trump Calling Out ‘Fake News’
On MSNBC’s 11th Hour Monday night, disgraced fake news anchor Brian Williams warned of the “danger” of President Trump calling out liberal media bias at CNN International. The left-wing channel’s favorite “Republican,” Steve Schmidt, eagerly agreed with Williams, claiming the President was endangering journalists and behaving like an “autocrat.”
Kyle Drennen
Cuomo Laughs at Hughley's Racist Joke in Segment on 'Racist' Trump
On Tuesday's New Day, the CNN studio was acting as a glass house while stones were being thrown as comedian D.L. was welcomed onto the show to share his views on President Donald Trump making a crack about Pocahontas and Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren during a ceremony honoring Native-American veterans. After Hughley had spent most of the segment complaining that too many Americans have been…