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Will Upcoming Oscar Season Be New Face of Anti-Trump Hate?
The 2017 Academy Awards ceremony felt more like a DNC revival than a tribute to the year’s best movies. Winner after winner, joke after monologue joke targeted new President Donald Trump. That may have been a warm-up act. Hollywood has embraced the resistance hashtag as much as any industry. And there are no signs that will stop as we steer into awards season.
AP Only Vaguely Refers to UAW Scandal in Covering Union's Nissan Loss
On Friday, the United Auto Workers failed in yet another attempt to organize an auto plant in the South. This time it was a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi. Unlike in the 2014, when workers at a Chattanooga, Tennessee Volkswagen plant narrowly rejected the union, Friday's result was a 62 percent to 38 percent shellacking. Coverage of the UAW's defeat at the Associated Press overnight was…
NYT’s Alcindor's Hard Left Turn into ‘Environmental Justice,' Racism
Taking a left-wing angle on “climate change,” New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor swerved into radical racial ideas on black victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Alcindor reported from Galveston, Texas, “In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Workplace Hazard.” The text itself had a more provocative racial activist tone, with unchallenged allegations of racism around Hurricane…
Bozell & Graham Column: Competing to Glamorize Abortion
There are not one, but two competing movie projects attempting to glorify an underground abortion collective in Chicago operating four years before the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in 1973. One radical feminist at the Jezebel blog proclaimed this was a wonderful development “in a particularly fragile time for abortion rights...Considering our current administration, I’d say the more…
AP Smears Miller As in League With 'Far-Right' 'White Supremacists'
Stephen Miller's trouncing of CNN reporter Jim Acosta over immigration policy at Wednesday's White House press briefing apparently angered the Associated Press's Hillel Italie beyond measure. Thursday, while barely covering any of the substance of the confrontation, the AP reporter irresponsibly launched into a smearing, sneering tirade equating Miller's viewpoints with "members of the far-right…
Martin Sheen Dismisses America Under Trump as 'Land of Lunatics'
Forget calling America land of the free. According to Hollywood icon and actor Martin Sheen, America is the “land of lunatics.” During a press briefing on Monday for PBS’s newest season of Anne of Green Gables, Sheen told reporters at the Television Critics Association in Beverly Hills that he was “relieved” to film in Canada.
The Nation Progressive Sees Kaepernick as Baltimore's 'Godsend'
Colin Kaepernick finally, finally has a glimmer of hope. Baltimore and Miami urgently need a quarterback and progressives in the media are jumping over each about what a great fit he'd be for either team. But, according to progressive Dave Zirin of The Nation, there's a "Trump apologist" standing in his way. It's simply amazing how much power the president of the United States and his friends…
WashPost's E.J. Dionne Predicts 'Trump Could Lose His Base'
Clear the decks! E.J. Dionne has a prediction! I repeat... E.J. Dionne has a prediction!The reason why this is so momentous is that Washington Post op-ed columnist E.J. Dionne has an absolutely humiliating track record with his Donald Trump predictions. It has been so bad that it would not be surprising if he had refrained from making any more Trump predictions ever.
Pollster Smears West Virginians As Angry and Illiterate
Longtime liberal pollster Stuart Rothenberg apparently had a hard time handling President Donald Trump's visit to West Virginia on Thursday. During that visit, Mountain State Governor Jim Justice officially announced his switch to the Republican Party, thereby consolidating full GOP control over the executive and legislative branches in that state, and bringing the total number of Republican U.S…
Media Play Up Some Vatican Scandals, Sweep Others Under Rug
By any measure, the summer of 2017 has been an unusually rocky one for the Catholic Church.
CNN's Cuomo: I Don't Care If I Miss Stories to Cover Trump-Russia
CNN host Chris Cuomo sparred with White House counsel Kellyanne Conway once again Thursday night. Conway called out the network for their obsession with the Trump-Russia story.
NBC Advises Shoppers to Throw Groceries at Robbers, No Mention of Guns
In a report on Friday’s NBC Today about how people could defend themselves during a convenience store robbery, National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen and security expert Mykel Hawke suggested that shoppers should hurl groceries off the shelves at the armed criminals in an attempt to escape. The possibility of using a firearm for protection was never mentioned.
Collusion: On Tarmac-Gate, Obama DOJ Finds Reporters Eager to Bury It
The Right Scoop blog reports a new email dump from the FBI via a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Center for Law and Justice reveals what appears to be collusion between the media and Obama’s Justice Department to squash outrage about the 2016 meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Phoenix.
Rolling Stone Promotes ‘Professional Cuddling’ to 'Cope' With Trump
How unhinged are some media outlets in responding to the election of Donald Trump? Rolling Stone on Friday promoted “professional cuddling” as a response to those struggling to “cope.” Writer Allie Voipe highlighted this presumably blue state response: “Since November – and the election of Donald Trump – professional cuddling services have seen a spike in client interest.”