Margaret Atwood: 'Right Wing' Will Cause Real-Life Handmaid's Tale

In Emma Watson’s interview with Margaret Atwood, Atwood revealed she believes the dystopian world of The Handmaid’s Tale could actually become reality on account of “right wing power.”
Madeleine Post

NYT Sunday: Ban Conservative Speech, Mock GOP’s Trump ‘Hallucination'

The recent New York Times Sunday Review outdid itself in anti-conservative wackiness. Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, offered some kooky junk science in the name of banning “offensive” right-wingers like Milo Yiannopoulos from campus in “When Is Speech Violence?”  In the same section, liberal journalist Joshua Green took on the “hallucinatory” right-…
Clay Waters

CNN's New Day Continues Obsession Over Trump Handshakes

CNN New Day on Monday continued their coverage of how Donald Trump and the leaders he meets give handshakes with each other. Not only is this coverage bizarre, it's irresponsible. New Day spent much of their Friday show consumed by the handshakes French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump shared. Now, days after the handshake took place, they still thought it important enough to…
Alex Xenos

Press Downplays Seattle Mayor's Party ID as New Teen Abuse Docs Appear

In May, as noted at NewsBusters, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray ended his run for reelection in the wake of "mounting allegations that he sexually abused underage boys in the 1980s." On Sunday, the Seattle Times reported that records previously thought destroyed revealed that "An Oregon child-welfare investigator concluded" that" Murray "sexually abused his foster son in the early 1980s." The Times, as…
Tom Blumer

Nets Ignore ‘Hate Group’ Smear, Cover Game of Thrones Instead

ABC and NBC can’t seem to accept the consequences of their mistakes. Instead of focusing on the apology called for by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the nets decided to cover Game of Thrones instead, calling it “the show so big it crashed the Internet.” In a statement to the MRC, ADF slammed the networks for “journalistic malpractice.”  
Corinne Weaver

Kill Trump: Liberal Celebs Champion ‘Push Trump Off a Cliff’ Game

The unhinged celebrity left is at it again. This time they are promoting a sick internet game in which people are encouraged to push Donald Trump off a cliff or into molten lava. On Saturday, the liberal Rosie O’Donnell offered her support, tweeting, “Push Trump Off a Cliff Again.”

Scott Whitlock

NBC News Site Offers ‘LGBTQ Books for Your Summer Reading List’

As major media organizations actively advance the normalization and celebration of the LGBTQ agenda, NBCNews.com’s pro-LGBTQ propaganda arm “NBC OUT” recently published a list of LGBTQ book recommendations. The July 14 piece titled “15 Recently Released LGBTQ Books for Your Summer Reading List,” contained both fiction and non-fiction reading suggestions.
Alex Nitzberg

CBS Fawns Over Al Gore ‘Movie Star,’ Compares to Wonder Woman

Al Gore, “movie star.” That’s what CBS national correspondent Lee Cowan thinks. Acting like a fanboy instead of a professional journalist, Cowan told former Vice President Al Gore, “You’re a movie star, in many respects.”
Julia A. Seymour

Fox & Friends: Katie Yoder Slams Media Double Standard on Charlie Gard

On Saturday morning, MRC Associate Culture Editor Katie Yoder appeared on Fox & Friends: Weekend to discuss the networks’ “media double standard” while covering the case of Charlie Gard. Talking with Fox & Friends host Clayton Morris, Yoder noted that mainstream media has, for the most part, ignored the tragic story of the terminally-ill British infant.
Madeleine Post

Retaining Our Principles Includes Keeping Our Eyes on the Big Ball

Amid the endless media obsession with Trump scandal allegations, important policy issues are getting short shrift. Considering that the left is happy with the status quo -- the autopilot advancement of statism -- this can only please Democrats. Based on the overwhelming trend of national and state elections since 2010, the nation now firmly rejects liberal policies. Whether or not Democrats get…
David Limbaugh

Clinton Who? NYT Whines Abortion Losing Out to 'Incontinent Libertine'

The New York Times Sunday Review really outdid itself, with contributing opinion writer Michelle Goldberg smearing the pro-life movement while fiercely defending Planned Parenthood from phantom foes: The headline and text box were grimly amusing in a hypocritical way: “A Playboy President and Women’s Health -- Trump has already made a grab for abortion rights. What next?”
Clay Waters

On CNN, Trump Voters Recall Receiving Hate from Hillary Supporters

On Monday, CNN's New Day devoted time to Donald Trump voters who recalled some of the hostility shown to them by liberals angry at them during a segment on how Trump voters are reacting to the President. One man recalled being told he should have been "aborted at birth," with another who described himself as a "female impersonator" who recounted being "blackballed" by his colleagues.
Brad Wilmouth

Oops: Vogue’s ‘Gender Politics’ Under Fire For Cultural Appropriation

Cultural appropriation isn’t just for barbeque and white people’s dreadlocks any more. It’s now oppressive towards the gender bending community.  How dare Zayn Malik avoid wearing a ballgown and makeup for Vogue!! Cosmopolitan contributor Jacob Tobia was significantly peeved by Vogue’s cover shoot of singer Zayn Malik and model Gigi Hadid, because Vogue described the stars as “embracing gender…
Corinne Weaver

Sharpton Slams Steve King's 'Racially Tinged Cruelty,' Suggests 'Evil'

On Sunday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, during the show's regular "Gotcha" segment, host Al Sharpton was imagining racist dog whistles as he complained about "unmitigated, racially-tinged cruelty" from Congressman Steve King, and suggested that those who think like the Iowa Republican are "evil."  
Brad Wilmouth