‘CBS Evening News’ Praise Liberal Super Bowl Ads, ‘Brave’ Companies

It appears that on Monday night CBS wanted to follow in NBC’s lead, from earlier that morning, and highlight the super bowl ads that pushed the liberal agenda. “The 1984 Wendy's super bowl ad finding its way into the presidential campaign. Well this year, in something of an end reverse, politics found its way into the Super Bowl ads,” hyped anchor Scott Pelley, while reporter Don Dahler touted, “…
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 6th, 2017 9:46 PM

Google's Dictionary: 'Fascism' Can Only Be 'Right-Wing'

A recent item at The Onion, the online humor site which is now rarely genuinely funny, claimed that "Fearful Americans (Are) Stockpiling Facts Before (the) Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away." Naturally, it was occurring because Americans are "alarmed at the prospect of unconstitutional overreach by the Trump administration." Ha-ha-ha — as if "constitutional overreach" didn't occur at a…
Tom Blumer
February 6th, 2017 8:17 PM

Slate's Goldberg: 'Traitorous' GOP Want Tax Cuts, 'Forced Childbirth'

Appearing as a guest on Friday's All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, liberal Slate columnist and recurring MSNBC guest Michelle Goldberg asserted that Republicans are being "traitorous" by support President Donald Trump, and that they were giving their support so that they can get in return "tax cuts, voucherized Social Security, and forced childbirth." She also found Trump to be a "madman" and a "…
Brad Wilmouth
February 6th, 2017 6:39 PM

MSNBC Suggests Trump Will Be Behind ‘Suspicious Deaths’ of Journalists

MSNBC took its fear mongering smears of the Donald Trump administration to a dark new low Monday afternoon when reporter Kate Tur suggested the president’s war with the media would start racking up actual casualties. During an interview with Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican, Tur suggested Trump would take a page from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s playbook and start targeting…
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 6th, 2017 6:27 PM

BDSM-Themed Super Bowl Ad Sparks T-Mobile, Verizon Twitter Battle

Super Bowl commercials are known for being creative, funny, and sometimes controversial, but T-Mobile’s BDSM-themed commercials took the game day ads to a weird new level. Sunday night, two T-Mobile ads compared Verizon customer experience to BDSM during the 2017 Super Bowl. The ads were meant to reflect the controversial (and media-hyped) BDSM-themed movie 50 Shades of Grey and its sequel 50…
James Powers
February 6th, 2017 6:08 PM

Trump Twitter Account Targeted By Univision Anchor

Univision's late night news anchor, Enrique Acevedo, has temporarily relocated to Washington, D.C. to help the network cover the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. But coverage so far appears to be little more than Resistance counterprogramming, including Acevedo's demand that Twitter cancel Trump's account.
Jorge Bonilla
February 6th, 2017 5:09 PM

CNN Gleefully Rules Spicer Has ‘A Problem...Going Forward' Post-SNL

Saturday Night Live couldn’t have drawn it up any better, folks. On Monday’s New Day, Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter and CNN media analyst Bill Carter sang the comedy show’s praises following Melissa McCarthy’s parody of Sean Spicer, spinning that the skit represents “a problem for the White House [and Spicer] going forward.”
Curtis Houck
February 6th, 2017 5:07 PM

Lauer Lobs Softballs to Dem AG Fighting Trump Immigration Order

On Monday, NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer provided Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson a nationally televised platform to tout his fight against President Trump’s immigration order temporarily restricting immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries. Without challenge, Lauer allowed the Democratic politician to accuse Trump of having “violated the Constitution in very fundamental ways…
Kyle Drennen
February 6th, 2017 4:38 PM

NYT Critic: ‘24’ Reboot a ‘One-Hour Super Bowl Ad for Islamophobia’

Showing once again its warped priorities, the New York Times, which takes great pains to downplay the threat of Islamic terror, took another whack at the “Islamophobia” of Fox’s “24” reboot (and President Trump) in an essay by TV critic James Poniewozik on page one of Monday’s Arts section: “‘24’ Reboot Has a Dire Ring to it – President’s views on terrorism fit right in with the script.” The text…
Clay Waters
February 6th, 2017 3:37 PM

WashPost's Sullivan: Cancel WHCA Dinner Now that Trump Is POTUS

Remember Margaret Sullivan? She is The Washington Post media columnist who wanted to retire the term "fake news" when it boomeranged on liberals after it had been embraced by the mainstream media. Now Sullivan has another crusade in which she wants to cancel something. The White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Although Sullivan supported The New York Times withdrawing from the dinner…
P.J. Gladnick
February 6th, 2017 3:31 PM

Media Compare ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Super Bowl Ad to Trump’s America

Among commercials for cars and beer, Super Bowl viewers got a 30-second glimpse of dystopian-society life – a life the liberal media compare to President Trump’s America. 
Sarah Stites
February 6th, 2017 3:30 PM

CBS Frets: ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in Fight Over Trump Travel Ban

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday hyperventilated over conflicting rulings on Donald Trump’s travel ban, insisting that it’s a brewing “constitutional crisis.”  At first, legal expert Rikki Klieman simply explained the normal process the travel ban would follow through the courts: “Whoever is going to lose here, whichever side, you could have the three-judge panel deciding one way or…
Scott Whitlock
February 6th, 2017 12:50 PM

NYT’s Rutenberg Giddy Over Fake Massacre Meme as End of Fake News

New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg took his standard place on the front of Business Day, hyperventilating this time about the pushback to Kellyanne Conway’s comment about the “Bowling Green massacre” being a turning point in the battle against “fake news.” The headline wasn’t subtle: “The Massacre That Wasn’t: A ‘Fake News’ Turning Point.” The text box cheered: “The internet acted…
Clay Waters
February 6th, 2017 12:23 PM

Today Show Panel Applauds Super Bowl Ads Pushing Liberal Agenda

On Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer and substitute co-host Maria Shriver led a panel discussion reviewing some of Sunday night’s Super Bowl commercials and gushed over the “social awareness” of ads that pushed liberal agenda items like environmental activism, equal pay, and illegal immigration.
Kyle Drennen
February 6th, 2017 12:12 PM