Cancel Oscars? Hollywood Reacts to Trump’s Immigration Policy

Donald Trump is president, Beyoncé is pregnant with twins and, now, the Oscars might be cancelled? Tinsel Town is having a rollercoaster year.
Sarah Stites
February 2nd, 2017 2:01 PM

Fake News: Gorsuch Founded ‘Fascism Forever’ Club in High School

Did Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch found a “Fascism Forever” club when he was in high school or is he simply the latest victim of fake news? The New York Post, The Daily Mail, U.S. News and World Report, Vice News and Keith Olbermann, on Thursday, all ran with the story that when he was at Georgetown Prep, Gorsuch founded and led a pro-fascism club. However, the National Review’s Ed Whelan…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 2nd, 2017 1:18 PM

NYT Officially Anti-Trump Land: Every Section Fronts Anti-Trump Story

It’s official: There’s no escape from anti-Trump politics – it featured on the front page of every inside section of Thursday’s New York Times. The NYT thought it vitally important to tell its readership how fashion designers and actors feel about Trump, and how a new TV cop show featuring a “results-oriented boor” is a painful reminder of the new president.
Clay Waters
February 2nd, 2017 1:11 PM

Irony Alert: Obama Propagandist Stewart Calls Out Trump’s 'Bull***t'

Tuesday night on CBS’s The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert reunited with his former Comedy Central rival Jon Stewart. Stewart, who made a career of delivering news stories from an ultra liberal perspective, took the opportunity to blast President Trump as a propagandist.
Kristine Marsh
February 2nd, 2017 1:09 PM

Halperin Frets Trump ‘Governing as a Republican’; ‘In the Barricades’

Appearing on Thursday’s NBC Today, political analyst Mark Halperin worried that Republican President Donald Trump was behaving like...well, a Republican. Talking about the coming fight in the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Halperin lamented: “...right now Donald Trump is governing as a Republican president, not as an independent. And if he does a scorecard of his first few…
Kyle Drennen
February 2nd, 2017 12:53 PM

Networks Largely Yawn At Report Clinton Campaign Blames Obama For Loss

The broadcast networks morning and evening newscasts, along with the cable news networks, have largely ignored the Tuesday report from Axios's Mike Allen that Hillary Clinton's campaign team blames President Obama for her loss in the 2016 election. Charlie Rose mentioned the revelation in passing on Thursday's CBS This Morning: "You have reports, for example, that the Hillary campaign thought it…
Matthew Balan
February 2nd, 2017 12:50 PM

Networks Refuse to Call Out Berkeley Violent Mob as 'Liberal'

Last night the ultra liberal campus of U.C. Berkeley erupted in violence after an estimated 1,000 students came out to protest Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was invited to speak by the school’s College Republicans. The crowd quickly turned into a mob when they began setting fires, throwing smoke bombs, breaking windows and punching Trump supporters. But instead of accurately identifying…
Kristine Marsh
February 2nd, 2017 12:03 PM

Heilemann: Media Lesson for Hillary Loss Is Don’t 'Ignore the Country'

Why were journalists so surprised by Donald Trump’s election victory in November? They forgot about the country. That was the conclusion from author and Bloomberg politics editor John Heilemann on Thursday’s CBS This Morning. Co-host Gayle King quizzed, “When you look at it now, what do you think you missed?” 
Scott Whitlock
February 2nd, 2017 12:01 PM

Sarah Silverman Calls For Military Overthrow of ‘Mad King’ Trump

Sarah Silverman wasn’t joking when she called for an overthrow of the government.
Sarah Stites
February 2nd, 2017 11:43 AM

MRC’s Gainor Scolds Media’s Executive Order ‘Chaos’ Claim

In a recent interview, MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor condemned The New York Times for false reports about a recent executive order. The Times claimed the Trump administration did not inform Department of Homeland Security about the new executive order regarding refugees from certain nations.Gainor appeared on Fox Business Network’s Intelligence Report with Trish Regan, and…
James Powers
February 2nd, 2017 11:35 AM

Trump Mentions Christian Genocide Even as NY Times Downplays Crisis

Just a couple of weeks into his administration, President Trump has used the G-word – something his predecessor did only reluctantly and the media continue to refuse to do. At the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, Trump mentioned the threat to religious minorities (Christians) under ISIS and in other Muslim majority nations, calling what’s happening “genocide.”   
Matt Philbin
February 2nd, 2017 11:20 AM

Williams to GOP: 'Careful What You Wish For' With Nuclear Option

On Wendesday night's The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, the former Nightly News host warned that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell possibily invoking the "nuclear option" to confirm Supreme Court nomninee Neil Gorsuch "goes into the category of 'be careful what you wish for.'"
Jackson Richman
February 2nd, 2017 10:48 AM

Media Slow to Admit CA's 'Probably Forever' Drought Almost Over

California’s “exceptional drought” isn’t exceptionally bad any more. Winter storms have been good for the state, pulling it out of the worst rating from the U.S. Drought Monitor. However, this “huge improvement” barely registered with the broadcast networks that had blamed “climate change” for the crisis. CNN.com reported on Jan. 26, that “California’s drought is almost over.” For the first…
Julia A. Seymour
February 2nd, 2017 8:43 AM

Russell Wilson: Trump Might Not Last 4 Years: ‘Barack, Come Back!’

Who was it that demanded to know Russell Wilson’s take on current events? C’mon, fess up! Somebody asked – probably a 49ers fan wanting somebody else’s QB to look like an idiot for a change. 
Jay Maxson
February 2nd, 2017 7:12 AM