CNN's Gergen Praises 'Magical' Women's March Against 'Backwards' Men

CNN's David Gergen and Martha Pease gushed over the anti-Donald Trump Women's March in a Sunday op-ed for the news network's website: "It was certainly a magic moment -- hundreds of thousands of women pouring hour after hour into the Mall in Washington." Gergen and Pease contended that "Trump may have done something that...even Barack Obama could not do: spark the creation of a progressive…
Matthew Balan
January 23rd, 2017 2:18 PM

AP Finds Its Best Sean Spicer Critic: Dan Rather??

Associated Press media reporter David Bauder wrote a story strongly critical of Trump press secretary Sean Spicer’s claims about inauguration crowd size. He could have used many liberal journalists with decades of experience to share his outrage. But Bauder’s exercise in outrage over false claims somehow had to include....disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather.
Tim Graham
January 23rd, 2017 1:37 PM

Nets Hail Leftist Suit vs. ‘Defendant-in-Chief’ Donald Trump

On Monday, all three network morning shows eagerly promoted the liberal group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filing a lawsuit against President Trump and accusing him of “violating the Constitution.” At the top of NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: “Defendant-in-chief. The new president being formally sued this morning over his hotel and television interests…
Kyle Drennen
January 23rd, 2017 12:42 PM

Maher Paints Trump Voters as 'F***ing Drug Addicts,' Should Do Pot

As far-left HBO comedian Bill Maher concluded the regular "New Rules" segment of his Real Time show on Friday, he cited statistics on heroin and prescription drug abuse in states that voted for Donald Trump to portray his supporters as "f***king drug addicts," and ended up mockingly advising them to learn a lesson from liberals and switch to marijuana because of all the painkiller overdose deaths…
Brad Wilmouth
January 23rd, 2017 12:26 PM

Brent Bozell: Donald Trump Will ‘Knock’ the ‘Teeth Out’ of Old Media

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Monday excoriated attempts by the liberal media to destroy Donald Trump’s new administration. He also praised the President’s efforts to combat journalists, asserting, “What Donald Trump is saying is, ‘If you hit me unfairly I'm going to knock your teeth out.’ And that is what he has been doing.”
NB Staff
January 23rd, 2017 11:56 AM

CNN's Sellers Admits: March For Women Really 'March For Liberalism'

On CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Saturday, Bakari Sellers described Saturday's "Women's March" as "something we haven't seen in this country or around this world in a very long time." Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance then pointed out the obvious, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned, which is that the Annual March for Life in Washington has routinely drawn crowds in the hundreds of…
Tom Blumer
January 23rd, 2017 11:25 AM

CNN Fails to Get Women's March to Admit Trying to Exclude Pro-Lifers

On Saturday's New Day on CNN, during a segment with two organizers from the left-wing Women's March on Washington, D.C., CNN host Alisyn Camerota brought up the issue of pro-life women's groups being unwelcome even though the liberal activist group tries to market itself as if it represents all women. But her guests misleadingly tried to deny that pro-life groups are not welcome as they…
Brad Wilmouth
January 23rd, 2017 10:43 AM

Nets Ignore Backlash, Boycotts Against Trump-Supporting Businesses

Business people or companies who chose to endorse, donate or praise Donald Trump have been under attack from the left in recent months. Yet, the network news have failed to inform their viewers about it. The left took aim at L.L.Bean, Yuengling, New Balance and MyPillow for various forms of support  for President-Elect Donald Trump or for his proposed policies. Gay bars and other customers…
Sam Dorman
January 23rd, 2017 10:42 AM

The Agony of Defeat: Lefty Coaches, Athletes Freak Over Trump

Barack Obama no longer resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and that means it’s a dark, dreary day in the parallel universe of left-wing sports figures and their admiring media. San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich renewed the attacks on Trump he began after the election in November. Associated Press sports-writer Tom Withers reported Popovich “would bench President Donald Trump.”  He also…
Jay Maxson
January 23rd, 2017 9:32 AM

Robert Redford Claims Sundance ‘Stays Away’ From Politics

  While Sundance founder Robert Redford insisted that his festival doesn’t “play advocacy,” the lineup of 2017 films is certainly political. “The idea of us being involved in politics is just not so,” Redford told The Hollywood Reporter, noting that the festival focuses on the stories told by artists. “We stay away from that.”
Sarah Stites
January 23rd, 2017 9:03 AM

On CNN, 'Top Chef' Host Padma Lakshmi: 'Insane' If Not a 'Feminist'

Appearing as a guest on a special Saturday edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper on CNN, Women's March attendee Padma Lakshmi, host of the Bravo program Top Chef, complained about Republican plans to defund Planned Parenthood, dubiously claiming that "little of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion," and fretting that President Donald Trump "has given voice to a lot of racism and misogyny and…
Brad Wilmouth
January 23rd, 2017 7:52 AM

'The Young Pope' Depicts a Power-Hungry, Heretical Pontiff

The third episode of HBO’s new series, The Young Pope, begins with an expletive-laden tirade by Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) declaring, “I am the Lord omnipotent.” The episode, which aired on January 22, shows the Pope reflecting with his confessional priest on the conclave that elected him.
Callista Ring
January 23rd, 2017 12:22 AM

NBC-DC Reporter Tweets Bogus Trump WH 'Statement,' Doesn’t Apologize

At 6:55 a.m. on Sunday, Angie Goff of NBC4 in Washington, whose Twitter handle is @OhMyGOFF, tweeted, "JUST IN: The White House releases statement ..." on Saturday's "Women's Marches" in Washington and elsewhere. Goff attached the alleged "White House" statement. 2-1/2 hours later, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tweeted that "The White House has not issued a statement." Good grief.
Tom Blumer
January 22nd, 2017 8:45 PM

Liberal Pundit Touts Books About How the GOP Became ‘Abnormal’

“The most important development of the last half-century in American politics,” believes New York magazine’s Chait, is “the Republican Party’s embrace of movement conservative ideology.” In a Thursday post, Chait cited six books, none of which was written by a conservative, that “help elucidate” this phenomenon. Among Chait’s choices: E.J. Dionne’s Why the Right Went Wrong; Richard Hofstadter’s…
Tom Johnson
January 22nd, 2017 8:14 PM