PBS's Mark Shields Scolds Trump for Daring to Mock Chuck Schumer

On Friday's week-in-review segment on the PBS NewsHour, everyone was disparaging Donald Trump -- anchor Judy Woodruff, liberal analyst Mark Shields, and pseudo-conservative David Brooks. They mocked Trump as childish for calling Sen. Charles Schumer the "head clown" of the Democrats. Shields weirdly lectured: "Chuck Schumer is a proud and able and dedicated and skillful leader, and you don’t want…
Tim Graham
January 7th, 2017 9:13 AM

Shhh! Six Months After Brexit Vote, UK 'Has World's Top Economy'

In June, when UK voters decided to leave the European Union in the "Brexit" referendum, the U.S. press told the American people that the UK economy would suffer greatly as a result. Moody's economist and max Hillary Clinton contributor Mark Zandi predicted that it would be "going down the rabbit hole." At CBS News, Mellody Hobson said that "they're acting as if a recession is a foregone…
Tom Blumer
January 7th, 2017 8:46 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Freedom of Association Is Great...For Liberals

The secular-Left website Slate recently warned on Twitter that “’Religious Freedom’ legislation will be everywhere in 2017.” “Religious Freedom” is in scare quotes, a warning that deplorables will use that thing called “religion” as their “weapon of choice” in the coming assault on the “LGBTQ” community. The same website is celebrating a petition urging the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to reverse its…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
January 7th, 2017 8:07 AM

CBS, NBC Fawn Over Michelle Obama's 'Emotional Goodbye'

CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News both waxed ecstatic on Friday over Michelle Obama's legacy and her final official speech as first lady. Both newscasts emphasized how she got "emotional" at the White House event. CBS's Julianna Goldman touted how Mrs. Obama "turned into the Democrat's not-so-secret weapon" during the 2016 presidential race, and spotlighted how she "used her celebrity to…
Matthew Balan
January 6th, 2017 11:46 PM

ABC Show Asks California: Why is Jerry Brown Still Your Governor?

During Friday night’s Last Man Standing on ABC, in the episode titled “Three Sisters,” Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) does an Outdoor Man commercial promoting the store’s California earthquake kits. As he does the pitch, he looks into the camera and asks the question that many rational people would love to ask the voters of California – why is Governor Jerry Brown still your governor?
Karen Townsend
January 6th, 2017 10:01 PM

NY Times Won't Admit It When 'Reality' Contradicts Its 'Fact-Check'

In a Thursday item about urban gentrification at its "Upshot" blog which also appeared in its Friday print edition, Emily Badger at the New York Times took a gratuitous shot at Donald Trump over a mid-2016 statement which was true at the time — and, contrary to her insistence that it's now false, is still true. Badger, as currently seen at the Times, has written that "Mr. Trump claimed during…
Tom Blumer
January 6th, 2017 8:38 PM

Republican Congresswoman, Puerto Rico’s First, Ignored By Univision

Stumbling into the new year, Univision once again displayed the blind spot it tends to have when it comes not only to conservatives, but also to major news related to the nation’s second most numerous segment of the U.S. Hispanic population: Puerto Ricans.
Ken Oliver-Méndez
January 6th, 2017 7:54 PM

NYT Critic's Mortifying Michelle Tribute: She'll Teach Us How to Live

New York Times critic Dwight Garner wrote an embarrassingly florid tribute to first lady Michelle Obama, in the guise of a book review, on the front of Friday’s Arts section: “Eyes on a First Lady Unlike Any Other.” Garner was reviewing the work of 16 equally smitten liberals under “The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Out Own. He began by…
Clay Waters
January 6th, 2017 6:16 PM

Politico: 'Trump’s Twitter Feed Traumatizes Washington'

Eeek! Official Washington is being traumatized by the tweets of Donald Trump. Politico has chronicled the pearl clutching concern by the inside the beltway types over Trump's tweets. It seems Trump speaking directly to the people via Twitter is causing a crises among politicians and lobbyists who just don't know how to handle it as reflected in the article title, Trump’s Twitter feed traumatizes…
P.J. Gladnick
January 6th, 2017 6:02 PM

Lefty Professor Calls Red States ‘Laboratories of Anti-Democracy’

The image of America as “a shining city on a hill” (or a similar phrase) has been a staple of conservative political rhetoric for several decades. In a Tuesday piece for The New Republic, Matthew Pratt Guterl, a professor at Brown University, adapted the metaphor for leftist domestic use: “The nation as a whole seems no longer interested in celebrating any vision of equity, justice, and mutual…
Tom Johnson
January 6th, 2017 5:22 PM

Conway to Cuomo: ‘Don’t Say That Again’ About Trump Sheltering Russia

During a Thursday morning interview with Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, Chris Cuomo -- a co-host of the Cable News Network's New Day program -- clashed several times with her about whether the president-elect should accept the conclusion of the intelligence community that hacking by Russians took place during last November's election. The most volatile moment during the…
Randy Hall
January 6th, 2017 4:58 PM

Gupta Touts 'Lifelong Conservative' Who Supports ObamaCare

Once Congress came into session and the process of planning for an ObamaCare repeal actually began, it didn't take long for CNN to try to undermine the effort by finding individual examples of Republicans to highlight who support ObamaCare in spite of voting for Donald Trump and presumably taking a conservative view on other issues.
Brad Wilmouth
January 6th, 2017 4:24 PM

Matt Lauer: 20 Years of Bias in the Morning

On Friday, NBC Today show co-host Matt Lauer celebrated his 20th anniversary anchoring the network morning show. Since joining the program on January 6, 1997, Lauer’s liberal bias has routinely seeped into his news coverage. From repeatedly excusing Bill Clinton’s sex scandals as mere “peccadillos” to bashing George W. Bush’s “controversial” presidency to gushing over Barack Obama as a “savior”…
Kyle Drennen
January 6th, 2017 4:22 PM

Whoopi Loses It When Pushed Back On Planned Parenthood's Record

Friday morning on ABC’s The View, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Jedediah Bila fought over Republicans’ plan to defund Planned Parenthood when they repeal Obamacare. While Bila tried to present the pro-life position, Whoopi exploded in anger and frustration every time Bila spoke. Whoopi was all over the place, discounting things she disagreed with without actually making a counter-argument. She…
Kristine Marsh
January 6th, 2017 3:55 PM