CNN's Keilar Frets Trump Too Quick to Call 'Radical Islamic Terrorism'

On Tuesday's The Situation Room on CNN, substitute anchor Brianna Keilar not only worried that President-elect Donald Trump was "jumping the gun" by calling the attacks in Turkey and Germany "radical Islamic terrorism" too soon "before any information was out there," but she also fretted that Trump was "dangerously close to making this look like a religious war."
Brad Wilmouth
December 21st, 2016 10:56 AM

Lena Dunham Apologizes for ‘Distasteful Joke’ with Abortion 'Donation'

It’s never a good sign when you infuriate both sides of the abortion issue. Lena Dunham found out the hard way: Hollywood breaks boundaries on abortion every day, but certain limits do still exist.  
Katie Yoder
December 21st, 2016 10:17 AM

Shock Story: Telemundo Reports on Lawful Gun Ownership In Mexico

From time to time, reports come out that are so counternarrative that they merit an extended look. Just such a story caught our attention on a recent edition of Noticiero Telemundo. It was shocking to see a gun ownership story that featured no link to a domestic gun control agena item, that didn't blame Mexico's cartel violence on the Second Amendment, or went without blaming the "very powerful…
Jorge Bonilla
December 21st, 2016 8:00 AM

Shocking Season Finale: Fox’s ‘Scream Queens’ Mocks Hillary’s Defeat

In Tuesday’s season two finale of Fox’s Scream Queens, titled “Drain the Swamp,” two random political references are tossed into the story. Perhaps that should have been expected, given the title of the episode – one of Trump’s campaign slogans, and the show’s history of political name-dropping.
Karen Townsend
December 21st, 2016 12:16 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: The Double Standard on Election Acceptance

Two months ago, the liberal media erupted in horror after the third presidential debate when Fox’s Chris Wallace challenged Donald Trump to accept the election results, and Trump said he would “wait and see.” NBC described a “flood of condemnation” and cited President Obama accusing Trump of “undermining our democracy.’ Today co-host Savannah Guthrie called it an “earthquake.” Guthrie turned to…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
December 20th, 2016 11:51 PM

Hypocrisy: NBC Pounces on Trump Family Pay-to-Play Accusations

Seemingly desperate to find a new angle to bash President-Elect Donald Trump Tuesday, NBC Nightly News leaped onto accusations by TMZ that the Trump family were selling access. “Tonight the Trump transition team is pushing back after a new controversy involving the president-elect's sons,” hyped Anchor Lester Holt, “After reports surfaced that are raising questions about whether they were…
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 20th, 2016 11:39 PM

Bozell, Panel Decimate Media Pushing ‘Twisted' Electoral College Story

On the Tuesday edition of the Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell and the show’s “All Star Panel” collaborated for a thorough trashing of the news media for their “sick, twisted,” and “ridiculous” narrative that the Electoral College could stop Donald Trump from becoming president.
Curtis Houck
December 20th, 2016 10:56 PM

Bored CBS Knocks Trump’s Cabinet Picks for Their Wealth

With seemingly nothing else better to report with regards to U.S. politics Tuesday, CBS Evening News chose to whine about how President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet is comprised of millionaires and billionaires. “He's nearly finished with his cabinet, and outside national security, the billionaire president has surrounded himself with billionaires,” remarked Anchor Scott Pelley leading into…
Nicholas Fondacaro
December 20th, 2016 9:16 PM

Scarborough: Clintons Must 'Get Out of the Way' After Election Loss

MSNBC's Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough hammered Bill Clinton on Tuesday regarding a number of comments the former Democratic president had made blaming “angry white men” and other external factors for GOP candidate Donald Trump's win over his Democratic rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Randy Hall
December 20th, 2016 6:57 PM

Brian Williams Oozes: Michelle Obama's 'Future Appears Limitless'

Closing out Monday’s 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Brian Williams couldn’t help but join the chorus of media tributes to outgoing-First Lady Michelle Obama as he hailed her as a “formidable presence” whose “future appears limitless.”
Curtis Houck
December 20th, 2016 6:00 PM

Pundit: Trump Fits Right In With Crazy, Dumb Conservative Activists

Donald Trump is a visceral and emotional conservative, not a philosophical conservative, but that’s good enough for government work, suggests New York blogger Chait. The main aim of Chait’s Thursday post was to slap down the argument from some righty pundits that candidate Trump was, as Chait paraphrased it, “a non-ideological figure, or even a progressive…who chose the Republican Party for no…
Tom Johnson
December 20th, 2016 5:57 PM

Fox Guest: 'Lone Wolf' a Term 'Designed to Make Americans Stupid'

Tuesday, the press focused on whether Mevlut Mert Altintas, who assassinated Andrei Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey on Monday in Ankara, acted alone or was, in the words of Russia's Vladimir Putin, "directed." There will almost certainly be similar speculation over the driver of the "truck that mowed down the crowd on Monday, killing at least 12 people" in Berlin, Germany, if and when he is…
Tom Blumer
December 20th, 2016 5:19 PM

Celebs Scold Electors of 'Solemnly Ignoring Their Duty'

As they did on election night, some celebrities began to moan of doomsday and dystopia on December 19, when the electors gathered to officially clinch who would become America’s 45th president. 
Sarah Stites
December 20th, 2016 4:58 PM

Substantial Numbers of Non-Citizens Vote Illegally in U.S. Elections

The issue of voter fraud was one of the most heated sources of controversy during the 2016 presidential election, and it continues to be so. After Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced that it was supporting recounts in several states won by Donald Trump, Trump responded with a series of Twitter posts accusing Clinton of hypocrisy for refusing to accept the results of the election after she…
James D. Agresti
December 20th, 2016 4:37 PM