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ESPN’s Public Editor Agrees With Viewers That Network ‘Has Moved Left'
ESPN Public Editor Jim Brady on Election Eve surveyed complaints that the sports network had gone overboard with liberal pieties, frustrating long-time watchers by injecting politics onto the playing field. He agreed with conservative complaints that ESPN had shifted leftward, though the company brass and at least one outspoken lefty personality didn’t see a problem: "One notion that virtually…
November 17th, 2016 3:36 PM
CNN: Hillary's Loss is 'Still Crushing' For 'Millions' of Women
Thursday's New Day on CNN harped on how supposedly for "millions of American women...the pain runs deep" in the wake of Hillary Clinton's defeat. Kyung Lah touted that "if 2016 was identity politics, women across social media feel theirs is under attack in Clinton's loss." Lah spotlighted three female Clinton supporters at UCLA. One undergraduate revealed, "I've had to wake up to the reality that…
November 17th, 2016 3:28 PM
WashPost TV Critic on 2016 Race: Hollywood Breathed 'Fumes of Hubris'
Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever wrote an interesting post-election piece on how the dramatic tilt among celebrities did not drag Hillary over the finish line first. “After the election, of course, it’s easy to see that Hollywood was breathing in its own fumes of hubris.”
Stuever wrote: "What this election suggests is that celebrities — those with the most cachet, from Queen Bey all the…
November 17th, 2016 3:20 PM
‘Trump Trauma’: Hollywood Therapists Cite Uptick in Patients
It’s safe to say that none of the Tinsel Town celebs are actually moving to Canada. But they will be going to therapy, a November 16 Hollywood Reporter article clarified. After all, as comedian Sarah Silverman tweeted, "for a lot of people, this is the Great Depression."
November 17th, 2016 2:33 PM
MRC Documentary Tells the Story of Lives Devastated by the War on Coal
RESTON, VA – The Media Research Center (MRC) announces the launch of its new documentary titled, Collateral Damage: Forgotten Casualties of the Left’s War on Coal. Several organizations, including, ATR, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Cornwall Alliance, E&E Legal, and The Heartland Institute, have joined the MRC’s effort to tell the story the liberal media won’t tell.
November 17th, 2016 2:11 PM
Yikes: Failed MSNBC Pundit Named 'CBS This Morning: Saturday' Co-Host
After roughly a year and a half since her horrendously far-left and utterly terrible MSNBC show was cancelled, CBS News announced on Wednesday that Alex Wagner will have a full-time TV gig again as she was named co-host of CBS This Morning: Saturday to replace Vinita Nair.
November 17th, 2016 1:59 PM
Transition Team 'Chaos'? No Appointments in First 5-6 Weeks Is Norm
The latest media meme on President-Elect Donald Trump is that his presidential transition effort is in "chaos," "total disarray," etc. Establishment press outlets from the supposedly chastened (but not really) New York Times, to the Associated Press, to the fever swamps at the Huffington Post, are relentlessly playing that tune. As Bret Baier at Fox News noted on Special Report Wednesday night,…
November 17th, 2016 1:27 PM
Stewart Calls Out Liberals: Stop Smearing All Trump Voters as Bigots
Jon Stewart may have surprised people on Thursday as he called out fellow liberals and demanded they stop trashing all Trump voters as a bunch of bigots. CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose apparently expected the ex-Daily Show host to blast the new president-elect. Rose wondered if Stewart’s reaction to Trump is “fear.”
November 17th, 2016 12:10 PM
Ingraham Tells Off Lauer: ‘Press Has Own Problems With Credibility'
Appearing on Thursday’s NBC Today, nationally syndicated radio host and potential new White House press secretary Laura Ingraham hit back at co-host Matt Lauer for suggesting that the Trump administration would have “fence-mending” to do with the media after the President-Elect “spent the last year and a half basically calling members of the press and the media crooked, corrupt, dishonest.”
November 17th, 2016 11:00 AM
Duck Dynasty Reaches its 'Final Chapter'
The reign of Duck Dynasty is over. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the A&E reality TV show about the Louisiana duck-hunting family will end its last season on April 12, after 5 years and 130 episodes.
November 17th, 2016 10:01 AM
Nets Drill Pipeline Supporters, Quote Opponents 7 Times More
Peaceful protest is a protected right in America. Trespassing on private property, tire slashing, damaging equipment, arson, Molotov cocktail-throwing and shooting at police are not acts of protest. They are crimes. Even eco-terrorism. Yet, the network news media sympathetically covered the “activists,” “protesters” and “demonstrators” in North Dakota opposing completion of the Dakota Access oil…
November 17th, 2016 9:20 AM
WashPost Features Kids’ Letters Imploring Trump to ‘Be Kind’
Oh, Washington Post, you’ve gotta stop moving the goal posts of parody. On Thursday, the Post ran something titled “'Do not say mean things’: Kids are writing to Donald Trump, asking him to be a kind president.” Writer Amy Wang spent nearly 1,100 words accompanied by many, many pictures of colorful handwritten letters from kids imploring President-elect Trump to “be kind to all people.”
November 17th, 2016 9:06 AM
Hannity's Revenge: Listing Liberals Laughing at a 'President Trump'
MRC president Brent Bozell suggested to me that Sean Hannity and his staff assembled a great package on Monday night's show going back to 2011 showing all the liberals -- mostly comedians, but also a few journalists like George Stephanopoulos and Maggie Haberman -- laughing uproariously at the idea of a President Trump. Such an idea was so impossible it was hilarious. And they begged him to "Do…
November 17th, 2016 7:17 AM
'South Park:' PC Culture Created Trump
South Park goes full Trump in Wednesday night’s episode “Members Only.” Newly minted Presidential Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon are there to oversee Mr. Garrison completing the “transition” into Donald Trump – he now has Trump’s hair and facial expressions. I'm not even sure whether to refer to him as Mr. Garrison or Trump at this point.
November 17th, 2016 4:14 AM