Wikileaks: CNN, WashPost Leaned on DNC for Questions, Oppo Research
Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller offered some eye-opening details on media-Democrat collusion from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. CNN asked the Democratic National Committee for questions that Wolf Blitzer could ask Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. The London Daily Mail added e-mails to and from a Jake Tapper staffer to the Wiki-mix. Both publications noted Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank…
November 7th, 2016 11:31 AM
BBC’s Ghattas to Hillary: You're So 'Misunderstood' Facing 'Prejudice'
After posing for photos with her most ardent supporters (aka the news media) on Monday morning, Hillary Clinton held a brief press gaggle before they boarded her plane for Election Eve rallies and amidst that, the BBC’s Kim Ghattas lobbed one of the most adoring questions one will ever see about the “prejudice” Clinton has faced by being “ahead of your time.”
November 7th, 2016 11:00 AM
NYT: HRC ‘Finds Joy in the Rain'; Krugman Leans on 'Rigged Election'
Columnist Paul Krugman, respected economist turned Hillary acolyte, leaned into his conspiratorial tendencies in his Monday column, “How to Rig an Election.” Plus the Times lashed out at Trump-Pence’s “brand of right-wing nationalism” on the front page, portrayed Trump as Neidermeyer in “Animal House,” and celebrated Hillary dancing joyfully in the rain.
November 7th, 2016 10:58 AM
MRC’s Notable Quotables: Justifying Media Hostility to Trump
In the November 7 edition of Notable Quotables: The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank blasts that Donald Trump has “threatened democracy” and therefore any sort of press “neutrality” on the GOP nominee would be legitimizing “the illegitimate.” NBC’s Chuck Todd and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos get put on the defensive by Trump and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Also in this issue: a freelance…
November 7th, 2016 9:30 AM
CBS’s ‘Blue Bloods’ Calls Out PC Police Brutality Investigation
CBS’s Blue Bloods addresses the growing police brutality hysteria plaguing the U.S. by showing an investigation into the NYPD is nothing more than a PC anti-police witch hunt.
November 7th, 2016 2:36 AM
Green Day Replaces 'F***' with 'Trump' in MTV EMAs Performance
American rock band Green Day won the MTV Global Icon Award at Sunday night's MTV European Music Awards (EMAs) and used their platform to complain about the U.S. election and take a major swipe at Donald Trump.
November 7th, 2016 1:16 AM
Blogger: Concept of Liberal Bias Was a Fox News Marketing Ploy
Liberal bias in news coverage has bothered conservatives ever since there were only three TV networks. But in Nancy LeTourneau’s odd telling, conservative media bias came first, about twenty years ago, and liberals then had to catch up. “In order for Fox News to be successful, they had to convince potential viewers that the mainstream press was liberal,” wrote LeTourneau in a Friday post. “That…
November 6th, 2016 8:36 PM
Seriously? Tapper Nudges Franken to See Anti-Semitism in Late Trump Ad
While interviewing Democratic U.S. Senator Al Franken on Sunday, Jake Tapper used the classic "some other people say" tactic — in this case, referring to "some columnists" — to peddle the idea that there is a deliberate anti-Semitic undertone in Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's final 2-minute campaign ad.
November 6th, 2016 5:21 PM
The Attacks on Conservative Talk Radio
Here we go again. Over at Business Insider, one-time Glenn Beck guy Oliver Darcy (he formerly of Beck’s The Blaze) and BI’s Pamela Engel have headlined "[t]he GOP must do something about the conservative media industrial complex if it wants to survive" in which they write that (brace yourselves) President Obama has correctly diagnosed the problem with the GOP.
November 6th, 2016 3:37 PM
CNN’s Brian Stelter Is ‘Disturbed’ by Fox News Reporting Voter Fraud
CNN’s Brian Stelter, who once called the idea of liberal media bias “false” and “Ludicrous,” set his sights on Fox News during his Sunday show Reliable Sources and chastised the news outlet for daring to report on occurrences of voter fraud. “Let's look at Fox News from yesterday morning. This disturbed me,” Stelter told his guest Ari Berman from the leftist publication The Nation, “The banner…
November 6th, 2016 3:28 PM
Colbert: Fox/Ailes Scandal Had Me 'Rolling My Eyes Back in Ecstasy'
On Wednesday, CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert appeared for the entire hour on the NPR chat show Fresh Air with Terry Gross. It's like attending a meeting with the president of your fan club.
Since NPR folks hate Fox News with a passion, Gross and Colbert giggled over the downfall of Fox boss Roger Ailes over sexual harassment allegations. When Gross asked if he had a special interest in that…
November 6th, 2016 3:25 PM
MSNBC's Alter Frets a Prez Trump: 'Well-Being of Millions' at Stake'
Appearing as a guest on Sunday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC political analyst and Daily Beast columnist Jonathan Alter was busy scaremongering to get anti-Donald Trump voters to the polls, as he asserted that "the well-being of millions of citizens" is "on the ballot," and worried that there would be a "constitutional crisis" if Trump won the popular vote while losing the Electoral College: "Look, I'm…
November 6th, 2016 3:14 PM
ABC, NBC: Clinton Corruption Charge Overused and Thrown Around a Lot
With Election Day just two days away, both ABC and NBC seemingly continued to try to slow Hillary Clinton’s descent in the polls, Sunday, by downplaying all the talk surrounding multiple FBI investigations into her activities. On ABC's This Week, Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos tried to shutdown such talk from Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus by flippantly declaring, “You're just…
November 6th, 2016 1:20 PM
CNN’s Blackwell and Rosen Deny Dems Paid for Trump Rally Violence
Late Saturday evening, a Donald Trump rally was disrupted as a cry of “gun” caused the Secret Service to leap into action and whisked the candidate away, while the crowd and officers subdued the suspected individual. Austyn Crites was the individual in question but no firearm was located, but he did have a “Republicans Against Trump” sign. With the recent video evidence of Democrats paying to…
November 6th, 2016 9:48 AM