CBS Spotlights Trump Effect on PA Senate Race, Omits Democrat's Past

As part of its ongoing look at various U.S. Senate races, Tuesday’s CBS Evening News examined the Pennsylvania match-up between Republican Senator Pat Toomey and Democratic challenger Katie McGinty and framed the race as Donald Trump possibly dragging down Toomey while ignoring McGinty’s flaws and past. 
Curtis Houck

'Morning Joe' Beats 'NBC Nightly News' in Noting ObamaCare Hikes

Monday night, Nicholas Fondacaro at NewsBusters noted that NBC Nightly News failed to cover steep price increases averaging 25 percent being imposed next year in Obamacare plans purchased through the program's national exchange.
Tom Blumer

Milbank: ‘Neutrality’ on Trump ‘Legitimizes the Illegitimate'

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank on Tuesday dismissed the idea of media bias against Donald Trump and, instead, called for even more of it. According to Milbank in his column, “press neutrality” on the businessman “legitimizes the illegitimate.”
Scott Whitlock

Dirty Tricks: Then and Now

Students of the Watergate era (or those old enough to have lived through it) will recall the "dirty tricks" played by Richard Nixon's henchmen, most notably Donald Segretti. Segretti, who was hired by Nixon's deputy assistant, Dwight Chapin, was tasked with smearing Democrats, including senator and 1972 presidential candidate, Edmund Muskie of Maine. Among several "tricks," Segretti composed a…
Cal Thomas

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane Is Going to Jail

Channel 27 in Harrisburg reported today that former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) has been sentenced to 10 to 23 months in prison for leaking grand jury materials to the media and then lying about it under oath. Kane was also sentenced to eight years of probation. She was convicted on August 15 of two felonies involving perjury, and seven misdemeanors.  
Hans Bader

BBC Journalist Rewrites Brexit History to Avoid Comparison to Trump

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this Tuesday, the BBC’s Katty Kay burst out laughing at attempts to compare Donald Trump’s campaign to the successful Brexit referendum and revolution in Britain. On this Tuesday’s Morning Joe, exactly two weeks before election night, host Joe Scarborough initiated the discussion stating that “the Trump campaign has been saying for a week now that this is going to…
Kristian Kafozoff

CBS Hypes: Hillary ‘Calling on the Sisterhood to See Her Through’

According to CBS This Morning’s Nancy Cordes, Hillary Clinton is “calling on the sisterhood” in the final weeks of the presidential election. The journalist used the loaded language while co-host Norah O’Donnell hyped the Democrat’s attempts to “finish off her opponent.” 
Scott Whitlock

WashPost Columnist Crashes, Burns on FNC While Fumbling for Quotes

"Oh, um. Let's see. Um. That would have been onnnn... Uhhhh.... Let's see if I have the date exactly... It would have been onnnnn.... 'Lock her up' would have been onnnn..." No, I am not indulging in a bit too much of fermented extract of sugar cane. Instead I am directly quoting "conservative" Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin as she stuggled in a most hilarious fumbling way on The O'…
P.J. Gladnick

Matthews Traps NYT Reporter Over Whether She Has Pro-Life Co-Workers

Occasionally, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews flashes a pillar of his Catholic upbringing and Monday night was one such instance as he pressed New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor on whether or not she has any pro-life co-workers at the liberal paper after she laughed at the idea of liberal media bias. 
Curtis Houck

Networks Fawn Over Obama's Anti-Trump 'Phone Drop Moment' on 'Kimmel'

On Tuesday, the Big Three networks' morning newscasts all hyped President Obama's appearance on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live the previous evening. On CBS This Morning, Gayle King, a political donor for the Democrat, marveled how the President's "timing is good. He seems to have a lot of fun with 'Mean Tweets.' He takes it all in stride." On Today, NBC's Matt Lauer touted Obama's "phone drop moment"…
Matthew Balan

6 Times Journalists Touted Obamacare Before News of Its Deep Flaws

News of Obamacare’s problems didn’t happen in vacuum. The law got years of support from a complicit media which praised the law, attacked its opponents and ignored adverse consequences. Below are six examples of journalists pushing the law.  
Sam Dorman

Why Bee Is ‘Bigly Wronger’ On Abortion Than ‘D*ck-Waving’ Trump

Samantha Bee needs to fact-check her fact-checking – especially when it comes to abortion.  
Katie Yoder

Baldwin Brother Calls Jesus ‘Radical Liberal,’ Bashes Trump Supporters

Jesus wouldn’t vote for Trump, according to actor Billy Baldwin’s ideology.
Katie Yoder

Vanity Fair Video Has Toddler Trump Trashing Oval Office

In a short video created by Vanity Fair, a suited toddler bearing resemblance to Donald Trump can be seen trashing a miniature Oval Office, fondling a Barbie doll and building a Lego wall. (Wait, I thought the mantra was: “When they go low, we go high?”)
Sarah Stites