Tears at NY Times: Obama’s Imperial Immigration Act Fails at SCOTUS

Immigration is the issue where the New York Times' liberal slant is most obvious, and Friday's edition did not fail to provide it. The Supreme Court effectively doomed President Obama’s executive actions in 2014 to unilaterally shield some five million illegal immigrants from deportation, and the New York Times' front-page “news analysis," “Lines Drawn for November,” immediately pounced on what…
Clay Waters
June 24th, 2016 10:19 PM

Papers Mourn SCOTUS Removing Obama 'Shield for Millions' of Illegals

Washington Post reporter Robert Barnes reported Friday that a deadlocked Supreme Court handed Obama a huge defeat: “President Obama suffered the biggest legal defeat of his administration Thursday when a deadlocked Supreme Court failed to revive his stalled plan to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and give them the right to work legally in the United States.” But…

Tim Graham
June 24th, 2016 9:51 PM

CNN Host Presses for More House Dem Protesting 10 Times in 6 Minutes

Given the dominant media fervor in favor of more gun control, plus the favorable coverage the House Democratic sit-in stunt has received, it would certainly not be a shock to find a CNN anchor asking a question or two to a Democratic congressman pressing that the protest should have lasted longer or that they should go back to protesting again later. However, CNN's Brianna Keilar asked 10…
Brad Wilmouth
June 24th, 2016 7:45 PM

FBN’s Varney: Brexit ‘Under Polled’ Because Supporters ‘Shamed’

Reacting to the shocking news of Great Britain’s decision to exit the European Union, UK-born Fox Business Network anchor Stuart Varney responded to “fearmongering” and offered an explanation of the voters’ discontent. “The British have become increasingly frustrated by being ruled, essentially, in many aspects of their lives by an alien, foreign bureaucracy. Notably the bureaucrats in Brussels…
Julia A. Seymour
June 24th, 2016 5:37 PM

Will You Still Need Me When I’m 64? Journalists Say ‘No!’

According to a YouGov survey, 75 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds voted for the UK to remain in the EU. Only 39 percent of those 65 and over voted to remain.  Therefore, the young were, in the words of the Huffington Post headline, “screwed by older generations.”
Elliot Polsky
June 24th, 2016 5:27 PM

Brexit Rumor Leads to Repeated Journalistic Errors

Who needs a crisis when you can invent one? BBC fanned Brexit fears this morning when it falsely reported that, according to “sources within Morgan Stanley,” the giant bank would be shipping 2,000 jobs to the EU in response to yesterday’s UK vote to leave the EU. Bloomberg Business Journalists Twitter list could boast that at least 12 of its journalists helped to spread this inaccurate BBC story…
Elliot Polsky
June 24th, 2016 5:01 PM

On Twitter, NPR Reporter Blasts 'Isolationist' Brexit Vote

NPR's Asma Khalid made it clear in a series of posts on Twitter during the evening/early morning after the Brexit vote that she opposed the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. Khalid initially expressed her shock after the British television network ITV projected that there was an 80 percent probability that 'Leave' would win. She later spotlighted a British Muslim's Tweet that…
Matthew Balan
June 24th, 2016 4:49 PM

Nancy Pelosi Thanks Press for Creating 'Echo Chamber' on Gun Control

During a press briefing on Thursday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi openly thanked people in the news media for creating an “echo chamber” that provided extensive coverage of the Democrats' “sit-in” seeking legislation to promote stricter gun control even though the Senate didn't approve a similar measure. “Thank you all,” the California Democrat said. “I never saw the gallery so full,” she…
Randy Hall
June 24th, 2016 4:41 PM

Vox Notes Cluelessness of Oxford Students on Brexit Vote

The shocked reaction of Oxford University students to the Brexit vote yesterday was notable for the fact that they were so firmly esconced in their liberal bubble that even Vox took note of their extreme divorce from reality. As we shall see, it never even occurred to them that (gasp) the vote would be to leave Brexit. In fact the Oxford students clueless reactions to the vote were so laughable…
P.J. Gladnick
June 24th, 2016 4:32 PM

After Brexit, Todd Warns ‘Media Elites’ Not to ‘Underestimate’ Trump

On Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer observed that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union “would appear in the short term...[to be] a victory for Donald Trump and his political world view over Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their political world view.” He turned to Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd and wondered: “Does Donald Trump get a bump out of this?”
Kyle Drennen
June 24th, 2016 4:31 PM

Bernie Gets Burned By CBS Cast For Not Dropping Out

During an interview with the cast of CBS This Morning, Bernie Sanders got a fiery reaction from the cast as they pestered him for not dropping out and endorsing presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Co-host Charlie Rose began to show his frustration with Sanders, and as quickly as that started, fellow co-host Gayle King tagged in to take her turn of asking the same question to Sanders.
Remso Martinez
June 24th, 2016 4:15 PM

Soros Set to Make Out 'Like a Bandit' From Brexit

In a vote heard ‘round the world, Britain chose to declare its own sovereignty and leave the European Union. Prior to the vote, liberal billionaire George Soros spoke out against Britain leaving the EU, but MarketWatch reported on Friday that the his recent investments have been based on “wagers that stocks will tumble.” That was the likely short-term aftermath of Brexit (CNBC’s Rick Santelli …
Aly Nielsen
June 24th, 2016 4:08 PM

Shh! ABC Quiet on Obama’s Botched Effort to Sway Brexit

All three morning shows on Friday led with the “stunning” vote by Britain to exit the European Union, a move that is “rocking” the world. Yet, only ABC’s Good Morning America ignored the inconvenient fact that Barack Obama tried and failed to influence the vote this past spring. On CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose reminded, “President Obama visited in April and urged voters to stay in Europe.” 
Scott Whitlock
June 24th, 2016 3:44 PM

Brits Leave EU, The View Freaks: 'The Whole World's Falling Apart!'

The View Friday morning discussed Britain voting to leave the European Union, thereby declaring its own independence. The news brought shocks of outrage from liberal media worldwide, that even the women at The View felt informed enough to weigh in on. There was no room for nuance at the table, as Joy Behar called the situation, “the whole world falling apart” and CNN’s Sunny Hostin lamented how…
Kristine Marsh
June 24th, 2016 2:37 PM