NBC Touts Movie’s ‘Message for Wall Street,’ ‘Sympathy’ for Terrorist

During an interview with the stars of the Hollywood’s latest anti-capitalist screed, Money Monster, on Friday’s NBC Today, correspondent Keir Simmons summed up the plot of the film: “In the movie, [George] Clooney is forced to wear an explosive vest by British rising star Jack O'Connell. Who lost his dead mother's money on stocks.” Simmons noted: “This guy is a terrorist, who you end up feeling…
Kyle Drennen
May 13th, 2016 2:40 PM

NBC Skips as ABC, CBS Trumpet Facebook Pushback on Censorship Scandal

On Friday morning, NBC’s Today completely ignored a statement published late Thursday night by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denying claims that his site has censored conservative news stories and promoted some topics as trending even though they weren’t. CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America devoted full stories to defending Zuckerberg and thus furthering the narrative from the past…
Curtis Houck
May 13th, 2016 1:40 PM

Couric Pushes Anti-Gun Doc: NRA a ‘Marketing Arm' for Gun Industry

On Friday, NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer provided Yahoo! News anchor Katie Couric a softball platform to promote her new anti-gun documentary: “She’s here to talk about a powerful new documentary called Under the Gun. It examines both sides of the gun safety debate in this country and explores the drastic rise in mass shootings and daily gun violence across the United States."
Kyle Drennen
May 13th, 2016 12:13 PM

It’s Not Easy Being Cancelled: ABC Mercifully Shutters Muppets Show

After only one season, ABC has cancelled the reboot of The Muppets. The show was supposed to be an instant success (who doesn’t love Kermit and Miss Piggy?), but the reboot took on a dark and edgy flair that didn’t resonate with fans of the original Muppets. Instead of sticking to what made the original Muppets a classic, this new batch used their TV platform to push a social agenda. One episode…
Maggie McKneely
May 13th, 2016 12:08 PM

Press Loves Stewart's 'Man-Baby' Trump Tag, Downplay His Hillary Hits

In an appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, Jon Stewart, as NewsBusters' Scott Whitlock noted the next day, mocked those who think highly of this country's ideals and history, and particularly GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and his supporters, when he asked, "When was American great?" In that interview with former Obama presidential campaign chief David Axelrod, the former fake Comedy…
Tom Blumer
May 13th, 2016 12:02 PM

Fusion Correspondent: ‘All Lives Matter’ Has ‘Anti-Black Undertones'

In an article titled “These black people are making a political statement by not voting in the 2016 election”, Fusion’s national political correspondent, Terrell Jermaine Starr, presents the case on why it’s justified to not vote in the upcoming election. He gives us example after example of “brave” citizens who have decided it just isn’t worth the effort to go out and follow through with their…
Daniel Garza
May 13th, 2016 11:50 AM

Networks Go Soft On Obama Threatening Schools Over Trans Bathrooms

Friday morning all three networks led with the “major development” in public schools after President Obama sent letters to every public school district, ordering them to allow transgender students to use whatever bathroom and locker room they “identify with.” All three networks reported that public schools risk losing their federal funding if they do not comply.  While ABC did report the “looming…
Kristine Marsh
May 13th, 2016 11:46 AM

Esquire’s Charles Pierce: Media ‘Numbed By’ Reagan’s 'Non-Facts'

A lot of big-time journalists believe they speak truth to power, but according to Esquire’s Charles Pierce, the attitude of the elite media toward presidents and certain presidential nominees is pretty much the opposite: “giddiness in the face of power.” Because of that longstanding state of affairs, suggested Pierce in a Tuesday post, “a fully armed and operational bullshit station” better known…
Tom Johnson
May 13th, 2016 11:40 AM

Shameless Media Blast Impeachment of Corrupt Brazilian as a 'Coup'

“Brazil Coup Complete,” claims the leftist Huffington Post. It reproduces a Reuters article about Brazil’s democratically elected Senate voting today to put the country’s corrupt leader on trial. But there is no coup. Rather, Brazil’s President, leftist Dilma Roussef, is being impeached for abuses of power:  
Hans Bader
May 13th, 2016 11:39 AM

NY Times Obit Celebrates 'Bold...Fearless' Pro-Communist Lawyer Ratner

On Thursday the New York Times ran a worshipful obituary for Michael Ratner, former president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a hard-left outfit founded by radical lawyer William Kunstler. The obituary by Sam Roberts appeared under an adulatory headline, “Michael Ratner, Bold Civil Liberties Lawyer, Dies at 72.” Left out of Roberts’ report? Ratner's solidary with Cuba's Communist…
Clay Waters
May 13th, 2016 11:35 AM

'Bernie Bros' Slammed: Attacking Hillary 'Offends Across the Board'

Some in the liberal media seem upset that Bernie Sanders is not quitting the Democratic race for president. Across the bottom of the USA Today front page on Friday is the headline “‘Bernie Bro’ behavior offends across the board.” “Offends across the board”? Because Hillary Clinton is a beloved American figure? Reporter Rick Hampson takes every pro-Sanders Internet commenter and makes them a…
Tim Graham
May 13th, 2016 10:43 AM

Squawk Box Anchors Ridicule Socialism as Causing ‘Equal Suffering'

CNBC anchors Joe Kernen and Michelle Caruso Cabrera poked fun at socialism, saying it equalized results, but made everything worse. Cabrera said on Squawk Box May 12, that socialism brought about “equal suffering,” while Kernen similarly remarked that it represented “equally-shared misery.”
Sam Dorman
May 13th, 2016 9:50 AM

WashPost Sneers: Finally ‘Christian Movies for the Rest of Us’

Someone really should come up with a typesetter’s font for when our liberal betters to use when forced to write about things they disdain. We could call it “Helvetica Sneer,” and it would save busy cosmopolitan authors a lot of time and trouble.
Matt Philbin
May 13th, 2016 9:47 AM

Megyn Kelly Slams Time Questioner on How Fox News Is Full of Zombies

Megyn Kelly may be keeping her options open about moving to a different network at some point in the future, but there is a point where obnoxious liberal questions still move her to defend the fort at Fox News. Time writer Phillip Elliott, a former Associated Press reporter, recently discovered that when he quoted Bill Maher to Kelly, suggesting she's the "sane one" when everyone else at Fox is “…
Tim Graham
May 13th, 2016 7:07 AM