Sneering Jon Stewart Mocks: ‘When Was America Great?'

A sneering Jon Stewart on Monday wondered, “When was America great?” The former Daily Show host appeared with David Axelrod at the University of Chicago and mocked conservatives. Connecting Donald Trump to the right, the comedian lectured, “He makes sense if you view it through the prism of talk radio.... Republicans, conservatives love America. They just hate, like, 50 percent of the people…
Scott Whitlock
May 10th, 2016 5:00 PM

MSNBC's Mika: Hillary Should 'Be Herself;' Ignore Media, Staffers

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski gushed over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday's Morning Joe, and lamented how her campaign staff and the press are distracting her from showing her true self: "My gut is Hillary Clinton needs to be Hillary Clinton — the one that you meet one on one....She's going to have to just be herself — because herself has always been the best thing for her." Brzezinski later contended that…
Matthew Balan
May 10th, 2016 4:24 PM

Vanity Fair Expresses Disappointment Capt. America Is Not Gay

Spoiler Alert: Captain America has a “flaw.” It may be hard to believe with his impeccable morals, charming personality and his, well, perfectly formed biceps, but yes, Cap has a fatal flaw - he’s not gay. Most women will celebrate that. But not Vanity Fair writer Joanna Robinson, because in Marvel’s latest installment, Captain America: Civil War, Disney squashed any possibility of a romance…
Maggie McKneely
May 10th, 2016 3:47 PM

Charlotte Paper Applauds Hollywood Boycotts Over Bathroom Law

In a column that showcases the leftist belief that the ends justify the means, the Charlotte Observer and its parent company McClatchy have expressed nothing short of support for the economic boycotts of North Carolina in light of Republicans remaining defiant after Governor Pat McCrory signed a bathroom bill to ensure that people use the bathroom according to the gender they were born with.
Curtis Houck
May 10th, 2016 2:53 PM

Networks Ignore Muslim Miss USA’s Conversion to Christianity

Ever since the first Muslim Miss USA, former darling of the major news networks converted to Christianity last month, the liberal media cannot care less about her. Rima Fakih made waves in 2010 when she was crowned Miss America -- the first Muslim to win. At the time CBS, NBC, and ABC all expressed their delight over the pageant results.
Mairead McArdle
May 10th, 2016 2:30 PM

Vanden Heuvel Repeats Canard Tying Reagan to Site of Racist Murders

On Sunday's This Week show on ABC, during a panel discussion of Paul Ryan's reluctance to endorse GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, The Nation editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel was the latest liberal in the dominant media to repeat the discredited claim that former President Ronald Reagan began his 1980 presidential campaign at the site of a racist murder in Philadelphia, Mississippi. More…
Brad Wilmouth
May 10th, 2016 1:31 PM

Hillary ‘Not Taking the Bait’ After Trump's ‘Deeply Personal Attacks'

At the top of NBC’s Today on Tuesday, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed that Hillary Clinton was “not taking the bait” after Donald Trump “once again brings up her husband's past infidelities.” In the report that followed, correspondent Andrea Mitchell spun hard for the Democratic candidate: “Donald Trump surprising many observers in both political parties by launching deeply personal attacks…
Kyle Drennen
May 10th, 2016 12:15 PM

Networks Censor Soros Ties to Trump's Finance Chair Pick

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may argue that he’s a conservative, but his latest appointee comes from the ranks of former Soros employees. While that move might be a sticking point on the right, ABC, CBS and NBC have censored all information about Trump’s appointee.
Aly Nielsen
May 10th, 2016 12:11 PM

Charlie Rose and President’s Speechwriters Laugh About ObamaCare Lie

On Monday’s edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show the host invited on former Obama speechwriters David Litt, Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett to wax fondly about Obama’s “great” communication skills when it came to delivering both serious speeches and funny lines. When Lovett, now a writer in Hollywood, told Rose he was most proud of the “serious speeches” on the economy and health care, Favreau jokingly…
Geoffrey Dickens
May 10th, 2016 12:03 PM

Nets Censor Latest Hillary E-Mail Bombshell, Instead Hype Wrinkle Gel

All three networks on Tuesday morning censored the bombshell news that all the e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s top IT staffer, the man who set up her private server, are missing. This is despite a combined eight hours of air time on ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning. Instead of covering this important development, these same programs devoted eight minutes and 38 seconds…
Scott Whitlock
May 10th, 2016 11:17 AM

Esquire, Cosmo Promote Story of Son’s ‘Gift of Death’ to Mom

In honor of Mother’s Day this year, three magazines promoted the story of how one son “gifted” his mother with death. And no, it wasn’t a joke. Esquire first published the story, followed by Redbook and Cosmopolitan (all conveniently owned by Hearst Magazines). All three outlets gave the story, written by Alex Schlempp (with Patrick Pacheco), the same headline: “On Mother's Day, My Mom Asked Me…
Katie Yoder
May 10th, 2016 10:36 AM

You’re Hired! How NBC Spent 11 Years Making Trump a Household Name

Donald Trump’s rise as a presidential candidate has prompted many political observers to blame TV outlets for giving him historic amounts of free air time. While it’s true the media have overwhelmingly focused on Trump in their coverage during the current election cycle, there is another media phenomenon at play. NBC has spent more than a decade building his brand as a successful businessman of…
Sam Dorman
May 10th, 2016 9:44 AM

Trashing Trump: Jorge Ramos Bordering On Obsessive

Jorge Ramos’ weekly Al Punto program on Univision gives the nation’s leading Latino journalist-turned-activist a weekly platform for turning practically every topic to Trump. In fact, in four out of the five segments of the latest edition of the hour-long Sunday public affairs show, Ramos led guest after guest into a volley of broadsides against the GOP’s presumptive 2016 presidential nominee.
Edgard Portela
May 10th, 2016 7:30 AM

Trump Gave $150,000 to School That CNN Boss's Wife Helped Lead

One question that many Americans wonder is whether people helping Donald Trump dominate the presidential campaign have been given favors by the billionaire. On Monday night, Buzzfeed posted a story headlined “Trump Gave $150,000 To Charity That CNN Head's Wife Helped Lead.” Of course, the subhead below it underlines that the charity is an elite private school attended by Trump’s son Baron.
Tim Graham
May 10th, 2016 7:15 AM