Cherry-Picking AP Pushes Positive NY Report, Ignores Dour Philly Data

On Sunday, I noted how the Associated Press wouldn't let the awful national news from the Federal Reserve on Industrial Production (second straight month of 0.6 percent contraction) stand alone without trying to offset it with phony evidence that U.S. manufacturing is showing "signs of stability." That "evidence" was primarily a positive manufacturing survey result from just one state: New York.…
Tom Blumer
April 21st, 2016 4:47 PM

NBC, ABC Hype ESPN Firing Schilling After ‘Offensive’ Transgender Post

On Thursday, both NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America reveled in ESPN firing baseball analyst Curt Schilling after the former all-star pitcher objected on social media to liberal demands that transgender people be allowed to use whichever bathroom they choose. At the top of Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie announced: “He's out. Former all-star pitcher Curt Schilling fired by ESPN after…
Kyle Drennen
April 21st, 2016 4:11 PM

Lowry Calls Out Media for Salivating Over Trump’s NY Primary Win

In his Politico column posted on Wednesday, National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry mounted a thorough trouncing of the liberal media for their universal gushing over Donald Trump’s win in the New York primary despite the fact that a landslide had long been predicted as a possibility.
Curtis Houck
April 21st, 2016 4:06 PM

Networks Censor Congressional ‘Pricing of Fetal Tissue’ Hearing

A congressional probe into whether or not businesses profited from aborted baby body parts should scream big news. But not so for the three broadcast networks. On Wednesday, the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives Subcommittee held a hearing on “The Pricing of Fetal Tissue.” ABC, CBS and NBC didn’t say a word about the hearing during their morning and evening news shows following the…
Katie Yoder
April 21st, 2016 4:04 PM

Dana Milbank: 'Infant Lives' Panel Is 'Discredited,' Illegitimate

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank covered the House hearing on the sales of aborted-baby parts....to blast them as far too impartial to be trusted. This same columnist four years ago acted as a supine publicist for a one-sided Democratic pseudo-hearing to celebrate the feminist birth-control activist Sandra Fluke.
Tim Graham
April 21st, 2016 3:31 PM

ABC Grilled Cruz in Town Hall, Skips Benghazi and E-Mails for Clinton

While ABC journalists grilled Ted Cruz on Monday with a Good Morning America town hall, they offered softballs to Hillary Clinton on Thursday. George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts showcased questions from the left and included queries about hot sauce and Saturday Night Live. At no time was there a question on Benghazi or the Democrat’s secret e-mail server and the scandal around it. 
Scott Whitlock
April 21st, 2016 2:17 PM

Liberal Sports Media Revel in Curt Schilling's Firing from ESPN

The sports media continued their postgame celebrations on Thursday, after ESPN’s firing of Curt Schilling. A firing that so many members of the liberal sports media openly, and privately, rooted for.
Bruce Bookter
April 21st, 2016 1:34 PM

WADR: Halperin Corrects Heilemann on Delegate Math History

Oops! It was quite an amusing moment yesterday on Bloomberg's With All Due Respect when Mark Halperin corrected his co-host, John Heilemann, on delegate math history. As you can see in the video below, Heilemann asserted that Donald Trump was not doing as well as he should be because at this point in the 2012 Republican primary, Mitt Romney already had enough delegates to lock up the nomination…
P.J. Gladnick
April 21st, 2016 1:24 PM

Mitchell: Dems Tell Sanders ‘Dial Down the Rhetoric’ Against Hillary

After asking on Wednesday whether Bernie Sanders “knows when the game is over,” on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer lamented that the Democratic presidential candidate was “digging in his heels despite speculation over whether it is time for him to bow out of the race.”  
Kyle Drennen
April 21st, 2016 1:17 PM

Cross-Dressing Reporter Attacks 'Conservative Loudmouth' Schilling

Justin Moyer contended that ESPN's firing of former baseball pitcher Curt Schilling "seemed destined" in a Thursday article for the Washington Post, which detailed the supposed "radicalization" of the former Phillies player turned "conservative loudmouth." Moyer spotlighted how "Schilling went fangs out" after Tweeting out a controversial image that "many deemed transphobic." However, the…
Matthew Balan
April 21st, 2016 12:16 PM

Hillary Pal Stephanopoulos Baffled at Why Some Distrust Clinton

Former Bill Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos on Thursday conducted a 30 minute town hall with his friend Hillary Clinton. Not once during the Good Morning America discussion did he mention the Democratic candidate’s ongoing e-mail scandal, nor did he note the Benghazi controversy. Of course, there was also no disclaimer on the journalist’s conflict of interest. In 2015, he secretly donated…
Scott Whitlock
April 21st, 2016 11:56 AM

NBC Pushes Trump Left on Transgender Bathrooms, Abortion, Taxes

During a town hall event on Thursday’s NBC Today, the hosts urged Donald Trump to move left on a series of issues and the Republican frontrunner happily obliged, adopting liberal positions on transgender bathrooms, abortion, and taxes. Willie Geist read a viewer's question: “Mr. Trump, please be specific, tell us your views on LGBT, how you plan to be inclusive as President. Speak about North…
Kyle Drennen
April 21st, 2016 10:55 AM

NBC Asks Trump About ‘Unborn Child’ Rights in Republican Platform

Thursday morning, NBC co-anchor Savannah Guthrie pressed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on the Republican platform’s stance on the “unborn child.” NBC Today hosted a “Donald Trump Town Hall” April 21. During the live broadcast event, Guthrie asked Trump if he would change his platform’s position on abortion.
Katie Yoder
April 21st, 2016 9:57 AM

ESPN Fires Curt Schilling for ‘Unacceptable’ Free Speech

Curt Schilling was fired by ESPN on Wednesday, for expressing an opinion online earlier in the week which just happens to be the view held by the vast majority of the American people. Earlier this week, Schilling posted a picture of a transgender person, and made a comment regarding the effort to let transgender men use women’s restrooms.
Bruce Bookter
April 21st, 2016 4:52 AM