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There are fewer more sacred cows in entertainment than rock singer and indefatigable do-gooder Bono, but over the weekend he sustained a well-deserved skewering courtesy of Bill Maher. On his HBO show Friday night, Maher cited testimony from the U2 singer before a congressional panel on the subject of "Combating Violent Extremism," more accurately known as Islamic fanaticism.  

Longtime readers know that if the current stagnating economy were occurring during a Republican or conservative presidential administration, the press would be searching high and low to find a "respected" economist or analyst forecasting the beginning of an economic contraction while screaming that a recession is just around the corner. Instead, the business press has stuck to saying that "most…

One of the hosts of Univision’s morning show, Karla Martínez, told viewers she’s "praying" for the success of Obama's sweeping executive actions on immigration. 

When it comes to softball questions Bernie Sanders has had his fill from cable and network hosts alike but they’d all be hard-pressed to top Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore’s slow-pitch to the socialist senator when he asked: “Are you Jesus?” 

Some $25 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation, hosting fundraisers and contributing over $5 million of his own money so far to Hillary Clinton’s super PAC, Priorities USA Action, along with pro-Hillary tilted Univision coverage of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign are apparently not enough for Hillary super-fan and Univision Chairman, Haim Saban.

CBS’s The Good Wife on Sunday took some gratuitous shots at the United States, referring to America s the “land of guns and gangs.” A Canadian justice of the peace lectured: “I'm only remarking now as a Canadian citizen. It would be better if our neighbors from the south would try to emulate the freedoms we enjoy here, with no surveillance and with our superior health care system.”

A frequent guest on now-cancelled MSNBC program The Ed Show, The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols appeared on MSNBC Monday afternoon and proclaimed that Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “is no more attractive to the Republican establishment” than Donald Trump and “maybe less” so since he’d do worse geographically.

ABC's Once Upon a Time aired a lesbian kiss last night to much fanfare and excitement from the LGBT crowd and producers said its inclusion in a show popular with kids was "important." 

In a Huffington Post article on Monday, actor and liberal activist Danny Glover lunged at New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his “one-man war against Bernie Sanders” “in column after blog post after column,” especially when he went “over the edge” in an article on Friday. “It is interesting that he has chosen to repeatedly smear Bernie, ad nauseum, rather than try to promote qualities…

Fake hate crimes and insults keep popping up in discussions about the most controversial issues of the day, and the media does little to investigate and separate the real from the staged. A transgender North Carolina University student spread a false claim all over social media that the University of North Carolina College Republicans threw insults at him in a Facebook discussion about House…

Saturday Night Live yesterday released another of its famous fake movie trailers, but this one garnered a few more down votes on Youtube than usual.   “God is a Boob Man” pokes fun at the trailer for God’s Not Dead 2, released on April 1. 

CNN's Chris Cuomo hounded Bernie Sanders on Monday's New Day over his opposition to litigation against gunmakers and dealers. Cuomo spotlighted the lawsuit by some of the families of the Newtown shooting victims and wondered, "Why did you give such a quick no on...whether or not they should be sued?" Cuomo pressed him again about the Newtown case specifically: "Do you think they should be able to…

In an interview with Bernie Sanders on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie worried that the Democratic presidential candidate’s criticism of frontrunner Hillary Clinton was similar to Donald Trump’s latest line of attack: “Donald Trump is test driving a new nickname for Hillary Clinton, ‘crooked Hillary.’ Maybe he uses fewer words, but have you been making the same argument against her?”

A team of MRC analysts logged each prime time interview of a presidential candidate or a plainly-identified supporter or surrogate on CNN, MSNBC and the Fox News Channel from March 21 to April 15, weekdays only, poring over approximately 240 hours of programming. Our study found that the Fox News Channel spent much more time interviewing Donald Trump and his surrogates than either of his GOP…