Liberal Writer Neal Gabler: Hillary Is ‘The Media’s National Piñata’

Author and former Fox News Watch panelist Gabler may or may not have a position on “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” but he does believe that when it comes to Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, “the scandals didn’t create the meme of untrustworthiness about them. The meme of untrustworthiness created the scandals.” In a piece that ran Tuesday on Salon and was originally published at…
Tom Johnson
April 13th, 2016 9:58 PM

ABC Only Network to Report Alleged Death Threats Against Delegates

On Wednesday’s evening news broadcasts, ABC was the only network to report on new threats delegates were allegedly facing from Trump supporters. Delegates from Colorado and Indiana complained to the media that they had been receiving death threats aimed at themselves and their families.While NBC did a full report on the GOP race and Trump’s complaints about the system, CBS did a short brief on…
Kristine Marsh
April 13th, 2016 9:50 PM

Clinton E-Mail Blackout Continues on Spanish Nets

Pressure on the Obama administration’s handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mail case is intensifying. The President is increasingly seen as a Clinton defender, all while saying that his defense of his former Secretary of State is not an effort to meddle in the ongoing FBI investigation. Univision and Telemundo national evening newscasts have continued to remain silent on the subject.
Edgard Portela
April 13th, 2016 8:25 PM

FNC Panel Lambastes Obama, Media Over Treatment of Fast and Furious

Moments after the Fox News Channel program Special Report provided viewers the first look at documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal finally surrendered by the Obama administration, the All-Star Panel lambasted the administration’s lack of transparency and predicted that the document dump will fetch “minimal coverage in the mainstream media.”
Curtis Houck
April 13th, 2016 8:23 PM

Hillary Surrogate: D- Sanders 'Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the NRA'

If Bernie Sanders is a subsidiary of the NRA, they really should spin him off. . . On today's MTP Daily, Hillary surrogate Hakeem Jeffries, a NYC congressman and Hillary surrogate, claimed that "Senator Bernie Sanders has effectively functioned as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Rifle association for the entirety of his career." Really? Let's go to the scorecard. Sanders current NRA…
Mark Finkelstein
April 13th, 2016 7:52 PM

NYT Marks Freddie Gray Death With Impatience at Lack of Cop Conviction

The New York Times marked the one-year anniversary of the death in Baltimore of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of a spinal cord injury a week after being arrested. With a mayoral election and the trials of six police officers charged in Gray’s death looming in May, reporters John Eligon and Sheryl Gay Stolberg took a biased look back at last year’s looting and violence in…
Clay Waters
April 13th, 2016 7:37 PM

Albany Reporter Labels 'Frack Gas' as Illegal in NY on MSNBC

Nothing can be more embarrassing for a reporter from upstate New York than not understanding the issue of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, one Albany reporter demonstrated that Wednesday on MSNBC. With New York State’s presidential primaries finally having significance the national news outlets have descended onto the state in mass. To get a local’s perspective, MSNBC host Kate Snow sat down…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 13th, 2016 6:36 PM

‘You, Me, Her’ TV Show Pushes to Normalize Polyamory

DirecTV's new series You, Me, Her is testing the limits of television with its push for threesomes and beyond. Created by John Scott Shepherd, the show hopes to normalize polyamory and “unconventional relationships” in the culture.
Mairead McArdle
April 13th, 2016 5:41 PM

Billionaire-Bashing Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire With Three Homes

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rails against the “billionaire class” and has called income inequality “the greatest moral issue of our time,” but the senator from Vermont is “not exactly a man of modest means,” according to an article written by Kerri Anne Renzulli for the TIME magazine website. However, “nothing about Bernie’s net worth devalues his progressive beliefs,” stated…
Randy Hall
April 13th, 2016 4:52 PM

Spy Kids Actress Alexa PenaVega: ‘Never Alone’ with God

In the face of a culture that constantly mocks Christianity, one actress is speaking out about God’s presence. On Wednesday, Spy Kids star and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Alexa PenaVega posted a message on Instagram about trusting in God through life’s obstacles and finding the “beautiful important moments” in the everyday.
Katie Yoder
April 13th, 2016 3:54 PM

Nets Paint Change to NC Law as Effort to ‘Diffuse Widespread Outrage'

Keeping up the drumbeat against North Carolina’s religious freedom law on Wednesday, the three network morning shows seized on Republican Governor Pat McCrory amending the legislation and used the development to further hammer the state.
Kyle Drennen
April 13th, 2016 3:52 PM

Cleric Compares Trump to Osama Bin Laden on Univision, Telemundo

A New York cleric known for bombast, demagoguery, rabble-rousing and harangues has found receptive platforms on Univision and Telemundo, on which to compare Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to Osama bin Laden.
Edgard Portela
April 13th, 2016 3:45 PM

Onion Preemptively Mocked Time Magazine for Obnoxious Cruz Cover

Conservatives were not surprised when Time magazine published a cover story on Ted Cruz with an extreme close-up of the Republican. The photo included a headline wondering, “Likable Enough?” The picture was so zoomed in that it included stray eyebrow hairs. Well, the Onion also anticipated this. Back on March 23, 2015, the satire site prognosticated, “‘Time’ Magazine Subscribers Brace For…
Scott Whitlock
April 13th, 2016 3:14 PM

CNN Hosts Chely Wright to Slam 'Very Bigoted' Religious Freedom Bills

On Wednesday's New Day on CNN, co-host Michaela Pereira sympathetically gave country singer and gay rights activist Chely Wright a forum to complain about religious freedom initiatives in several Southern states, with Wright deriding the bills as "very bigoted" and "ridiculous."
Brad Wilmouth
April 13th, 2016 2:07 PM