Only AP Fails to Describe Brussels Attack Suspect As a Journalist

Media outlets around the world are reporting that Faycal Cheffou has been arrested for his alleged involvement with last week's terrorist attacks in Belgium. Media outlets around the world are reporting that Faycal Cheffou was a journalist — except for the Associated Press.
Tom Blumer
March 28th, 2016 12:08 AM

NBC’s ‘The Carmichael Show’: Gentrification ‘Sounds Good To Me’

It turns out a TV show actually exists out there that presents topics near-and-dear to the heart of radical leftists --and yet!-- does it in a humorous way that leaves you not feeling nauseous.
Dylan Gwinn
March 28th, 2016 12:04 AM

Avlon: FNC, Right Appease 'Crocodile' Trump So He 'Eats You Last'

Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, Daily Beast editor-in-chief and CNN political commentator John Avlon painted Fox News and the conservative media as "appeasing the crocodile" of Donald Trump "hoping that it eats you last" as he also blamed Trump's rise on Republicans chasing moderate "RINOs" out of the party.
Brad Wilmouth
March 27th, 2016 11:50 PM

Tony Blair Called It: Brussels Follows from 'Flabby Liberalism'

Tony Blair was even more right than he knew. Hours before the ISIS attacks on Brussels that killed 31 and wounded 270, the former British Prime Minister sat down with the BBC. They reported: "Tony Blair has warned against 'flabby liberalism' and says there needs to be a tougher centre ground approach to issues such as tackling extremism and responding to the refugee crisis."
Jeffrey Lord
March 27th, 2016 8:20 PM

NY Times Oddly Ambivalent About Calif. Stopping Campus Anti-Semitism

The New York Times’ Ian Lovett reported Sunday on the University of California condemning anti-Semitism in its university system, especially in relation to the anti-Israeli BDS movement infesting college campuses. The problem has been festering for years -- and so has the Times’ oddly ambivalent response to the outbreaks of anti-Semitism on left-wing college campuses. While the paper is eager to…
Clay Waters
March 27th, 2016 7:04 PM

Google's Defense of No Easter 'Doodle': 'Well, We Did One in 2000'

Three years ago, Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters noted how Google was subject to a torrent of criticism for devoting its March 31 special-occasion redesign of its logo, otherwise known as a "doodle," to the 86th anniversary of farm workers' leader Cesar Chavez's birthday. March 31 was also Easter Sunday that year. Finkelstein noted that even hardened MSNBC liberal Mika Brzezinski sided with…
Tom Blumer
March 27th, 2016 6:32 PM

AP Hides Truth About Death of Moderate Muslim Asad Shah in Scotland

Perhaps it would be understandable if U.S. media outlets chose not to cover the death of Asad Shah in Scotland. After all, it occurred overseas, and only one person has died. But the Associated Press did decide to cover the story and post it at its subscribers' U.S. news sites. As such, the AP has a duty to reveal what is known at the time its reports appear. Thus far, it has failed miserably.…
Tom Blumer
March 27th, 2016 3:37 PM

Blogger: Conservatives Clueless About Obama’s ‘What Works’ Comment

Conservatives have objected in droves to a remark President Obama made this past week during his visit to Argentina. Addressing a gathering of young adults, Obama said, “In the past there’s been a sharp division…between capitalist and communist or socialist…but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works.” The right’s hostile response, contended The…
Tom Johnson
March 27th, 2016 2:20 PM

ABC Panelist Touts Trump’s ‘Unsagacity,’ Hillary’s ‘Keen Intelligence’

On Sunday’s This Week, Georgetown University professor and ex-MSNBC regular Michael Eric Dyson spewed a nearly-incomprehensible gumbo of academic jargon and made-up words. He claimed “millions” of Republicans “conceded to the legitimacy” of Trump’s birther claims against President Obama, vs. “some” who “stood on the gap,” and he juxtaposed Trump’s foreign policy “unsagacity” (good luck finding…
Rich Noyes
March 27th, 2016 1:39 PM

Team Hillary Still Pushing Comedy Central Show's Gush Over Her

Hillary Clinton’s Twitter account The Briefing 2016 is still milking the Comedy Central episode of Broad City that promoted her as a twinkly, winking political rock star. “What was it like to be on set with @HillaryClinton? Broad City's director tells all.” Molly Eichel at Philly.com promoted Philadelphia native and director Todd Biermann, who explain how he and Amy Poehler loved every minute of…
Tim Graham
March 27th, 2016 12:35 PM

Ugly Trumpkins Smear Conservative CNN Pundit Amanda Carpenter

The media quite routinely circulate Donald Trump tweets that they find offensive or at least controversial, even by now they suspect nothing outrageous ever dents the Trump magic among his followers. But what about the followers, the Trumpkins? How ugly can they be on social-media forums like Twitter? We know the media plucked offensive signs out at Tea Party rallies, so how is this different?
Tim Graham
March 27th, 2016 8:55 AM

Who Was Right About Muslim Integration in Belgium?

Here's one of hundreds of examples of The New York Times scornfully dismissing the prejudices of the American riff-raff (even the billionaire riff-raff) when they criticize "Old Europe," therefore displaying a lack of cosmopolitan sophistication. Whether they turn out to be right doesn't matter...
Tim Graham
March 27th, 2016 7:45 AM

AP, USA Today Fail to Report Size of Sanders' Saturday Wins

When was the last time a badly trailing presidential candidate in either major party won relatively late-in-the-game contests by lopsided victory margins of greater than 70-30, as Bernie Sanders did in Washington today, and greater than 80-20, as Sanders did in Alaska? I'm virtually certain that the answer to that question, regardless of what happens in Hawaii's Democratic primary much later…
Tom Blumer
March 26th, 2016 10:46 PM

NYT's Kristof Minimizes Terror: Brussels' Real Danger Climate Change?

Nicholas Kristof’s Thursday New York Times column is yet another grossly timed, tone-deaf, inappropriate attempt to minimize Islamic terrorism and change the subject, “Terrorists, Tubs and Snakes.” The text box: “Brussels just survived bombings, but it could fall to climate change.” Kristof has made a bad habit of such callous columns that go to ludicrous lengths to contextualize the terrorist…
Clay Waters
March 26th, 2016 5:56 PM