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Heilemann to Ice Cube: Ferguson, Baltimore Were 'Police Brutality'
Question to John Heilemann: what's your proof? On his With All Due Respect show this evening, interviewing Ice Cube of NWA, Heilemann flatly stated that the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Freddie Gray in Baltimore were instances of "police brutality." In the Brown case, the grand jury, which included three African-Americans, declined to bring an indictment against Darren Wilson…
NBC Spreads Debunked ‘Facts’ On ‘Equal Pay Day’
NBC’s Nightly News Tuesday did itself a disservice by spreading “facts” about pay inequality that have been debunked for years. Anchor Lester Holt opened the program by trotting out the tired old “Women make seventy-nine cents for every dollar a man makes” line before delving into the report, which relies on celebrities and disenfranchised civilians repeating faulty statistics as “proof” that the…
Pelley Frets to Kasich He’ll ‘Tear Out ObamaCare,’ Send U.S. ‘to War'
As part of an interview with GOP presidential candidate John Kasich that aired on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley fretted that Kasich might “tear out ObamaCare, root and branch, start all over again” and signal to the American people that they will be “going to war” to defeat ISIS.
Jonathan Chait: Conservatives, ‘Acceptable’ Health Reform Don’t Mix
There’s a crucial difference between the Loch Ness Monster and any Republican health-care-reform plan worthy of the name: Nessie almost certainly does not exist, but the GOP plan cannot exist. That, essentially, was the message of a Monday blog post by New York magazine’s Chait.
“It is impossible to design a health-care plan that is both consistent with conservative ideology and acceptable to…
Andrea Mitchell Hypes Gender Pay Gap Myth for 'Equal Pay Day'
Did you know that Tuesday was “Equal Pay Day,” the day that a woman’s pay supposedly catches up to a man’s from the previous year? Well don’t worry, Andrea Mitchell has got you covered. Mitchell brought on Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Hollywood star Patricia Arquette to bemoan the plight of the oppressed and push their new congressional study.
Ellen Degeneres Calls Mississippi Law 'Definition of Discrimination'
During a recent weekday episode of The Ellen Degeneres Show, the lesbian host used her opening monologue to criticize Mississippi's new Religious Freedom Law as “something wrong” she felt the need to talk about because she claims it allows people to discriminate against members of the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) community.
Degeneres stated that the law “might sound good…
NBC Celebrates Anita Hill ‘Back in the Headlines’ With HBO Film
In the sixth segment in less than two weeks promoting HBO’s movie rehash of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, on Tuesday’s NBC Today, weatherman Al Roker spoke to the stars of the film and proclaimed: “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill are back in the headlines thanks to Confirmation. It’s a dramatized version of the controversial Senate hearings, premiering this week on…
CNN's Hoover Slams 'Draconian' Religious Freedom Laws
Appearing as a panel member on Monday's CNN Tonight, during a discussion of proposed religious freedom laws in states like Mississippi and the bathroom law in North Carolina, CNN political commentator Margaret Hoover slammed the measures as "draconian laws that dismiss LGBT people."
For his part, host Don Lemon labeled the laws as "crazy" after liberal Republican Hoover recalled polling that…
Larry Wilmore: Even Ted Cruz’s Parents Are Ashamed of Him
On Monday’s edition of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, the Comedy Central host couldn’t get through a rant against Bill and Hillary Clinton without taking a cheap shot at GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Wilmore noted the former First Lady once used the politically incorrect term “super-predators.” Wilmore reported that even the criminologist who coined the term had disavowed it: “He’s…
Twitter: Rapper's Gang-Rape-Palin Tweets Don't Violate Our Rules
Twitter doesn't find anything abusive or threatening about Azealia Banks tweeting a call for former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin to be gang banged. At least, that's what one assumes as they recently came out in defense of the filthy mouthed rapper.
To quickly recap, Banks tweeted that Palin, "'get headf****d by a big, veiny, ashy black d**k' and for 'the biggest burliest blackest n*****s' to '…
CBS, AP: Racist Joke Told by Dems Is 'Race-Based' and 'Insensitive'
Add this to the seemingly endless list of "Imagine what would happen if Republicans or conservatives did the same thing" items.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary "I don't feel no ways tired" Clinton and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio rolled out a very tired, old and insulting racist stereotype this weekend. The headline at Stephanie Condon's report on the related event at CBS News…
Charles Pierce Rips Paul Ryan on MSNBC: 'He's As Ambitious As Satan'
Esquire's Charles Pierce unleashed on Paul Ryan on MSNBC's All In on Monday during a panel discussion on a possible presidential bid by the House speaker: "I think he's as ambitious as Satan. I think he doesn't want to go out in the country where he was already deemed not worthy of the vice presidency, and try to run for president. But if they offer him the crown, he would loathe to lay his hands…
Comedian George Lopez Endorses Sanders, Doesn’t Want to Pay More Taxes
In a recent radio interview for BigBoyTV, comedian George Lopez let us all know that he’s endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders, while paradoxically, making it known he doesn’t want to pay any more taxes.
Rose to Kasich: Why Are GOP Voters ‘Following the Path to Darkness?'
The co-hosts of CBS This Morning on Tuesday devoted an exhaustive seven minutes to Republican presidential candidate John Kasich. What Charlie Rose really wanted to know, however, is just why GOP voters are following “the path to darkness.”