The AP's Disgraceful Coverage of the Columbus Islamist Machete Attack

The Associated Press has posted four stories during the past week on the machete-wielding Islamist who attacked patrons at the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus, Ohio on February 11, seriously wounding several. The wire service's coverage has been a textbook example of deliberate reality avoidance.
Tom Blumer
February 19th, 2016 5:38 PM

CNN's Toobin Plays Up Scalia's 'Overwhelmingly White Male' Clerks

On Friday's CNN Newsroom, Jeffrey Toobin somehow thought it was necessary to point out that Justice Antonin Scalia's 120 Supreme Court clerks — many of whom were waiting for his casket to arrive at the Court — consisted of "an overwhelmingly white, male group." Toobin made this statement as the camera zeroed in on eight individuals who all appeared to be white. However, moments later, a different…
Matthew Balan
February 19th, 2016 3:46 PM

CNBC's Kernen: ‘Out of Touch’ NY Daily News Is a ‘Rag,’ Not Worth $1

The Daily News’s provocative covers aren’t impressing everyone. Squawk Box co-host Joe Kernen slammed the newspaper on Feb. 19, 2016, calling it a “rag” and a “joke” whose papers weren’t even worth a dollar.
Sam Dorman
February 19th, 2016 2:32 PM

Two Days in Row, Wash Post Runs Stories on ‘Ethics’ of Scalia’s Trip

A story topic so enticing, they ran it twice. Apparently, not even dying is enough to deter media hostility – if you’re a conservative. Headline on page A6 in Thursday’s Washington Post: “Justice Scalia’s free stay at luxury ranch highlights judicial ethics questions.” Subhead: “Should judges socialize with people who could have cases before them?” (Online version: “Why Justice Scalia was staying…
Brent Baker
February 19th, 2016 1:43 PM

Bret Baier: Media Silent on Hate Crime Against Decorated Marine

Fox News Host, Bret Baier called the rest of the media out Thursday evening during his update of the story of the Marine assaulted and robbed by apparent Black Lives Matter supporters. “The story has received very little national attention, except on this channel.” Baier said of the media’s silence on the attack. 
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 19th, 2016 1:03 PM

NBC Ignores Hillary Gaffe That She ‘Always Tried’ to Tell the Truth

On Friday, both CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America highlighted a gaffe by Hillary Clinton in a Thursday interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, when she claimed she “always tried to” tell the truth. However, NBC’s Today completely ignored the stumble.
Kyle Drennen
February 19th, 2016 12:40 PM

News Outlets Support Gender-Inclusive Bathrooms After Safety Breach

Major magazines and newspapers continue to sing the praises of gender-inclusive bathrooms, going so far as to call confused commodes  a “civil rights issue” even after a cisgender man invaded a women’s locker room last week. A Seattle man undressed in a women’s locker Feb. 8 at Evans Pool of Seattle Parks and Recreation, USA TODAY reported.
Mairead McArdle
February 19th, 2016 11:02 AM

NYT: Delaying Supreme Court Confirmation is Racist

Senate Republican plans to delay Barack Obama getting another justice on the Supreme Court could be driven by only one thing -- racism! Well at least that’s what the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin implied, when they collected a bunch of quotes from angry Obama supporters for a front-page February 18 story headlined: “Blacks See Bias in Delay on a Scalia Successor.”
Geoffrey Dickens
February 19th, 2016 9:05 AM

Halperin Scoffs at Scarborough Notion It's 2nd-or-Die for Rubio in SC

Talk about setting someone up to fail . . . Heading into a contest, politicians traditionally like to lower expectations. But Joe Scarborough has raised expectations for Marco Rubio almost to the roof. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough repeatedly cited talk that if Marco Rubio doesn't finish second in the South Carolina primary, "he has to get out of the race."   Chuckling through Joe's…
Mark Finkelstein
February 19th, 2016 8:22 AM

Feel the Bern: 'Scandal' Propagandizes for Free College

Free college tuition is the big cause célèbre on the left these days, with Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders getting a lot of support on the issue from people who don't understand that "free college" costs at least $70 billion. So, of course, ABC’s Scandal has to get in on the action to push it just like it has promoted gun control, Black Lives Matter, and Planned Parenthood funding…
Alexa Moutevelis
February 19th, 2016 4:15 AM

You will LOVE Rob Lowe's Christian Response to a Man in Crisis

NBC's new show about the end of the world, You, Me and the Apocalypse, is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to morality. In reality, much of the questionable material wouldn't be Earth shattering (pun intended) were the show on at a later time. But let's give credit where it is due first.
Curtis Louder
February 19th, 2016 3:00 AM

Shock: MSNBC Allows Sanders Backer to Corner Hillary on Paid Speeches

While there were plenty of questions from the far left at Thursday’s Clinton-Sanders Town Hall on MSNBC, there were a few that snuck through that pushed both candidates with two such exchanges involving Hillary Clinton being cornered in relation to polls about her honesty and trustworthiness and releasing transcripts of her speaking fees to Wall Street firms.
Curtis Houck
February 19th, 2016 2:55 AM

CBS’s 'Mom' Ends with Important PSA on Drug Addiction

Mom – the CBS series devoted to tales of addiction and recovery told with an attempt at humor – deals with an unexpected death by drug overdose in “Diabetic Lesbians and a Blushing Bride.” The story ended in a Public Service Announcement (PSA) featuring the stars of the show and the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy.
Karen Townsend
February 19th, 2016 1:31 AM

Senate GOP Is Right to Hold Off On Confirming a Replacement for Scalia

Few people in modern history have fulfilled their oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" more than the late Justice Antonin Scalia. He was so well respected that the Senate voted 98-0 in 1986 to confirm him. These days it would be difficult to get a unanimous vote in support of Mother's Day. 
Cal Thomas
February 18th, 2016 10:53 PM