MSNBC's Reid Claims Clinton as Qualified for POTUS as Founding Fathers

On MSNBC’s The Place for Politics April 8, a panel discussion about Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton’s fighting devolved into one MSNBC journalist praising Hillary Clinton as “qualified” as Thomas Jefferson to run for President. Joy Reid: "If you look at Hillary Clinton's qualifications, I mean, my God, since the Founding Fathers, has anyone tried run for president with more on their resume?"
Kristine Marsh

Rivera Smears Ted Cruz as ‘Anti-Semitic’ for New York Values Remark

On the same night that CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin smeared Ted Cruz as anti-Semitic, Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera on Thursday did the same thing. Regarding the Texas senator’s claim that Donald Trump represents New York values, Rivera slimed, “Aside from the stinking, anti-Semitic implications that I see in that whole New York values money and media coded message that he put out there.” 
Scott Whitlock

WaPo Uses KKK Photo Essay to Slam Trump, Skips Democrat Connection

The Washington Post today published an interesting photo essay about the small number of people who are still members of the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee and Maryland. The photos reveal them to be mostly a bunch of pathetic outcast losers. However, the real reason for this essay wasn't to demonstrate what we already know about the Klan. Just after the introductory paragraph, the true purpose of this…
P.J. Gladnick

CNN's Bash Surprised to See 'Christian from Texas' Cruz with Jews

In a pre-recorded interview with Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz aired on Thursday's Erin Burnett Outfront, CNN's Dana Bash admitted that seeing Senator Cruz, a "Christian from Texas," appearing with Jews in New York City surprised her, declaring: "This is not what I expected, to be honest with you."
Brad Wilmouth

Aggrieved Hillary Friend Charlie Rose Demands Sanders Back Off

CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose on Friday demanded that Bernie Sanders retreat from his tough new attacks against the Democratic front-runner. Rose, who once began a Clinton interview by reading a poem to his “friend,” lectured Sanders: “The tenor of this campaign has changed when you're questioning the qualification of a person to be president.”
Scott Whitlock

Lauer to Hillary: GOP ‘Clinging to the Hope’ of You in ‘Handcuffs’

In an exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton aired on Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer teed up the Democratic frontrunner to dismiss the FBI investigation into her e-mail scandal as nothing more than a wild Republican fantasy.
Kyle Drennen

Univision Favors Gay Agenda Over Religious Freedom

In a slanted piece covering the Mississippi law allowing businesses to protect their religious beliefs, Univision gave the gay rights movement deferential preference, and showed religious freedom the hand.
Daniel Garza

Bernie: You Think I'm Radical? 'Read What the Pope Is Writing'

What does it say about Bernie Sanders--and the Pope--that when it comes to economics, Sanders sees Pope Francis as more "radical" than he is? Appearing on today's Morning Joe, Sanders discussed the news that he has been invited to visit the Vatican. Sanders mentioned that [other than on social issues] he is a "big, big fan of the Pope." Said Sanders: "people think Bernie Sanders is radical. Uh-…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Guest Urges GA to Remove ‘Terrorists’ Who Back Religious Freedom

Appearing a guest on Thursday's edition of CBS's The Late Show, openly-gay actor Tituss Burgess used the platform to inform the audience that, if given the chance to give the commencement speech at his alma mater the University of Georgia, he would urge graduates to "get these terrorists out of office" who supported the now-vetoed religious freedom bill.
Curtis Houck

English, Spanish Nets Yawn at Report VA Is Still Fudging Wait Times

On Thursday evening, the major English and Spanish broadcast networks failed to cover an explosive, new investigation released early Thursday afternoon by USA Today revealing that  Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in seven states have been falsifying wait times, marking yet another piece in the multi-year VA scandal.
Curtis Houck

Sanders-Backing Actors Whack Media 'Blackout' of Bernie

Socialist celebrity backers of Bernie Sanders are kicking reality to the curb and complaining about a “media blackout” of Sanders. In an interview with Variety, actor Mark Ruffalo insisted there has been a “virtual media blackout of him since the start of his campaign.” In a speech in Wisconsin for Sanders, actor Tim Robbins insisted the "mainstream media" ignores Bernie because he had the…
Tim Graham

Kelly File Points Out Media’s Double Standard in Presidential Gaffes

Today the media gently laughed at Clinton’s multiple attempts at swiping her Metrocard to enter the subway system in New York City, but generally excused the mishap as something that happens “to the best of us.” Bernie Sanders was bashed by the New York Daily News for not knowing that the subway system requires fare cards, not tokens, but his gaffe was also largely a non-issue for the rest of the…
Kristine Marsh

'Hardball' Ignores Bill Clinton Mixing It Up with 'Black Lives Matter'

Earlier today at a campaign event for his wife's presidential bid, Bill Clinton launched into a testy defense of his record as president against jeers from demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement. While news networks, including MSNBC have covered the story, Chris Matthews remained strangely silent on it on his April 7 Hardball program.
Ken Shepherd

Smiley: Cruz, Trump 'Running Segregated Campaigns,' GOP 'Anti-America'

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, PBS host Tavis Smiley claimed that GOP candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are "running segregated campaigns" as he asserted that they are "not campaigning to my community." After repeating his claim that Trump has been a "racial arsonist," he declared that the Republican Party has been "self-sabotaging," and additionally…
Brad Wilmouth