Made FROM TV: CBS's Prime Time Fantasy of President Hillary

Normally, products carry the description of “Made in (insert country),” so that you’ll know and be better able to trace the lineage and origin of that particular product. However, if Hillary Clinton is the product being signed, sealed, and delivered for you in January of 2017, the “Made In” label attached to her will most likely read “Made in Hollywood.”
Dylan Gwinn
February 1st, 2016 12:15 AM

Matthews: ‘I Feel Butterflies’ Ahead of Iowa; Hillary Is 'Great'

All three cable networks had extensive coverage on Sunday night for the eve of the 2016 Iowa caucuses and with Hardball host Chris Matthews among the cast of characters on MSNBC, there was no shortage of notable comments ranging Matthews admitting that he has “butterflies out there in the locker room” ahead of the vote to gushing that he “like[s] Hillary personally and politically.”
Curtis Houck
January 31st, 2016 11:58 PM

Backstreet Boys Back to Make Audience Swoon In ‘Undateable’ Finale

On Friday’s season finale of Undateable, all the stops were pulled in the hopes of growing their small audience big enough for NBC to renew the show. With “The Backstreet Boys Walk Into a Bar,” a two-part season finale, the super popular 1990’s boy band may have helped them do just that.
Karen Townsend
January 31st, 2016 11:57 PM

Maher Calls Cruz 'Creep' and 'Liar,' Likens Rubio's Religion to ISIS

On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, GOP presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were both on the receiving end of HBO comedian Bill Maher's latest anti-conservative vitriol as he called Cruz a "creep" and a "practiced liar" while comparing Rubio's religious beliefs to those of the terrorist group ISIS.
Brad Wilmouth
January 31st, 2016 11:48 PM

AP Acts As If Illinois's Chronic Vendor Delinquency Is Something New

A Sunday morning report by Associated Press political writer John O'Connor acts as if the the sordid history of fiscal irresponsibility in the State of Illinois is a new development brought on by a stubborn Republican governor in just the past seven months. What hogwash. The state has had a large backlog of delinquent unpaid bills for a decade, if not longer. Five years ago, a Democratic…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2016 11:36 PM

ABC to Cruz: 'Did You Pray for Donald Trump or Senator Rubio' Today?

On the Iowa caucus eve edition of ABC’s World News Tonight, Republican campaign correspondent Tom Llamas had another lead story that focused heavily on frontrunner Donald Trump, but also featured a bizarre question to Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) as he was leaving an Iowa church about praying for his opponents like Donald Trump and fellow Senator Marco Rubio (Fl.).
Curtis Houck
January 31st, 2016 10:54 PM

ABC Touts Hillary Dismissing E-Mails; NBC Promotes Her Team's App

Sunday's World News Tonight on ABC and the NBC Nightly News on the eve of the Iowa caucuses (with golf on CBS) previewsed the Democratic race. ABC parroted Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of e-mail scandal as a partisan hit job while NBC touted an “exclusive look” at a smartphone app that will be utilized by the Clinton campaign.
Curtis Houck
January 31st, 2016 9:43 PM

WashPost: Venezuela's Giveaways to Poor Were 'Good Idea in General'

In trying to explain the current situation in Venezuela, the Washington Post's Matt O'Brien, in a post at the paper's Wonkblog, also inadvertently identified two reasons why authoritarian socialist tyrants like Huge Chavez and Nicolas Maduro are able to achieve and retain power. The formula is simple: When you first gain power, garner international and media goodwill by giving stuff away, like…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2016 9:04 PM

Univision Newscast Pushes for Abortion On Demand

In addition to amnesty, abortion on demand also gets a plug on Univision.
Jorge Bonilla
January 31st, 2016 5:40 PM

WashPost Drama Critic Touts Musicals Taking on Trump's 'Nativist Wave'

Washington Post drama critic Peter Marks made a splash in their Sunday Arts section touting how America's musical-theatre sector is taking on the "nativist wave" coming from Donald Trump. From a revival of West Side Story to the hip-hop Founding Father musical Hamilton, actors are taking to the stage to underscore how American the newest Americans are:
Tim Graham
January 31st, 2016 5:34 PM

Ron Fournier Slams ‘Irresponsible’ Trump and ‘Disingenuous’ Hillary

On a special hour-long Sunday edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, panelist and National Journal writer Ron Fournier resumed his strong disdain for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump by lambasting him as having “bigoted” and “sexist rhetoric” for a man who makes “irresponsible comments” which exhibit “his shallowness on policy.”
Curtis Houck
January 31st, 2016 5:32 PM

Hewitt Spars with Hillary Backer; She's 'Lying to the American People'

Seeking to bring Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal into the panel segment of CNN’s State of the Union from Iowa on Sunday, conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt expressed skepticism about the final Des Moines Register/Bloomberg poll for the Democratic side since it was taken before it was revealed that 22 e-mails from Clinton’s server were found to be top secret. 
Curtis Houck
January 31st, 2016 4:01 PM

Blogger: Republicans, Once ‘Decent People,’ Now ‘Batsh*t Insane’

Once upon a time, Martin Longman didn’t think Republicans were so bad, but that was before the Tea Party, before the Iraq war, before Fox News became a major force. The Washington Monthly blogger detailed his decades of disillusionment in a Tuesday post. According to Longman, events which eroded his belief that Republicans were “decent people” included the “excesses of the Gingrich Revolution”;…
Tom Johnson
January 31st, 2016 12:49 PM

No Ferguson Effect? St. Louis, Baltimore in World's Top 20 For Murders

Those in the press who have insisted that the "Ferguson effect" is an urban legend will have a hard time explaining why the two cities with the most potential to be affected by this supposedly mythical phenomenon now have murder rates among the top 20 in the entire world. St. Louis, Missouri, next door to Ferguson, where a leftist-"inspired" campaign of "protests," civil disorder and rioting…
Tom Blumer
January 31st, 2016 11:45 AM