ABC, NBC Promote Obama’s ‘Rallying Cry’ on Guns; ‘Showdown' Post-Tears

Tuesday’s editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News aired nowhere near the exhaustive coverage of President Obama’s executive actions on gun control that the CBS Evening News did, but they were not short on fawning language for Obama’s “rallying cry...after years of anger and frustration” in what ABC hyped as “[t]he showdown after the President breaks down.”
Curtis Houck
January 5th, 2016 11:01 PM

Phoenix Suns Owner Questions 'Toughness' of Millennials

On behalf of a grateful nation, I thank Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver for saying exactly what so many have been thinking when it comes to millennials and their toughness.
Dylan Gwinn
January 5th, 2016 10:13 PM

Lefty Professor: ‘Fox News Has Finally Destroyed Television News’

The left often downplays or overlooks differences among Republicans. For instance, plenty of liberals assumed that John McCain chose Sarah Palin mostly in an effort to attract disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters, rather than for the likelier reason that McCain needed to reassure his party’s righty base. Similarly, Penn State's Sophia McClennen lumps Fox News with Donald Trump, whose…
Tom Johnson
January 5th, 2016 9:56 PM

CBS: Obama's Tears on Guns Offered ‘Silence More Powerful Than Words'

24 hours after heralding President Obama revealing specifics on his executive actions concerning gun control, the CBS Evening News offered a full-court press for the President on Tuesday following the announcement that saw the President shed tears that anchor Scott Pelley deemed were “more powerful than words” as “the most powerful man in the world” took “action to stop” gun violence.
Curtis Houck
January 5th, 2016 9:37 PM

Dem to O'Reilly: Gun Registration Stops 'Majority' of Mass Shootings

Looking for some comic relief after President Obama's teary announcement of new executive orders on gun control, and Chris Matthews' fawning interview of Hillary Clinton? You've come to the right place. On this evening's O'Reilly Factor, Dem strategist Nomiki Konst claimed that forcing law-abiding Americans to register their guns would stop the "majority" of mass shootings. You're killing me,…
Mark Finkelstein
January 5th, 2016 9:12 PM

ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’ is Respectably Weird

Somewhere in the midst of 20 or so airline stewardesses, dentists, math teachers, chicken enthusiasts, and estheticians (whatever the heck that is) fighting it out to see who was going to dress to impress and win the “First Rose” from Bachelor Ben Higgins, ABC’s The Bachelor actually put together a decent show.
Dylan Gwinn
January 5th, 2016 9:07 PM

Halperin: ‘I Am Touched’ by Obama’s Tears on Guns; 'Proud' He Did It

Offering his thoughts on Tuesday’s With All Due Respect concerning President Obama announcing his executive actions on gun control, Bloomberg TV/MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin declared that he was “touched by” the President’s tears and was “proud of his ability to show” his emotions on something that’s “a national crisis that needs to be addressed.”
Curtis Houck
January 5th, 2016 8:42 PM

NPR Insults MSNBC: 'Brian Williams Got Sent Back to the Minors'

MSNBC knows who listens to NPR. For years, they’ve advertised their programming on the NPR website. But in a new listing of “What Mattered in Media 2015,” NPR TV critic Eric Deggans dissed the Lean Forward Network. It was a big story when Brian Williams “got sent back to the minors."
Tim Graham
January 5th, 2016 8:32 PM

Matthews Serves Up Roughly 20-Minute Softball Interview with Clinton

In his much-hyped exclusive sit-down interview with Hillary Clinton, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews treated the former secretary of state to a softball chat that was heavily dominated by Donald Trump. The toughest portion of the interview was when Matthews pressed Clinton to explain the difference between your garden-variety Democrat and self-avowed socialists like Bernie Sanders. All in all…
Ken Shepherd
January 5th, 2016 8:22 PM

CNN Boosts Guest's Racial 'Double Standard' Claim About Oregon Protest

Tuesday's CNN Newsroom gave a platform to left-wing commentator David Love, who asserted in a Monday column for theGrio.com that "if Black Lives Matter protesters were to take over a federal building armed to the teeth with firepower — and they certainly would not do this — they would wind up dead or in prison for life on terrorism charges." Love criticized the handling of an armed occupation of…
Matthew Balan
January 5th, 2016 6:43 PM

Matthews: Everyone Believes Hillary Was 'Shocked' by Lewinsky Affair

Not merely does Chris Matthews claim that Hillary Clinton was "shocked" to learn that Bill was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Matthews can't imagine anybody thinking she wasn't shocked. On today's With All Due Respect, Matthews said "I don't think anybody thought that she wasn't shocked when this Monica thing came about. You just look at her face in the old clips. You can see she couldn'…
Mark Finkelstein
January 5th, 2016 6:28 PM

AP's Scott Bauer Has a New Obsession: Negatively Describing Ted Cruz

At the Associated Press, Wisconsin-based reporter Scott Bauer, who has spent the better part of the past five years describing Badger State Governor Scott Walker as "polarizing," has been given the opportunity to get involved with 2016 presidential campaign coverage. Leftists and Democrats rarely earn negative descriptors in Bauer's reports, while Republicans and conservatives receive them…
Tom Blumer
January 5th, 2016 5:31 PM

WashPost Wonkblog: 'Ban the Bikini Body'

Being early January it's both the dead of winter and New Year's resolution season. A common one is to lose some weight in the cold winter months to be ready for the beach in the summer. But as goes the Washington Post's Wonkblog, they've got a rather different resolution: health magazines should "Ban the Bikini Body."
Ken Shepherd
January 5th, 2016 5:30 PM

Supergirl's Not So Super Global Warming Propaganda

Whether the talking points come from liberal politicians, like President Obama, or the usual suspects in Hollywood, you WILL be subjected to the drama of climate change extremists - even in primetime television shows like CBS’ Supergirl. In Supergirl’s version of Planet Krypton’s destruction, we learn it fell victim to global warming and Aunt Astra returns to ask for Supergirl Kara’s help to…
Karen Townsend
January 5th, 2016 5:09 PM