Crunching the Numbers: What to Watch For at the Next GOP Debate

After a five-week hiatus, the Republican presidential candidates meet tomorrow night for their next prime time debate, moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Based on how the various networks handled the first four debates, viewers of Tuesday's CNN debate should expect: 1) the questions will be aimed at getting the candidates to fight with one another; 2) Donald Trump will take more airtime than any of…
Rich Noyes
December 14th, 2015 8:15 AM

Scarborough: Republicans Tell Me They'll Vote for Hillary Over Cruz

Joe Scarborough prefaced his remarks this morning by saying "this is the sort of thing that right-wing bloggers get very angry about."  So let's oblige him . . .  On Morning Joe, Scarborough said "I am shocked by how many Republicans, that have always voted Republican, that have said they're going to vote for Hillary if it's Cruz or Trump running against Hillary. I'm talking Deep South, Southern…
Mark Finkelstein
December 14th, 2015 7:58 AM

ABC Drama: Dems the Party of Family Values, U.S. Creates Terrorists

Last night’s winter finale of the new ABC drama Quantico and was chockfull of unrealistic politics – and unintentional comedy! The present day storyline of the episode “Inside” had the Democratic National Convention starting in New York City the day after Grand Central Station was bombed and over 100 people were killed. Right, the DNC would TOTALLY take place as scheduled the day after a…
Alexa Moutevelis
December 14th, 2015 5:03 AM

‘Family Guy’ Shows Exactly How to Make the Media Disappear

After a ridiculous episode in which Peter Griffin shoots Cleveland Brown, Jr, the son of his black friend and next door neighbor, and nearly burns down their home, Brown, Sr. shows Family Guy viewers how to get the media to disappear and stop covering a shooting. At the end of the episode, Peter Griffin takes responsibility for the shooting, telling the angry mob that Cleveland, Jr. didn’t do…
Erik Soderstrom
December 14th, 2015 4:03 AM

Reporters Wildly Cheer As 'Climate Change' Agreement Announced

Apparently a generation of "journalists" has been raised to believe that the matter of human-caused global warming is "settled science," and that anyone who doubts the agenda-driven, redistributionist "climate change" movement is an enemy of civilization. Additionally, these people clearly don't understand the orchestrated, false-drama nature of diplomatic gatherings such as the one in Paris…
Tom Blumer
December 14th, 2015 1:40 AM

Ferguson Media Darling Joshua Williams Sentenced to 8 Years For Arson

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that Joshua Williams "was sentenced ... to eight years in prison for starting a fire at a QuikTrip in Berkeley (a St. Louis suburb) after an officer-involved shooting there." The Dispatch apparently didn't think it important to tell readers that the crime spree which occurred after that shooting took place despite the fact that the suspect had pulled…
Tom Blumer
December 13th, 2015 11:24 PM

'Someone's Got To Wear the Pants': Kia Ad Mocks American Husband

What's been implicit in TV commercials for years—that American husbands are feckless wimps—has now become explicit . . .  Tuning in to watch a simple Sunday Night Football game, we were treated to a Kia ad. Wife at the wheel as the family pulls into a crowded parking lot for their boy's football game. Wimpy husband suggests they go back and park someplace safe. We get to read the wife's mind as…
Mark Finkelstein
December 13th, 2015 9:14 PM

NY Daily News Editor Offers Lame Defense for Inflammatory Front Pages

Look no further than the front page of the New York Daily News for the desperate state of newspapers today. Whereas the motto of broadsheet rival New York Times is "All The News That's Fit to Print," the motto of the Daily News has become "Hell, Whatever Sells Papers."  It's gotten to the point that CNN media critic Brian Stelter on today's Reliable Sources asked Daily News editor-in-chief Jim…
Jack Coleman
December 13th, 2015 8:08 PM

LGBT Activists Slam Caitlyn Jenner as a ‘Republican Hypocrite’

Republicans can’t win when it comes to the LGBT crowd. It’s no secret that Republicans are labeled insensitive by LGBT’ers when they criticize them, but now it’s apparently problematic for Republicans to support the LGBT crowd too.
Dylan Gwinn
December 13th, 2015 7:13 PM

Synergy: GMA Promotes ‘Scandal’ President Campaigning for Hillary

On Sunday, ABC’s Good Morning America served as the latest example of shameless corporate synergy by touting in its lead 2016 report how actor Tony Goldwyn from the network’s lead drama Scandal spent Saturday giving Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “a big boost” by campaigning for her Iowa.
Curtis Houck
December 13th, 2015 5:54 PM

WashPost Enjoys Attempts To Ridicule and Rewrite Christianity

During the Christmas season, one might think the newspapers would refrain from trashing Christianity. In reality, the opposite happens. On Sunday, Washington Post book editor Ron Charles celebrated a book on What Would Jesus Craft? as a fun zone "between blasphemy and hilarity." On Wednesday, Charles recommended a novel "reimagining" the Bible, with Abraham as a madman, Jonah wanting "a better…
Tim Graham
December 13th, 2015 5:51 PM

Moran Links Farage to Trump Despite Rebuke; Fawns over Trudeau

Reporting on Sunday’s This Week about foreign reaction to Donald Trump’s candidacy and proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., ABC News chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran compared Trump to U.K. Independence Party (U.K.I.P.) leader Nigel Farage despite his firm denouncement of Trump. Moran cheered new leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as providing “sharp relief” to…
Curtis Houck
December 13th, 2015 3:49 PM

Harris-Perry Gripes Over 'Totally Black Guy' Darth Vader As Evil

On her eponymously named Sunday morning show, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry went into a mini-rant about racism in Star Wars as she complained about villain Darth Vader being "totally a black guy" when he was "cutting off white men's hands" who did not "claim his son," but then became a white man after he "claims his son and goes over to the good." During a segment about the upcoming The…
Brad Wilmouth
December 13th, 2015 3:12 PM

Chuck Todd Smears Scalia: ‘I Couldn’t Help But Think of Al Campanis’

Seemingly unable to tell the difference between a man who affirmatively asserted racist assumptions about the physical abilities of a whole race and a man doing his job by pressing lawyers about a contention in a brief, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd smeared Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “I couldn’t help but think of Al Campanis on Nightline.” Ted Koppel, a panelist on Sunday’s show…
Brent Baker
December 13th, 2015 2:38 PM