Reuters Downplays Syrians Caught Headed to U.S. with Fake Passports

Pulling an Officer Barbrady, the Reuters news wire this afternoon essentially told us all to "move along, people" as regards news of five Syrians caught in Honduras bound for the U.S. with fake Greek passports.
Ken Shepherd

NYT: Abortionist Says His Work Expresses ‘Deepest Level of Love'

Love can be about giving up one’s own life, but it is never about making someone else die. On Wednesday, abortionist Willie J. Parker penned “Why I Provide Abortions” for the Opinion Pages of the New York Times. While he at first morally opposed abortions, Parker later decided that performing abortions fulfilled his call to be the “good” Samaritan. Today, he insists, abortion “respond[s] to our…
Katie Yoder

‘Firearms for Fanatics’: Daily News Claims NRA Helps Terrorists

On Wednesday, this audacious headline and image which lumped together law-abiding gun-owners with Islamic terrorists – complete with a gun superimposed over the ISIS flag – appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News:  
Kristine Marsh

Daily Beast Writer Blasts Charlie Sheen for Promoting 'Whorephobia'

Leave it to a Daily Beast writer to ride to the rescue of members of the world's oldest profession.
Ken Shepherd

CNN Journalists Blast Nonsensical Obama Admin. Spin on ISIS

On Wednesday's New Day, CNN kept up their skepticism of the Obama administration's talking points on ISIS. Chris Cuomo noted that "the word from the White House is...that we are having success....How does that make sense, given...we just saw what happened in Paris?" Christiane Amanpour threw cold water on John Earnest's claim that there wasn't a military solution for the terrorist group: "You…
Matthew Balan

AP Buries Steep Industry Group Drops in Fed's Production Report

The catalog of wishful thinking technically classified as reports on the economy emanating from the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, grows with virtually each passing business day. One of yesterday's additions to the mountainous pile came from the AP's Christopher Rugaber. Tasked with covering the Federal Reserve's report on October's industrial production, he devoted 10 of his…
Tom Blumer

‘The View’ Lays Out the Red Carpet for Tarantino to Defend Himself

On Wednesday, the co-hosts of The View treated director Quentin Tarantino to a softball interview following his anti-cop remarks last month. The hosts happily provided him a platform to play the victim against those who condemned him calling cops “murderers” and to double-down on his attack on the policy. 
Jeffrey Meyer

Whoopi Goldberg on Christian Syrian Refugees: ‘Hitler Was a Christian’

Did we hear that right? On Tuesday, The View ladies devoted a few minutes to the Syrian refugee crisis. Reacting to Republican candidates’ proposals, they criticized allowing only Christians refugees into the United States, because, after all, even Christians can be bad. Case in point: Adolf Hitler – according to Whoopi Goldberg. 
Katie Yoder

Trevor Noah Defends Syrian Refugees By Bringing Up Spanish Inquisition

Liberal Daily Show host Trevor Noah on Tuesday reached back to 1478 and the Spanish Inquisition as a way of attacking Republican opposition to Syrian refugees in the United States. Noah recoiled at Marco Rubio referencing the Nazis as he critiqued Hillary Clinton’s failure to use the words radical Islam. 
Scott Whitlock

President's Mudslinging Confuses Joe, Ignatius 'GOP Governors Worse'

Morning Joe on Wednesday discussed the recent remarks by President Obama on Republicans who are “afraid of orphans and widows.” When the discussion turned to David Ignatius for commentary, he gave a defense of Obama. Scarborough would press Ignatius with on using "the widows and orphans" to antagonize Republican governors. While Ignatius conceded there is always room to correct the words used, he…
Michael McKinney

Nets Hype 'Outraged’ Obama ‘Slamming’ GOP Opposition to Refugees

All three network morning shows on Wednesday hyped Barack Obama’s “outrage” at Republican governors and presidential candidates, “slamming” them for opposition to Syrian refugees coming to America. On Good Morning America, Jon Karl parroted, “Overnight in Manila, President Obama expressed outrage at Republican calls to keep Syrian refugees out of the United States.” 
Scott Whitlock

On NBC’s Today, Former DHS Chief Tom Ridge Blasts Obama

Appearing on Wednesday’s NBC Today, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge repeatedly ripped President Obama’s failing foreign policy against ISIS as co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer sat back without comment.
Kyle Drennen

Carlson: Maybe Terrorists Will Americanize and Not Carry Out Plots

There's been a lot of arrant nonsense spoken since the Paris attacks, but Margaret Carlson's might just take the cake . . .  On today's Morning Joe, Bloomberg columnist Carlson suggested that because the US is better than Europe at assimilation, potential terrorists sneaking into our country might not carry out their plots. Said Carlson: "maybe they become Americanized, maybe the anger goes away…
Mark Finkelstein

Hasselbeck Grills W.H. Spokesman Over Obama Calling Paris a ‘Setback’

On Wednesday’s Fox & Friends, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck pressed White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest over language used by Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama following last week’s ISIS terrorist attack in Paris. 
Jeffrey Meyer