Liberal Media Differ from CNBC on Diagnosis of Pharma ‘Price Gouger’

The left is up in arms over the pharmaceutical CEO who raised prices for a drug mostly used by AIDS patients by more than 5,000 percent, but experts CNBC interviewed said regulatory barriers helped make it possible. Founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceutical, Martin Shkreli bought the generic drug Daraprim, which is used for parasitic infections in pregnant women and immunocompromised…
Michael Greibrok
September 23rd, 2015 2:25 PM

Media, BLM Activists Try to Pin Hate Crime on Townhall's Katie Pavlich

The media, school officials and Black Lives Matter activists took to Twitter last night to hype a supposed racist decoration found on the University of Delaware, after a conservative pundit had spoken at the campus. While Townhall editor and Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich was speaking at the Univ. of Delaware Monday night, students disrupted her speech with a “Black Lives Matter” protest.
Kristine Marsh
September 23rd, 2015 1:40 PM

CNN's Camerota Defends CAIR Distorting Ben Carson on Muslim President

On Wednesday's New Day, CNN host Alisyn Camerota defended the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) when right-leaning CNN commentator Ben Ferguson called out the extremist group's distortion of Dr. Ben Carson's recent comments on Islam and the U.S. presidency.
Brad Wilmouth
September 23rd, 2015 12:36 PM

CNN Touts Homosexual Activist at White House Reception for Pope

The media have a knack of turning giving liberal activists a platform when it covers the Catholic Church. The latest example is CNN's Chris Cuomo turning to Episcopalian bishop/LGBT activist Gene Robinson moments after Pope Francis spoke at the White House on Wednesday. Cuomo noted that Robinson was part of "a number of people that were seen as controversial" among the invited guests at the…
Matthew Balan
September 23rd, 2015 12:28 PM

MSNBC Reporter: GOP Views VW Emissions Scandal As a ‘Heroic Act’

In the wake of the ongoing controversy surrounding Volkswagen’s diesel car emissions controversy, MSNBC reporter Tony Dokoupil wildly proclaimed that Republican politicians were cheering on the German car maker for deceiving the Environmental Protection Agency. Dokoupil appeared on All In with Chris Hayes Tuesday night and insisted that “[i]f you’re a Republican, if you think the EPA goes too far…
Jeffrey Meyer
September 23rd, 2015 11:54 AM

CBS Spins Pope and Obama as So Similar: Both Are 'Celebrities'

Pope Francis and Barack Obama have a lot in common, at least according to CBS This Morning on Wednesday. Reporter Major Garrett skipped over disagreements like abortion and the health care mandate and instead connected: “Pope Francis arrives defined at least, in part, by his humility also as an instrument of change within the church and an international celebrity.... President Obama knows a thing…
Scott Whitlock
September 23rd, 2015 11:32 AM

Impending Layoffs at ESPN Aren't Only About the 'Media Landscape'

Word on the street is that ESPN is planning to lay off "200 to 300" employees in the coming months. The go-to euphemism surrounding the impending layoffs, according to Variety's Brian Steinberg, is "the changing media landscape," primarily the "cord-cutting" phenomenon. In July, the Big Lead blog, in discussing Keith Olbermann's expected departure from ESPN, explained that "millennials are…
Tom Blumer
September 23rd, 2015 11:16 AM

Margaret Cho: ‘Tax the Church’

Ultra-lefty actress and comedian Margaret Cho is feeling the Bern. And apparently her choice to support self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders caused her great anguish because she is also an adoring Hilary Clinton fan. Recently on HuffPost Live, Cho was asked if she had any intentions to run for office someday. “I’m not sure if I have the, uh, moral fiber and fortitude and integrity that it…
Erin Aitcheson
September 23rd, 2015 11:14 AM

Al-Ja-SeeYa! Massive Layoffs Coming for Qatari-Owned Network

An anti-Western propaganda network is reportedly letting go a quarter of its workforce. But this time it’s not MSNBC. On Tuesday, The Guardian reported that falling oil prices are forcing the Qatari emir to cut expenditures. So rather than cut his funding of Hamas, 800-1,000 al-Jazeera employees are on the chopping block worldwide.
Matt Philbin
September 23rd, 2015 10:34 AM

Right Wing Watch Proves Norman Lear is No 'Conservative'

Famed TV producer Norman Lear came out as “a bleeding-heart conservative,” in an Aug. 1, Entertainment Weekly interview. But much like Lear’s shows All In The Family, The Jeffersons and Maude, it’s fiction. Lear’s pet organization, People For the American Way, proves it. The group (which is both funded and led by Hollywood figures) claims to stand up for freedom of speech and religion -- two…
Aly Nielsen
September 23rd, 2015 10:22 AM

The 5 Biggest Liberal Media Smears of Pope Francis

Yes, the head of the Catholic Church is popular. And it’s because of that, that the liberal media smear his image to their own advantage. The networks herald the “popular pope” where they agree with him, and censor him where they don’t (abortion, marriage). Media outlets from the Washington Post to MSNBC pit him against conservatives to create the illusion that he is one with them: a liberal. A…
Katie Yoder
September 23rd, 2015 10:18 AM

Salon and Huffington Post Agree With Krugman But Lament His Repetition

Paul Krugman’s anti-austerity, pro-Keynesian views sounds like a broken record, even to the left-wing publications that agree with him. Mike Pesca, who has a daily podcast for Salon called “The Gist,” said that the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s opinion columns for The New York Times are getting tiresome because he mostly talks about the same three things. Pesca noted, “He says austerity is…
Michael Greibrok
September 23rd, 2015 10:06 AM

NY Times Uses Pope Francis Visit To Rehash Decades-Old Abuse Story

This month's historic trip of Pope Francis to the United States cannot halt The New York Times from its relentless obsession with decades-old cases of sex abuse committed by Catholic priests. Despite the Church's unprecedented corrective measures just in the past dozen years, not to mention nearly $3 billion in settlements and over $85 million in therapy to accusers, one would think it was 1992…
Dave Pierre
September 23rd, 2015 9:42 AM

NYT's Condescending Martin Condemns GOP Field as Childish, Anti-Muslim

Jonathan Martin, perhaps the most condescending of the New York Times stable of GOP-hostile political reporters, eagerly condemned the entire Republican presidential field as childish and divisive in "Without Calming Voice, G.O.P. Is Letting Divisive Ones Speak on Muslims." Reacting to a critical comment by candidate Dr. Ben Carson about the possibility of a Muslim presidency, Martin took the…
Clay Waters
September 23rd, 2015 9:20 AM