The Media's Uneven Treatment of Sexual Abuse

The media are pushing Spotlight, the movie that opens on Friday about the Boston Globe team that exposed priestly sexual abuse in the Boston Archdiocese prior to 2002. But there is little interest in this issue when non-Catholics are implicated in such crimes. As recent cases show, many courts around the nation evince disparate treatment as well.
Bill Donohue

Week in TV News Typos: Candidate Confusion and a 161-Year-Old Iraqi

Journalists love to claim that they’re fact-checking others, but sometimes they might need to take a closer look at their own work. On Nov. 3, a CBS Evening News graphic during an obituary for Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi stated that the Chalabi had died in 2105, instead of 2015 – a 161 year life span.
Mike Ciandella

MSNBC Panel Desperately Tries to Minimize Democrats 2015 Losses

On Wednesday night’s Last Word, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner introduced the broadcast by complaining that despite President Obama “riding the political wave of political success” “the Democratic Party just got a brutal reality check” in the 2015 elections. The MSNBC host and liberal Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne repeatedly tried to downplay the bad night for Democrats and chalked it up to low voter…
Jeffrey Meyer

Anti-Redskins Tribal Leader Decries Redskins While Donning Blackface

Filed under the heading of, “You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up,” I give you Terry Rambler, who is the Chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona. Rambler was in DC recently to represent his tribe at Tribal Nations Conference. He is also a signatory to a pledge calling for the Washington Redskins to change their name, because racism.
Dylan Gwinn

WaPo Writer Demands TV ‘Treat’ Abortion as ‘Routine Medical Procedure'

Abortion belongs in entertainment, according to one Washington Post writer. In her Nov. 2 story, Washington Post opinion writer Alyssa Rosenberg called on television shows to “treat” abortion as a “routine medical procedure.” She celebrated three shows for presenting a “glimmer of refreshing honesty” with abortion: CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW’s Jane the Virgin and FXX’s You’re the Worst.
Katie Yoder

Media Censor Opposition to Transgender Bathroom, Locker Room Laws

Tuesday night, Houston voters rejected a bill propped up by the city’s lesbian mayor Annise Parker that would allow transgender men and women into the public bathroom of their choice. This came after voters in Springfield, MO revoked a similar ordinance passed by the city’s council a few months prior. But the backlash doesn’t stop there. In Fairfax County, VA, Hillsboro, MO and Chicago, IL,…
Kristine Marsh

Mika Tries to Force Scarborough to Say He Respects John Harwood

It was like a mother trying to lead her naughty son through an apology . . .  Last week, Joe Scarborough predicted he would "get in trouble" for calling John Harwood's biased performance as debate moderator "embarrassing." On today's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski tried, in what seemed perhaps to be a pre-arranged mea culpa, to force Joe to say "I really respect everyone I work with." Joe didn't…
Mark Finkelstein

NPR Prods Kareem to Trash Michael Jordan for 1990 Jesse Helms Race

On Sunday night, NPR’s weekend All Things Considered anchor Michel Martin had a long eight-minute interview with pro-basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who’s recently best known for popping off with radical leftist opinions for Time magazine’s website. Martin went looking for the legend to trash another legend, Michael Jordan, for failing to get behind the black Democrat challenging…
Tim Graham

CBS Cries Foul Over Houston Rejecting Transgender Bathroom Measure

The day after voters in Houston, Texas defeated a measure dubbed by many to be “the bathroom bill” aimed at “protecting” gay and transgender people from discrimination, Wednesday’s CBS Evening News lit into those who overwhelmingly opposed the measure by touting fears of Houston businesses being boycotted and even the 2017 Super Bowl being moved out of the city due to this measure’s failure to…

Curtis Houck

‘Empire’ Finds a Way to Exploit Both LGBT and Religious Audiences

In “A High Hope for a Low Heaven,” Fox’s Empire focuses on marketing both Jamal Lyons (Jussie Smollett) and an up-and-coming rapper named J. Poppa.  It’s all about the Benjamins, you see, and there’s money to be made from both the LGBT crowd and the religious folks, too. 
Karen Townsend

‘SVU’ Keeps on Bashing Christians with New Duggar Episode

The writers of Law and Order: SVU are dragging the Duggar family back into the headlines - and defaming Christians to boot.
Erik Soderstrom

NBC NN Touts OH Pot Measure Before Vote; Ignores It After It Fails

After heavily promoting on Tuesday the Ohio ballot initiative to legalize marijuana before the polls closed, NBC Nightly News offered an about-face of sorts on Wednesday and refused to acknowledge the fact that measure was soundly defeated. Hailing it as “high stakes” in the Buckeye State, anchor Lester Holt hyped in a tease on Tuesday’s newscast: “Legalized pot on the ballot tonight in the…
Curtis Houck

Trump Gets Big Cheers at CMAs, Hillary and Carson Bashed

The 49th Annual Country Music Association Awards just wrapped up and while hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood said their goal was to not be political, they still managed to get in some cultural references and shots at the likes of Bruce Jenner, Donald Trump, Josh Duggar, Hillary Clinton, and Dr. Ben Carson.
Alexa Moutevelis

LGBT Activists Demand the NFL Cancel the Super Bowl in Houston

The best efforts of the LGBT community to loose an army of would-be perverts and rapists upon unsuspecting and defenseless women in Houston public restrooms went down in glorious defeat Tuesday night. Yet because overreach is the only known method for dealing with failure that the radical left appears to understand, they decided to double-down on their misfortune and petitioned the NFL to punish…
Dylan Gwinn