Notable Quotables: ABC Serves Up Hardballs for Hillary

This week, ABC's David Muir interviews Hillary Clinton, serving up hardball questions such as, "Is your mother's voice in your ear?" At the same time, network journalists insist there's no news in Hillary's e-mail scandal, while a CNN pundit smears Dick Cheney as a "political sociopath."
Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock
September 14th, 2015 9:22 AM

Mika Harangues Panel: Be Honest, Admit Trump 'Likely' GOP Nominee

Mika Brzezinski: fired up and ready to go . . . for Donald Trump? Not exactly. It isn't that Mika's jumping on the Make America Great Again express.  It's just that she wants "intellectual honesty" from her peers when it comes to admitting that Trump has gone from amusing sideshow who's sure to eventually crash to true frontrunner who is now likely to be the Republican nominiee. You might not…
Mark Finkelstein
September 14th, 2015 9:13 AM

'Miss America' Repeats Lie that Planned Parenthood Provides Mammograms

During the 2016 Miss America Competition Miss Tennessee was asked a question by a judge about taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. Not only was the question phrased in a way that distanced the abortion giant from its main business of abortion, but Miss Tennessee's response could have been mistaken for an advertisement for Planned Parenthood - complete with the lie that Planned Parenthood…
Alexa Moutevelis
September 14th, 2015 3:02 AM

AP Portrays Baltimore Mayor Not Running For Reelection as a Victim

Paraphrasing the title of a song Linda Ronstadt made famous, the tune the Associated Press's Juliet Linderman sang Saturday morning in the wake of Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's decision to not to seek reelection was: "Poor, Poor, Pitiful She." That's right. Rawlings-Blake is a victim who is being "dogged by critics who questioned whether she was fit to lead." Linderman made that…
Tom Blumer
September 13th, 2015 11:01 PM

Ex-N'Sync Singer Zings: Transgenders Can't Be Traditionalists

Gay activists can be a bit petty when someone doesn't completely endorse their agenda -- especially within the LGBT lobby. Take Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner, whose slowness to endorse gay marriage annoyed Ellen "I Have No Agenda" DeGeneres on her show. On The Meredith Vieira Show on Wednesday, former N'Sync singer and gay activist Lance Bass mocked the transgender reality-TV star for trying to say he…
Tim Graham
September 13th, 2015 10:57 PM

WashPost Sunday Gospel: Catholic Church 'Needs Condoms'

The Washington Post loves pushing those stuffy conservative church folk around in the Sunday paper. The entire top half of the Sunday Outlook section carried a condom package with wings and the headline “Why the church needs condoms: A more honest position on contraception would help reestablish the Vatican’s moral authority.” That’s according to former New York Times religion reporter (and…
Tim Graham
September 13th, 2015 2:37 PM

NYT on Fashion: Trump Hats Popular Due to Hipster Sense of Irony

Relax liberals. All those Donald Trump campaign hats you see out there don't necessary mean the wearers support The Donald. Many of those hats are really being worn by hipsters making an "ironic" fashion statement. Such is the laughable premise put forth by New York Times political reporter Ashley Parker. In addition, Parker claims that the Trump campaign hat, which is a popular wide-brimmed…
P.J. Gladnick
September 13th, 2015 1:55 PM

Tapper Anticipates ‘Straw Man’ Attack on Him from the GOP Debate Stage

Three days before CNN’s Republican presidential candidates debate, Jake Tapper, the moderator of it, predicted at least one of those on stage will try to distract from the real issues by attacking him. “I anticipate that at some point somebody is going to take a shot at me as the straw man, as the stand-in for the media writ large,” Tapper forecast Sunday morning from the site of the debate, the…
Brent Baker
September 13th, 2015 1:42 PM

ABC’s 'Blood & Oil' This Fall’s New Take on Dirty Dealings by Oilmen

What is the result when Hollywood combines oil prospecting, a young couple chasing the American dream, family feuds and crooked officials? This fall television season, the result is Blood & Oil, ABC’s wannabe-Dallas set in the fictional oil boom town of Rock Springs, North Dakota. The show stars Don Johnson, Chace Crawford and Rebecca Rittenhouse. The trailer even resembled TNT’s Dallas…
Julia A. Seymour
September 13th, 2015 1:30 PM

Blogger: Reporters Self-Conscious About Meager Religious Knowledge

Regarding the mainstream media’s superficial coverage of religion, is the sticking point excessive evenhandedness or simple ignorance? Two lefty bloggers differed Friday on that issue. First, Paul Waldman wrote on The Washington Post’s Plum Line blog that reporters don’t like asking the presidential candidates “about the specifics of their faith and how it might influence their day-to-day…
Tom Johnson
September 13th, 2015 1:23 PM

P.C. on NFL: WashPost Scraps Indian Images for Redskins and Chiefs

The Washington Post published a special section on the NFL, complete with the usual predictions of how the teams would finish in the standings. They even polished it up by illustrating the teams with comic-book-style art. But the Post is so averse to offending the most sensitive Indian activist that it refused to illustrate not only the Washington Redskins, but the Kansas City Chiefs with an…
Tim Graham
September 13th, 2015 9:21 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Let’s Get Lincoln Chafee to One Percent

TBS’s Conan commissioned a song on behalf of Rhode Island’s leading candidate for President, Democrat Lincoln Chafee. FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier made a clip of that parody song, “Let’s Get Lincoln Chafee to One Percent!” its end of show kicker this past Monday night where fill-in host Shannon Bream facetiously pleaded: “One percent. You want a man to have a fighting chance.”
Brent Baker
September 12th, 2015 11:38 PM

Trump and Cruz Battle the Liberal Media Narrative

Donald Trump hates women? Then Republican women rally to Trump. Ted Cruz shut down the government and the GOP is to blame? Then GOP voters will rally in 2014 to give the GOP control of the Senate and just about everything except the White House, which wasn’t on the ballot. When it comes to dealing with liberal media narratives, how to play? In two words? Fight back. Anything less telegraphs to…
Jeffrey Lord
September 12th, 2015 11:01 PM

Gasp! MSNBC Panelist Says Hillary Should Emulate Palin's Authenticity

It took nearly seven years, but at long last it's finally been heard -- praise for Sarah Palin on MSNBC. Even better, one of the people praising Palin -- and there were three, count 'em, three libs on the Lean Leftward cable network today doing so -- suggested that flailing Democrat Hillary Clinton could do worse than to look toward Palin as a political model to emulate.        
Jack Coleman
September 12th, 2015 10:00 PM