Scarborough: 'I Blame Cable News' for Cops Being Less Safe

You wish he had named names . . . On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough flatly stated "I do blame it on cable news" for "people wearing uniforms being a lot less safe today than they were before Ferguson." So just which cable networks did Scarborough have in mind? Until last week [when he was relegated to the Sunday morning desert], Joe's own MSNBC was the Al Sharpton network. So surely…
Mark Finkelstein
August 31st, 2015 8:59 AM

Quartz Misleads Readers Regarding Pope's Prayer for Lesbian Writer

Yet again a liberal media outlet is trying to engender controversy in a completely non-controversial and commonplace gesture by Pope Francis.
Melissa Mullins
August 31st, 2015 1:26 AM

Ignorant Miami Sportswriter Criticizes 'Anti-Government' Crowd

Miami Herald sportwriter and columnist Greg Cote, whose career has entered or is about to enter its third decade, seems to have incorporated a sideline into his work: glib, ignorant political commentary. One such example surfaced at the end of his August 25 Random Evidence blog post. Apparently, Cote believes that anyone who has ever received any kind of government benefit or has made use of a…
Tom Blumer
August 30th, 2015 11:47 PM

The VMAs Police Bit That Has the Black Lives Matter Crowd Outraged

Actress Rebel Wilson did a comedic police bit on the MTV 2015 Video Music Awards and the Black Lives Matter activists were none too pleased. 
Alexa Moutevelis
August 30th, 2015 11:04 PM

Actress Helen Mirren Gushes Over Hillary's 'Enormous Intelligence'

Appearing in a pre-recorded interview on Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, English actress Helen Mirren -- known for portraying the part of Queen Elizabeth II -- lavishly praised Hillary Clinton as someone with "enormous intelligence," "brilliance," and a "very, very, very fast-moving" brain. And, although she ended up hedging on whether she would actually vote for Clinton if she could, Mirren…
Brad Wilmouth
August 30th, 2015 10:45 PM

WashPost's Ignatius Relies on Hillary Defender With Undisclosed Ties

One of the odder pieces appearing during the past week in connection with the Hillary Clinton email and private server scandal was David Ignatius's attempt to deny that it's a scandal at all in Thursday's Washington Post. Ignatius devoted four of his first five paragraphs to relaying the allegedly expert assessments of Jeffrey Smith, who Ignatius described as "a former CIA general counsel who’s…
Tom Blumer
August 30th, 2015 9:49 PM

Lefty Blogger: GOP Split Between ‘Stormtroopers’ and ‘Ruffians’

In March 2013, the Republican National Committee released what soon became known as the “autopsy report,” which looked at how the GOP might reverse trends that recently had caused the party to lose the popular vote for the fifth time in six presidential elections. Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman believes that conservatives’ hostile response to the report’s big-tent ideas paved the way…
Tom Johnson
August 30th, 2015 8:33 PM

Starstruck NY Times Liberal Outraged at Giuliani's Homeless Criticism

Ginia Bellafante's "Big City" column in Sunday's New York Times smacked of a particular brand of star-struck, fact-allergic old-style liberalism in which Bellafante, metro columnist and occasional reporter for the Times, went after an old enemy, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani: "The Dark Ages of Giuliani." Some urban liberals will apparently never forgive Giuliani for cleaning up the…
Clay Waters
August 30th, 2015 7:07 PM

PBS Warns Abortion Battle May 'Advantage' Clinton, Cruz 'Most Radical'

Catching up on Wednesday's PBS NewsHour, a report filed by PBS political director Lisa Desjardins on the debate over Planned Parenthood funding featured several soundbites of a University of California at Davis professor who, although not presented as a biased source, put forth a mostly liberal slant on the issue as he tagged GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz as the "most radical" on the issue…
Brad Wilmouth
August 30th, 2015 4:15 PM

Juan Williams Cheers Ramos: ‘Walter Cronkite' of Spanish Media

On Sunday’s MediaBuzz, Fox News contributor Juan Williams joined the liberal media in celebrating Univision anchor Jorge Ramos after his confrontation with Donald Trump. The former NPR correspondent argued “Jorge Ramos is no reporter. So, let’s not equate him with a reporter. He is the Walter Cronkite of Spanish language media in this country. He is the star journalist and he has a certain weight…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 30th, 2015 2:13 PM

NBC’s Harris-Perry Blames Charter Schools for New Orleans Problems

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry blamed the growth of charter schools in New Orleans post-Katrina as one of the reasons the city has not improved since the storm. The MSNBC host proclaimed “for many who are African-American it's not a better city in part because this so-called success story in the schools also included charterizing the entire system, which also meant…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 30th, 2015 12:48 PM

Cokie Roberts Praises Jorge Ramos as ‘Icon’ and ‘Very Big Deal’

On Sunday’s This Week, Cokie Roberts gushed over Univision’s Jorge Ramos as an “absolute icon in the Hispanic community.” After ABC’s Martha Raddatz interviewed Ramos about his confrontation with Donald Trump, Roberts swooned over the liberal journalist as someone who is a “very, very big deal, and you know, he's also sort of someone they swoon over.” Panelist Newt Gingrich rejected identifying…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 30th, 2015 11:40 AM

NY Times Headlines Make Clarence Thomas Look Like a Plagiarist

The leftist press has despised Clarence Thomas ever since he fought off their attempt at what he properly characterized as a "high-tech lynching" to become a Supreme Court justice almost 24 years ago. It has worked to smear and discredit him ever since. The latest such effort was posted online at the New York Times on Thursday and published in its Friday print edition. The online and print…
Tom Blumer
August 30th, 2015 10:42 AM

Coming Unglued: María Elena Salinas’ Thermonuclear Defense Of Ramos

Jorge Ramos' longtime co-anchor shot all the way in on the Jorge Ramos trollfest, and her editorial column really has to be seen to be believed. Here it is full text in all its glory (link to Spanish-language original here)
Jorge Bonilla
August 30th, 2015 10:40 AM