FBI Hillary Investigation Focuses on Espionage Act; Media Yawns

The establishment press is all over revelations by Fox News Friday morning that the investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails involves a "section of the Espionage Act is known as 18 US Code 793," and that "the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to 'gathering, transmitting or losing defense information,'" according to "an intelligence source." ... Just kidding. The only reaction I'…
Tom Blumer
August 29th, 2015 12:53 AM

U of M, AP Falsely Blame Consumer Sentiment Drop on Market Plunge

At the Associated Press today, Christopher Rugaber appears to have played along with a game of make-believe in his coverage of the August release of the University of Michigan's Survey of Consumers. The index dropped for the second straight month, this time from 93.1 to 91.9, a point below August's prelimnary reading of 92.9. That trailed expectations that it would come in at 93.0. The survey's…
Tom Blumer
August 28th, 2015 10:22 PM

Networks Ignore Hillary's Holocaust-Invoking 'Boxcar' Blast at GOP

ABC, CBS, and NBC 's evening newscasts on Friday all failed to cover Hillary Clinton's latest inflammatory attack on Republicans in which she made a thinly-veiled comparison to the Holocaust: "I find it the height of irony that a party, which espouses small government, would want to unleash a massive law enforcement effort...to go and literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces…
Matthew Balan
August 28th, 2015 10:15 PM

L.A. Times Gushes: When Kanye West Told 'Bush That Black Lives Matter'

In the Los Angeles Times, Dexter Thomas warmly recalled hip-hop artist Kanye West dropping a rhetorical bomb on President George W. Bush ten years ago in a supposedly unifying fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina victims on NBC. It was headlined “When Kanye West told George Bush that Black Lives Matter.” "I hate the way they portray us in the media,” West said, quavering. “If you see a black family…
Tim Graham
August 28th, 2015 9:19 PM

MSNBC Guest: Trump Makes It Hard for Fox to Keep 'Rubes in Paddock'

Care to see the sneering face of supercilious liberal condescension?  Check out the video clip of John Fugelsang, a Sirius host who appeared on MSNBC this afternoon. He laid out a loony conspiracy theory according to which Fox News wanted to "give" the GOP nomination to Jeb, so that he in turn could lose to Hillary, and Fox could be the "hate Hillary network" for the next four years.
Mark Finkelstein
August 28th, 2015 7:02 PM

LA Mayor Wants Jenner to Carry Olympic Torch

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti apparently doesn’t think Bruce Jenner has won enough laurels in his heroic struggle against biology, so the mayor is recommending that Jenner headline an event with a wee bit more visibility than his foundering E! Channel reality series.
Dylan Gwinn
August 28th, 2015 6:45 PM

New Yorker Writer: Guns 'Have an Almost Entirely Symbolic Function'

The Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor famously and emphatically rejected the idea that the host used in the Communion rite is a mere symbol. Gun owners might have a similarly negative response to Adam Gopnik’s claim that guns “have an almost entirely symbolic function.” “No lives are saved, and no intruders are repelled [by the use of guns]; the dense and hysterical mythology of gun love has…
Tom Johnson
August 28th, 2015 5:55 PM

Karen's Advice for Hillary: 'No Apologies, Just Keep Moving'

Asked by MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin whether Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton should apologize for comparing her GOP presidential rivals to terrorists, Washington Post national political corresondent Karen Tumulty demurred, remarking that "the lesson of Donald Trump in this election season is: no apologies, just keep moving."
Ken Shepherd
August 28th, 2015 4:52 PM

Huffington Post Blames Koch Brothers … for Hurricane Katrina?

The Huffington Post wrote  about claims the Koch brothers “exacerbated the impact of Hurricane Katrina and stalled the Gulf Coast’s recovery.” The Aug. 27, article was based off of a new report by the Bridge Project. Bridge is, according to HuffPost, part of the “Democratic opposition research group American Bridge” and is “dedicated to opposing the conservative movement’s extreme ideology and…
Michael Greibrok
August 28th, 2015 4:32 PM

MSNBC: Katrina a ‘Stain’ Bush Presidency ‘Could Never Recover From'

MSNBC hosts on Friday jumped at the chance to bash former President George W. Bush over his handling of Hurricane Katrina on the 10th anniversary of the storm that ravaged the gulf coast. On NewsNation, host Tamron Hall proclaimed: “Many have said, including writer Douglas Brinkley and others, that this was the stain on his presidency that he could never recover from.”
Kyle Drennen
August 28th, 2015 3:08 PM

Kristof Admits Gun Control Probably Wouldn’t Have Stopped WDBJ Shooter

During a discussion on the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof briefly admitted that gun control would not have stopped the shooter who shot dead two local news reporters in Roanoke, Virginia on Wednesday, but continued to nonetheless argue that more gun restrictions are needed. He let slip that “you know, it may well be that no measure could have…
Curtis Houck
August 28th, 2015 2:56 PM

Networks Ignore Margaret Sanger Protest at National Portrait Gallery

Not even in the wake of the sickening Planned Parenthood videos will the broadcast networks dare to criticize Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. During their news shows, ABC, NBC and CBS ignored a press conference against Margaret Sanger held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. During the event, black pastors and other pro-life leaders demanded the removal of a Margaret Sanger bust – a…
Katie Yoder
August 28th, 2015 2:55 PM

WashPost Promotes 'Gender-Fluid Hip Hop Group' Called the 'Barf Babes'

The Washington Post is celebrating the gender-blurring agenda again. Friday’s positive transgender freakout came on the front of the Style section, simply titled “BARF BABES.” Music writer Chris Richards profiled Barf Troop, an “outsider ‘gender-fluid’ hop-hop group that formed on Tumblr” and its leader, “Babeo Baggins.” Richards oozed that their music can be "exponentially affirming" when…
Tim Graham
August 28th, 2015 2:42 PM

‘Wussified’: Sarah Palin Blasts ESPN for Schilling Suspension

Sarah Palin let fly with a near dissertation-length slamming of ESPN Friday morning for their suspension of Curt Schilling earlier in the week. Schilling had tweeted a graphic comparing the number of Muslim extremists in the world today to the number of Nazi extremists in Germany in 1940. Though, the tweet was distorted by the MSM to make it appear as though Schilling was comparing all Muslims…
Dylan Gwinn
August 28th, 2015 1:43 PM