Blogger: Right Doesn’t Care About ‘Evidence or Empirical Results’

Conservatives tend to be religious, but is conservatism itself akin to a religion? Yes, opined Washington Monthly blogger David Atkins in a Sunday post. “Many consider modern conservatism to be an almost cultic movement,” Atkins wrote. “Its adherents long since stopped caring about the evidence or empirical results. It’s all about who can prove truest to the faith, and maximally annoy and rebel…
Tom Johnson
August 25th, 2015 12:24 AM

Miami Herald Columnist: Saying 'All Lives Matter' Is 'Moral Cowardice'

Columnist Leonard Pitts may not have caught wind of Thursday's Rasmussen poll before he wrote the column published Saturday at the Miami Herald. Perhaps he still doesn't realize that Rasmussen reported that 64 percent of blacks and 78 percent of likely U.S. voters overall say that "All lives matter" is closer to their own views than "Black lives matter." In his column, Pitts accused what turns…
Tom Blumer
August 24th, 2015 11:38 PM

NBC Oozes: Biden Rumors Have ‘Electrified the Political World’

NBC Nightly News continued on Monday to sing the accolades of Vice President Joe Biden amid rumors of a possible 2016 presidential run, declaring that he’s “electrified the political world” as he met with “liberal icon Elizabeth Warren,” while ABC’s World News Tonight ignored declared candidate Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal. NBC's Peter Alexander began his report by gushing: “Talk about a full…
Curtis Houck
August 24th, 2015 9:38 PM

Matthews: GOP Oppo to Iran Deal Suspect; It's Perfectly OK for Schumer

Congressional Republican opposition to the Iran deal simply boils down to kowtowing to opposing by the Israelis, MSNBC's Chris Matthews suggested during a roundtable discussion exchange with Republican strategist John Feehery on the Monday edition of Hardball. "Why don't we just turn it over to the Knesset then?" Matthews sneered, in reply to Feehery citing Israel's concerns about Iranian-…
Ken Shepherd
August 24th, 2015 9:13 PM

Pure Celebration? Univision's Take on Gay Marriage in Puerto Rico

The first mass gay wedding in Puerto Rico has everyone in party mode. Or at least that’s the conclusion anyone would come to if they trust and rely on Univision to provide them with accurate news.
MRC Latino Staff
August 24th, 2015 9:11 PM

The Kingmaking Delusions of Jorge Ramos

From time to time we cover the tweets of Univision/Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos. An examination of his timeline provides greater depth of understanding of his biases, much more so than can be gleaned from within the constraints of a heavily produced and formatted half-hour evening newscast or weekly talk show.
Jorge Bonilla
August 24th, 2015 6:20 PM

Bloomberg's John Heilemann Calls Jeb the 'Low-T' Candidate

Old enough to remember when the liberal media tried to pin the "wimp" label on George H.W. Bush, the guy who lied about his age to get into WWII and who is still jumping out of planes decades later? John Heilemann of Bloomberg TV has taken things a vulgar step further with another member of the Bush family. On his With All Due Respect show today, Heilemann called Jeb Bush the "low-T" candidate…
Mark Finkelstein
August 24th, 2015 5:32 PM

WashPost Columnist Rails At 'Absurdly Condescending' Food Stamp Limits

After a long stretch of writing humor columns on non-political topics, Washington Post humorist Gene Weingarten returned to liberal flatulence in Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine. He was upset that conservatives in state legislatures were attaching restrictions to what food-stamp debit cards can buy. He joked this was conservatives running a “nanny state” regime:  “Welcome to benign socialism,…
Tim Graham
August 24th, 2015 5:21 PM

Dem Donor: Hillary's Email Scandal is GOP's 'Swift Boat Issue of 2015'

You can tell that the left is getting nervous about a scandal when they invoke the successful Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth campaign of 2004 against John Kerry. As I noted on Saturday, Maria L. La Ganga at the Los Angeles Times did that as she described Planned Parenthood's attempts to fight back against the Center For Medical Progress's exposure of their baby body parts business. On Friday…
Tom Blumer
August 24th, 2015 4:01 PM

Fox Spotlights Planned Parenthood Scandal; Other Sunday Shows Ignore

ABC, CBS, and CNN's Sunday morning news shows all ignored the ongoing controversy over Planned Parenthood's harvesting of aborted babies' organs, as exposed in a series of recent undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress. George Stephanopoulos featured Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley on ABC's This Week, but failed to ask him a question about the scandal. NBC's Meet…
Matthew Balan
August 24th, 2015 2:28 PM

Deflated: Brady Scandal Gets 5 Times More Coverage than China Economy

The downward spiral of China’s economy has sent U.S. stocks plunging wildly. The Dow dropped 1,000 points as the market opened Aug. 24, but stocks were rebounding by midday according to MarketWatch. MarketWatch reported that day, “Chinese equities surrendered all of their gains for 2015, and a rout in the U.S. on Friday that capped the worst week for the market in four years. Investors are…
Julia A. Seymour
August 24th, 2015 2:11 PM

Rep. Mia Love Tears Up on TV Over Planned Parenthood Videos

In case you missed it: Last Wednesday, freshman U.S. Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) spoke to Lou Dobbs on the Fox Business network about the undercover Planned Parenthood videos that have recently come to light.  In an emotional interview, Love told Dobbs that “…it’s our job to protect those who do not have a voice to protect themselves, and to see what is actually happening to babies while they're…
Melissa Mullins
August 24th, 2015 1:57 PM

Luke Russert Laughs at Trump Supporters

He who laughs last, Luke . . . At first I wasn't sure: it certainly sounded like Luke Russert, off camera, was laughing as a reporter said that some Donald Trump supporters told her they hope he hires smart people to carry out his plans. Listen and judge for yourself 35 seconds into the video clip. Was I imagining things? Could he have been coughing? But no, when Russert came back on screen, his…
Mark Finkelstein
August 24th, 2015 1:28 PM

Flashback: 15 Times the Media Politicized Hurricane Katrina

Ten years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and it wasn’t long after the devastation that liberal reporters, hosts and columnists politicized the tragedy - from the left. Everything from George W. Bush’s “big oil” buddies to America’s racism to even tax cuts were blamed for the high human toll.

Geoffrey Dickens
August 24th, 2015 1:23 PM