NYT: Unpopular Flop Bobby Jindal vs. Bold Progressive Bernie Sanders

Surprising precisely no one, the New York Times greeted the launch of the presidential campaign of Bobby Jindal, conservative Republican governor of Louisiana, with an almost wholly negative story, portraying the governor as an unpopular failure: "Gov. Bobby Jindal, who is Louisiana’s first nonwhite governor since Reconstruction but whose popularity plummeted as the state struggled with a $1.6…
Clay Waters
June 25th, 2015 10:24 PM

CNN Touts Another Panel of Voters Who Slant Heavily Liberal

A week after CNN's New Day aired a pair of pre-recorded segments focusing on an allegedly balanced group of New Hampshire voters who ended up displaying political views stacked heavily in the liberal direction, this week's batch of voters -- this time from Charleston, South Carolina -- appear even more slanted to the left in spite of suggestions of a balanced sample with equal numbers of…
Brad Wilmouth
June 25th, 2015 9:46 PM

NBC Trumpets ObamaCare Beneficiaries ‘Who Say It’s Been...a Lifesaver’

Touting how “over ten million people have now signed up for health insurance under the ObamaCare law,” NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on Thursday night trumpeted “the ObamaCare law now directly effecting so many families who say it’s been quite literally a lifesaver.” Chris Jansing delivered heartwarming anecdotes about people who have benefitted and only, at the very end of her report, did…
Curtis Houck
June 25th, 2015 9:30 PM

States Don't Have Rights, People Do

When the South lost the Civil War, new opposition arose to the nation's founding ideals. Progressives of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were OK with the idea of equality, but they hated the idea of individual rights that limited the power of government. Sounding a lot like Calhoun, President Woodrow Wilson complained that the American people had never gotten over the Declaration. Both the…
Scott Rasmussen
June 25th, 2015 8:45 PM

You Are What You Say You Are

"[M]odernity permits liberties previously unknown or unrecognized. Today we're not held to reality."
Walter E. Williams
June 25th, 2015 8:24 PM

Firestorm Escalates Over Trump’s Tough Talk

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is like the guy who takes out a Latin woman, showers her with compliments, and then calls her younger brother a pothead loser.
Kevin Gibbons
June 25th, 2015 7:33 PM

Transgender Activist Interrupted Obama Because 'We Need to Be Heard'

During a reception at the White House on Wednesday to celebrate June as “Gay Pride Month,” a speech by Barack Obama was cut off by an "undocumented" transgender activist who shouted: “President Obama, release all LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) immigrants from detention!” Not long after Jennicet Gutierrez -- a Latina member of the Not One More Deportation immigrant …
Randy Hall
June 25th, 2015 6:41 PM

MSNBC’s Wagner Bemoans Scalia’s ‘Deeply Emotional, Partisan Core’

Despite getting a favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the ObamaCare case King v. Burwell, MSNBC’s Now host Alex Wagner couldn’t help but take issue with Justice Antonin Scalia as a Justice and the “bitterness and the vitriol” he employed in his dissent. She lamented that it “revealed a deeply emotional, partisan core that informs Scalia's decision making.”
Curtis Houck
June 25th, 2015 6:23 PM

Shorter Daily Beast: Roberts Ruling in Burwell Was Conservative

The Supreme Court's opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts in the King v. Burwell case was classic conservative judicial philosophy, argues the Daily Beast's Jay Michaelson.
Ken Shepherd
June 25th, 2015 6:16 PM

Maddow Producer: Roberts’ Ruling ‘An Enormous Favor’ For GOP

In the lead-up to the King v. Burwell decision, not a few liberals claimed that most Republicans secretly wanted the Supreme Court to uphold certain Obamacare subsidies because quashing them would have caused major political hassles for the GOP. The SCOTUS ruled Thursday morning, and before noon we had examples of the updated conventional wisdom: Republicans are happy with the decision, which…
Tom Johnson
June 25th, 2015 5:35 PM

Networks Yawn at Farrakhan's 'Put the American Flag Down' Diatribe

As of Thursday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts had yet to report on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Wednesday rant against the American flag at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. Conservative talk radio station WMAL recorded Farrakhan's diatribe, where the radical figure called for an end to that national symbol: "We need to put the American flag down…
Matthew Balan
June 25th, 2015 5:12 PM

NBC Writer Finds South Asians Dismissive of Jindal's 'Indian Heritage'

Following Bobby Jindal’s Tuesday announcement that he is seeking the presidency in 2016, he has received heat from several mainstream media sources. They have argued Jindal is not a true Indian-American. NBC News continued this trend in an article on their website which suggested that many Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans are skeptical of the Louisiana governor. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, argued…
Connor Williams
June 25th, 2015 4:21 PM

Obama Immigration Crisis Examined on Univision

If you want to get a better idea of where Univision’s liberal bias comes from, just take a look at some of the sponsors behind the network’s programming. This became apparent once again during Univision’s recent televised “town-hall” meeting aimed at examining the predicament both President Obama’s executive immigration actions and the targeted beneficiaries of those actions currently find…
Javier Zurita
June 25th, 2015 4:15 PM

Fox News Fires Bob Beckel

"Fox News has officially dropped 'The Five' co-host Bob Beckel from the network, saying the show could no longer be held 'hostage' to his personal issues," Dylan Byers of Politico reported earlier this afternoon, citing initial coverage by Mediaite.
Ken Shepherd
June 25th, 2015 3:58 PM