Salon Gets Shameless: 'Baltimore's Violent Protesters Are Right'

The liberal movement in the United States – including its “mainstream” media – would very much like to curtail conservative freedom of speech. But it wants to create a “safe space” for rioting advocacy for the “oppressed.” See the latest offering as Salon.com. The headline is "Baltimore’s violent protesters are right: Smashing police cars is a legitimate political strategy. It's crucial to see…
Tim Graham
April 28th, 2015 11:51 AM

Nets: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Case 'Civil Rights Issue of Our Time'

Ahead of Tuesday's Supreme Court hearing on gay marriage, all three network morning shows hailed the "landmark cases" involved in the "historic arguments." On CBS This Morning, correspondent Jan Crawford proclaimed: "You know, for many people this is the civil rights issue of our time, whether or not gays and lesbians are going to be treated equally and allowed to marry just like heterosexual in…
Kyle Drennen
April 28th, 2015 11:25 AM

Joe Scarborough Rips Liberal Media 'Bowing Down' on Clinton Cash

A fiery Joe Scarborough on Tuesday denounced the media's double standard when it comes to investigating the scandal engulfing the Clinton Foundation's financial dealings. An angry Scarborough erupted "The Clintons have made $150 million over the past decade because of contacts they made during public service!" He described the typical journalist reaction as "Let's bow down before Bill and Hillary…
Scott Whitlock
April 28th, 2015 10:30 AM

Dyson: Baltimore Pro Sports 'Forces of Oppression'

Professional race explainer Michael Eric Dyson said a lot of stupid things on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes Monday. (Yes, it’s still on the air.) And really, that’s understandable, given that his job was to find excuses for the inexcusable violence and looting in Baltimore. But mixed in with his litany of exculpatory urban dysfunction (“… the slow terror of expulsions from schools, rising…
Matt Philbin
April 28th, 2015 10:16 AM

Gray Pastor: No Justice, No Peace! Scarborough: No One Wanted Violence

At yesterday's funeral service for Freddie Gray, Pastor Jamal Bryant ended his eulogy by leading the congregation in a highly-charged chant of "No justice! No peace!"  Yet immediately after playing the clip of that moment, Joe Scarborough claimed that the riots that ensued were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted." Had Scarborough listened to his own clip? If…
Mark Finkelstein
April 28th, 2015 8:54 AM

Cozy: New York Times Love-Bombs David Brooks in Book Review Pages

While The New York Times routinely ignores best-selling books by conservative authors like Mark Levin, the fake conservative the Times selected for their own editorial page received a rave review for his latest book in Sunday’s Book Review. Former Time writer Pico Iyer oozed "Brooks’s solemn, often troubled, sometimes infuriating work reminds us is that there are few newspaper columnists who are…
Tim Graham
April 28th, 2015 8:26 AM

Rachel Maddow: Baltimore Police ‘A Little Out of Control’ During Riots

During the 9:00 hour of MSNBC’s live coverage of the ongoing Baltimore riots on Monday night, Rachel Maddow accused the city’s police of being “a little out of control” for returning items being thrown at them by protestors: "But if they're picking up things that are being thrown at them and throwing things back, that implies to me just as a lay observer that the police feel -- that the police…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 28th, 2015 7:51 AM

Marc Lamont Hill on Baltimore: ‘This Is Not a Riot’ But ‘Uprisings'

During CNN’s live coverage on Monday night of the Baltimore riots, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill urged viewers to view what was taking place as “not a riot” but “uprisings” in response to African-Americans “dying in the streets for months, years, decades, centuries” due to “police terrorism.” When brought into the discussion by CNN Tonight host Don Lemon, Hill declared that “there shouldn’t be…
Curtis Houck
April 28th, 2015 12:59 AM

Matthews: Critics 'Trying to Hang' B'more Mayor for 'Destroy' Comments

According to Hardball host Chris Matthews, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is the victim of opportunistic critics "trying to hang" Baltimore's Democratic mayor for her now-infamous statement in which she said that her city's police force tried to give rioters "space" within which they could "destroy" stuff.
Ken Shepherd
April 27th, 2015 10:40 PM

NY Daily News: NBC News Chief Wants Brian Williams to Return

Late Monday afternoon, the New York Daily News reported from sources that NBC News chief Andrew Lack is strongly in favor of bringing suspended NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams back from his six-month suspension. Ironically, a source told the newspaper that Lack has been blaming the news media in advocating for his exit while maintaining the belief that “viewers want” Williams “back.”
Curtis Houck
April 27th, 2015 10:06 PM

Matthews Blames 'Right-to-Work States' In Part for Baltimore Rioting

Right to work states south of Maryland are partly to blame for the rioting in Baltimore, Hardball host Chris Matthews suggested as he wrapped a Monday night interview via satellite with former NAACP president and former Congressman Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.): "I wish the jobs hadn't first gone south, Congressman, because that's where they went first. And they went to the right-to-work states, you know…
Ken Shepherd
April 27th, 2015 9:38 PM

Kohn: ‘Police Violence’ on Blacks ‘More Shameful’ than Baltimore Riots

Early Monday evening during the violent riots in Baltimore, liberal CNN commentator Sally Kohn tweeted her thoughts on the events by lamenting that “looting” was “a real shame,” but “police violence against [the] black community” was [emphasis hers] “FAR MORE shameful.”
Curtis Houck
April 27th, 2015 8:29 PM

Inadvertent Truth? AP Headline: 'Obama Pledges Help to Riot'

The headline is already gone from the Associated Press's national site, but it's still present elsewhere. In the context of events in Ferguson and elsewhere since August of last year, one could argue that it contains more truth than the wire service and the headline's accidental creators will ever admit.
Tom Blumer
April 27th, 2015 8:17 PM

Jack Black: I Like MSNBC But Morning Joe 'Dances' with GOP Wolves

Liberal actor Jack Black is such a big fan of MSNBC he bragged to PBS’s Tavis Smiley “I’ve got like three or four of them queued up on my TiVo every night,” but he wasn’t sure about Joe Scarborough who he claimed “sometimes dances with wolves.”   
Geoffrey Dickens
April 27th, 2015 5:43 PM