Rand Schools Media: 'Ask the DNC: Is It OK to Kill A 7-Pound Baby?'

Newly-declared 2016 presidential candidate Rand Paul took a shot at the media during a Wednesday campaign appearance in Milford, New Hampshire. An unidentified reporter asked the Kentucky senator about a recent interview he did with the Associated Press that centered on the controversial issue of abortion. Paul replied, "Why don't we ask the DNC: Is it OK to kill a 7-pound baby in the uterus?"
Matthew Balan
April 8th, 2015 6:21 PM

Devilish Details to Follow in the Iran Framework

Too bad the "framework" of a nuclear weapons deal with Iran didn't come four days earlier on April Fools' Day. It would have been more appropriate.
Cal Thomas
April 8th, 2015 5:47 PM

Shock: Jorge Ramos Grills Reid: 'Did You Purposely Lie' About Romney?

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos on Tuesday grilled Harry Reid about his completely unfounded rumor-mongering that then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney failed to pay taxes. On his weekly prime time show on Fusion, America With Jorge Ramos, the Spanish and English language host demanded six times that Reid answer for his attack. Ramos pushed: "You said on the Senate floor that Mitt Romney had not…
Scott Whitlock
April 8th, 2015 5:06 PM

U of Michigan Cancels 'American Sniper' After Muslim Students Complain

The University of Michigan has dropped a campus showing of “American Sniper” after Muslim students complained the film made them feel "uncomfortable." U of M is roughly 40 miles away from Dearborn, a city which is famous for having one of the largest Muslim populations in the U.S. But U of M is also a university, where once upon a time young people went to have their assumptions challenged,…
Kristine Marsh
April 8th, 2015 4:07 PM

NBC's Todd and Mitchell Scold Rand Paul After Today Show Interview

After Senator Rand Paul engaged in a heated interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday's Today, Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd repeatedly scolded the Republican presidential candidate over his conduct with their colleague.  
Jeffrey Meyer
April 8th, 2015 3:39 PM

Networks Ignore Obama's Jab at 'Less-Than-Loving' Christians

As the Big Three networks were touting President Obama's claim that climate change affects the health of children – including that of his own daughter – on Wednesday, their morning and evening newscasts have yet to report on the politician's criticism of many Christians during a Tuesday prayer breakfast. Mr. Obama underlined that "on Easter, I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian, I am…
Matthew Balan
April 8th, 2015 3:29 PM

Salon Columnist: Right Shouldn't Gloat Over Rolling Stone 'Debacle'

When it comes to false media narratives, the typical right-winger should be more concerned with the plank in his own eye than with the speck in the eye of a liberal. That, minus the allusion to the Sermon on the Mount, was the essential argument from Heather Digby Parton in a Wednesday column. Parton sees Rolling Stone’s debunked, retracted University of Virginia rape story as one component of…
Tom Johnson
April 8th, 2015 3:08 PM

Politico Smears Conservative Group Opposed to New FCC Regulations

Opposing new FCC “net neutrality” mandates is suspicious, according to Politico. The politics insider site recently cast suspicion on a conservative group over emails asking legislators to oppose the FCC’s new Internet regulations. As part of American Commitment’s campaign opposing net neutrality regulations the limited-government, free-market group helped hundreds of thousands of people send…
Joseph Rossell
April 8th, 2015 2:56 PM

A Thoughtful Take on RFRA From Hollywood? ‘The Good Wife’ Does It.

Overwhelmed by the shrill hysteria of the left and most media over Indiana’s RFRA controversy? Want to hear some calm, reasoned and respectful arguments, for and against religious freedom accommodations? Check out the latest episode of CBS’ drama The Good Wife. Really.  A subplot to the April 5 episode of CBS’ The Good Wife featured two characters, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) and Reese…
Katie Yoder
April 8th, 2015 12:03 PM

Nets Ask Obama: Has Climate Change Impacted Your Family?

All three networks on Wednesday featured Barack Obama to attack climate "deniers" and lament how global warming has personally "impacted" his family. NBC, ABC and CBS offered almost no skepticism. Typical was NBC medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar. She wondered, "What do you say to the people who deny that climate change is real and that it's impacting our health?"
Scott Whitlock
April 8th, 2015 11:58 AM

Comcast's Syfy Approves Pilot for Affleck-Damon Corporate Tyranny Show

Last October, we relayed that the NBCUniversal-owned Syfy cable network made a development deal with leftist actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for a corporate-dystopia series called “Incorporated.” Now The Hollywood Reporter is offering an update: Syfy has greenlighted the making of a pilot episode. Corporate leftists demonstrate a surprising capacity for hypocrisy. The Syfy press release –…
Tim Graham
April 8th, 2015 11:54 AM

NBC Touts Bill Clinton’s New ‘Backstage’ Role In Hillary’s Campaign

On Wednesday, NBC’s Today offered up yet another puff piece on the Clintons as Andrea Mitchell touted Bill Clinton's new role as a "backstage advisor" for Hillary's 2016 presidential campaign. She beamed at how “[n]ever known to shy away from a campaign, Bill Clinton now vowing to step back when his wife runs in 2016, telling Town and Country magazine, ‘My role should primarily be as a backstage…
Jeffrey Meyer
April 8th, 2015 11:31 AM

AP Covers Up Japan's Likely Slippage Into Another Economic Contraction

In an early Wednesday morning report containing an undercurrent of amazement and frustration that Japan's journey into Keynesianism and quantitative easing on steroids somehow hasn't worked, the Associated Press's Elaine Kurtenback wrote that a steep "April 1, 2014 sales tax hike ... triggered a brief recession and growth since has been flat." The Land of the Rising Sun with the long-…

Tom Blumer
April 8th, 2015 10:39 AM

Rand Paul to Guthrie: ‘Instead of Editorializing…Ask Me A Question'

On Wednesday, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie repeatedly badgered Kentucky Senator Rand Paul over his views on foreign policy following his presidential announcement. Things got so heated during the discussion that Paul had to tell Guthrie “before we go through a litany of things you say I’ve changed on, why don't you ask me a question.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
April 8th, 2015 10:10 AM