CBS’s O’Donnell Tosses Softballs to Gay Activist, Presses Santorum

Filling in for Bob Schieffer as moderator of Face the Nation, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell conducted two vastly different interviews regarding multiple religious freedom laws being debate across the nation, by treating Sarah Warbelow of the Human Rights Campaign to a softball interview but repeatedly pressing former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) over his support for such laws. 
Jeffrey Meyer
April 5th, 2015 1:53 PM

Boomerang: CBS On the Receiving End of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Former CBS employee Kenneth Lombardi, 29, who quit the network last November, is suing CBS claiming sexual harassment. The New York Post reports he claims he “was repeatedly drunkenly groped and kissed by powerful men at the network — including the director for the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.” “I have symptoms of PTSD from this,” Lombardi told the Post on Thursday, comparing CBS to “the…
Tim Graham
April 5th, 2015 1:22 PM

Meet the Press Panel Eagerly Hits GOP Over Religious Freedom Laws

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, an all liberal panel repeatedly took shots at the Republican Party over its support for religious freedom laws with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report going so far as to suggest that on the issue on the issue of gay marriage “if we took everybody over the age of 50, and just moved them out of this country, this wouldn't be an issue at all.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
April 5th, 2015 12:17 PM

CBS: Iran ‘Chants Death to America, But More Habit Than Conviction’

On CBS This Morning: Saturday, reporter Elizabeth Palmer did her best to channel the sentiments of Iran following the preliminary nuclear agreement between them and the United States. The CBS reporter proclaimed that “at Friday prayers there was the usual chant of death to America, but more habit than conviction."
Jeffrey Meyer
April 5th, 2015 9:12 AM

On NPR, David Brooks Compares RFRA to Slavery

Pseudo-conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks on gay rights in red states: "To me, the issue is progress. It's like Abraham Lincoln. I'm not drawing the parallel. But Abraham Lincoln knew when to push abolitionism. It was clearly a moral right. But sometimes you got to push it gently."
Tim Graham
April 5th, 2015 8:55 AM

Richmond, Va. Hack Reports 'Memories' GoFundMe For 'Fraud' (Updated)

UPDATE, April 6: An email sent by "Virginia Commonwealth University News" insists, despite the November 2014 tweet originally found at the link about Bryan's "GoFundMe" effort, that Alix Bryan "has not been employed by Virginia Commonwealth University." Accordingly, the text in this post's final sentence now refers to Bryan's claim in her WTVR bio and at her LinkedIn profile to have received a "…
Tom Blumer
April 4th, 2015 11:28 PM

New Republic: How Hillary Can Win With Apps

You know how Hillary Clinton can make a big splash when she announces that she is running for president? Not with some old fashioned message. No, the key to making herself the inevitable nominee according to New Republic senior editor Elspeth Reeve is to use the right apps for the announcement. 
P.J. Gladnick
April 4th, 2015 10:38 PM

NY Times Reporter: Religious Freedom Laws 'Coming From a Dark Place'

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters was asked on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday about the difference between the Indiana religious-freedom law as it was originally written and as it stood now. Peters decided to unveil the bigger issue with the RFRA laws themselves: "these laws look as if they're coming from a dark place. They are designed in many cases to express a disapproval about gay…
Bryan Ballas
April 4th, 2015 6:09 PM

ABC Refuses to Run Ad Against Rahm Emanuel in Chicago

Daily Caller political reporter Patrick Howley is reporting that ABC is refusing to run a political ad against Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel. Real Chicago PAC, run by William Kelly, who ran as a Republican statewide for Illinois comptroller in 2010, put together an ad charging Emanuel and his brother has enriched themselves from his position:
Tim Graham
April 4th, 2015 2:54 PM

Should Chris Cuomo and Stephanopoulos Be Fired for Their Religion?

CNN's Chris Cuomo married in the Catholic Church. George Stephanopoulos has a father who is a minister and a mother who was a longtime official in the Greek Orthodox Church. If they really believe, as their media bias suggests, that conservative churches are centers of bigotry, should they be fired? Or should they denounce and renounce their personal association with these "bigoted" churches?  
Jeffrey Lord
April 4th, 2015 1:21 PM

People Magazine Touts 'Ted Kennedy's Treasures,' Piles On Mike Pence

The April 13 edition of People magazine displays the usual liberal bias – trashing Gov. Mike Pence on religious freedom with attack-quotes from Hillary Clinton and the policy genius known as Miley Cyrus. (College: None.) But they also published a gushy two-page spread on “Ted Kennedy’s Treasures.” Geared like everyone else in the liberal media to the opening of the new Teddy shrine. A…
Tim Graham
April 4th, 2015 11:43 AM

AP Finally Admits: Economy 'Has Been Flagging For Months'

Chickens came home to roost yesterday at the Associated Press. The AP, the economy's most consistent cheerleader when a Democrat is in office, has not only been ignoring and downplaying the significance of disappointing and negative reports for several months, pinning its claim that all is well on the streak of seasonally adjusted 200,000-plus job gains seen during the past 12 months. It has…
Tom Blumer
April 4th, 2015 10:27 AM

Why Bill Maher and Jason Biggs Avoided Trevor Noah’s Vetting

 It looks like new Daily Show host Trevor Noah will survive his Twitter vetting. The South African comic took some heat immediately after getting the gig earlier this week. Social media users scoured his past tweets, finding a number of jokes targeting women and Jews. Comedy Central rushed to stand by its new hire, and it appears the Stewart-to-Noah baton pass will take place later in the year as…
Christian Toto
April 4th, 2015 9:29 AM

NYT Headlines Scare Quotes Around So-Called 'Religious Freedom'

On the front page of the New York Times sat "Religion Laws Quickly Fall Into Retreat," a label-heavy (14 "conservative" labels) 1,500-word story on Indiana's controversial religious freedom law. The Times' coverage has also been consistently slanted with both that labeling bias and scare quotes surrounding the term "religious freedom."
Clay Waters
April 4th, 2015 8:19 AM