Toobin: Refusing to Serve Gay Weddings & Jim Crow 'Precisely Parallel'

Jeffrey Toobin likened social conservative Christian business owners who refuse to participate in same-sex "marriages" to advocates of racial segregation during a Monday special on CNN: "This is...precisely parallel to the people in the '50s and '60s, who thought there was a religious obligation to keep the races separate – and they really believed that." Toobin continued by underlining that "we…
Matthew Balan
March 31st, 2015 1:22 PM

MSNBC Sees 'Backlash' Over New Daily Show Host's Anti-Israel Comment

The liberal journalists at MSNBC and the co-creator of The Daily Show were taken aback by the perceived anti-Israel, anti-Jewish comments of the newly crowned host. Cable anchor Tamron Hall on Tuesday declared that comedian Trevor Noah is "already generating some controversy."
Scott Whitlock
March 31st, 2015 12:34 PM

Doug Schoen: Clinton Signed RFRA Because of ‘Electoral Practicality'

Appearing on Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs Tonight on Monday to discuss Indiana's new religious freedom law, Democratic Strategist Doug Schoen revealed that President Clinton only signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993 because of “electoral practicality.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
March 31st, 2015 11:54 AM

NYT Pens Hypocritical Tribute to 'Collegial' Bork-Basher Ted Kennedy

Reporter Julie Hirschfeld Davis penned a hypocritical tribute to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts in Tuesday's New York Times: "Praising a Senate Mentor, and the Example He Set." Davis was marking President Obama' speech in Boston at the opening of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, previously hailed in theTimes. Not even one "liberal" label managed to squeak in to Davis's tribute to (…
Clay Waters
March 31st, 2015 11:16 AM

Love Letter: CBS Reminisces Over 'New England Superstar' Ted Kennedy

CBS's love for the Kennedy family continued on Monday night. Evening News journalists hyped the opening of a new institute in Massachusetts that is named after Ted Kennedy. Anchor Scott Pelley swooned, "Another New England superstar was honored today. Politics was his game and we'll have his story next." 
Scott Whitlock
March 31st, 2015 11:12 AM

Huff-Post: Indiana's New Religion Law a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'

Following the passage of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the Huffington Post began churning out anti-religious freedom screeds like an assembly line of hyperbole. The most outrageous of which came from the "Reverend" Susan Russell, who called the law a "perversion of religion into a weapon of mass destruction." It’s remarkable how negatively this religious leader views…
Bryan Ballas
March 31st, 2015 11:11 AM

NBC's Guthrie Urges Warren to Run in 2016; Hillary Not Liberal Enough

In a fawning softball interview with Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie spent the entire segment asking if the left-wing heroine was going to run for president, even to the point of suggesting Hillary Clinton wasn't liberal enough.  
Kyle Drennen
March 31st, 2015 10:53 AM

Daily Beast Writer Partially Blames Bush For Bergdahl

Bush Derangement Syndrome is alive, well, and living in the head of Nancy A. Youssef at the Daily Beast. In a March 26 item tagged "Fallen Hero" (?!) about the Army charging Bowe Bergdahl with "desertion and misbehaving before the enemy," the web site's Senior National Security Correspondent wrote that "the administration celebrated negotiating his release after years of failed bids by both the…
Tom Blumer
March 31st, 2015 10:40 AM

Network TV has a new Emperor

Haley Halverson
March 31st, 2015 9:45 AM

Nicolle Wallace Jabs Ingraham's Jeb Criticism: 'She Hates Everybody'

On today's Morning Joe, liberal Republican Nicolle Wallace sought to slough off a Politico article reporting that Jeb Bush is losing the influential "Laura Ingraham primary." Claimed Wallace, who served as Jeb's press secretary when he was governor of Florida, Ingraham "hates everybody.  She always hates the Republicans more than the Democrats at this point, too." Wallace even suggested that…
Mark Finkelstein
March 31st, 2015 9:31 AM

NBC's Ann Curry Compares Conservatives in U.S. to Iranian Hardliners

While reporting on Monday’s NBC Nightly News with the latest from the Iranian side of the international talks in Switzerland over their nuclear program, Ann Curry smeared U.S. conservatives by likening them to radical hardliners in Iran’s Islamic regime: “As in the U.S., Iran has conservatives who don't trust the other side and they are ready to pounce if they believe negotiators give up too much…
Curtis Houck
March 30th, 2015 11:52 PM

CNN's Dana Bash Goes After Ted Cruz For His ... Lack of Experience!

On Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, Dana Bash, while interviewing Texas Senator and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz, attempted to compare his alleged lack of experience to that of Barack Obama when he declared his candidacy in 2007. It did not go well for her. It's a mystery why Bash might have thought that Cruz wouldn't have an answer for her faux concerns, but he did, and he hit her…
Tom Blumer
March 30th, 2015 11:14 PM

NYT Wowed by Jeb Saying GOP Must Accept Diverse 'Changing Country'

New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin hit the New Hampshire hustings for his condescending Page 1 story, "Bush and Walker Point G.O.P. to Contrary Paths." Martin made it clear where those paths lead: Either up to the sunny moderate climes of colorful diversity with Jeb Bush, or down a dispiritingly white conservative lockstep path with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. In Martin's condescending take…
Clay Waters
March 30th, 2015 11:11 PM

HBO Star Lena Dunham Sinks Into Insulting 'Dog or Jewish' Controversy

Screenwriter and actress Lena Dunham has managed to put herself back in the limelight amid a new controversy. Dunham finds herself in the news not because her show Girls had season premiere ratings that plummeted by 40 percent, or the questionable incidents from her book Not that Kind of Girl that included passages of molesting her sister or falsely accusing an innocent man of raping her. No.…
Melissa Mullins
March 30th, 2015 11:01 PM