Poll Shows 46 Percent Want Stephanopoulos Out of Campaign Coverage

If it weren't for bad luck, senior ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos would have no luck at all. According to a poll released Tuesday by Rasmussen Reports, a plurality of 46 percent of likely voters think that the co-host of the weekday Good Morning America program and This Week, a Sunday news and interview show, should be banned from any coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Randy Hall

ABC Touts Elian Gonzalez Interview: He 'Still Supports Fidel Castro'

ABC on Monday eagerly touted an "exclusive" interview with Elian Gonzalez. Jim Avila, appearing on Good Morning America and World News with his scoop, never mentioned that the now-21-year-old might have been brainwashed with Cuban communist propaganda. Instead, he parroted, "Elian still supports Fidel Castro, who has routinely visited him since his return, with his classmates, at his birthday and…
Scott Whitlock

Daily Beast Writer: Why Not Lena Dunham As a Maxim Cover Girl?

In her May 19 piece, "Maxim Just Became Your New Feminist Bible," Daily Beast writer Emily Shire hailed the men's magazine for selecting musician Taylor Swift as the cover girl for its latest edition, containing a "Hot List" of female celebrities. Shire was delighted at the choice of Swift and of the photo itself which "emphasizes Swift’s piercing, brooding eyes" and hold her forth as "a woman…
Ken Shepherd

MSNBC’s Roberts: Hillary ‘Pretty Great On the Fly’ Answering Questions

Following Hillary Clinton’s first time engaging with the press in nearly a month, MSNBC predictably cheered her performance. Evidently 28 days is not enough of an opportunity to prepare for questions, because afternoon host Thomas Roberts lauded her brief few minutes with the press: “She was pretty great on the fly answering these questions. She didn't hedge on much of anything. And she buckled…
Connor Williams

Stephanopoulos Scandal Raises Question: Who Is/Should Be a Journalist?

"[T]oday, it appears that if you are blonde, have great legs, or worked in the White House and can read a teleprompter, bammo, you are a journalist."
Cal Thomas

USA Today's Page: A 'Mystery' That Talented Hillary Skips Questions

The journalists on MSNBC, Tuesday, appeared baffled at Hillary Clinton's struggling presidential campaign, deeming it a "mystery" why the candidate doesn't answer more questions. Alex Seitz-Wald talked up the Democrat's meager five minute press conference: "I certainly don't think it will satisfy the cries [for more journalistic access], but it might sate them for a while at least." USA Today's…
Scott Whitlock

CEO: Media Unfairly Attacked Gov. Walker's Job Policies

A prominent American businessman said the media have unfairly “pounced” on recent data to slam Gov. Scott Walker’s employment policies in Wisconsin. CKE Restaurants CEO Andrew Puzder, whose company owns Hardee’s, Carl’s Jr. and other restaurants, defended Walker’s jobs record on CNBC’s Squawk Box May 19. According to Puzder, Walker’s critics in the media took data “completely out of context”…
Joseph Rossell

CKE Restaurants CEO Says Media Unfairly Attacked Gov. Walker’s Job P

Wisconsin under Walker has done ‘better than probably any state,’ Andrew Puzder tells CNBC.
Joseph Rossell

CNN Marvels at Obama/Clinton Twitter Conversation: 'That's Cute!'

On Tuesday's New Day, CNN's Michaela Pereira and Alisyn Camerota heralded the first Twitter conversation between President Obama and former President Bill Clinton. Pereira touted how Obama "has finally joined Twitter" (despite pointing out his previous @BarackObama name). Camerota later gushed over the exchange: "That's cute!"
Matthew Balan

Anti-Christian Bigot and Bully Dan Savage Talks up Being ‘Kind, con

In Newsweek, $1 magazine gets Savage’s 2 cents on ‘future of sex.’
MRC Culture Staff

Letterman: Jeb Opposing Gay Marriage Like Being Against Women Voting

With David Letterman officially signing off as host of CBS’s Late Show on Wednesday, the liberal comic took time once again to bash Republicans for their support of traditional marriage during his Monday night monologue. 
Jeffrey Meyer

Fake but Accurate? Film Offers Sympathetic Take on Rather’s ‘Memogate’

How does liberal Hollywood spin a scandal which disgraced a veteran journalist and an award-winning producer?  Use a discredited liberal journalist’s take on it, of course.  The Wrap reported this morning that Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the U.S. right to the film Truth, an adaption of the memoir of ex-Dan Rather producer Mary Mapes defending “Rathergate.” Mapes and Rather’s 60 Minutes …
Kristine Marsh

CBS This Morning Promotes ‘Pot Entrepreneurs’ In Colorado

On Tuesday, CBS This Morning’s resident marijuana correspondent Barry Petersen filed yet another pro-pot piece and highlighted how “[t]his new business is still figuring out how to be a business."
Jeffrey Meyer

George Stephanopoulos Skips ABC Segment on Hillary Scandals

Good Morning America on Tuesday covered the latest details of Hillary Clinton's scandals and her refusal to talk to the media. However, George Stephanopoulos, the man who gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation and who "loves" the Democrat, did not anchor the segment. Instead, co-host Robin Roberts explained, "The State Department announcing it may not release her private e-mails from when she was…
Scott Whitlock