NYT's Goldberg Likens GOP Tax Cut to 'Post-Soviet Kleptocracy'
On Tuesday's All In show on MSNBC, during a discussion of Congress passing the Republican tax cuts, New York Times columnist and frequent MSNBC guest Michelle Goldberg likened the plan to "post-Soviet kleptocracy" and asserted that it amounts to "stealing from the the rest of us, stealing from the majority." She went on to call it an "insult" to both the poor and elderly, and predicted that "this…
Brad Wilmouth
Nets Bury Obama’s Derailment of Efforts to Fight Cocaine Trafficking
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning, all three networks buried a blockbuster report by Politico that exposed just how far the Obama administration went in order to secure a deal with Iran over nuclear weapons. ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to cover what Politico blasted in a headline: “The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook.”
Scott Whitlock
The Nation: Right-wingers Make Athletes Pay Price for Dissent
A progressive writer whose been pushing for the collision of sports and politics for nearly a decade says President Trump focuses on black athletes as high-profile symbols of “people to hate,” and his right-wing echo chamber follows his lead.
Jay Maxson
Mitchell Lauds 'Prescient' McCarthy Movie Showing TV News 'Courage'
In Sunday’s Washington Post, the bragging newspaper couldn’t just run an article on the new “fact-based” movie about its Seventies heyday. The Post gang of movie critics made a list of the ten best Journalism Movies and recruited journalists to tout them. The purplest prose about heroic journalistic activists came from NBC’s Andrea Mitchell touting the myth-making movie about CBS News called Good…
Tim Graham
Time for a Trump Makeover of Liberal NPR and PBS
At the close of 2017, no less than seven prominent male hosts and editors of influential government-sponsored radio and television shows are out of work amid claims of sexual harassment. According to their accusers, the alleged Malevolent Seven are powerful pervs and creeps who've been running wild at NPR and PBS for decades, sponsored and subsidized by taxpayers and corporate donors.
Michelle Malkin
NBC's Guthrie Hammers Ryan: ‘Are You Living in a Fantasy World?’
In a particularly hostile interview with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie interrogated the Republican leader over newly-passed tax reform legislation and suggested that he was “living in a fantasy world” for predicting the bill would spur economic growth.
Kyle Drennen
NY Times Venezuela Starvation Story Barely Notes Its Socialist Govt.
Any list of the year's most ignored news stories has to include Venezuela's frightening deterioration. This once reasonably prosperous South American nation is now in the grips of a brutal socialist de facto dictatorship which is moving inexorably to consolidate its control, accompanied by an utterly wrecked economy. Families cannot feed their children, and many are dying. The New York Times…
Tom Blumer
S.E. Cupp Battles Dem Congressman for ‘Scaring’ Voters on Tax Reform
With Congressional Republicans and President Trump set to score a massive win before Christmas with their tax reform bill, Democrats and their liberal media lapdogs were letting loose with their smear and fear campaign. But During HLN’s Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp called out California Democrat Ted Lieu for trying to recklessly scare voters into thinking the bill was going to hurt them when, in…
Nicholas Fondacaro
Bozell & Graham Column: Drawing a Line on Sexual Harassment
After a wave of stunning announcements and admissions about serious sexual misbehavior from Harvey Weinstein forward, observers might wonder if any of the accusations pouring forward are exaggerated, or even false. Most denials have been strangely and unpersuasively worded, as in “I don’t remember it that way.” On the other hand, some accusations are raising eyebrows...like the one against Chris…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
CNN Touts Anti-Tax Cut Public Sentiment It Helped Foment
In the lead-up to Congress passing the Republican tax cut plan, various CNN shows on Tuesday played up a CNN poll finding that 55 percent of Americans oppose the proposal. Such public opposition is hardly shocking given that dominant left-leaning media outlets like CNN have pushed negative spin against the tax cut proposal -- a fact noted by Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy just this…
Brad Wilmouth
CBS Suggests Trump Admin. Is to Blame for Deadly Amtrak Derailment
With the investigation into the cause of the deadly Amtrak train derailment in Tacoma, Washington still ongoing, on Tuesday CBS Evening News placed the blame on the Trump administration claiming they were the ones putting off the implementation of the proper safety regulations. Their accusations came amid reports that both the train and the track were equipped with the required positive train…
Nicholas Fondacaro
NYT Eagerly Spies ‘Mounting Backlash’ vs Trump, Will Turn Red to Blue
The Republicans are doomed in the New York Times, once again. In Tuesday's edition, Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns gathered to giddily shovel the dirt over the GOP’s hopes in the 2018 congressional elections under the harshly titled: “House Control Is at Stake as G.O.P. Suburbs Recoil at President.” The text box: “A mounting backlash could turn some red-hued districts blue in 2018.”
Clay Waters
Get Your Popcorn: Tur Gets Annihilated by Brat in Tax Policy Debate
On Tuesday afternoon, MSNBC Live host Katy Tur reinforced the notion held by some that, quite simply, she’s not ready for primetime when it comes to being a substantive host. The latest example came when her far-left economic views ran into a buzzsaw against Republican Congressman and former economics professor Dave Brat.
Curtis Houck
Celebs to March Against ‘Pariah’ Trump ‘If Mueller Is Fired’
Liberal Hollywood is ready to spring into action at the first whisper of a rumor that President Donald Trump might not get impeached. After The Hill reported Friday that Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier (Calif.) hinted that Trump might fire special counsel Robert Mueller, two Hollywood actresses called for a strong protest. Singer Cher announced the idea on Twitter.