Brit Journo: Unlike Corbyn, Bernie Has No 'Whiff of Anti-Semitism'
On Morning Joe, Edward Luce of the UK's Financial Times says if Bernie Sanders were the Democrat candidate, that unlike Jeremy Corbyn, he "wouldn't have the whiff of anti-Semitism about him." Donny Deutsch says that—a recent poll notwithstanding—neither Sanders nor Elizabeth Warren would "come close to beating Donald Trump."
Mark Finkelstein
CBS Reporters: Voters in Primary States Don't Ask About Impeachment
MRC's Brent Baker was monitoring CBS correspondent Major Garrett's podcast The Takeout with three CBS "embeds" in primary states -- LaCrai Mitchell in South Carolina, Nicole Sganga in Iowa, and Musadiq Bidar in Iowa. He found the impeachment-promoting, impeachment-obsessed Washington press corps had a major disconnect with the country, even from Democratic primary voters.
Tim Graham
WashPost: Weiner's Butterfly Effect Might Have Caused Trump's Election
Did Anthony Weiner tweeting a photo of his crotch in 2011 lead to a series of events resulting the election of Donald Trump in 2016? That is the intriguing "butterfly effect" question posed by a Washington Post article.
P.J. Gladnick
Fox's Family Guy Turns Santa Visit Into Underage Sexual Climax
Merry Christmas from Family Guy, where you can reflect on the Christmas spirit with an episode of…an underage Meg orgasming on Santa’s lap?
Elise Ehrhard
Lesbian Showtime Reboot Features Transgender Sex
Last week, Showtime premiered its reboot The L Word: Generation Q, with an episode that included lesbian porn and period sex, among other things. This week featured transgender sex.
Elise Ehrhard
Gullible Guardian Picks Up Fusion GPS Disinfo, Still Pushing Fake News
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the deluded duo of former journalists behind Fusion GPS, the Democratic opposition research group responsible for the discredited “dossier” from British spy Christopher Steele, has put out a calling card for business in Great Britain: “Britain needs its own Mueller report on Russian ‘interference.’” Simpson and Fritsch, who helped snarl Donald Trump and his staff…
Clay Waters
NY Times Respects Religion Questioning ‘Persistently Inhumane’ U.S.
The New York Times demonstrated more strange new respect for Christianity in a prominent story by contributing opinion writer Molly Worthen, including a graphic that took up the entire front of the Sunday Review: “What Would Jesus Do About Inequality?” Push birth control, hate the Koch brothers, and read journalist Jane Mayer, evidently: "Participants are moving beyond the idolatry of the free…
Clay Waters
Paranoid Joy Reid Scared Trump Will Refuse to Leave Office
Paranoia was striking deep on the set of AM Joy today. Host Joy Reid devoted a segment to a discussion of the supposedly serious possibility that President Trump would refuse to leave office after two terms, the constitutional limit of the 22nd Amendment notwithstanding.
Mark Finkelstein
‘SNL’ Hits Conservative Group for Hallmark Lesbian Ad Boycott
Saturday Night Live went after a conservative family group for objecting to a lesbian ad on the Hallmark Channel during the sketch comedy show’s December 14 episode hosted by actress Scarlett Johansson.
Alexa Moutevelis
WashPost Prints Lecture: Don't Mock My Pronouns, You're Suffocating Me
The Washington Post has assembled an array of mean-spirited comedians on staff, from Gene Weingarten to Alexandra Petri to cartoonists Tom Toles and Ann Telnaes. So when it comes to choosing sensitivity over comedy, they're major hypocrites. But they ran a Sunday opinion-section lecture that you should never joke about people choosing their gender pronouns.
Tim Graham
Media Dwell on Supposedly Racist Hand Gesture at Army-Navy Game
The combined enrollment of the U.S. Naval and Army academies is nearly 9,000, but after the annual football rivalry game between the two rivals in Philadelphia Saturday, media are obsessed with three of them for supposedly making racist hand gestures at the game.
Jay Maxson
Feet to the Fire: FNC's Wallace GRILLS Comey on FBI’s Gross Misconduct
In one of the only instances of former FBI Director James Comey being held to some form of account for his overseeing of the bureau’s misconduct during the Russia investigation, Fox News Channel anchor Chris Wallace grilled Comey on what he knew about lies his people were telling the FISA court, his false statements to the public, and whether or not he would resign if he was still the head of the…
Nicholas Fondacaro
ABC, NBC Desperately Discount Dem Becoming GOPer from Impeachment
The Democratic Party and media crusade to impeach President Trump didn’t appear to be going well Sunday, as New Jersey Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew was set to vote against the Articles of Impeachment and become a Republican in the process. ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Sunday Today spent some of their mornings trying to convince the public it was no big deal. Yet, part of the…
Nicholas Fondacaro
Lib Media Bash ESPN's Stephen A. Smith for Ethics Violations
ESPN First Take yell man Stephen A. Smith is under fire for making a mockery of journalism ethics. On Friday, The Root writer Stephen A. Crockett Jr. joined in with Jemele Hill's Twitter criticisms of Smith for secretly working with Jay-Z to arrange last month's failed NFL workout for Colin Kaepernick. Crockett and Hill, a writer for The Atlantic, are giving Smith no mercy.