Fact Check: Pence Didn't Say 'Obama Ordered' VA to Squash Religion

The leftist video site Raw Story attacked Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday with a story headlined "Pence hypes false conspiracy theory that Obama ordered Christianity out of VA hospitals." Fact check: Pence didn't say "Obama ordered" a crackdown on Christian materials. But in the Obama years, Bibles were removed from VA centers and religious Christmas carols were banned at an Augusta,…
Tim Graham
August 29th, 2019 3:56 PM

New Survey: Most Agree Journalists 'Deserve' Scrutiny, Criticism

A new poll from Rasmussen Reports reveals most Americans believe that journalists are more liberal than they are, and deserve scrutiny, despite the fervent objections from The New York Times. There’s even more bad news for the liberal media: the majority also agreed President Trump’s attacks on the press were “appropriate.”
Kristine Marsh
August 29th, 2019 3:23 PM

They Need to Calm Down. 'Variety' Hypes Taylor Swift, ‘Protest Singer’

Variety really, really wants Taylor Swift to be an anti-Trump troubadour. The chorus of Cracker’s raucous “Teens Angst” might not be the greatest line in rock n’ roll history, but it’s up there. And it has the advantage of being timeless. As in 1992, the world needs a lot of things, but the political musings of musicians and poptarts aren’t among them.
Matt Philbin
August 29th, 2019 3:11 PM

YouTube Calls Itself ‘Open’ After Removing Channels

When is the best time to pretend to be a neutral and open platform? Probably not after banning several accounts for content. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki released a creator blog ”Preserving openness through responsibility” Tuesday August 27. She declared her commitment to the video sharing website being an “open” platform while also proclaiming a commitment to liberal values.
Alexander Hall
August 29th, 2019 2:17 PM

Facebook Does Not ‘Guarantee’ Its Platform Will Be Free

A small change made to the company’s slogan could open the door for Facebook to make even more money from the social media network. Previously, according to USA Today, the slogan on the front page of Facebook was “It’s free and it always will be.”
Corinne Weaver
August 29th, 2019 1:56 PM

Beto's Campaign Ejects Breitbart Editor for 'Hateful Reporting'

As if Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke doesn’t have enough to worry about as he craters in the polls, a staffer working in his campaign caused an embarrassing incident on Tuesday by ejecting a reporter who was covering the event for a conservative news website. O’Rourke -- whose full name is actually Robert Francis “Beto” O'Rourke -- was addressing a rally in South Carolina when a…
Randy Hall
August 29th, 2019 1:13 PM

Omission Watch: New Lefty ‘Dark Money’ Arm Spending Millions on Ads

A new liberal 501(c)(4) “dark money” group linked to the liberal House Majority PAC intends to spend millions on TV and digital ads to help Democrats maintain control of the House of Representatives. Internal Revenue Service rules stipulate that 501(c)(4) organizations cannot make politicking the primary purpose, yet the new group plans to devote 94% of its 2019 budget to ads.
Joseph Vazquez
August 29th, 2019 12:20 PM

Telemundo Celebrates Song Honoring Ruthless Mexican Capo

Now that convicted cartel boss Joaquín ´El Chapo ́ Guzmán is serving a life sentence at the ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado, Telemundo fueled the lore about him as a bigger-than-life hero with a two-minute report on a new narcorrido, a narrative ballad in which the lyrics praise drug trafficking and illegal activities, that portrays him as a loving father and not a serial killer (over 3,…
Kathleen Krumhansl
August 29th, 2019 12:19 PM

Not a Good Week: Now NBC Botches New Citizenship Claim

It hasn’t been a good week for NBC. First, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell had to retract a bombshell claim that Donald Trump’s taxes showed loans co-signed by Russian oligarchs. Now, MSNBC has backed down on an assertion that “children born to U.S. service members outside of the U.S. will no longer be automatically considered citizens. Parents will have to apply for citizenship for their children in…
Scott Whitlock
August 29th, 2019 12:10 PM

‘Go, Greta, Go!’: NBC & CBS ‘Smitten’ With Teen ‘Climate Crusader’

On Wednesday night, all three network evening newscasts hailed radical teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg sailing across the Atlantic to attend a United Nations global warming summit but ignored the inconvenient truth that the trip won’t actually save carbon emissions. On Thursday, NBC’s Today show and CBS This Morning kept cheering on the “climate crusader” while skipping that…

Kyle Drennen
August 29th, 2019 11:48 AM

CNN: 'Inspiring' Kamala Rallies Are 'Antidote' to Racism [UPDATED]

On CNN’s New Day Thursday morning, the network ended the 8am EST hour with a gooey segment hyping Kamala Harris as essentially the next [female] Barack Obama. Correspondent Kyung Lah went to a Harris 2020 rally and spoke only to minority families, touting how girls and families were “inspired” by the biracial Harris, running for President.
Kristine Marsh
August 29th, 2019 10:24 AM

Sports Media Back On the Blurring-the-Genders Beat

Media attempts at gender blurring are big items in sports coverage again this week. Transgenders (see photo of trans athletes who appeared in documentary "Changing the Game") in high school sports in North Carolina and Connecticut are in the news, and a Montana man's presence in a women's cross-country meet Saturday is fanning the debate as well. Sports media are clearly assisting LGBT advocacy…
Jay Maxson
August 29th, 2019 10:00 AM

CNN Hypes Gun Control Activists Lobbying McConnell

On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin seized on a group of gun control activists who delivered a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a stunt to push for more gun laws as she gave two members of the group a forum to promote their views as guests.
Brad Wilmouth
August 29th, 2019 9:10 AM

Joe Scarborough: 'In Shep [Smith] We Trust'

On MSNBC's Morning Joe, after playing a Fox News clip of Shepard Smith reporting on the progress, or lack thereof, on building the Wall, Joe Scarborough says "in Shep we trust."
Mark Finkelstein
August 29th, 2019 8:28 AM