The Nation's Zirin Angered Over Jay-Z, NFL Erasing Kaepernick

The NFL and its new partner, rapper Jay-Z, are trying to put ex-player and renegade Colin Kaepernick in the past and move social justice activities off the field, and The Nation's sports editor Dave Zirin is fit to be tied about these developments. Zirin is so mad at Jay-Z for supposedly selling out Kaepernick that he wrote two blogs this week to blister the man who agreed to become a new social…
Jay Maxson
August 23rd, 2019 8:00 PM

MSNBC Blames: David Koch Symbolized 'Influence of Dark Money'

The passing of free market and libertarian activist David Koch on Friday was met by much of the media with a dignified reaction that highlighted Koch's politics, but without portraying him as the cause of all that is wrong with the contemporary political climate. MSNBC Live guest host Chris Jansing took a different route, instead choosing to label the "Billionaire conservative donor" Koch "as one…
Alex Christy
August 23rd, 2019 7:25 PM

NY Times Tends to Forgive Outrageous Tweets... From the Left

Tom Wright-Piersanti, a senior staff editor on the political desk of the New York Times embarrassed his paper, which has been busy lately attacking President Trump for anti-Semitism, when several of his past offensive anti-Jewish tweets resurfaced at Breitbart, including one from New Year’s Day in which he resolves to be “less anti-Semitic” that year! It's revealing to see how the paper has dealt…
Clay Waters
August 23rd, 2019 7:02 PM

Google Cracks Down on ALL Political Speech Among Employees

After waves of criticism — from accusations of bias to firing employees for their political beliefs — Google has rolled out new internal rules for people of all political stripes. Don’t be political. Recode wrote about Google’s new rules, announced Thursday August 22, which include “restrictions on political expression and guidelines on internal debates about company activity.” The guidelines…
Alexander Hall
August 23rd, 2019 5:48 PM

Vanity Fair Recycles Failed 2016 Predictions for 2020

It's pretty much a done deal. President Donald Trump's chances of re-election are almost non-existent. In fact for him to win the 2020 election "might take an act of God." So declared T.A. Frank in Wednesday's Vanity Fair. And if Frank's smug certainty in prognosticating the outcome of the next election sounds familiar, he was just as certain of Trump's 2016 election loss in October of that year.
P.J. Gladnick
August 23rd, 2019 5:20 PM

CNN: Trump Lies, Coyotes Have No Clue, Illegals Don´t Enter Illegally

In an attempt to demonize the current Administration´s actions to ensure undocumented families can be kept together through their immigration proceedings, CNN en Español interviewed John Amaya, an attorney who served in the Obama Administration at ICE and the DOJ, among other positions, and currently works for a private law firm dealing with – you got it-  immigration. His answers were “creative…
Kathleen Krumhansl
August 23rd, 2019 5:15 PM

Trump's Immigration Chief BATTLES CNN: ‘You're Pushing a Narrative'

On CNN, Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services office, clashes with Alisyn Camerota over new rules adopted by the Trump administration to deal with border crossers. She repeatedly cuts him off, and he tells her: "I know you don't want real answers, I know you don't want truth . . . You're pushing a narrative."
Mark Finkelstein
August 23rd, 2019 5:11 PM

NBC Hypes Lefty Twitter ‘Outrage’ Over Spicer ‘Dancing with the Stars'

On Friday, NBC’s Today show seized on liberals freaking out over former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer joining the cast of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars for the upcoming season. The report proclaimed how the decision “sparked an immediate firestorm online” and prompted calls for a boycott of the show.
Kyle Drennen
August 23rd, 2019 4:59 PM

Maddow Compares Migrant Detention Centers to Guantanamo

Just hours after MSNBC’s John Heilemann compared the idea of holding migrant children and their families in detention centers as they await adjudication of their asylum claims to “concentration camps,” primetime host Rachel Maddow had equally hyperbolic analysis. According to Maddow, the migrant detention centers are “kind of like Guantanamo.”
Ryan Foley
August 23rd, 2019 4:44 PM

National Hispanic Journalists Group Dumps Sponsorship of Fox News

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists has again underlined they are a liberal lobbying group by dumping Fox News Channel as a sponsor of their September journalism conference, and sending Fox back $16,666 in sponsorship funding. In an open letter, NAHJ president Hugo Balta claims this is about putting too much opinion in the news product.
Tim Graham
August 23rd, 2019 4:40 PM

'Dancing While Children Sit in Cages': Celebs 'Abhor' Spicer on DWTS

On Wednesday, ABC’s hit reality dancing competition show Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) announced that former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer will be cast for their 28th season and the left went crazy, reportedly making #BoycottDWTS trend on Twitter for a time and excoriating ABC for the decision.

Alexa Moutevelis
August 23rd, 2019 4:15 PM

Ted Cruz Defends ‘Monopoly Socialism’ Game in Twitter Debate

An unexpected update of the classic Monopoly game sparked an argument between liberals and conservatives because it lampooned socialism. Hasbro’s new Monopoly Socialism board game spawned a viral Twitter argument as well as a defense from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX. The packaging calls it “a parody of the classic,” and says “winning is for capitalists” and “what’s yours is ours.” Rutgers history…
Julia A. Seymour
August 23rd, 2019 3:37 PM

‘Good Riddance, Evil Sack of A**’: Celebs Dance on David Koch's Grave

“Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” seems to be part of progressives’ commute playlist this morning, as news of the death of their political donor boogeyman, David Koch, reverberated around the internet. Several leftwing celebs jumped to Twitter to celebrate the billionaire philanthropist’s death, as he was a major donor to the Republican party. Too bad the man was probably one of the left’s better…
Gabriel Hays
August 23rd, 2019 2:43 PM

Nasty NY Times Has History of Lashing Out at David Koch

David Koch, the foremost of the businessmen, philanthropists, and libertarian activists known colloquially as the “Koch Brothers,” has died at 79. The New York Times marked his passing Friday by posting an obituary by Robert McFadden: “David Koch, Industrialist Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79." The paper has long had a virulent hostility to the Kochs libertarian activism, and McFadden’…
Clay Waters
August 23rd, 2019 2:25 PM