No More Likes? Big Tech Considers Removing Popular Feature

After discovering Instagram’s plan to “hide the public like counts of photos,” reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong observed that Facebook may follow suit. In her September 2, blog, she made clear that she works at neither Big Tech company, but has merely discovered these experiments by “reverse-engineering the app and playing with the code underneath.”
Alexander Hall

Facebook Threatens Pro-Life Live Action for Sharing ‘False News’

Facebook chose a side in the abortion debate and is actively working to suppress pro-life content. Live Action, a pro-life nonprofit organization run by activist Lila Rose, was notified August 30 that two of the company’s videos were marked as “false” by fact-checkers.
Corinne Weaver

Ex-Trump Aide Expresses Alarm at 90-Percent Negative Trump Coverage

On Friday, the American Political Science Association had a panel discussion on President Trump and the media, which later aired on C-SPAN. Former deputy press secretary Raj Shah expressed alarm at NewsBusters studies by Rich Noyes (and other studies) showing 90-percent negative coverage of the president. Former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry wise-cracked that's because 90 percent of Trump'…
Tim Graham

Amazon's 'Carnival Row' Delivers Heavy-Handed Immigration Allegory

Carnival Row, a new series on Amazon Prime, could have been an entertaining murder mystery featuring star-crossed lovers but was, instead, a heavy-handed immigration allegory in which anyone who advocates for laws to be enforced is just a racist. Rycroft "Philo" Philostrate (Orlando Bloom), a human man, and Vignette Stonemoss (Cara Delvigne), a fairy woman, met and fell in love when he was a…
Amelia Hamilton

CNN Pines for Gun Control, 'Sick' of 'Thoughts and Prayers'

On Monday morning, in the aftermath of a mass shooting spree in Texas from the weekend, CNN personalities were again pushing for more gun laws, including "universal background checks." CNN's three-hour New Day morning show discussed the issue in four segments, and only had guests with left-leaning views on the issue of gun control. Not only did liberal Republican contributor Ana Navarro slam the…
Brad Wilmouth

NY Times Blames Sexism for Failure of Gillibrand, 'Champion of Women'

The front of Monday’s New York Times featured reporter Lisa Lerer on failed feminist Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who tacked hard to the left on immigration and gun control in a failed attempt to appeal to today’s Democratic Party: “Gillibrand’s Failed Run Shows Feminism’s Promise and Limits.” It was a quite different scenario 21 months ago, when the…
Clay Waters

WashPost Applauds Soccer Further Politicizing Sports

So we went to a political demonstration and a soccer game broke out. Or, as The Washington Post's Eli Rosenberg puts it, "There is an anti-fascist rebellion brewing in the Pacific Northwest. And soccer is at the center of it." Portland is the epicenter of the politicization of Major League Soccer (MLS), but it's spreading across the country, too. Anti-fascist groups are transforming American pro…
Jay Maxson

Slate's Lithwick: Trump Performs Impeachable Actions on 'Weekly Basis'

On Sunday’s edition of Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter discussed how “writers from both sides of the aisle” have recently weighed in on the concept of “Trump fatigue.” Stelter’s guest for the segment, Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick, definitely had a severe case of “Trump fatigue.” Lithwick talked about how President Trump was making her “physically ill” and referenced one of her…
Ryan Foley

PC Term 'Latinx' Had an Outbreak at Vox

For those of you hoping that the absurd politically correct word "Latinx" would be laughed out of existence, no such luck. In fact the left continues to promote the the silly word which basically says that the Spanish language is not PC because so many of its words have endings that indicate gender such as "Latino" or "Latina." The solution is to add an "x" at the end of many such words but with…
P.J. Gladnick

MSNBC Blames Gun Laws, Despite Admitting to Not Knowing All the Facts

MSNBC Live guest host Phillip Mena and NBC reporter Garrett Haake admitted on Monday that they do not have all the facts yet when it comes to the Odessa gunman who shot and killed seven people and injured an additional 22 on Saturday, but that did not stop them from condemning Texas' new gun laws that "loosened restrictions."

Alex Christy

Nets Freak Over Trump Moving FEMA Money, But Obama Also Did

Over the past several days, the networks have delivered the latest example of the dominant liberal media suddenly taking notice of a normal government activity done by the Donald Trump administration and treating it as outrageous even though there was no media scrutiny when the same activity was also done by the Barack Obama administration.
Brad Wilmouth

FLASHBACK: Maybe Drowned Mary Jo Would ‘Feel Like It Was Worth It'

It’s was ten years ago last week that journalist Melissa Lafsky speculated that Mary Jo Kopechne, the woman Ted Kennedy left to drown, would be fine with the Democrat’s reprehensible behavior. On August 27, 2009, Lafsky, who at one time worked for the New York Times’s Freakonomics blog, wrote: "[One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have…
Scott Whitlock

Ex-CNN Reporter BEGS Media to Skip Biden's Gaffes, 'Elevating Trump'

Vanity Fair is a reliable glossy partner with the Democratic establishment. Take the latest from Peter Hamby, who covered politics for CNN from 2005 to 2015 before scoring a gig doing news for the youngsters at Snapchat. His latest article carried a headling full of angst: “'Are We Really Going to Have a Gaffe-Fest Over Joe Biden?': How Clickbait and Outrage Porn Are Hurting Readers—and Elevating…
Tim Graham

Actress Cheers Church Sign Calling Black Trump Voters 'Mentally Ill'

Will and Grace actress Debra Messing tweeted support for an Alabama Baptist church this weekend but not because she had some sudden religious awakening. Instead, Messing agreed with the liberal church’s provocative sign which called black Trump voters “mentally ill.”
Kristine Marsh