Short Togas: WashPost Goes Greek, Says Covington Kids’ Hats ‘Provoked’

It’s clear to anybody who cares to see that the Covington kids were smeared by a partisan media and the outright lies of political opportunist Nathan Phillips. That doesn’t mean rags like The Washington Post won’t go on obfuscating and spinning. After all, the teenagers wore [cue ominous music] “Make America Great Again” hats!
Matt Philbin
January 25th, 2019 4:47 PM

Journalists Continue to Look the Other Way at Democrat’s Extremism

In the wake of a tweet deemed anti-Semitic, promotion of conspiracy theories and bizarre claims, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is getting a $250,000 book deal, FoxNews.com revealed on Friday. Liberal media outlets have assisted the Democrat by mostly keeping her offending remarks out of the news. 
Scott Whitlock
January 25th, 2019 4:30 PM

CBS Reporter Shocked as Border Agent Calls Illegal Crossings a Crisis

While many people in the mainstream media have said they do not consider the situation at the border between the United States and Mexico a serious problem, one reporter with CBS News was surprised to hear an agent of the Border Patrol actually refer to the setting as a “crisis.” During an interview with Fernando Grijalva, correspondent Mireya Villarreal was taken aback when the agent called the…
Randy Hall
January 25th, 2019 4:28 PM

Chuck Todd Proudly Defends Banning Climate Skeptics or 'Flat Earthers'

It seems NBC is splitting its time between running a smear campaign against the Covington kids and aggressively pushing its climate change agenda. Thursday, Al Roker profusely “thanked” Americans on the Today show for their increasing concern for the environment, and later that evening, fellow NBC host Chuck Todd boasted about censoring opposing viewpoints on his climate change special back in…
Kristine Marsh
January 25th, 2019 3:42 PM

CNN Blasts ‘Shameful’ Trump for Shutdown Causing ‘Agony’ in America

Reacting to President Trump’s Friday afternoon decision to cave and reopen the government without border wall money, CNN Newsroom nonetheless eviscerated the President as if he had announced the government would be staying closed. Instead, anchors and correspondents condemned Trump as “shameful” for having “single handedly shut down the government” that caused “agony” and illustrated a White…
Curtis Houck
January 25th, 2019 3:34 PM

Acosta: Shutdown Deal Is ‘Bright, Shiny Object’ to Distract from Stone

So after the liberal media berated the Trump administration and blamed them for the shutdown, one of media’s chief instigators suggested that a deal to reopen the government is a distraction from the pre-dawn indictment and arrest of Roger Stone? Well, it turns out that’s the logic spinning inside the mind of CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who knocked rumors of a deal during…

Curtis Houck
January 25th, 2019 1:49 PM

‘No Moral Compass’: NBC’s Meyers & McCaskill Trash McConnell

Appearing on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, aired early Friday morning, former Democratic Senator and newly-named NBC News Political Analyst Claire McCaskill was eager to trash Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as “really depressing” and “very political.” Meyers chimed in to claim that the Republican lawmaker had “no moral compass.”
Kyle Drennen
January 25th, 2019 1:28 PM

Self-Indulgent Journalistic Shrine to Close After Hemorrhaging Cash

After 11 years of hemorrhaging money, the Baltimore Sun on Friday announced that the Newseum, a 250,000 square foot temple dedicated to journalists by journalists, will close. The Sun reported that the $500 million building will close at the end of 2019, finally ending the saga of a Washington D.C. museum that was always in debt and had five chief executives in the last nine years. 
Scott Whitlock
January 25th, 2019 12:52 PM

CNN on Why They Have Video of Roger Stone’s Arrest: We Had a Hunch!

Americans awoke Friday morning to find that, as expected, Trump associate and InfoWars fan Roger Stone been arrested by the FBI at his Ft. Lauderdale, Florida home on seven counts related to the Trump-Russia probe. But what made this long-expected arrest surprsing? Well, somehow CNN had a camera and producer on scene for the arrest, airing by 6:37 a.m. Eastern providing footage of armed agents…
Curtis Houck
January 25th, 2019 12:46 PM

Zuckerberg: Facebook Tries to Take Down All ‘Divisive Content’

When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about content now, he talks a lot about restricting speech. Zuckerberg wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal to explain the platform’s nebulous position on free speech. 
Corinne Weaver
January 25th, 2019 12:45 PM

Navarro to Furloughed Workers: Eat, Sleep at Trump Hotels, Don't Pay!

The mood at ABC’s The View alternated between sheer glee over Roger Stone’s arrest Friday morning, and anger over the government shutdown. Friday co-host Ana Navarro gushed that furloughed workers should essentially dine and dash at Trump property hotels to show their disgust for the administration.
Kristine Marsh
January 25th, 2019 12:02 PM

More Like Venezuela: NYT Book Review Says It's ‘Political Switzerland'

Is the New York Times book review truly a haven of centrism and neutrality? Lara Takenaga talked to Book Review editor Pamela Paul (Times Book Review editor since 2013) and section staffers Gregory Cowles and Barry Gewen. The piece was posted online in October 2018 but not printed until this week: “‘Political Switzerland’ for Books.” The “Switzerland” quip is from Paul, referring to the section's…
Clay Waters
January 25th, 2019 9:35 AM

Moore: ‘Don’t Pay Taxes’, 'Don’t Commit Crimes’ During Shutdown!

Always logical left-wing director Michael Moore was so distraught about the government shutdown that he told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Thursday people should just abandon their duties to the government, including paying taxes. Moore went on to tell people not to "commit crimes" because the "FBI wasn't getting paid."
Kristine Marsh
January 25th, 2019 9:18 AM

MSNBC's Tyler on Stone Arrest: 'Shtick Caught Up with Con Man'

On Morning Joe, MSNBC political analyst Rick Tyler takes obvious pleasure in the breaking news of Roger Stone's arrest, saying: "Roger Stone like Donald Trump is a political con man whose showman shtick has finally caught up with him . . . He's known for dirty tricks, and I think a lifetime of this shtick has finally caught up with him."
Mark Finkelstein
January 25th, 2019 8:25 AM