Morning Joe: Dems Winning The House, 'A Decisive Moment' For Democracy
MSNBC's Morning Joe isn't one to shy away from hyperbole when talking about life in Trump's America and Monday's show was no exception. The Monday panel was joined by Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt to discuss the state of democracy and American institutions as their book, How Democracies Die, was being released in paperback.
Alex Christy
Google, Apple Allow Saudi Sharia Law Wife-Tracking App
Apple and Google have both been accused of enabling “gender apartheid” by allowing an app which allows Saudi men to track their wives or family and prevent them from leaving the country. Apple iTunes and Google Play both host a government web program called Asher, which allows men to monitor and decide how far and how long a woman may travel. They can also revoke their permission to travel.…
Alexander Hall
Forbes Contributor Urges ‘Marshall Plan’ to Save Journalism
Journalism, particularly newspaper journalism, is a struggling industry — beset by lost advertisers and layoffs. Trust for media also “is at an all-time low,” according to the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy.
Forbes contributor Michael Posner reacted to the Knight Commission report urging a “domestic Marshall Plan for journalism.” He added that “democracy demands it.” The Knight…
Julia A. Seymour
CNN Hosts Link Omar’s Anti-Semitic Tweets to McCarthy Knocking Soros
Despite the fact that CNN has covered the latest anti-Semitism from Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) throughout the day on Monday, numerous analysts and hosts have tried to assist Omar by muddying the waters, suggesting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is also anti-Semitic for a tweet last year criticizing the left-wing views of Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, and Tom Steyer.
Curtis Houck
Alex Wagner Offers Lovefest to Hillary Clinton on 'The Circus'
On Showtime's The Circus: Inside the Wildest Political Show on Earth on Sunday, co-host Alex Wagner jumped at the chance to conduct a softball interview with Hillary Clinton. Wagner, a former MSNBC host, appeared to have a thrill going up her leg before (and during) the chat with the 2016 loser.
Silicon Valley is full of opportunities for political donations. But a Soros-funded organization wants to make sure any support goes to the correct side of the political spectrum.
Corinne Weaver
WashPost Fact Checker Hides the Pinocchios for Team Ocasio-Cortez
The Washington Post Fact Checker page has a habit of “hiding the Pinocchios” for Democrats when liberal staffers aggressively engage them. This happened again early Monday with the much-mocked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking points for the “Green New Deal.” Post “fact checker” Salvador Rizzo admitted the new congresswoman and her supporters misled the public, but they were “walked back,” so "we…
Tim Graham
CBS’s Save Northam Effort: We Must Understand the ‘Context’
Since it’s clear that disgraced Virginia Governor Ralph Northam isn’t resigning in the wake of his KKK/blackface scandal, CBS has begun the rehabilitation effort. On Sunday and Monday, the network devoted a combined 23 minutes and 9 seconds to Gayle King’s interview of the Democrat. King, Norah O’Donnell and her other CBS This Morning co-hosts stressed Americans must understand the “context,” “…
Scott Whitlock
Morning Nets Ignore Latest Anti-Semitic Comments by Ilhan Omar
On Monday morning, the broadcast network morning newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to cover the latest flashes of anti-Semitism emanating from Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN) in which Omar suggested Sunday night on Twitter that politicians are being controlled by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to do Israel’s bidding. To make matters worse, Omar retweeted a…
Curtis Houck
NBC Giddy Over Beto’s Trump Protest: 'Quite the Split Screen'
On Monday, NBC’s Today show was excited by the prospect of Democrat “rising star” Beto O’Rourke holding a “counter-rally” to President Trump’s upcoming visit to the border in El Paso, Texas. As she promoted the former congressman and failed Senate candidate’s protest event, reporter Kristen Welker declared that it was “going to be quite a split screen.”
Kyle Drennen
33 TV Shows in Jan. Slam ‘Terrorist’ Trump, Praise Abortion
Entertainment TV is far worse than news when it comes to progressive bias and hatred for conservative people and views. A cross section of nightly programming on major networks, cable TV or popular streaming services is loaded with anti-conservative, anti-Trump propaganda. January features at least 33 separate entertainment programs that attack conservative values and/or President Donald Trump…
Gabriel Hays
Media Deny Algorithms Can Be Biased … Until AOC Claims ‘Racism’
While the left is quick to sneer at conservative concerns about bias in the algorithms that operate major tech sites, they freely acknowledge the algorithms are biased in other ways. Newly elected U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez caused an uproar when she hammered algorithmic bias while speaking at an MLK Now event on January 21. She claimed that algorithms, or computer analyses, "always have…
Alexander Hall
Join Conservative Star Joe Piscopo on the MRC Cruise!
Talk radio host and former Saturday Night Live comedian Joe Piscopo will be part of the all-star Media Research Center Cruise from Stepember 13 to the 24th. You can join Piscopo, as well as MRC founder and President Brent Bozell, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and others on a tour of the Greek isles.
NB Staff
Outsports Touts Gay British Horse Racing Jockey
Outsports is the LGBT blog of SB Nation, and it's like an online version of the newspaper society page that, instead of reporting engagements and weddings, announces which athletes have come galloping out of the closet. Outsports writers are always ecstatic to report on athletes—like British horse racing jockey Jack Duern—who have revealed they are either lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.…