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NY Times Cries Foul, Racism Vs. GOP in Midwest, But Dems Did It Too
“Midwest Power Grab May Fuel G.O.P. Backlash,” blared the New York Times front page. Lambasting Republicans for post-election legislative maneuvering has been a drumbeat recently at the Times, providing momentum for Democrats to finish in 2020 what they started in the House in 2018. Elsewhere reporter Emily Badger cried racism in the first sentence of “Urban-Rural Divide At Center of Fight In…
December 11th, 2018 3:52 PM
Time Cover Story Blames Trump for ‘War on Truth,’ ‘Danger’ to Press
In the cover story for Time magazine’s Person of the Year issue, writer Karl Vick explained the publication’s decision to name journalists as persons of the year. Amid highlighting the plight of murdered or imprisoned reporters in dictatorships around the world, Vick interwove repeated jabs at President Trump, blaming the American leader for launching a “war on truth” that has endangered the free…
December 11th, 2018 3:48 PM
McCain Slams ‘View’ for Kelly Bashing: 'Some Things Precede Politics'
Tuesday on The View, co-hosts Meghan McCain and Sunny Hostin got into a heated argument over Chief of Staff John Kelly eaving the Trump administration. While discussing the high turnover rate in the White House, Hostin claimed that the four-star general’s reputation was forever sullied by working for Trump. As the audience whooped at Hostin’s liberal talking points, McCain slammed her co-host and…
December 11th, 2018 1:34 PM
Variety: Ratings-Starved Oscars May Ditch Hosts Altogether
It’s beginning to look like the Motion Picture Academy can’t find anyone virtuous enough to spend three hours stroking celebrity egos. After Kevin Hart caved to public pressure against gay-joke Tweets made almost a decade ago, it’s hard to imagine who is so unspotted as to deserve the job.
December 11th, 2018 1:20 PM
Doris Kearns Goodwin Imagines a Joyless Trump Resigning
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was chock full of wishful thinking about President Donald Trump conveniently fulfilling the ongoing liberal fantasy about his exit from office on the December 11 Morning Joe. Goodwin's delusion involved a Trump so lacking in joy that he would look for an honorable way out of the Oval Office via resignation.
December 11th, 2018 1:09 PM
Partisan CBS Hosts Devote 10 Minutes to Michelle Obama’s Book
CBS This Morning on Tuesday devoted 10 minutes to promoting Michelle Obama and her new memoir. This is in addition to the 22 minutes the show offered back in November. When one considers that This Morning is co-hosted by partisan Democrat Gayle King and features another partisan Democrat, special contributor Oprah Winfrey, it becomes clear why this book is getting such a push.
December 11th, 2018 12:56 PM
Time Editor Hails ‘Year When the System Fought Back’ Against Trump
Appearing on NBC’s Today show Tuesday to exclusively reveal Time’s Person of the Year, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal first discussed the runners up, which included President Trump. After lamenting how the President “showed the weaknesses in our system,” the journalist happily declared that 2018 “was a year when the system fought back.”
December 11th, 2018 12:17 PM
Google Hearing: Democrats Call Censorship Claims ‘Complete Fantasy’
Google had a loud defender in the House Judiciary Committee — interestingly the company is also is his top donor. During the House Judiciary Committee hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai was testifying, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) opened fire against the House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
December 11th, 2018 11:12 AM
Mean-Spirited Media Do a 180 on George H. W. Bush
Before George H.W. Bush fades from memory into the darkness of history books, one more point needs to be made. It is about the contrast between how most of the major media treated him when he was president and how they mostly (but not completely) did a 180 during their coverage and commentary of his funeral. Maybe reporters and anchors considered their largely favorable and complimentary coverage…
December 11th, 2018 9:49 AM
Dershowitz Blasts Liberal Media Double Standard on Trump Hush Money
During a Monday night appearance on the Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz was in rare form as he tore into the liberal media and the left for their double standard of outrage at President Trump’s affairs and hush money payments.
December 10th, 2018 11:57 PM
CNN Links Wildfires to Global Warming, Frets U.S. Rejecting Report
On Monday morning, CNN anchors bemoaned the Trump administration's decision to reject the findings of an international report on global warming, as the news network also devoted time to blaming manmade global warming for recent drought and wildfires in California.
December 10th, 2018 11:50 PM
On CNN, David Frum Suggests Trump 'Mentally Unstable or a Criminal'
During Sunday’s edition of Reliable Sources, the panel engaged in quite a bit of hyperbole when reacting to the latest developments in the Mueller investigation. Baltimore Sun Media Critic David Zurawik likened the Trump v. Mueller narrative, which he described as “a man of rectitude who believes in the rule of law versus a man who will say anything, who scorns law,” to a “battle for our national…
December 10th, 2018 10:02 PM
Netflix's 'The Ranch' Loses Touch With Conservative Roots
The Ranch is back on Netflix with the second half of season six and, while we used to be able to count on them to represent conservatives in the "flyover" states, they just couldn't resist getting in a dig at President Trump this time around.
December 10th, 2018 9:44 PM
CNN’s Zakaria Blames Bush’s Famous Demeanor on His White Privilege
During Sunday’s Global Public Square, CNN host Fareed Zakaria’s tribute to former President George H.W. Bush involved him touting the President’s famous leadership and demeanor. But it was a backhanded compliment seeing as how Zakaria attributed those aspects of Bush 41 to his pervasive white privilege.
December 10th, 2018 9:41 PM