This Week in Media Bias History: God Has Endorsed ObamaCare

Liberal journalists don’t like conservatives bringing up religion and faith, but it’s apparently okay for them to insist God supports Democratic political opinions. On December 4, 2013, then-MSNBC host Ed Schultz weighed in on what God thinks about ObamaCare: “I’ll tell you what I think God thinks of the Affordable Care Act. It’s a big ‘amen.’” 
Scott Whitlock
December 8th, 2018 12:15 PM

MSNBCer Appears to Suggest Taking Trump's Citizenship [UPDATED]

To offer a different interpretation, reader WKRP took the view that McQuade was not suggesting that President Trump be stripped of his citizenship, but that he be removed from office if he obtained the presidency via fraud. If indeed that's what McQuade meant, she found a roundabout means of saying so. But this writer acknowledges this as a plausible alternative interpretation of her remark.
Mark Finkelstein
December 8th, 2018 11:28 AM

NYT Again Hails Anita Hill on Kavanaugh, #MeToo: 'Tide Has Not Turned'

New York Times’ Susan Chira, a “senior correspondent and editor on gender issues,” interviewed Anita Hill for some reason for Friday’s paper, “Hill Reflects: ‘Clearly the Tide Has Not Turned.’” Hill is seen by the press as a victim of both Clarence Thomas and the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee who brutally questioned her and has achieved secular sainthood, so there are never any…
Clay Waters
December 8th, 2018 10:32 AM

NYT Pushes Pseudoscience: Biological Sex Is Not Determined By Genetics

On Thursday, The New York Times published an op-ed arguing that mental health professionals should abandon treating gender dysphoria, the condition most typically associated with transgenderism, as a mental disorder.
Chris Reeves
December 8th, 2018 8:34 AM

Nets Omit Illegal Status of Suspect in Murder of American Tourist

As the broadcast networks this week gave attention to the story of an American tourist from Florida, Carla Stefaniak, who went missing during a trip to Costa Rica and then was found murdered there, all three failed to inform viewers that the murder suspect, a Nicaraguan national, is in an illegal immigrant. By contrast, Fox and Friends did take the time to note that he was in the country…
Brad Wilmouth
December 7th, 2018 10:41 PM

NBC Reporter: Deadly Disasters = ‘Good News’ for Climate Change Agenda

Appearing on MSNBC Live With Velshi & Ruhle Friday afternoon, newly-hired NBC News Technology Correspondent Jacob Ward argued that a recent string of deadly natural disasters were actually “good news” because such tragedies would help push the climate change agenda. He went on to compare the “doubt industry” skeptical of manmade climate change to cigarette companies denying a link between…
Kyle Drennen
December 7th, 2018 5:52 PM

Univision Reports Pope's Admonition Against 'Gay Pride' in Priesthood

Among the broadcast television networks, Univision stands out as the only one that provided a thorough report on Pope Francis’ most explicit statement to date on the incompatibility of a 'gay pride' lifestyle and the Catholic priesthood.
Ken Oliver-Méndez
December 7th, 2018 4:53 PM

Atlantic’s Jemele Hill: Sometimes I Wish the Obamas Wouldn’t ‘Go High’

Just when it seemed that the reaction to the death of former President George H. W. Bush was dying down, former ESPN anchor and far-left writer Jemele Hill of The Atlantic did her best to use the situation to inflame any racist sentiments held by black Americans. The article from Hill asserted that the Obamas “were gracious to the Trumps” because they “had to be” since “black people have no…
Randy Hall
December 7th, 2018 4:35 PM

Maureen Dowd's 180 on Bush: From 'Cruise Director' to Hero

In a column she wrote over the weekend, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times joined a long list of media personalities who have used the death of President George H.W. Bush to trash President Trump. Dowd contrasted the “narcissistic, amoral, vulgar reality-TV president” with the “modest, principled, classy, old-world president.” She made similar comments Wednesday’s edition of MTP Daily: “in this…
Ryan Foley
December 7th, 2018 4:18 PM

Ex-U.K. Intelligence Agency Head: ‘Facebook Could Threaten Democracy’

European officials are not happy with Facebook. The platform has run afoul of their regulations one too many times. In an interview with BBC, former head of British intelligence agency GCHQ Robert Hannigan expressed his concerns about the social media site.
Corinne Weaver
December 7th, 2018 3:33 PM

Trojan Horse? Expert Warns Trade Deal May Entrench Tech Censorship

While the replacement for NAFTA may have many improvements, it also erases the one key law that would protect conservative voices from being censored online.
Alexander Hall
December 7th, 2018 2:41 PM

Amanpour Invokes Bush 41, Throws Pity Party for ‘Moderate’ McCaskill

While invoking the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, CNN International and PBS host Christiane Amanpour fretted on Thursday’s show that “[a]s President Bush One is laid to rest, one of the Senate’s true moderates heads home in defeat,” blaming it on “conservative dark money,” “negative ads,” and a refusal by voters to accept McCaskill’s manufactured image as someone right down the…
Curtis Houck
December 7th, 2018 2:40 PM

NPR Touts Poll: Only Biased Republicans Find a Mueller 'Witch Hunt'

NPR political editor Domenico Montanaro reported results of a new poll with a typically stacked question:  "Which of the following statements comes closer to your opinion about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible wrongdoing and Russian interference in the 2016 election? 'It's a fair investigation' or 'It's a witch hunt'?" Still, seven in ten Republicans picked "witch hunt…
Tim Graham
December 7th, 2018 2:29 PM

Thought Crimes Lose Kevin Hart Oscar Job

For the Hollywood left, there is no forgiveness, let alone consistency. There is only a volatile mob mentality that, if dissented from, will get one’s career destroyed. Kevin Hart, an African American comedian who has appeared in Scary Movie 3, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and other comedies, announced on Tuesday that he had been selected to host the 2019 Academy Awards, according to…
Jacob Comello
December 7th, 2018 2:25 PM