MSNBC’s Hunt on Trump Reporting: ‘Be Careful About the Breathlessness’

MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt on reporting in the age of Trump: “I think we have to be careful about the breathlessness.... I think it's important to try to keep your perspective.” This remark was heard over the weekend at the annual Los Angeles Politicon, which describes itself as the “Unconventional Political Convention” that draws the “biggest names in politics and entertainment.”

Randy Hall
October 23rd, 2018 7:55 AM

Horrified NYT Fears Trump Will Define Transgenders ‘Out of Existence’

A scoop in the lead slot of Monday’s New York Times was horrified that the Trump administration may resume following scientific procedure by defining sex in biological terms based on one’s genitalia at birth -- or, as the Times insisted, defining transgenders “out of existence”: “Trump May Limit How Government Defines One’s Sex – Gender Listed At Birth – Threat to the Protections of Those Who…
Clay Waters
October 23rd, 2018 7:35 AM

CNN’s Cuomo Suggests the US Military Would Gun Down Caravan Migrants

It’s hard to say if it came from a disdain for the U.S. military, an extension of CNN’s ‘President Trump is literally a third world dictator’ narrative, or some other sinister motive. But in the middle of a segment on the “migrant” caravan making its way to the southern border during Monday’s Prime Time, host Chris Cuomo suggested that the military would end up shooting the over 7,000 people when…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 23rd, 2018 12:27 AM

Cheer Squad: Nets Gush about Beto ‘Running Hard’, ‘Energizing’ Dems

With the midterm elections just two weeks away, the liberal media have ramped up their efforts to drag their dreamboat, Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke over the finish line in the Texas Senate race. With President Trump’s visit to campaign for Senator Ted Cruz (R) on Monday, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) seized on the opportunity boast about Beto’s qualities while downplaying…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 22nd, 2018 9:20 PM

Billionaires Including Soros, Steyer Spend $78M on Ballot Initiatives

Billionaires, especially liberal ones, aren’t just funding candidates and impeachment campaigns in 2018. Many are also funding ballot initiatives around the country, mostly in states they don’t live in. The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) found that 34 billionaires including liberals George Soros, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a combined $78…
Julia A. Seymour
October 22nd, 2018 5:39 PM

NY Times Tries to Save ‘Centrist,’ ‘Moderate’ Donnelly in Indiana

Senator Joe Donnelly’s 2017 American Conservative Union score was zero. His 2016 score was 12. But that didn’t stop the New York Times on Monday from trying to spin the Democrat as a “moderate” centrist.” Meanwhile, Donnelly’s Republican opponent appeals to the “conservatives.” The headline for the Michael Tackett story warned, “Indiana Democrat Tests If Centrism Still Appeals.” 
Scott Whitlock
October 22nd, 2018 5:23 PM

Nets Fear Trump Administration ‘Changing Definition of Gender’

In a series of truly mind-boggling reports on Monday, all three network morning shows bizarrely accused the Trump administration of considering “changing the definition of gender” by simply reversing Obama-era regulations that actually did change the definition of gender by abandoning the scientific and biological meaning of the term.
Kyle Drennen
October 22nd, 2018 4:25 PM

Univision Features Cory Booker Admitting Dems Have a ‘Latino Problem’

U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) appeared on Univision’s weekly political affairs talk show Al Punto, and admitted the veracity of the basis of several thinkpieces to emerge over the past few weeks - namely, that the Democrats are having a tough time persuading Hispanics to vote for them in the 2018 midterm elections.
MRC Latino Staff
October 22nd, 2018 4:17 PM

MSNBC's Alter: 'You Can Kiss Democracy Goodbye' If GOP Keeps Congress

On Sunday's MSNBC Live, longtime journalist and liberal MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter proclaimed that "you can kiss democracy goodbye" if Republicans retain control of the House of Representatives as he also complained that the press are not being tough enough on President Donald Trump as he has given the media more access before the midterm elections.
Brad Wilmouth
October 22nd, 2018 3:58 PM

Boo Hoo! NBC’s Byers Complains Twitter’s ‘A Minefield for Journalists’

Late Monday morning on NBCNews.com, former CNNer and current NBC senior media reporter Dylan Byers bemoaned how social media sites have become “a minefield for journalists” where they face “perils” such as “stray[ing] from reporting” and thus “opening news organizations to accusations of partisan bias.”
Curtis Houck
October 22nd, 2018 3:57 PM

NYT: 'Trump Seizes on Migrant Caravan' for ' Inflammatory Attacks'

The New York Times reported from Omaha on Saturday: “Trump Seizes On Migrant Caravan to Rev Up Republican Voters.” "Barely two weeks away from an election that threatens to sweep Republicans from power in the House of Representatives and dash any lingering hope of conservative immigration reform, the party, led by President Trump, is leaning more aggressively into dark portrayals of undocumented…
Clay Waters
October 22nd, 2018 3:27 PM

CNN Uses Edited Clip to Hint Ga. GOP Wants to Block Minority Voters

On his Saturday evening show, liberal CNN host Van Jones devoted several minutes to Democratic charges of "voter suppression" by Republicans, and even misleadingly used an edited clip of Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp from 2014 as the CNN host suggested it was evidence the GOP candidate wanted to block minorities from voting in his state.
Brad Wilmouth
October 22nd, 2018 3:15 PM

CNN’s Bernstein Warns: Trump to Declare Midterms ‘Illegitimate’

Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein pushed conspiracy theories on Sunday, claiming that the Trump administration will declare the midterm elections “illegitimate,” should the Republicans narrowly lose the House of Representatives. In between calling the president a liar like no other, the reporter demanded the press do more: “We need to be doing much more than just Trump lie catching.” 
Scott Whitlock
October 22nd, 2018 2:53 PM

Hostin: Right's Problem With Caravan Is They're 'Brown, Black People'

On Monday’s The View, the show started off with the hosts ripping into President Trump and “the right” for speaking out against the caravan of illegal aliens marching towards the U.S./Mexico border. Meghan McCain was the only co-host to argue for stronger immigration laws, as the rest of the hosts complained about racism and the lack of “humanity” the President displayed.
Kristine Marsh
October 22nd, 2018 2:08 PM