CBS News Fixes Headline After Freakout on 'Protesting National Anthem'
CBS News decided to cover Ted Cruz's liberal opponent, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, answering a question about his position on well-paid professional football players kneeling during the national anthem. He gave the pat liberal answer: “I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights anytime, anywhere, any place.” Liberal Twitter erupted in anger when they…
August 25th, 2018 10:39 PM
Johnson Slams Fox for Covering Tibbetts; Racism a 'White People Prob'
On Saturday's AM Joy, during a discussion of President Donald Trump's recent tweet on South African efforts to expropriate more land from white farmers, MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson managed to squeeze in a complaint about Fox News daring to cover the discovery of murder victim Mollie Tibbett's body on the same day as breaking news on Paul Manafort's legal problems. In fact, Fox News Channel…
August 25th, 2018 5:56 PM
CNN Plays the Race Card With Mollie Tibbetts Murder
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Here is the headline from NewsBusters' Brad Wilmouth. “CNN's Cuomo: Trump, Fox Concerned With Tibbetts Because She's White.” Aside from the astonishing, if typical, liberal line of obsessively playing the race card (as I pointed out a time or three on CNN the Democrats still have not gotten around to apologizing for their support of slavery - their original obsession…
August 25th, 2018 4:00 PM
NYDN's Phillips Trashes 'Icon' Brown for Trump Support
To Carron J. Phillips of The New York Daily News and many African-Americans, Jim Brown had always been an icon. One of the greatest pro football players of all time, Brown, now 82, was a voice for the culture as a civil rights activism with a legacy like none other. However, since he's voiced some support for President Trump and been an opponent of national anthem protests, he's less noteworthy,…
August 25th, 2018 4:00 PM
MSNBC Guest: Arming Teachers Will Lead to Black Pupils 'Getting Shot'
During Thursday morning's MSNBC Live, host Hallie Jackson and her panel engaged in a discussion about a New York Times report describing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s plans to allow schools to use Federal funds to buy guns for their teachers and it included quite a head-scratcher as the headline indicates.
August 25th, 2018 3:35 PM
CNN Frets GOP Using Mollie Tibbetts Murder as 'Political Propaganda'
On Saturday morning, the same CNN that is notorious for promoting anti-gun propaganda in the immediate aftermath of mass shootings had hosts who repeatedly worried that President Donald Trump and Republicans are inappropriately using the murder of Mollie Tibbetts by an illegal immigrant as "political propaganda."
August 25th, 2018 2:39 PM
‘First Reformed’ Film Prays for Redemption, Eco-Terrorism
The pastor in First Reformed may work in a church, but his true god isn’t the Lord above. It’s Al Gore. Writer/director Paul Schrader’s film, available now on Blu-ray and other home video outlets, shares the story of a broken man’s quest for redemption. What emerges is the usual array of global warming talking points, the kind Hollywood can’t help inserting into its product ad nauseam.
August 25th, 2018 1:30 PM
CNBC: 'No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election'
Despite the recent hype in the mainstream media about teens supposedly hacking state election systems, CNBC tossed cold water on that fake news with a reality check with a ProPublica article. It turns out the students were coached on what to do in look-alike sites that differed from the actual state election sites.
August 25th, 2018 1:19 PM
This Week in Media Bias History: A Little Creepier in Retrospect
Given what we now know about Matt Lauer and his creepy office with an automatic door lock, this August 21, 2000 Today interview with Al Gore looks weirder in retrospect. Lauer repeatedly obsessed over “the kiss” between the then-Vice President and his then-wife Tipper Gore at the 2000 Democratic National Convention: “This is the ‘The Kiss.’... You really planted one on Mrs. Gore.” Lauer was …
August 25th, 2018 12:15 PM
NYT’s Strange, Soft Profile of Accused Killer: ‘An Attentive Father’
Saturday’s New York Times provided a soft profile of Cristhian Rivera, the accused killer of Mollie Tibbetts: “From Quiet Village in Mexico to a Lonely Furrow in an Iowa Cornfield.” They wrote: "Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the Mexican farmworker accused of killing a 20-year-old college student and concealing her body beneath corn leaves, seemed to have built a quiet, productive life in the seven or…
August 25th, 2018 10:01 AM
ESPN's Mayne Writes 'Dear Caucasian' Letter Loaded with Guilt
ESPN and the Undefeated blogsite has long counted on Kenny Mayne (host of the Wider World of Sports) to alleviate tension with his humor. Mayne ventured onto The Undefeated blog with a "Dear White People" letter heaping white guilt on Caucasians for the racism of past generations on Aug. 24. His awkward attempts to mix humor with white guilt and politics fell flat.
August 25th, 2018 10:00 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: Oprah Shouts for Abortion
After her TV career, Oprah sounds like an evangelist preaching a feminist substitute to replace religion in her monthly Oprah Magazine. Her August issue carries this motivational nugget of Oprah wisdom on the cover: “We all want to feel radiant, joyful, and alive. It starts with choosing love – in any form.” How to feel "radiant, joyful, and alive? Oprah has the answer. In this very issue, Oprah…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
August 25th, 2018 7:21 AM
TBS Comedy ‘Wrecked:’ ‘Rich People Are Monsters’
TBS's Wrecked continued the longstanding tradition, lampooning rich, white men on Tuesday’s episode, “Six Feet,” as “monsters,” misogynists and sexual harassers who look down disdainfully on the poor and treat them horribly. Oh, and they make people hunt and kill each other for sport, too. Because, of course.
August 25th, 2018 2:49 AM
CNN's Cardona Deceptively Claims Most Crime Committed by White Men
On Friday's Across the America with Carol Costello on HLN, during a discussion of the political reaction to the murder of Mollie Tibbetts by an illegal immigrant, liberal CNN commentator Maria Cardona misleadingly claimed that most crimes are committed by white men.
August 24th, 2018 8:33 PM