ABC: ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Taliban Set to Backdrop of ‘Trump’s America’

ABC’s Nightline on Friday donated over seven minutes of air time to hype the new season of The Handmaid’s Tale as a Taliban-esque dystopian fantasy set “against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s America.” Reporter David Wright breathlessly explained how the show as “The new American regime is a theocracy that oppresses women in particular. They're not allowed to read or write or think for themselves…
Scott Whitlock

'I'm a Fan!' CNN's Carpenter Hails Porn Star and Her Lawyer

ABC's The View replaced Meghan McCain on Monday with CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter, who worked on Ted Cruz's presidential campaign in the last cycle. But Carpenter lined right up with Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Whoopi Goldberg in defending Stormy Daniels for doing a comedy skit with Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live. She even proclaimed Daniels is taking on Trump better than…
Tim Graham

Facebook Inadvertently Connected Terrorists, According to CBS

While Facebook spends so much time trying to “curb hate speech” and ensure neutrality, it seems to have missed one thing: ISIS terrorists using the platform for their own devices. According to CBS and The Telegraph, Facebook “inadvertently help[ed] Islamist extremists connect and recruit new members.”  
Corinne Weaver

NY Times Leads Sports Section with Indian Mascots -- in Europe

You’re a New York Times sports editor at the end of an eventful weekend. The NBA and NHL playoffs are heating up (admittedly without any New York teams). The Yankees are firing on all cylinders, as are their arch-rivals in Boston. The Mets are, well, the Mets. There was PGA golf at the Wells Fargo tournament. There must still be issues worth discussing around the Giants’ and the Jets’ draft picks…
Matt Philbin

Nets Fret: Trump’s CIA Pick ‘Referendum on Country’s Use of Torture'

Eager to tear down another one of President Trump’s nominees, on Monday, all three network morning show’s seized on a Washington Post article claiming that the President’s nominee to be CIA Director, Gina Haspel, considered withdrawing over the weekend, before her upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. Hosts and correspondents breathlessly hyped the story and worried about Haspel’s role in the…
Kyle Drennen

Rosie O'Donnell Sloppily Over-Donates to Five Democrats

Anna Sanders at the New York Post reported that left-wing actress/comedian Rosie O’Donnell “made illegally over-sized campaign  donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings." That includes Trump-trashing Rep. Adam Schiff. Federal Election Commission rules limit the total any one person can give to an individual candidate at $2,700 per…
Tim Graham

ABC: Star Wars Day Gets 6X Coverage of Lowest Unemployment Since 2000

The force might have been with ABC on May 4, but interest in the U.S. labor market certainly wasn’t. That night World News Tonight with David Muir spent a meager 15 seconds announcing the April jobs report which showed the lowest unemployment rate since 2000. That 3.9 percent was what other journalists called a “wow number” that could even help re-elect President Donald Trump.
Julia A. Seymour

Ramos to O'Rourke: Isn't Ted Cruz A Race-Traitor?

Once again, Univision's Jorge Ramos goes to a favorite trope of his- suggesting that Hispanics who don't follow ideological suit are race-traitors.
Jorge Bonilla

FNC's Huntsman Hits Pro-Life Guest from the Left on Abortion

For a news network that is often caricatured as right wing, Fox News Channel peppered a pro-life guest with an awful lot of questions that were skeptical of Iowa's new law that bans abortion at about six weeks pregnancy. In fact, Fox and Friends Sunday co-host Abby Huntsman even cited one poll alleging a majority of Americans want most abortions to be legal, and did not mention that other…

Brad Wilmouth

Media Ignore Anti-NRA Dallas Organizer's Violent Criminal Past

Once again, protests against the NRA at its annual convention, this time in Dallas, have been pathetic. Turnout has been "shockingly small." One event had "maybe 100 (people), half of whom were journalists." An actress involved in the protest movement attended — accompanied by allegedly armed security guards, who illegally "chase(d) Texans out of a public park simply because they asked if she…
Tom Blumer

‘Family Guy’ Lampoons Millennials in Just the Right Way

The May 6 episode of Fox’s Family Guy titled “HTTPete” took great pleasure in lampooning a favorite target – Millennials. In order to reverse lagging sales, Peter Griffin’s employer realizes he must reach out to Millennials to capture their market.
Karen Townsend

'Political Bully' Calls Refugees 'Gangsters & Thugs on 'Madam Sec'

Well, this is a timely coincidence. Within a week of the Trump administration announcing that it will end the 1999 temporary protected status for Hondurans, CBS’s Madam Secretary features the Secretary of State fighting for refugee status of Honduran children against a "political bully." I guess the show has more foresight than I thought, though still not enough to let their Hillary icon or…
Lindsay Kornick

Daily News Attacks 'Church of the Gun' Attendees at NRA Convention

On the occasion of the annual NRA convention, in Dallas, New York Daily News sports writer Mike Lupica charges that President Donald Trump and his NRP friends are now living in fear of the high school students advocating against the Second Amendment. Without once mentioning mental health as a major cause in mass shootings, Lupica attacked Trump, Vice-president Mike Pence and congregants of the "…
Jay Maxson

At Convention, NRATV Mocks CNN Apple Ads: 'This Is a Bitter Lemon'

Andrew Kugle at the Washington Free Beacon reported the NRATV channel had great fun with CNN's pompous apple-and-banana commercials at the NRA convention in Dallas. On Friday, Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim tweeted a video clip of the CNN mockery.
Tim Graham