Malkin Roasts 'Stonewall Media' Over Transparency Double Standard
On Saturday's Fox & Friends, syndicated columnist and investigative reporter Michelle Malkin sharply criticized the establishment press's sharp U-turn on law-enforcement transparency from George W. Bush's presidency. She in effect observed that one of the key reasons for the current "stonewall media" environment is self-protection.
Tom Blumer
MSNBC's Witt Praises GOPer for Not Opposing Howard Dean's Hyperbole
Sunday afternoon's MSNBC Live displayed the latest example of how the job of a Republican commentator on MSNBC is to avoid disagreeing too much with the liberal news network's more far-left analysts as weekend host Alex Witt praised frequent guest Susan Del Percio after the Republican strategist declined to voice disagreement with fellow guest Howard Dean's attack on President Donald Trump's…
Brad Wilmouth
NBC’s Todd Invites Memo Smears, Fights Considering Its Contents
Since the release of the bombshell House Intelligence Committee memo detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI and the DOJ to obtain warrants through a FISA court, the liberal media have been focused on combating President Trump and the GOP for releasing the memo instead of the contents within it. A clear demonstration of this occurred during NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday where moderator Chuck…
Nicholas Fondacaro
SNL Flunks US History 101 in Colonial Era Themed Super Bowl Skit
Alec Baldwin is back again on Saturday Night Live, depicting an ignorant and buffoonish Donald Trump to the besotted hosts of Fox & Friends in last night's opening skit.
"Mr. President, can I say, your speech was maybe the best speech in the history of this country!" gushed SNL's Heidi Gardner as Fox's Ainsley Earhardt, referring to the State of the Union address. Baldwin's Trump quickly…
Jack Coleman
CBS and Eric Holder Developing Show About … Eric Holder
In the words of Dave Barry, “I swear I am not making this up.” According to Vulture, CBS is “ordering a pilot for Main Justice, a show based on the life of former attorney general Eric Holder.”
Matt Philbin
ABC Lashes Out at GOP: Claim Memo Helping Putin Meddling Pay in Spades
The knives came out on ABC during their Sunday morning programming as they made President Trump and the GOP the target of their hyperbolic smear campaign following the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI and Justice Department. And at one point during This Week, host George Stephanopoulos and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz…
Nicholas Fondacaro
CNN Skips CNN.com Piece on How #MeToo Hurts Clintons' Midterm Plans
CNN.com posted an article by its reporters Dan Merica and Eric Bradner headlined "How #MeToo could knock the Clintons off the 2018 map." Their own history of dealing with allegations of sexual harassment and assault could haunt Democrats in the midterms. I tweeted it and said "Will this make CNN's airwaves?" A quick search suggests....No.
Tim Graham
BBC Airs Gross 'Brown-Nosing' Cartoon of Piers Morgan with Trump
Former CNN host Piers Morgan just gained an interview with President Trump for his current gig on ITV's Good Morning Britain. But someone thought Morgan was too soft on the president. Morgan launched a blistering on the BBC after it aired a 'homophobic' cartoon depicting the British journalist with his nose up President Trump's naked rump, with the presidential pants down to his knees.
Shortly after the Nunes memo's Friday release, five reporters — three at the Associated Press and one each at MSNBC and CNN, pushed the long-discredited claim that, in the AP's words, "(Christopher) Steele’s opposition research effort was initially funded by the conservative Washington Free Beacon."
Tom Blumer
Meghan McCain: Leaving ‘Fox Echo Chamber’ for 'The View' Was Weird
While a guest on Thursday's edition of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on CBS, Meghan McCain described her departure from the Fox News Channel to be the conservative co-host on The View weekday program as “weird.”
“This show has been on for 21 years, and I’m the 21st host,” McCain told Colbert. “I’ve been on so many shows where people never watched and couldn’t figure out what channel it was…
Randy Hall
Liberal Insider 'Newsletter' Insists Trump Will 'Pay a Price' on Memo
Political insiders who subscribe to former New York Times and Politico reporter Mike Allen's morning e-mail newsletter -- Axios AM -- might realize it's not really a "newsletter." It's more like a "Talking Points Memo," and the talking points are reliably Democratic in tone. Allen's Friday edition previewed the Nunes memo release under the headline "1 Big Thing: The memo's price." Team Axios…
Tim Graham
Super Bowl Preview: NYDN Rooting for Eagles, Alias 'Team Woke'
Sunday's Super Bowl is far more than a battle of AFC and NFC champs. Evan Grossman, of The New York Daily News, calls it a matchup between two franchises from polar opposite ends of the political spectrum, a clash between one of the most socially conscious teams in the NFL — and President Trump’s favorite football franchise. Grossman's characterization of Team Woke and Team Trump is based on…
Jay Maxson
Late Night Hosts Disgrace Themselves With Nikki Haley Attacks
Nikki Haley didn’t complain about the liberal lectures during the recent Golden Globe Awards. Nor did the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. whine about the SAG Awards or last year’s Academy Awards gala. Each event dripped with progressive politics. Haley remained silent. She doesn’t engage with liberal stars like her boss, President Donald Trump, frequently does.
Christian Toto
The Week in Media Bias History: MSNBC Hits War Hero as ‘Racist' Killer
Some quotes featured in This Week in Media Bias History are so awful, they end up becoming infamous. This edition has one of those quotes. On January 29, 2015, NBC journalist Ayman Mohyeldin smeared Chris Kyle, the late Navy SEAL portrayed in the film American Sniper. He slimed Kyle as a “racist” who went on "killing sprees.” The quote would go on to win the Media Research Center’s 2015 “…