On Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN's New Day has given sympathetic attention to the case of an immigrant from Poland -- Dr. Lukasz Niec -- who is in danger of being deported because of a combination of misdemeanors committed in 1992 combined with more recent brushes with the law, including accusations of child abuse. After initially portraying the case as just involving misdemeanors from over 25 years…
Brad Wilmouth
ABC Finally Covers Missing FBI Texts, Paints It as Wild GOP Conspiracy
After completely ignoring for the better part of three days the shocking revelations that the FBI had somehow managed to lose five months worth of text messages, ABC finally found the story during Wednesday’s World News Tonight. And with their late arrival came a heavy spin campaign to make it seem as though it was nothing more than baseless accusations from a panicked Republican Party.
Nicholas Fondacaro
MSNBC: FBI Concerns Are ‘Destroying’ America Using ‘McCarthy Playbook'
For the second straight day, MSNBC’s Hardball dismissed any and all Republican questions on Wednesday about bias inside the FBI as modern-day McCarthyism that’s a smoke screen “destroying” and “hurting” America. Host Chris Matthews predictably set the tone, referring to Republicans such as Senator Ron Johnson (Wisc.) as “toadies” being ordered by the White House to “do anything to deflect or…
Curtis Houck
Don Lemon Blames Donald Trump for Death Threats Made to CNN Employees
It’s certainly no secret that Republican President Donald Trump and the liberals in the “mainstream media” haven’t gotten along since before Trump was inaugurated on Saturday, January 20, 2017. However, that hostile relationship was raised several notches when CNN Tonight host Don Lemon accused Trump on Tuesday of using “Fake News” in such a harmful way that, in Lemon's book, it's inspired people…
Randy Hall
CNN Produces Gushy Documentary About Media’s Favorite Liberal Justice
As if one feminist biopic about Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2018 wasn’t enough, CNN has partnered with two liberal production companies to release yet another one this year. CNN Films premiered their own documentary called, RBG, this past Sunday at Sundance Film Festival, and it is set to air on their network at a later date.
Kristine Marsh
Teen Mom Maddi Runkles Tells Others Like Her: ‘You Can' Choose Life
A teenage mother who made nationals headlines last year is speaking out to those who, like her, faced unplanned pregnancies. On Friday, MRC Culture spoke with Maddi Runkles at the 45th March for Life held in Washington. Maddi attracted nationwide attention after The New York Times highlighted her story last May.
Katie Yoder
Broadway Joins Ranks of Planned Parenthood's Celebrity Boosters
Surprise! There’s yet another group of showbiz women to unfollow this year. It seems Broadway is just as reflexively liberal as Hollywood, and a bunch of stage starlets are showing their their solidarity with the abortion factory-operators at Planned Parenthood.
Gabriel Hays
DACA Drama Drowns Out Puerto Rico Statehood Drive
Our national media talk a big talk when it comes to advocating equality for all, if their shameless self-promotion is to be believed. However, their treatment of Puerto Rico's official push for admission into the Union as the 51st state makes crystal clear that some causes are more "equal" than others.
MRC Latino Staff
Costas Is ‘Happy’ He’s Not Covering the Super Bowl. You Should Be Too
It’s been a rough year for the NFL. Ratings were down, stadiums half-empty, players kneeling, Roger Goodell somehow keeping his job. But take heart, fans! The football gods have decided that you've suffered enough. NBC’s Super Bowl pregame show will go on without Katie Couric Bob Costas.
Matt Philbin
Nets Ignore IMF Claim: Tax Bill Will Boost Global Economic Growth
The GOP tax bill has already led to millions of dollars in bonuses for American employees, but the benefits won’t stop there, according to global economic forecasts. The tax bill is also “expected to be responsible for about half of the upward revision to global economic growth over the next two years,” the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Jan. 22. The network evening news shows…
Aly Nielsen
‘Hold On!’ Alexander Fights with Sanders Over Guns, School Shootings
Since CNN’s Jim Acosta wasn’t there for Wednesday’s White House press briefing, NBC’s Peter Alexander seized Acosta’s position of coming to blows with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in front of the cameras. The topic? Gun control measures in response to school shootings. What began as a pedestrian back and forth morphed into the usual shouting matches that readers and viewers have come to…
Curtis Houck
Oscar-Nominated Star Says ‘Racism’ Is ‘More Pronounced’ In America
As the Academy prepares to celebrate the “best” in Hollywood, stars are already preparing their political speeches.
The star of Get Out, Daniel Kaluuya, gave an interview with W magazine on January 23, where he spoke about racism in America and in Great Britain. The Oscar-nominated Kaluuya told Lynn Hirschberg, “I think racism is more pronounced in America.”
Corinne Weaver
Home Schooling Is Not a Crime
It's elementary. Education control freaks will use any excuse to crack down on competition. With two million K-12 students now educated at home (including our 9th grade son), the temptation to exploit the most marginal cases of alleged child abuse by home-schoolers has proven irresistible to statist politicians and government apologists.
Michelle Malkin
We Don't Need Bad Law
President Donald Trump said, "We are going to take a strong look at our country's libel laws so that when somebody says something that is false and defamatory about someone, that person will have meaningful recourse in our courts." The president was responding to statements made in Michael Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.