At CPAC, Pence Continues Trump Administration's Jabbing of the Media
After White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus offered strongly-worded statements on Thursday afternoon at CPAC condemning the media as “the opposition party” to the Trump team, Vice President Mike Pence offered an evening address to a boisterous audience. Of course, he lobbed some jabs at the media of his own.
Curtis Houck
ABC, CBS Overreact to Trump’s Immigration Comment, Muir Misquotes
President Donald Trump sent ABC and CBS off the rails Thursday when he made public statements about the efficiency of this deportation operations. Trump described the program as running like a “military operation,” which any normal person would understand was a figure of speech. But to ABC anchor David Muir it gave him license to fly off the handle and falsely claim, during the opening tease of…
Nicholas Fondacaro
CNN Links Trump Defending Gays from Terrorists to Transgender Bathroom
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, host Poppy Harlow repeatedly showed skepticism that there have been cases of men or boys taking advantage of transgender bathroom or changing room rules to commit sex crimes as she focused on liberal hysteria over the Trump administration canceling Obama administration rules mandating transgender students be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. CNN political…
Brad Wilmouth
Journalist on MSNBC: Trump's Continuing Obama's 'Fantastic' Economy
On Tuesday morning's MSNBC Live, Louise Mensch, though she claims to be a conservative, put forth what I suspect will be the left's core economic argument if the economy improves under Donald Trump. That argument: The economy is "fantastic" already, and Trump will have had nothing to do with whatever economic improvements over what is already "fantastic" we might see.
Tom Blumer
Chris Matthews: 'Tough Guy' Steve Bannon Is ‘Like Darth Vader’
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews compared White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday to Star Wars villain Darth Vader, even though “he’s a good speaker” albeit “a little strong but, you know, that’s part of the deal he’s got.”
Curtis Houck
NBC News Uses Kids to Criticize Trump in New Video
On Sunday, NBC News has resorted to using children in videos to deliver statements criticizing to President Trump just one month into his presidency. Opening with a young boy eager about an outsider coming to Washington to bring people together, the series, “Dear Mr. President: Letters from the American Children,” then begins throwing cheap shots by using kids.
Melissa Mullins
Rachel Maddow Facilitates Charade with Closet Partisan Ex-CIA Analyst
In a promo she does for the MSNBC channel on SiriusXM, Rachel Maddow claims she delivers the news "without fear or favor" -- but she sure provides useful cover to guests if they share her liberal politics. Such was the case Tuesday night when one of Maddow's guests was former CIA analyst Edward Price, who just quit the agency in a highly public way, accompanied by an op-ed in the Washington Post…
Jack Coleman
The Other Problem with Fake News Story of Woman Squabbling with a Van
Liberals have been denied another victory. A promising video posted to Facebook Tuesday, which showed a female bicyclist standing up to a van full of sexist males, earned a chorus of “You go, girl” from the media. But sadly, as is so often the case these days, the “spontaneous” moment turned out to be staged. Ultimately, the video was scrubbed from Facebook (though not before it was uploaded to…
Howard Portnoy
Light Media Coverage As DAPL Holdouts Torch Their Encampment
Thursday afternoon, Morton County, North Dakota officials announced, roughly 24 hours after yesterday's 2. p.m. Central Time deadline, that "the main Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp is now officially closed." Outside of the major broacast networks, press coverage of the camp's imminent and now final closure has been and I suspect will continue to be light, as the holdouts' conduct has been…
Tom Blumer
Scarborough Implies Miller Is Conservative Because of Bullies
Thursday on Morning Joe, the discussion became heated very early. During a conversation about a clip of Stephen Miller speaking on Fox News, the topic of conservatives on college campuses arose because host Joe Scarborough tried making a connection between how Miller was likely treated versus who Miller is today.
Chief legal correspondent Ari Melber spoke in a clip played in the beginning of the…
Alexis Thomasi
Nouns and Verbs and Obama Do Not Agree
WASHINGTON — “Not since Lincoln has there been a president as fundamentally shaped — in his life, convictions and outlook on the world -- by reading and writing as Barack Obama," said Michiko Kakutani, the literary critic of the famed New York Times. Did you know this? Frankly, I did not know President Obama was so wedded to books and the printed word as to be compared to President Abraham…
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Bannon Doubles Down on Media as the ‘Opposition’; It Will ‘Get Worse'
Among the highlights for the first day of CPAC 2017, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus doubled down on their attacks against the media as the former referred to them as “the opposition party” having been “dead wrong” about the election to the point that life will “get worse every day” as the administration implements their agenda.
Curtis Houck
Alan Colmes Remembered by Fox News Colleagues as 'Good,' 'Decent Man'
For many years, liberal pundit Alan Colmes often provided the “balanced” part of the Fox News Channel motto of being “Fair and Balanced.” That came to abrupt end when the 66-year-old former stand-up comedian, radio host and co-host of the Hannity & Colmes weeknight news and interview program passed away after a brief illness on Thursday.
Randy Hall
Huffington Post Consults Zen Master on 'Coping With Trump'
Now that it has dawned on most of the leftwing opponents of President Trump that removing him from office via impeachment or the 25th amendment is very unlikely, what is left for them? Well, Jo Confino of the Huffington Post recommends consulting the writings of a Zen master for advice. Unfortunately, the recommendations offer little solace for the exceedingly angry diehard leftists as we shall…