Halperin Frets Trump ‘Governing as a Republican’; ‘In the Barricades’

Appearing on Thursday’s NBC Today, political analyst Mark Halperin worried that Republican President Donald Trump was behaving like...well, a Republican. Talking about the coming fight in the Senate to confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Halperin lamented: “...right now Donald Trump is governing as a Republican president, not as an independent. And if he does a scorecard of his first few…
Kyle Drennen

Networks Largely Yawn At Report Clinton Campaign Blames Obama For Loss

The broadcast networks morning and evening newscasts, along with the cable news networks, have largely ignored the Tuesday report from Axios's Mike Allen that Hillary Clinton's campaign team blames President Obama for her loss in the 2016 election. Charlie Rose mentioned the revelation in passing on Thursday's CBS This Morning: "You have reports, for example, that the Hillary campaign thought it…
Matthew Balan

Networks Refuse to Call Out Berkeley Violent Mob as 'Liberal'

Last night the ultra liberal campus of U.C. Berkeley erupted in violence after an estimated 1,000 students came out to protest Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was invited to speak by the school’s College Republicans. The crowd quickly turned into a mob when they began setting fires, throwing smoke bombs, breaking windows and punching Trump supporters. But instead of accurately identifying…
Kristine Marsh

Heilemann: Media Lesson for Hillary Loss Is Don’t 'Ignore the Country'

Why were journalists so surprised by Donald Trump’s election victory in November? They forgot about the country. That was the conclusion from author and Bloomberg politics editor John Heilemann on Thursday’s CBS This Morning. Co-host Gayle King quizzed, “When you look at it now, what do you think you missed?” 
Scott Whitlock

Sarah Silverman Calls For Military Overthrow of ‘Mad King’ Trump

Sarah Silverman wasn’t joking when she called for an overthrow of the government.
Sarah Stites

MRC’s Gainor Scolds Media’s Executive Order ‘Chaos’ Claim

In a recent interview, MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor condemned The New York Times for false reports about a recent executive order. The Times claimed the Trump administration did not inform Department of Homeland Security about the new executive order regarding refugees from certain nations.Gainor appeared on Fox Business Network’s Intelligence Report with Trish Regan, and…
James Powers

Trump Mentions Christian Genocide Even as NY Times Downplays Crisis

Just a couple of weeks into his administration, President Trump has used the G-word – something his predecessor did only reluctantly and the media continue to refuse to do. At the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, Trump mentioned the threat to religious minorities (Christians) under ISIS and in other Muslim majority nations, calling what’s happening “genocide.”   
Matt Philbin

Williams to GOP: 'Careful What You Wish For' With Nuclear Option

On Wendesday night's The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, the former Nightly News host warned that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell possibily invoking the "nuclear option" to confirm Supreme Court nomninee Neil Gorsuch "goes into the category of 'be careful what you wish for.'"
Jackson Richman

Media Slow to Admit CA's 'Probably Forever' Drought Almost Over

California’s “exceptional drought” isn’t exceptionally bad any more. Winter storms have been good for the state, pulling it out of the worst rating from the U.S. Drought Monitor. However, this “huge improvement” barely registered with the broadcast networks that had blamed “climate change” for the crisis. CNN.com reported on Jan. 26, that “California’s drought is almost over.” For the first…
Julia A. Seymour

Russell Wilson: Trump Might Not Last 4 Years: ‘Barack, Come Back!’

Who was it that demanded to know Russell Wilson’s take on current events? C’mon, fess up! Somebody asked – probably a 49ers fan wanting somebody else’s QB to look like an idiot for a change. 
Jay Maxson

TV Drama 'The Fosters:' 'People Literally Get Killed for Being Trans'

Tuesday night’s episode of Freeform’s The Fosters, titled “Insult to Injury,” was the winter premiere of season four and the network (formerly ABC Family channel) continued with its deliberate promotion of liberal Hollywood’s aggressive LGBT agenda through the use of young people.
Karen Townsend

CNN's Louis Falls for Fake Story That a Mother Died from Muslim Ban

On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, during a discussion of White House press secretary Sean Spicer complaining about the media calling President Donald Trump's restrictions on immigration a "Muslim ban," CNN political commentator Errol Louis repeated a story that has turned out to be a hoax that the Iraqi mother of an American citizen died in Iraq because she was barred from…
Brad Wilmouth

NBC Criticizes Trump Admin for ‘Officially Putting Iran on Notice'

Kicking off NBC Nightly News on Wednesday, the network seemed to bizarrely come out against the Donald Trump administration for “officially putting Iran on notice” following an unsanctioned ballistic missile test on Sunday that violated UN resolutions. “National Security Adviser Michael Flynn accusing the Iranians of defying the UN. Did they do it?,” questioned anchor Lester Holt in the opening…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Matthews Falsely Claims Garland ‘Never Got a Conversation' with GOPers

On Wednesday’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews engaged in a fascinating debate with Stanford University’s Lanhee Chen on Supreme Court appointments and the Biden rule. But above all, Matthews lied that Obama appointee Merrick Garland “never got a conversation with a Republican” when Garland met with at least 16 Republican Senators.
Curtis Houck