CBS Channels Watergate: ‘What Did Donald Know? When Did He Know It?'

Rampant speculation abounded on Thursday’s CBS This Morning. Co-host Charlie Rose on Thursday channeled Watergate with a question about Russian hacking.  Talking to John Heilemann of Bloomberg Politics, Rose wondered, “What did Donald [Trump] know and when did he know it?” This, of course, was meant to echo Senator Howard Baker’s 1973 question during the Watergate hearings: “What did the…
Scott Whitlock
December 15th, 2016 5:02 PM

Ken Burns on Trump Victory: 'Needed Some Time in the Fetal Position'

Ken Burns has finally emerged following Donald Trump's election victory. It took over a month for that to happen since as Burns described, he "needed some time in the fetal position." Well now that the shock is starting to wear off, an interesting phenomenon has taken place which was noted by Dilbert cartoon creator, Scott Adams: the rapid evaporation of hallucinations of Trump as Hitler held by…
P.J. Gladnick
December 15th, 2016 4:02 PM

NYT Gives Critic Front to Mourn Aleppo: Obama Not Blamed, Trump Is?

Top of the news: Our architecture critic weeps over Aleppo? Indeed, the front of Thursday’s New York Times featured critic a “Critics Notebook” from Michael Kimmelman, “Aleppo’s Faces Beckon to Us, To Little Avail.” Staggeringly, Kimmelman managed to lament the tragedy in Aleppo on the front page of a major newspaper, without a single mention of President Barack Obama, the sitting president for…
Clay Waters
December 15th, 2016 3:43 PM

Sylvester Stallone as Possible NEA Chairman?

According to some reports, Donald Trump has an idea about how to make art great again – by tapping ‘Rocky’ to head the National Endowment for the Arts.
Maggie McKneely
December 15th, 2016 2:59 PM

Chelsea Handler Rips White Female Trump Voters for ‘Self-Mutilation’

Comedian Chelsea Handler, an advocate for “women supporting women,” is at it again – criticizing the great culprits behind Donald Trump’s victory. (White women, of course.) In an essay penned for Arianna Huffington’s new health site, Thrive Global, Handler attacked those who take their rights for granted and bow to their male overlords. “Specifically,” she posited, “the 53% of all white female…
Sarah Stites
December 15th, 2016 2:21 PM

The Mad Search for Pro-Trump Columnists

WASHINGTON — Over the weekend some pathetic wretch — obviously a casualty of the Nov. 8 election — writing under the pen name Paul Farhi filed a column in the Washington Post lamenting that after an extensive search of the newspapers of this great country, he could hardly find any pro-Trump columnists. 
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
December 15th, 2016 2:08 PM

Univision Set to Ruin Sports for U.S. Latinos with Own ESPYs

Having learned nothing from Hispanics' broad rejection of its preachy platform-wide agenda, Univision is now set to broadcast its own ESPY-like show.
Jorge Bonilla
December 15th, 2016 12:33 PM

#FakeNews: Media Hyperventilates Over Another Made-Up Hate Crime

While the media are obsessed with debunking “fake news,” they might take a look at the plank in their own eye. On Tuesday, Politifact, the self-appointed purveyor of debunking “fake news,” has named the “phenomenon” of fake news their “Lie of the Year” and bashed Donald Trump for spreading these so-called false stories: “Fake news found a willing enabler in [President-elect Donald Trump], who at…
Kristine Marsh
December 15th, 2016 12:00 PM

CNN.com: Electoral College Is 'Democracy's Ugliest Anachronism'

A Thursday op-ed on CNN.com outlined a proposal to "not only...end a Trump administration, but also to eradicate democracy's ugliest anachronism -- the Electoral College." Scott Piro hoped against hope that a group of Trump electors would switch their vote to Hillary Clinton, in order to gain "the bipartisan support needed to legislate it [the Electoral College] out of existence." Piro contended…
Matthew Balan
December 15th, 2016 11:39 AM

Newseum Will Honor Religious Freedom Advocate Who Fought ObamaCare

On Wednesday, Washington D.C.’s museum to journalism, the Newseum, announced the 2017 recipients of its second annual Free Expression Awards. The honorees at the April event will be a eclectic mixture of ABC anchor Martha Raddatz, Democratic Congressman John Lewis, Becket Fund for Religious Freedom director Krisina Arriaga, and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
Kyle Drennen
December 15th, 2016 11:23 AM

Distraught Celebs Call for Electors to Unite Against Trump

The election may be over, but unfortunately the time for celebrity PSA videos is not! In the latest campaign, distraught celebs are pleading for Electoral College members to “vote their conscience;” that is, pick anyone but Trump.
Maggie McKneely
December 15th, 2016 11:12 AM

NYT: Boston Terror Movie Is Safe to See Because It’s Set in Lib Town

The New York Times on Thursday attempted to soothe liberal readers about the upcoming film Patriot’s Day, a recounting of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Despite the movie's title, writer Cara Buckley assured left-leaning voters that they can still see it. Though she allowed, “We are living in times when the very definition of ‘patriot’ is deeply contested and fraught, when the word alone often…
Scott Whitlock
December 15th, 2016 11:09 AM

WashPost Cartoonist Hits Media Covering Both Sides in Climate Debate

Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles says the media isn’t biased enough on climate change. According to Yale Climate Connections, Toles complained at a Dec. 12, book signing that coverage of climate change was “abysmal” and spent too much time on “both sides” of the debate.
Sam Dorman
December 15th, 2016 10:36 AM

Pharrell to Matthews; 'The Way...You Keep People Straight Is Amazing'

Yes, folks, you read that headline right. Near the tail end of Wednesday’s Hardball, rapper Pharrell Williams lauded MSNBC host Chris Matthews for being someone Williams has “been watching...for years” because of “the way that you keep people straight” and slice through spin. 
Curtis Houck
December 15th, 2016 10:11 AM