Angry Black Columnist Hated 'Take Our Country Back'...Until Trump

For decades, liberal journalists have smelled racist or xenophobic airs whenever a conservative politician says "let's take our country back." James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal posted Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts flip-flopping with the phrase over just 11 days of the newspaper. He was "Two Columnists in One!"
Tim Graham
November 19th, 2016 3:52 PM

Salon's Amanda Marcotte: Media Got Hillary Same Way They Got Gore

Major similarities between the 2016 presidential election and that of 2000 don’t end with the Democrat winning the popular vote but losing the electoral vote, claims Marcotte, who contended that the media had it in for Hillary Clinton the same way they did for Al Gore, and that in each case biased campaign coverage was a factor in driving down Democratic voter turnout. Regarding this year’s race…
Tom Johnson
November 19th, 2016 1:55 PM

NYT Attacks Trump National Security Pick Gen. Flynn’s ‘Islamophobia'

The two stories in the lead slot of Saturday’s New York Times under the umbrella headline “Trump Selects Loyalists On Right Flank to Fill National Security Posts” both hammered Trump’s “hard-line” national security choices. But it was Michael Rosenberg’s profile of Trump’s pick for national security, Gen. Michael Flynn, that truly lifted the hood on the paper’s seething contempt for Trump’s…
Clay Waters
November 19th, 2016 1:42 PM

RIP ‘Saturday Night Live’ 1975-2016

One of the hackiest recurring headlines in modern journalism is "Saturday Night Dead." One of the hackiest recurring headlines in modern journalism is "Saturday Night Dead."Critics have been using that for years whenever Saturday Night Live, NBC’s signature sketch series, slipped a notch. Or three, as the case often was. Then the show would come roaring back, and the headlines were forgotten. Not…
Christian Toto
November 19th, 2016 12:05 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: Cracked Crystal Ball of Liberal Celebrities

Before the shock of President Trump wears off, let’s remember to tip our hats to Tinseltown. What would we do without them? These were the self-absorbed Beautiful People who called on America to become as enlightened as they by supporting Hillary Clinton. They proudly donned their “I’m With Her” buttons.  Now, like their candidate, they are in a state of shock. America’s response on November 8…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
November 19th, 2016 7:59 AM

Democratic Underground Suffers Election Grief Shutdown

The Democratic Underground went into the election last week absolutely confident in Hillary Clinton's victory. As we shall see they were even openly gloating about her winning the presidency before the election even happened. And then the Trumpocalypse shockwave hit them hard. Very hard. In fact, they went into such a deep state of grief that their website shut down. Here is their laughable…
P.J. Gladnick
November 18th, 2016 8:05 PM

Matt Taibbi: America Will Recognize Obama’s ‘Humanity and Greatness’

Rolling Stone’s Taibbi has started what amounts to a premature “Miss Me Yet?” meme for President Obama, and he recommends that question be answered “yes.” In a Friday piece, Taibbi opined, “Donald Trump may have won the White House, but he will never be a man like his predecessor, whose personal example will now only shine more brightly with the passage of time. At a time when a lot of Americans…
Tom Johnson
November 18th, 2016 5:52 PM

New Yorker Editor: Obama Worried About Trump’s ‘Misogyny and Racism’

New Yorker editor David Remnick appeared on CBS This Morning to brag about his scoop on Barack Obama’s reaction to the election of Donald Trump. Asked by Charlie Rose what “worries” Obama about the President-elect, Remnick marveled, “Where to on begin? Certainly appointments like Sessions or Flynn, whom he fired, or Steve Bannon. That is for starters worries him. He worries that someone who had a…
Scott Whitlock
November 18th, 2016 5:22 PM

CNN Chyron Slams Sessions as Being ‘Dogged’ with ‘Racism' Claims

Hours after Carol Costello kicked off the media hysteria on Friday over President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of “controversial” Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (Ala.) to become Attorney General, CNN Newsroom afternoon anchor Brooke Baldwin hyped that Sessions will be bombarded with racism allegations from his past to the point that the chyron ruled he’s been “dogged” by such claims.
Curtis Houck
November 18th, 2016 5:12 PM

Keith Olbermann: President-Elect Donald Trump's Behavior 'Not Normal'

Just when we thought we'd heard the last from Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC bomb-thrower has created an online video series for GQ magazine entitled The Resistance, in which the former sportscaster and political commentator is lashing out at President-Elect Donald Trump as “the man who was elected by a minority” whose actions are “not normal.” The fire-breathing pundit also targeted former…
Randy Hall
November 18th, 2016 5:01 PM

MSNBC Warns Jeff Sessions Will Dismantle Civil Rights

On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell fretted over Donald Trump nominating Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general: “...this is a difficult time with the civil rights issues front and center at the Justice Department after Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, the Voting Rights Act being somewhat gutted by the Supreme Court, and all of those issues that have been…
Kyle Drennen
November 18th, 2016 4:42 PM

Bozell on MSM Cabinet Attacks: This Is Why Public ‘Rejected the Media’

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell condemned the relentless attacks on Donald Trump’s cabinet picks and journalists who, at the same time, ignore the radical statements and connections of potential Democratic National Committee Chairman Keith Ellison. Appearing on the Fox Business Channel, Friday, Bozell quipped, “There's a reason why, by ten to one, the American people believe the news…
NB Staff
November 18th, 2016 3:47 PM

WashPost Skips College Exec's 'Piece of Trash' Attack on Trump Voters

A week ago, our MRCTV colleague Ashley Goldenberg reported that an admission official at publicly funded George Mason University in Virginia wrote on his personal Facebook page that anyone who opposed gay marriage and voted for Donald Trump is a “worthless piece of trash.” That news of liberal “inclusion” has yet to be noticed by the dominant local newspaper, The Washington Post. That…

Tim Graham
November 18th, 2016 3:41 PM

CNN's Gregory, Guest Blast 'Dangerous,' 'Ignorant' General Flynn

On Friday's New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota and David Gregory hammered General Michael Flynn after Donald Trump selected him to be his national security advisor. Gregory asserted that Flynn demonstrated "short-sighted, ignorant thinking" and apparently, "jump[ed] the shark into...Islamophobia" over his controversial remarks about Islam. Camerota played up a "fake news" post from Flynn on Twitter,…
Matthew Balan
November 18th, 2016 2:38 PM