Nets Decry Trump Family Dinner ‘Bucking Tradition of Transparency’

On Wednesday, the network morning shows were in full panic mode as anchors and correspondents breathlessly reported that Donald Trump went to dinner with his family Tuesday night without alerting the traveling press pool. The President-Elect’s excursion to a Manhattan steakhouse was labeled “chaos” and an affront to the principle of “transparency.”
Kyle Drennen
November 16th, 2016 12:02 PM

ABC Skips Mrs. Stephanopoulos’s Vow to Leave America If Hillary Lost

In a twist that will surprise very few conservatives, ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday America devoted almost ten minutes to interviewing the wife of George Stephanopoulos, but never mentioned Ali Wentworth’s vow to flee the country if Hillary Clinton lost the White House. 
Scott Whitlock
November 16th, 2016 11:45 AM

NYT Has Blue State Blues: '2 Americas: One That Hates, One That Heals'

Post-election, the New York Times seems dimly aware it has a “red state” credibility problem, but its pattern of coverage shows it has a long way to go. Sunday it whined about how the imminent Trumper invasion posted a threat to the cultural life of Washington, D.C., not exactly a top issue for blue-collar Macomb County voters. They aren’t as comfortable in red Texas, as shown by Manny Fernandez'…
Clay Waters
November 16th, 2016 11:12 AM

NBC News: Trump Ditching Press for Dinner Shows 'Lack of Transparency'

Brace yourself, it's already begun -- The Purge. Only a week since Donald Trump's unlikely ascension to the presidency, he's already taking aim at the very heart of democracy, as those working in journalism so often claim they embody. Late last night, NBC Nightly News ran a story with this deeply troubling headline -- "As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner, Incoming Admin Already…

Jack Coleman
November 16th, 2016 10:32 AM

Hypocrisy: Nets Fret About Bannon; Gave Catholic-Hating Podesta a Pass

Thought experiment: Assume for a moment Hillary won the election last week. Yes, birds are chirping, butterflies flitting about and unicorns are leaving piles of mint-scented equality on everyone’s lawn. 
Matt Philbin
November 16th, 2016 9:04 AM

Climate-Change Hypocrisy at the 'Luxury-Peddling New York Times'

Journalists at newspapers insist there is a wall of separation between the news reporters and the editorial writers. At The New York Times, it appears there is a yawning chasm between the "climate change" doomsayers in the newsroom and the newspaper's "Times Journeys" tour operators. Heather MacDonald blew the whistle on this corporate hypocrisy for National Review:
Tim Graham
November 16th, 2016 8:33 AM

ABC Show: Thanksgiving Celebrates People Who Swindled Natives

Thanksgiving is next week and you know what that means: Time for Hollywood to bash the holiday as racist! So, of course, ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat made some digs at America during Tuesday night’s episode “No Thanks-giving.”
Alexa Moutevelis
November 16th, 2016 2:14 AM

'NCIS' Cynically Uses Veterans to Advance Illegal Immigration Agenda

Tuesday night’s episode of CBS’s NCIS, "Home of the Brave," wasn't very brave with its special illegal immigration subplot. In fact, they took the easy way out by creating perhaps the most sympathetic character imaginable to make their point on deportation.
Alexa Moutevelis
November 16th, 2016 1:18 AM

MSNBC’s O’Donnell Champions Schemes to Abolish the Electoral College

In what could easily be described as a sore loser whining about the election results, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell started the final segment of Tuesday’s The Last Word by declaring, “Tonight, the presidential election is getting crazier and crazier. Hillary Clinton's lead in the vote has now passed the 1 million vote mark, as absentee ballots continue to be counted.” As a result, he dedicated the…
Nicholas Fondacaro
November 16th, 2016 12:41 AM

Journalists Fail to Correct Obama Howler on Economy

At a press conference in Greece on Tuesday, President Barack Obama claimed that when he came into office, "the economy was contracting faster than it did during the Great Depression, but we were able to intervene, apply lessons learned and stabilize and then begin growth again." Naturally, Elena Becatoros and Josh Lederman at the Associated Press and Gardiner Harris at the New York Times, all of…
Tom Blumer
November 16th, 2016 12:36 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: '60 Minutes' Grills the New President

Donald Trump is a persistent critic of the media and is attacked for not granting them enough access. But there he was, three days after the election, the president-elect taping a long interview with CBS and 60 Minutes, where he could expect Lesley Stahl would push, push, push from the Left. Stahl presented him as a terror for minorities. “I want to ask you all about something that's going on…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
November 15th, 2016 11:06 PM

WashPost's Eugene Robinson Echoes Rush: I Hope Trump Fails

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote a piece for Tuesday's paper headlined "I wish the president-elect failure on his cruel initiatives." It seemed like an eerie echo of Rush Limbaugh in 2009 saying he wanted Obama to fail (in passing his agenda), which sent liberals into a fury. Naturally, Limbaugh addressed the contrasting opinions on his show on Tuesday.
Tim Graham
November 15th, 2016 10:14 PM

CBS Dismisses Trump's EPA Hire for Being a ‘Critic of Climate Science’

Yet another hire by President-Elect Donald Trump is drawing the ire of the liberal media, Tuesday evening. “Well, another one of those hires is a well-known critic of climate science who does not believe that fossil fuels are warming the planet,” announced an irritated sounding Scott Pelley on CBS Evening News, “His assignment-- staffing the environment protection agency.”
Nicholas Fondacaro
November 15th, 2016 9:28 PM

Matthews Says Trump’s Anti-War Talk 'Was Tickling My Erogenous Zone’

Not that head-scratching moments on MSNBC’s Hardball aren’t rare or anything, but Tuesday’s installment featured another cringe-inducing split-second by host Chris Matthews as he admitted to The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin and Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman that President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-war stances in the primary had been “tickling my erogenous zones.”
Curtis Houck
November 15th, 2016 9:20 PM