CBS Uses Heat Wave to Play Up 'Bigger Problems' From Climate Change

Wednesday's CBS Evening News used the recent heat wave in the United States to hype climate change. Mireya Villarreal featured a meteorologist who contended that "this is such a massive problem — and even if we were to completely stop all carbon emissions right now, we would still have a very serious situation. We've passed the tipping point." Villarreal underlined that "2016 is the hottest year…
Matthew Balan
July 20th, 2016 11:44 PM

How Old Are You? Van Jones Calls the GOP ‘Doggie Poo’

In a very bizarre attack against the GOP Wednesday evening, CNN political commentator Van Jones seemingly channeled his inner child by referring to the party as “doggie poo.” “The problem is that good tasty gumbo continues to be ruined by the doggie poo of the xenophobia, of the doggie poo of the anti-immigrant strident message that doesn't carefully distinguish between good and the bad of even…
Nicholas Fondacaro
July 20th, 2016 11:23 PM

MSNBC Warns Sensitive Viewers Before Showing Anti-Hillary Buttons

Warning, sensitive MSNBC viewers may want to look away. That’s essentially what Rachel Maddow told liberal watchers on Wednesday night before showing a picture of anti-Hillary Clinton buttons at the Republican convention. Considering the hateful rhetoric that’s come out of MSNBC for years, perhaps that viewer warning should have appeared in the past. 
Scott Whitlock
July 20th, 2016 10:17 PM

MSNBC: ‘Hatred,’ ‘Vitriol’ of Clintons Is Why They’re Not Transparent

Somehow, MSNBC felt on Wednesday night that it needed even more of a reason to show their undying commitment and love to the Clintons that they brought on biographer David Maraniss of The Washington Post during the Republican National Convention (RNC) to blame the “hatred” and “vitriol” from Republicans for why the Clintons aren’t transparent with the American people and decry the “25 years” of “…
Curtis Houck
July 20th, 2016 10:13 PM

NBC Touts GOP Campaigns Hitting 'Sour Note' For Using Liberals' Music

Wednesday's NBC Nightly News followed the example of CBS the previous evening in spotlighting the latest Republican presidential candidate to get in trouble with a liberal musician for using their music at a campaign event. Peter Alexander zeroed in on how "just hours after [Donald] Trump tried to cast himself as a winner, Queen complained the billionaire used the song 'against our wishes.'" He…
Matthew Balan
July 20th, 2016 9:39 PM

CNN: Christie's Hillary Speech 'Was Everything Except Crucify Her'

During CNN’s Republican Nation Convention coverage leading up to Wednesday’s lineup of speakers, CNN commentator and radio host Michael Smerconish smeared the GOP. Smerconish slammed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s speeches as a “problem” for the party. In his comments about Christie’s speech Smerconish equated Hillary Clinton to Jesus, “I call it…
Nicholas Fondacaro
July 20th, 2016 9:08 PM

April Ryan: Steve King Is ‘Stunted Mentally,’ Doesn't Understand Race

Two days after a tense exchange on MSNBC involving race and American history, American Urban Radio Networks correspondent April Ryan returned to the network’s set on Wednesday night to declare her opponent from Monday in Republican Congressman Steve King (Iowa) is “stunted mentally to be honest with you.”
Curtis Houck
July 20th, 2016 8:10 PM

MSNBC's Hayes Blames Anti-Hillary Tone on ‘Invective’ and ‘Misogyny’

Liberal MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Wednesday desperately tried to blame the anti-Hillary Clinton tone at the Republican convention on “invective” and “misogyny.” Talking to Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, he took a few isolated incidents and smear all the delegates: “Hillary Clinton is not popular in that hall. I understand that. But I wonder, when you see shirts around here or buttons that, like…
Scott Whitlock
July 20th, 2016 7:56 PM

Spanish Nets Marginalize Major Hispanic Trump Endorsements

So far, leading U.S. Spanish-language television networks Univision and Telemundo have essentially given short shrift to this week's endorsement of the Trump-Pence ticket by a prominent group of previously reticent Hispanic conservatives.
Edgard Portela
July 20th, 2016 6:37 PM

CNN's Bernstein Cringes as Cuomo Defends Clinton on Email

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's New Day, liberal CNN political commentator Carl Bernstein visibly winced after co-host Chris Cuomo asserted that Hillary Clinton did not break the law with the handling of classified email, as Bernstein recalled that FBI Director James Comey did not exonerate her on whether she in practice broke the law. After Bernstein painted Dr. Ben Carson's speech attacking…
Brad Wilmouth
July 20th, 2016 6:30 PM

NYT Fact Checks Christie Speech on Hillary as Essentially Correct

"GUILTY!" That was the verdict of the delegates at the Republican convention last night when New Jersey governor Chris Christie laid out a series of charges against Hillary Clinton and asked if she were guilty or not guilty. No surprise as to the verdict from the delegates but guess who else basically affirmed Hillary's guilt via fact checking Christie's speech. The New York Times. That's right…
P.J. Gladnick
July 20th, 2016 5:34 PM

MSNBC: If Dems Go After Trump at DNC 'We'll Call Them On It'

Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC, Craig Melvin made viewers a bold and likely empty promise days ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Melvin began by insisting that the Republican National Convention was filled with “gloom and doom,” to which his guest, Senator Dan Coats, responded it is “the most exciting convention he’s ever been to.”
Samantha Cohen
July 20th, 2016 5:25 PM

Time Absurdly Claims Trump-Pence Is 'Most Anti-Catholic' GOP Ticket

Catholics in Alliance is a front for George Soros, the billionaire who supports abortion-on-demand and other public policy initiatives that are anathema to the Catholic Church. It is run by Christopher Hale, a left-wing activist who works with Catholic dissidents and ex-Catholics to oppose the Church. He has an article posted on the website of Time that explains why Soros greases him: It is…
Bill Donohue
July 20th, 2016 5:16 PM

On NPR, Sam and Cokie Recall When the GOP 'Became Much More Racist'

The one-time ABC Sunday hosting duo of Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts appeared together on Tuesday morning on NPR's Morning Edition to discuss convention history. Roberts is still an NPR analyst. They began with the 1964 GOP convention, and Donaldson said "I think this was the first convention of the modern Republican hard-right conservatism." Roberts said "Absolutely right," noting "Nelson…
Tim Graham
July 20th, 2016 5:11 PM