NY Times: Trump Offers 'Wish Fulfillment' for Right-Wing Media Nuts

Back in 1995, the Clinton White House produced a 332-page packet for media friends that was badly titled “Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce.” It charged a “right-wing conspiracy industry” spread fictions about the Clintons. Conservatives might easily think of that when perusing Jonathan Martin’s New York Times piece from Wednesday, headlined “As Donald Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theories…
Tim Graham

The Booing: María Elena Salinas Lashes Out

After nearly a week's worth of controversy, Univision anchor María Elena Salinas has seen fit to address the pushback to portions of her commencement speech at Cal State Fullerton. Unfortunately, Salinas' opinion column leaves much to be desired, and raises new concerns instead of resolving old ones.
Jorge Bonilla

Williams: U.S. Is ‘The Only Nation to Have Used’ Nukes 'In Anger'

MSNBC breaking news host and ex-NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was allowed out on MSNBC’s airwaves early Friday afternoon to discuss President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima and in the course of that, Williams threw some shade in the direction of the U.S. military and then-President Harry Truman by complaining that “we’re the only nation to have used them in anger” against the horrifying Axis…
Curtis Houck

Nets Hail ‘History’ in Hiroshima, Obama Call to End Nuclear Weapons

The network morning shows on Friday all praised President Obama’s “historic visit” to Hiroshima, Japan – site of the first nuclear bombing – and him using the occasion to push his foreign policy agenda. Leading off NBC’s Today, announced: “Historic visit. President Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. President to travel to Hiroshima, site of the devastating atomic bombing.”

Kyle Drennen

Yahoo’s Idea of ‘News’: ‘The Haunting’ of ‘Sinister,’ 'Evil' Ted Cruz

Yahoo certainly seems to have a strange definition of “news.” The website on Thursday placed in its news section an op-ed by a hard-left website. Writer Tom McKay used the most hyperbolic language possible for an article entitled, “Sinister Extremists Are His Dark Legacy From 2016.” He slimed, “2016 came to bury Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, not to praise him. But the evils men do outlive them.” 
Scott Whitlock

MSNBC Guest: Hillary Should Have Jumped Off the Bridge on E-Mails

The panel on the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s Hardball had plenty to say about Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal in light of the State Department Inspector General (IG) report with Sanders supporter/former Democratic State Senator Nina Turner (Ohio) rebuking Clinton for essentially “jump[ing] off the bridge” with her predecessors into private e-mail even though she shouldn’t have.
Curtis Houck

Well, That Was Quick: ABC Goes Back to Ignoring Hillary E-Mail

It didn’t take long for ABC to go back to ignoring Hillary Clinton’s growing e-mail scandal. A day after all three networks covered a “scathing” new report accusing the Democrat of violating federal rules, Good Morning America on Friday totally avoided the subject. In contrast, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning both stayed on the story. But the two networks couldn’t agree whether Clinton was going…
Scott Whitlock

Media: Women Have Responsibility to Go See ‘Ghostbusters’

Not planning on seeing the new Ghostbusters this summer? You must be sexist. When Sony released the first trailer for the new film in early March, it didn’t go over well. In fact, it became the most disliked movie trailer in YouTube history. Ouch. 
Maggie McKneely

Katie Coward? 'Individual' Says She Regrets 'Poor Decision' in Gun Doc

Those poor, naive folks who have been expecting a mea culpa from Katie Couric for the deceptive insertion into her Under the Gun documentary of a long silence following a question directed at Virginia gun-rights supporters will be disappointed at what has transpired since the controversy arose. As of Thursday afternoon, no one was genuinely apologizing for anything. Stephanie Soechtig, the film’…
Tom Blumer

NYT Covers Rock-Throwing Anti-Trump Rioters -- Only Online

The New York Times filed some disturbing facts about what happened outside a Trump rally in New Mexico: “Protesters Throw Rocks at Police Horses Outside Trump Rally in Albuquerque.” But the troubling story of left-wing protestor violence against police and property -- a story that would seem to justify the anxieties of Trump supporters -- didn’t make the print edition. Instead, the reporting from…
Clay Waters

Daily Show Begs Hillary: ‘We Need You to Be Our Boss!’

On Thursday night’s Daily Show, correspondent Michelle Wolf begged Clinton to “be our boss” in a segment devoted to convincing viewers that Clinton’s likeability and email scandal were no big deal. Wolf tried to spin Clinton’s honesty and likeability issues into a positive, asserting that Clinton was what “America needs:” “a no-nonsense, indoor sunglass-wearing boss lady who eats enemies and […
Kristine Marsh

O'Reilly Blames Black Lives Matter for Spike in Violent Urban Crime

Wednesday evening, Bill O Reilly at Fox News sharply criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, assigning it primary blame for the spike in violent urban crime seen throughout the nation since late 2014. Though his monologue contained one significant exaggeration, his overall take — expressed in layman's terms, that the "Ferguson effect" is real — was spot-on. Leftists, up to and including…
Tom Blumer

Predictable: Nashville’s 'Conservative' Is a Bloviating Homophobe

As promised during last week’s episode of ABC's Nashville, gay country star Will Lexington finally got his showdown with the show’s conservative caricature, leading straw-woman: Cynthia Davis. And as you probably guessed, Davis wasn’t portrayed kindly. Instead, the “conservative” talker is portrayed as a bloviating, incompetent homophobe who can’t string a coherent thought together to save her…
Erik Soderstrom

Not Real or Sports: HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ Goes Gun Grabbing

Just in case you missed it, or have been living in some kind of cave where the powers of media are incapable of penetrating, HBO’s Real Sports is neither really real, nor is it even really about sports. On Tuesday night’s episode of Real Sports, the investigative arm of HBO’s leftist sports department took exception with the AR-15 rifle.
Dylan Gwinn