CNN Panel Goes Nuclear on Obama Over Optics Post-Brussels

Moments after video surfaced on Wednesday night of President Obama doing the tango while visiting Argentina, the panel on CNN’s AC360 did little to contain their disdain for the President continuing to engage in lighter fare they dubbed “frivolous” and “shameful” in the immediate 24-36 hours after the deadly Islamic terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium.
Curtis Houck
March 24th, 2016 1:49 AM

ESPN Cries ‘Invasion’ After Cuba Broadcast Is Halted by Dissidents

Bob Ley, ESPN's longest-serving commentator, was in Cuba yesterday after the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the island nation's national team 4-1 in an exhibition baseball game. Shortly after the conclusion of that game, ESPN had Ley report from a rather nice-looking streetscape in Havana (not your typical avenue in the workers' paradise). As he did, a demonstrator interrupted him. ESPN, acting as if…
Tom Blumer
March 24th, 2016 1:27 AM

Press Barely Note Party of Dem Prosecutor Nabbed for Seeking Hookers

It has been nine days since Ingham County, Michigan prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III, a Democrat, was arrested and charged with "15 criminal counts" in three different counties involving engaging prostitutes, pandering prostitution, and willful neglect of duty by a public officer. The press has been reluctant to identify Dunnings as a Democrat in its news coverage, either avoiding the tag…
Tom Blumer
March 23rd, 2016 10:05 PM

Repeat After Me: 'President Donald Trump'

If I were among the conservatives who have been throwing names like Hitler and Stalin at Trump, I would just start to practice enunciating the words "President Donald Trump" -- the sooner, the better.
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
March 23rd, 2016 9:32 PM

Nets Neglect to Fully Separate Cruz from Ad Against Melania Trump

On Wednesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC did little to nothing to separate Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz from the unaffiliated Super PAC that ran an ad featuring a naked picture of Donald Trump’s wife Melania and instead chalked it up to a “nuclear war of words” representing more “shame” in “their nasty rivalry.”
Curtis Houck
March 23rd, 2016 9:21 PM

Video: Matthews Does the World's Worst Harry Belafonte Impression

During his nightly "Tell Me Something I Don't Know," Hardball host Chris Matthews let loose with a Harry Belafonte impression that was so bad you, well, just watch.
Ken Shepherd
March 23rd, 2016 8:16 PM

Pressing Cruz on Counter-Terrorism, Cooper Invokes 'Internment Camps'

As GOP presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz spoke by phone as a guest on Tuesday's special edition of CNN's The Lead, guest host Anderson Cooper quoted the Anti-Defamation League in invoking the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans in "internment camps" as he pressed the Texas Republican over his earlier call for more police engagement in Muslim neighborhoods to preempt terrorism in…
Brad Wilmouth
March 23rd, 2016 8:16 PM

CNN Analysts Hype Hillary 'Very Correctly' Ripping GOP's 'Poor Ideas'

Two CNN analysts praised Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, moments after the Democratic presidential candidate finished a speech on national security. Peter Bergen touted Clinton's "sustained attack on a lot of rather poor ideas that the Republican candidates have come out with about how to deal with terrorism — whether it's building walls — I think Hillary Clinton very correctly said...how does that…
Matthew Balan
March 23rd, 2016 6:30 PM

NPR Offers 'Trump Training' to Help Reporters Deal With Violence

There's no doubt that the current presidential campaign has been more antagonistic than previous contests for the White House, and as a result, one national news organization is taking action to train its correspondents in “hostile environment awareness.” According to an article by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi, the National Public Radio system has sent its political reporters to…
Randy Hall
March 23rd, 2016 6:26 PM

Liberal Narrative of the Day: Hillary Is 'the Adult in the Room'

For most of Wednesday MSNBC anchors and commentators spent their time putting Donald Trump and Ted Cruz through the ringer for their positions on fighting ISIS, and taking on radical Islamic terrorism. They did this while praising Hillary for her in foreign policy experience and repeatedly declaring her “the adult in the room.”
Nicholas Fondacaro
March 23rd, 2016 5:42 PM

AP Cheers New-Home Sales Increase in West, Covers Up Drops Elsewhere

Today's report on February's new-home sales from the Census Bureau showed seasonally adjusted declines in three of the nation's four regions and an increase in the West. The Associated Press and reporter Josh Boak, displaying brazenness which might have even embarrassed the scribes at Pravda during the worst days of the Soviet Union, concentrated on how great things were in the West in their…
Tom Blumer
March 23rd, 2016 5:34 PM

The View’s Joy Behar Snarls at ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Anti-Muslim’ Cruz

The Ted Cruz bashing continued on ABC’s The View, Wednesday, with Joy Behar excoriating the “dangerous,” “anti-Muslim” Republican candidate. The co-hosts discussed Cruz’s call for preemptive monitoring and cooperation with Muslim communities to prevent terrorism. Behar snarled, “All this business of being anti-Muslim is not helping the situation. We need to take a long view of terrorism.” 
Scott Whitlock
March 23rd, 2016 5:32 PM

Daily Beast: It's Unbiblical for Nuns to Sue Obama Over HHS Mandate

According to the Daily Beast's Jay Michaelson, not only is the lawsuit against the Obama administration over the contraceptive mandate based on "tortured logic," it's sinful.
Ken Shepherd
March 23rd, 2016 5:01 PM

NARAL Wants You to Know: Not Being Pro-Abortion is a Liability

Pro-choice advocacy has been given a place of privilege on Univision’s sister network, Fusion, with a new video being dedicated to the views of Missayr Boker, assistant political director of  the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL).
Daniel Garza
March 23rd, 2016 4:00 PM