CNN's Baldwin Dismisses GOPer Criticizing Clinton as 'Talking Points'

On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, as former Virginia Governor and former Republican National Committee chairman Jim Gilmore appeared as a guest to discuss what is likely to happen at the Republican National Convention, when the former RNC chair began listing some of the problems with Hillary Clinton that make it crucial for Republicans to unite and defeat her, host Baldwin…
Brad Wilmouth

Imagine That: ABC/ESPN Blog Demonstrates Chicago 'Ferguson Effect'

Two writers at the Five Thirty-Eight blog, purchased by ABC's ESPN network two years ago, have done something the crime increase causation deniers will surely detest: demonstrate, based on statistical evidence, and despite their tentative language, that "real changes in the process of policing in Chicago" have led to "spike in gun violence in Chicago since the end of November." Translating the…
Tom Blumer

Bababooey! Howard Stern Schools His Producer on 2nd Amendment

Bababooey! Once again the producer of the Howard Stern radio show, Gary Dell'Abate, gets schooled on something. This time Howard sets Gary straight on what the 2nd Amendment really means. Gary doesn't sound so much antithetical to the 2nd Amendment as completely confused. By the time Howard is done, Gary still sounds confused but at least the audience gets a bunch of good laughs listening to…
P.J. Gladnick

Twitter Takes 'Moment' to Mark Left-Wing Bullying of North Carolina

"HB2 is hurting North Carolina's commerce" blared the headline for a Twitter "Moment" this evening which all but celebrated the left-wing corporate and political bullying of the Tar Heel State for its law overriding a Charlotte "bathroom bill." 
Ken Shepherd

NYDN Columnist Whines Cruz’s Mob Claims About Trump Are ‘Racist'

MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews almost never passes up the chance to bash Ted Cruz as a modern day Joe McCarthy and Wednesday night was no different as he flaunted the comparison while New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi complained that Cruz’s allegations about mob ties to Donald Trump were “racist and disgusting.”
Curtis Houck

Liberal Writer Neal Gabler: Hillary Is ‘The Media’s National Piñata’

Author and former Fox News Watch panelist Gabler may or may not have a position on “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” but he does believe that when it comes to Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, “the scandals didn’t create the meme of untrustworthiness about them. The meme of untrustworthiness created the scandals.” In a piece that ran Tuesday on Salon and was originally published at…
Tom Johnson

ABC Only Network to Report Alleged Death Threats Against Delegates

On Wednesday’s evening news broadcasts, ABC was the only network to report on new threats delegates were allegedly facing from Trump supporters. Delegates from Colorado and Indiana complained to the media that they had been receiving death threats aimed at themselves and their families.While NBC did a full report on the GOP race and Trump’s complaints about the system, CBS did a short brief on…
Kristine Marsh

Clinton E-Mail Blackout Continues on Spanish Nets

Pressure on the Obama administration’s handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mail case is intensifying. The President is increasingly seen as a Clinton defender, all while saying that his defense of his former Secretary of State is not an effort to meddle in the ongoing FBI investigation. Univision and Telemundo national evening newscasts have continued to remain silent on the subject.
Edgard Portela

FNC Panel Lambastes Obama, Media Over Treatment of Fast and Furious

Moments after the Fox News Channel program Special Report provided viewers the first look at documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal finally surrendered by the Obama administration, the All-Star Panel lambasted the administration’s lack of transparency and predicted that the document dump will fetch “minimal coverage in the mainstream media.”
Curtis Houck

Hillary Surrogate: D- Sanders 'Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the NRA'

If Bernie Sanders is a subsidiary of the NRA, they really should spin him off. . . On today's MTP Daily, Hillary surrogate Hakeem Jeffries, a NYC congressman and Hillary surrogate, claimed that "Senator Bernie Sanders has effectively functioned as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Rifle association for the entirety of his career." Really? Let's go to the scorecard. Sanders current NRA…
Mark Finkelstein

NYT Marks Freddie Gray Death With Impatience at Lack of Cop Conviction

The New York Times marked the one-year anniversary of the death in Baltimore of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of a spinal cord injury a week after being arrested. With a mayoral election and the trials of six police officers charged in Gray’s death looming in May, reporters John Eligon and Sheryl Gay Stolberg took a biased look back at last year’s looting and violence in…
Clay Waters

Albany Reporter Labels 'Frack Gas' as Illegal in NY on MSNBC

Nothing can be more embarrassing for a reporter from upstate New York than not understanding the issue of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, one Albany reporter demonstrated that Wednesday on MSNBC. With New York State’s presidential primaries finally having significance the national news outlets have descended onto the state in mass. To get a local’s perspective, MSNBC host Kate Snow sat down…
Nicholas Fondacaro

‘You, Me, Her’ TV Show Pushes to Normalize Polyamory

DirecTV's new series You, Me, Her is testing the limits of television with its push for threesomes and beyond. Created by John Scott Shepherd, the show hopes to normalize polyamory and “unconventional relationships” in the culture.
Mairead McArdle

Billionaire-Bashing Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire With Three Homes

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rails against the “billionaire class” and has called income inequality “the greatest moral issue of our time,” but the senator from Vermont is “not exactly a man of modest means,” according to an article written by Kerri Anne Renzulli for the TIME magazine website. However, “nothing about Bernie’s net worth devalues his progressive beliefs,” stated…
Randy Hall