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Kelly Responds to Trump Skipping Debate; He Can't 'Control the Media'
Fox News Channel’s Kelly File host Megyn Kelly took time during the first segment of Tuesday’s show to respond to Donald Trump’s declaration from earlier in the evening that he would not be showing up at Thursday’s final Republican debate before the Iowa caucuses due to his dislike of Kelly as one of the debate moderators. Along with recapping the so-called feud between the pair dating back her…
January 26th, 2016 10:22 PM
Lefty Professor: ‘Stupidity Is the Ebola of GOP Politics’
Calling into question the brainpower of right-wingers is a longstanding practice. John Stuart Mill famously said that even though he didn’t believe conservatives were “generally stupid,” he did maintain that “stupid persons are generally Conservative.” Penn State professor Sophia McClennen followed that tradition in a Monday piece for Salon, and, yes, a certain former governor of Alaska was…
January 26th, 2016 9:43 PM
ABC’s WNT Omits Hillary Taking Back Apology She Gave to Muir in Sept.
ABC’s World News Tonight broke the network’s blackout on Tuesday night pertaining to the question from Monday’s CNN Iowa Democratic Town Hall about Clinton’s dishonesty, but it neglected to highlight Clinton recanting her numerous apologies from 2015 pertaining to her e-mail scandal with one of them coming on that very newscast in a September 8 interview by anchor David Muir. Naturally, FNC aired…
January 26th, 2016 9:29 PM
MSNBC Gives Planned Parenthood Platform to Rejoice at 'Justice' Served
Worrying that "young women [don't] appreciate that [Planned Parenthood] exist[s]," MSNBC host Chris Matthews treated Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards to a softball interview in which she celebrated "justice" being served with the indictment of two pro-life activists who exposed Planned Parenthood's fetal-tissue sales.
January 26th, 2016 8:30 PM
Matthews: Who'll Watch 'The Two Cuban Guys' If Trump Doesn't Debate?
Imagine that in some future presidential election, two Mexican-American candidates are vying for the Dem nomination. The Dem frontrunner announces he won't participate in the next debate. And a conservative pundit sneeringly says "who's going to watch a debate between the two Mexican guys?" Now imagine all hell descending on that hapless conservative for his breach of political correctness.
Will…
January 26th, 2016 7:58 PM
CW’s ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Makes the Feminist Case for Pole Dancing
The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend decided to use Monday night’s episode to shed some light on that most philosophical, insightful, and riveting aspects on modern feminism: the pole dance.
January 26th, 2016 7:28 PM
'X-Files' Monster of the Week: Pro-Life Catholics
Stop me if you’ve heard this storyline before: a pious Catholic turns out to be an evil hypocrite. Yes, this tired trope was seen once again on TV last night, this time in The X-Files episode “Founder’s Mutation.” Sadly this is the second time in a row The X-Files has used conspiracy theories to impugn the right and it's getting old.
January 26th, 2016 7:22 PM
A Confused Thom Hartmann Gets it Wrong About Reagan and '87 Crash
When in doubt, blame Reagan -- all-purpose ethos of liberal radio host Thom Hartmann.
Anyone listening to Hartmann's program, among the most popular in that increasingly desolate landscape known as liberal radio, won't wait long before he slams Ronald Reagan for all manner of economic sin.
January 26th, 2016 6:51 PM
Nets Continue Spotlighting Indictment of Pro-Life Video Producers
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning newscasts on Tuesday all reported on a Texas grand jury's indictment of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the pro-life Center for Medical Progress on the felony charge of tampering with a government record. At the same time, the panel cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing related to the organization's hidden camera footage, which uncovered the possible sale…
January 26th, 2016 6:36 PM
Kelly, Napolitano Blast ‘Political Hit Job’ Indictment of CMP, Not PP
Reacting to the news that the filmmakers related to the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) would be indicted on criminal charges in the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal, Monday’s Kelly File concluded with host Megyn Kelly and senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano excoriating the liberal Harris County, TX prosecutor for enacting “a political hit job” on the pro-life figures that…
January 26th, 2016 5:45 PM
Chris Matthews Hails the Real Liberals, The Ones Who 'Cry Sometimes'
Viewers of Tuesday’s MSNBC Live were treated to a lovely rant by Hardball host Chris Matthews denouncing the tone of politics today, and about his ‘favorite kind of liberal.’ “There are real liberals and there are people who look and talk like liberals. Liberals to me, the good ones, are people who really do care about individual people.”
January 26th, 2016 5:26 PM
Considered Judgment Should Trump Raw Anger In Your Choice for POTUS
Electing a president, especially in a dangerous world, is important work. Anger and emotion should not govern the choice. Considered judgment should. Trump appeals to the former, but not the latter.
January 26th, 2016 5:13 PM
Calling March for Life ‘Small’ an Epic WashPost Double Standard
Some things are unstoppable – even in the face of a blizzard. Friday’s 2016 March for Life took place in Washington, D.C. on the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. But The Washington Post described what it called “thousands” of Americans marching together for the nearly 60 million babies destroyed by abortion as “small.” That report sparked an…
January 26th, 2016 4:57 PM
Stephanopoulos Grills Trump on Lib Flip Flops, Didn’t Press Hillary
George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday hit Donald Trump from the right, pressing the candidate on his long history of supporting abortion and on flip-flopping positions. Yet, when the Good Morning America co-host interviewed Hillary Clinton on January 13, he did not push the Democrat on her flip-flops
January 26th, 2016 4:27 PM