CNN Boosts Obama's State of the Union With Wes Anderson-Style Video
On Monday, CNN Politics's Chris Moody and Alexander Rosen promoted/paid tribute to President Obama's final State of the Union address by producing an online video in the style of movie director Wes Anderson. Moody narrated the video, which spotlighted a pro-ObamaCare moment from the President's 2015 speech to Congress, where Senator Marco Rubio and other Republicans refused to stand and applaud.
January 11th, 2016 3:51 PM
Mitchell Fears Benghazi Movie ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Will Hurt Hillary
On her MSNBC show on Monday, host Andrea Mitchell derided the film 13 Hours, opening in theaters nationwide on Friday: “That new film about Benghazi coming out this week could give wider circulation to conspiracy theories, despite denials, that CIA operatives were told to stand down and not rescue four Americans, including an ambassador, who died in that assault.”
January 11th, 2016 3:36 PM
John Dickerson Skeptical of Hillary's Classification Instruction Spin
Hmmm... I need some classified documents right away but the secure fax isn't working just now. Hey! No problem. Just strip off the data security headings and send me the info via non-secure means. ...If I had been a normal government employee, I would probably be in a heap of legal trouble by now. However, if you are former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the security rules don't apply to…
January 11th, 2016 3:05 PM
End the Federal Monopoly on Regulation of Health Care
Robert Laszewski may be the nation's leading expert on President Obama's health care law. He is skeptical of the claims made by both supporters and opponents of the law, and he offers an interesting take about the law's role in the 2016 election: "Democrats can't admit Obamacare is broken and Republicans can't admit it won't be repealed."
January 11th, 2016 2:45 PM
CNN's Douthat Warns of Immigration 'Disaster' in Germany
Appearing as a guest on Monday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, New York Times columnist and CNN political commentator Ross Douthat admitted that there can be such a thing as too much immigration as he warned of a "slow-motion disaster" in Germany because of Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow a million immigrants into the country.
But when asked by host Costello to clarify the…
January 11th, 2016 2:08 PM
HBO's Lena Dunham Stumps for Hillary After 'Horrific Gender Attacks'
This past Friday, HBO Girls actress and show creator Lena Dunham was stumping at a “Women for Hillary” event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Prior to Clinton’s campaign run, Dunham had also been active during Obama’s 2012 presidential run.
This time, however, Dunham isn’t talking about “losing her virginity” when it comes to voting (a reference to her ad nauseous PSA she did for Obama in the last…
January 11th, 2016 1:33 PM
Ellen Hails Hillary: ‘You Know What a Supporter I Am’
Just weeks before the Iowa Caucus, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres again gave Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton a softball platform to promote her candidacy. At one point, DeGeneres reiterated her endorsement of Clinton: “And you know what a supporter I am. I think that you’re as smart as can be, I think you are qualified, I think you stand for everything that I want in a president.”
January 11th, 2016 1:04 PM
Fusion Is Hosting Iowa's Brown & Black Forum. What Could Go Wrong?
A missed opportunity for thoughtful discussion of the issues that affect minority communities, in lieu of a divisive identity politics agenda.
January 11th, 2016 12:31 PM
ABC Slams ‘Outrage’ of Sean Penn’s Interview With El Chapo
Even the journalists at ABC News, who have their own problems with journalistic ethics, were disgusted by Rolling Stone having Sean Penn interview the drug lord known as El Chapo. Legal analyst Dan Abrams appeared on Good Morning America, Monday, to decry, “I think he [Penn] did something wrong here. In particular, I think Rolling Stone did something wrong here, journalistically.”
January 11th, 2016 12:25 PM
CBS Hosts Tee Up Left-Wing Russell Simmons to Blast Trump
Wrapping up an interview with left-wing music mogul Russell Simmons on Monday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose wondered: “Are you ready for President Trump?” Simmons sarcastically replied: “No. I think I'm ready for him to win the Republican primary. That’d be good.”
January 11th, 2016 11:17 AM
David Brooks Slams Ted Cruz for 'Dark and Satanic Tones' of Rhetoric
Ted Cruz and his father have “satanic” tones. That’s what you get from the taxpayer-subsidized PBS NewsHour, established so somewhere on TV, people are civil and don’t....insult each other as Satan?
Pseudo-conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks has a swelling, itching hatred of Senator Cruz, and it was time to scratch as Cruz begins to surge in the polls:
January 11th, 2016 10:50 AM
'No-Go Zones' Are Back in the News — But Not at U.S. Media Outlets
Despite reports and statements containing the term coming out of Germany during the past week, searches at the Associated Press on "no-go zones," and even on "no-go," return nothing. The New York Times has no recent report identifying European no-go zones, but has at least demonstrated that it might be getting over its nearly allergic reaction to the term by observing that parts of Ramadi, Iraq…
January 11th, 2016 10:27 AM
Notable Quotables: 'Proud' of 'Tearful' Obama's Attack on Gun Rights
Liberal journalists applaud President Obama's unilateral action against the Second Amendment, with ABC's Byron Pitts dubbing Obama "America's parent-in-chief," while MSNBC/Bloomberg analyst Mark Halperin declaring he's "proud" of how Obama is approaching "a national crisis that needs to be addressed." At the same time, a Newsweek reporter makes a sickening Nazi analogy to Ted Cruz's Iowa…
Geoffrey Dickens and Rich Noyes
January 11th, 2016 9:12 AM
Scarborough, Harold Ford Scrap Over Hillary's Bullying Of Bill's Women
Is the Hillary camp sensing mortal political danger over her role as "bully" [to use Maureen Dowd's term] toward Bill's women? The question arises given the agitation, defensiveness and anger displayed by the normally mild-mannered Harold Ford, Jr., a Hillary fan, on today's Morning Joe.
Ford warning Joe Scarborough not to raise his voice to him? Ford defensively rejecting comparisons between…
January 11th, 2016 8:49 AM