Bill Simmons: 2015 Has Been Obama’s ‘Career Year’

Almost two years ago, in an interview with The New Yorker’s David Remnick, President Obama drew one of the worst sports-related analogies ever when he likened ISIS to a JV team. Last month, Obama sat for an interview with an actual sportswriter, Bill Simmons, who pretty much pitched batting practice, thereby minimizing the chance of presidential gaffes, sporting or otherwise. The Q&A appears…
Tom Johnson
 

ABC Omits Polls Showing Most Americans Oppose Obama on Syrian Refugees

Following the Wednesday morning newscasts in which ABC, CBS, and NBC praised the “outraged” President Obama for “slamming” Republican wanting to restrict Syrian refugees, the “big three” were back on the case Wednesday night in spinning for the President. However, CBS and NBC did make time to include how polls now show a majority of Americans want to put a moratorium on refugees for the time…
Curtis Houck
 

The Race to Riot on College Campuses

"[T]he leadership at the University of Missouri didn't lead at all. They cut and ran. To put a twist on a cliche, it isn't about the inmates taking over the asylum; rather it is about the children taking over the daycare center."
Cal Thomas
 

Muscular Matthews? Chris Calls Obama Terror Response 'Dainty'

I took some flak awhile back for saying that--his liberalism notwithstanding--Chris Matthews had a patriotic streak. More evidence for that notion on this evening's Hardball, as Matthews twice derided President Obama's response to ISIS as "dainty," and kvetched that "I don't see us doing anything."  
Mark Finkelstein
 

Matthews Objects to 'Snarky' Obama Re: GOP Criticism of Refugee Policy

When your most worshipful devotee in the liberal media thinks you're acting in an unpresidential manner, you know you've gone too far.
Ken Shepherd
 

Nets Censor Arrest of Five Syrians in Honduras with Stolen Passports

Amidst their ongoing coverage Wednesday night of the terror attacks in Paris, the major broadcast networks failed to report on news that five Syrians had been arrested in the Central American country of Honduras with stolen Greek passports and intended to travel to the U.S.
Curtis Houck
 

ABC’s Gibson Declares There’s Nothing to Benghazi or Hillary's E-Mails

Demonstrating there’s no space between liberal politicians and major media figures – once they feel free in retirement to express their true views which guided their news judgments during their careers – long-time ABC News correspondent and anchor Charlie Gibson on Wednesday afternoon dismissed the relevance of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails or Benghazi: “I don’t think there’s anything to Benghazi and…
Brent Baker
 

Don Lemon: If Not in News on CNN, I'd Be an Activist 'Like Malcolm X'

During an interview in the Nov. 17 edition of the New York Times Magazine, Cable News Network anchor Don Lemon stated that if he wasn't a journalist, he “would probably be an activist” like Malcolm X, who was considered an advocate for the rights of blacks during the early 1960s. The self-proclaimed “black gay” reporter made the comment after Anna Marie Cox asked him: “Do you have any idea what…
Randy Hall
 

Reuters Downplays Syrians Caught Headed to U.S. with Fake Passports

Pulling an Officer Barbrady, the Reuters news wire this afternoon essentially told us all to "move along, people" as regards news of five Syrians caught in Honduras bound for the U.S. with fake Greek passports.
Ken Shepherd
 

NYT: Abortionist Says His Work Expresses ‘Deepest Level of Love'

Love can be about giving up one’s own life, but it is never about making someone else die. On Wednesday, abortionist Willie J. Parker penned “Why I Provide Abortions” for the Opinion Pages of the New York Times. While he at first morally opposed abortions, Parker later decided that performing abortions fulfilled his call to be the “good” Samaritan. Today, he insists, abortion “respond[s] to our…
Katie Yoder
 

‘Firearms for Fanatics’: Daily News Claims NRA Helps Terrorists

On Wednesday, this audacious headline and image which lumped together law-abiding gun-owners with Islamic terrorists – complete with a gun superimposed over the ISIS flag – appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News:  
Kristine Marsh
 

Daily Beast Writer Blasts Charlie Sheen for Promoting 'Whorephobia'

Leave it to a Daily Beast writer to ride to the rescue of members of the world's oldest profession.
Ken Shepherd
 

CNN Journalists Blast Nonsensical Obama Admin. Spin on ISIS

On Wednesday's New Day, CNN kept up their skepticism of the Obama administration's talking points on ISIS. Chris Cuomo noted that "the word from the White House is...that we are having success....How does that make sense, given...we just saw what happened in Paris?" Christiane Amanpour threw cold water on John Earnest's claim that there wasn't a military solution for the terrorist group: "You…
Matthew Balan
 

AP Buries Steep Industry Group Drops in Fed's Production Report

The catalog of wishful thinking technically classified as reports on the economy emanating from the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, grows with virtually each passing business day. One of yesterday's additions to the mountainous pile came from the AP's Christopher Rugaber. Tasked with covering the Federal Reserve's report on October's industrial production, he devoted 10 of his…
Tom Blumer