'The Player': A Show Where Super-Rich People ‘Gamble on Crime’

Entertainment is full of plotlines that make wealthy people look evil, or like criminals, or even cold-hearted. NBC’s new “pulp” The Player just takes a new approach with an Illuminati-level conspiracy. The Player, which premieres tonight on NBC, asks viewers to accept the unusual premise that there is a strange and secret conspiracy. Because “ordinary games become stale,” the world’s richest…
Julia A. Seymour
September 24th, 2015 2:36 PM

Heilemann Blasts Dem's 'Strawman Argument' for Limited Primary Debates

During an interview with former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, John Heilemann called out the Obama official for using a “strawman argument” to defend the Democratic Committee’s decision to only have 6 presidential debates. The With All Due Respect host challenged Dunn over her assertion that the hypothetical number of debates would be either 6 or 25 and wondered why Chairwoman…
Jeffrey Meyer
September 24th, 2015 2:33 PM

Amanpour: 'Republican Candidates...Decided to Make A War On Moslems'

CNN's Christiane Amanpour wildly claimed that "top" Republican presidential candidates "have decided to make a war on Moslems...1.5 billion members of another faith." Amanpour didn't name any names, but since she pointed out how Pope Francis referenced "Thomas Merton, a Cistercian friar" during address to Congress, who, in her words, "had tolerance and interreligious dialogue as his leitmotif;"…
Matthew Balan
September 24th, 2015 12:56 PM

Maria Shriver: Before Francis, It Was 'Embarrassing' to Be Catholic

NBC’s resident Catholic pundit Maria Shriver proclaimed on MSNBC on Wednesday afternoon that Pope Francis has now made it possible to enter a Catholic church without it being “kind of embarrassing.”  This is someone who might feel it “kind of embarrassing” that Grandpa had her Aunt Rosemary lobotomized, or that her movie-star husband had affairs (and a child) with the household help. She was…
Tim Graham
September 24th, 2015 11:52 AM

CBS Insists GOP ‘Most Concerned’ Over Pope’s Speech to Congress

On Thursday’s CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes helped preview Pope Francis’ speech before Congress by stressing the supposed uneasiness Republicans have with his visit to the United States. In her introduction of Cordes, co-host Norah O’Donnell wildly proclaimed that “like everything in Washington the Pope's statement are being put through a political filter. Conservatives in Congress seemed to be…
Jeffrey Meyer
September 24th, 2015 9:26 AM

'Empire' Echoes Black Lives Matter, Calls Lawyer 'Clarence Thomas'

I confess, I am a new viewer of Empire. It was all the buzz last year, I know, but a gal only has so much time for guilty pleasures. I watched this season opener with optimism, given the good things I’ve heard from girlfriends. I was not disappointed by the spectacle. The sophomore drama is clearly feeling its oats after the smashing success of its first season. 
Karen Townsend
September 24th, 2015 4:25 AM

Colbert Cozies Up to Elizabeth Warren, Pleads with Her to Run for Pres

Joining new Late Show host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday’s show, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) received quite the welcome as the liberal late-night host compared her to Batman and repeatedly urged her to consider running for president. Near the tail end of his opening monologue, Colbert hyped that Warren “has launched a one-woman crusade against the billionaire class” and is “like…
Curtis Houck
September 24th, 2015 2:40 AM

Veteran AP Reporter Promotes Absurd 'Laissez Faire Regulation' Myth

The competition for the most annoying aspect of establishment press business reporting is fierce. One which immediately identifies a reporter as hopelessly biased and ignorant is any reference to "laissez faire" as a condition allegedly present in any modern economy anywhere on earth. "Laissez faire" is an economic concept involving "an economic system in which transactions between private…
Tom Blumer
September 24th, 2015 1:48 AM

Frank Rich: Carson Appealing to Racists, 'Muslim Is the New Black'

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's CNN Tonight, former New York Times columnist Frank Rich -- now of New York magazine -- accused GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson of receiving support from a "racist, bigoted part of the Republican base," in the aftermath of Dr. Carson's comments opposing the election of a Muslim President. A bit later, he even accused GOP candidate Mike Huckabee of "…
Brad Wilmouth
September 24th, 2015 12:57 AM

ABC's 'Blackish' Leads with the N-Word in Season Premier

In its first season, ABC’s Blackish waited until about the 6th episode before delving into any meaty topics of political/social controversy. In their second season, they’ve taken a slightly different approach. On Wednesday’s season premier, an episode titled “THE Word,” blackish jumped right in and dedicated the first episode to the n-word.
Dylan Gwinn
September 24th, 2015 12:37 AM

NPR: Hillary Timed Keystone Announcement to Pope's Visit

It would appear that Hillary Clinton's act is wearing thin even among the people at that liberal bastion known as NPR. Tuesday afternoon, the headline at an NPR story about Mrs. Clinton's sudden decision to publicly announce her opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline project indicated that her announcement was deliberately timed to coincide with Pope Francis's visit to the United States (HT…
Tom Blumer
September 23rd, 2015 10:46 PM

Walker Didn’t Appeal to GOP’s ‘Increasingly Disreputable Base’

A few months ago, many liberals, including much of the bloggerati, were afraid that Walker had a good chance to win not only the Republican presidential nomination but also the presidency. Now that Walker’s out of the GOP race, several lefty pundits have weighed in on why.
Tom Johnson
September 23rd, 2015 10:13 PM

ABC’s WNT, CBS EN Punt on FBI Recovering Lost Hillary E-Mails

On Wednesday evening, ABC and CBS moved on from the latest break in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal as it was revealed that the FBI has been able to recover an unknown number of previously deleted personal and work e-mails from Clinton’s private e-mail server. The CBS Evening News also completely ignored the 2016 presidential campaign to instead give a full segment to the five-year-old girl…
Curtis Houck
September 23rd, 2015 9:51 PM

NYT Flips Off Walker as He Leaves Race: Made 'Tacit Racial Appeals'

Jason Horowitz, one of the New York Times more colorful reporters, gave Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker a gleeful finger upon his departure from the Republican presidential race, suggesting Walker has advanced his career on racist appeals in "Dismal Finish Is a Fitting Result, Old Foes Say." Horowitz wrote on Tuesday: "Old political adversaries of Mr. Walker greeted his dour denouement as a fitting…
Clay Waters
September 23rd, 2015 9:35 PM