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Matthews: Women Could Be Priests If Rome Allowed Married Clergy First
Cradle Catholic Chris Matthews spent the first segment of his September 23 Hardball program effusively praising Pope Francis, particularly for raising immigration and climate change in his brief remarks at a welcome ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. But in a later segment, Matthews and guests Joan Walsh and Sister Simone Campbell lamented how even the liberal-leaning Francis is…
September 23rd, 2015 8:52 PM
Matthews Slams 'Fragile' Benedict; Williams Hypes Chris's 'Patriotism'
Joining Brian Williams for his second day back anchoring MSNBC’s coverage of Pope Francis’s visit to the United States on Wednesday afternoon, Catholic and Hardball host Chris Matthews blasted Francis’s predecessor Pope Benedict XVI for being “so fragile and removed” and possessing a “weakness” and “coldness” that Francis does not have. The disgraced former NBC Nightly News anchor gushed over…
September 23rd, 2015 8:15 PM
Maddow: Conservatives Lament Pope's Visit as 'The End of the World'
It's too much to expect that Rachel Maddow will accurately report that many conservatives express misgivings about Pope Francis's leftist economics and willingness to wade into the political realm.MSNBC's most earnest evening host prefers to depict conservatives as adorned with sandwich boards and sputtering incoherent warnings of doom in response to the pope's visit to the U.S.
September 23rd, 2015 7:45 PM
Daily Beast: 'Indefensible' for Catholic Hospital to Refuse Surgery
Welcome to the United States, Pope Francis, it's "indefensible" that Catholic hospitals refuse to perform tubal ligation surgery on women. That is the thrust of a Daily Beast piece written by one Jessica Mann, who explained her plight in a September 23 article headlined, "A Catholic Hospital Says It’s ‘Evil’ For Me to Get My Tubes Tied"
September 23rd, 2015 6:14 PM
Bozell Highlights Media's Support for the Pope's Liberal Views
During an appearance on FBN's Cavuto: Coast to Coast this afternoon, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell examined the media's eager promotion of Pope Francis in light of areas where he weighs in in favor of liberal pet causes like combating climate change by government intervention.
September 23rd, 2015 5:04 PM
Tavis Smiley: GOP Wants to Balance Budget on 'Backs of the Poor'
According to PBS host Tavis Smiley when Republicans say the words “entitlement reform” they really mean “balance the budget on the backs of the poor.” On Monday, Smiley invited on GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham and when the South Carolina senator brought up the topic of entitlement reform Smiley offered his own translation of the term.
September 23rd, 2015 5:01 PM
Politico Claims 'Colbert Bests Trump'; Others Saw It Much Differently
"Colbert bests Trump."
That was the title of a Politico story by Ben Schreckinger about Donald Trump's appearance last night on CBS's Late Show hosted by Stephen Colbert. Huh? Did Ben see the same show as everybody else because your humble correspondent was surprised at how amiable the interview was. You can see most of the interview below and judge for yourself. Here is part of what…
September 23rd, 2015 4:34 PM
Fox's 'Minority Report' Sees Future With 'Red Clouds' and No Redskins
According to Fox’s new series “Minority Report,” the distant future holds good news and bad news for Redskins fans. The good news is, the Redskins win Super Bowl 85. The bad news is, they are no longer called the Redskins.
September 23rd, 2015 4:19 PM
Trevor Noah: GOP Candidates Are ‘Great Gift’ to ‘The Daily Show'
Appearing on Wednesday’s NBC Today, new Daily Show host Trevor Noah described his eagerness to mock the Republican 2016 field: “Yeah, a great gift, the campaign. Great gift, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, these are all gifts, these are beautiful – I couldn't ask for more.”
September 23rd, 2015 2:46 PM
MSNBC Helps Planned Parenthood Change the Subject from Baby Part Sale
MSNBC.com sure knows how to change the subject from baby-parts sales for their friends at Planned Parenthood. It’s somehow headline news that the abortion giant has made a set of YouTube videos about getting consent before sex. Because their brand isn’t supposed to be about committing more than 300,000 abortions annually. They’re a reproductive health group bettering society, apparently.
The…
September 23rd, 2015 2:42 PM
Liberal Media Differ from CNBC on Diagnosis of Pharma ‘Price Gouger’
The left is up in arms over the pharmaceutical CEO who raised prices for a drug mostly used by AIDS patients by more than 5,000 percent, but experts CNBC interviewed said regulatory barriers helped make it possible.
Founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceutical, Martin Shkreli bought the generic drug Daraprim, which is used for parasitic infections in pregnant women and immunocompromised…
September 23rd, 2015 2:25 PM
Media, BLM Activists Try to Pin Hate Crime on Townhall's Katie Pavlich
The media, school officials and Black Lives Matter activists took to Twitter last night to hype a supposed racist decoration found on the University of Delaware, after a conservative pundit had spoken at the campus.
While Townhall editor and Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich was speaking at the Univ. of Delaware Monday night, students disrupted her speech with a “Black Lives Matter” protest.
September 23rd, 2015 1:40 PM
CNN's Camerota Defends CAIR Distorting Ben Carson on Muslim President
On Wednesday's New Day, CNN host Alisyn Camerota defended the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) when right-leaning CNN commentator Ben Ferguson called out the extremist group's distortion of Dr. Ben Carson's recent comments on Islam and the U.S. presidency.
September 23rd, 2015 12:36 PM
CNN Touts Homosexual Activist at White House Reception for Pope
The media have a knack of turning giving liberal activists a platform when it covers the Catholic Church. The latest example is CNN's Chris Cuomo turning to Episcopalian bishop/LGBT activist Gene Robinson moments after Pope Francis spoke at the White House on Wednesday. Cuomo noted that Robinson was part of "a number of people that were seen as controversial" among the invited guests at the…
September 23rd, 2015 12:28 PM