Amanda Marcotte: GOP ‘Clowns’ Are ‘Honking Their Noses’ Over Iran Deal
Lefty pundit Amanda Marcotte grants that so-called political theater usually dovetails with the beliefs of the politicians and activists who perform it. Among the exceptions: some Republicans’ insincere, “comically overwrought meltdowns” over the Iran nuclear deal.
Those histrionics, Marcotte declared in a Wednesday Talking Points Memo column, are meant “to stir up irrational fears to be harped…
September 14th, 2015 4:45 PM
LAT, AP Ignore Dems' Economic Revolt Against California Enviro Zealots
You wouldn't know it from reading the national coverage by the Associated Press or stories at the Los Angeles Times, but California Governor Jerry Brown and his fellow far-left Democratic Party environmentalists suffered significant setbacks last week.
How bad? So bad that the Times editorial board accused "a new crop of moderate Democratic legislators" of succumbing to "oil industry propaganda…
September 14th, 2015 4:44 PM
HuffPo Editor: Kim Davis Isn't Rosa Parks, She's the Bus Driver
Kim Davis’s willingness to be jailed for acting on her convictions has now provoked Gabriel Arana, the senior media editor of the Huffington Post to anger. The headline of his piece left nothing to the imagination: “Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Is No Rosa Parks. She's The Bus Driver.”
September 14th, 2015 3:09 PM
CNN's Camerota Badgers Rick Santorum Over His Support For Kim Davis
On Monday's New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota hounded Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, after he suggested that Kim Davis should "follow her conscience" in refusing to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples. Camerota underlined how the Supreme Court "decided...that not allowing gay marriage is discrimination," and asserted that "there are lots of laws that you yourself don't…
September 14th, 2015 1:29 PM
WashPost Aids ACLU: Catholics vs. 'Pregnant Woman with Brain Tumor'
In the run-up to the papal visit to America, The Washington Post keeps pushing stories against allegedly heartless Catholic positions on the life issues. On Monday’s front page, they promoted this story: “A Catholic hospital in Michigan cited religious reasons for refusing to perform a tubal ligation requested by a woman with a brain tumor.” (Emphasis theirs.)
The headline on page A-3 was “Mich…
September 14th, 2015 1:19 PM
Daily Beast: O'Malley Call to Boost Gun-Purchase Age to 21 Is 'Bold'
Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley -- who is polling in the single digits in the Democratic presidential primary race -- has come out with a new measure to restrict 2nd Amendment rights. He's calling for raising minimum age for purchasing any firearm from 18 to 21. The liberal Daily Beast website noticed the move by O'Malley and hailed it as "bold" in today's Cheat Sheet digest.
September 14th, 2015 12:38 PM
ABC Hides Details of Its Own Poll Showing Terrible News for Hillary
ABC on Sunday and Monday hid the damaging details of its own poll, minimizing Hillary Clinton's plunging popularity. Instead, World News and Good Morning America shifted the focus to Donald Trump and his continued surge. Clinton's "dramatic" fall appeared only on ABCNews.com. It was left to competitors CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today to probe the numbers. With an on-screen graphic crediting ABC…
September 14th, 2015 11:58 AM
2 Months: Networks Aired Only 0.13% of Planned Parenthood Videos
Instead of watching the news, it’s time for pro-life Americans to be the news – to use social media and word-of-mouth – about Planned Parenthood. Because the networks won’t.
Since July 14, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released 16 hours, 11 minutes and 35 seconds of footage exposing Planned Parenthood’s practice of harvesting aborted baby parts.* In those past two months, ABC, NBC…
September 14th, 2015 11:56 AM
Richard Sherman Blasts 'Black Lives Matter' Activist
There is quite the conflict starting to brew right now between the racist, pro-victim mentality “Black Lives Matters” movement and black people who have shirked the victim mentality and achieved things in their lives. Specifically, black athletes.
September 14th, 2015 11:17 AM
CBS Hosts Anita Dunn to Boost Democratic Presidential Candidates
On Monday, CBS This Morning brought on Anita Dunn, former White House Communications Director for Barack Obama, to promote Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as well as Democratic rivals Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.
September 14th, 2015 11:06 AM
David Gregory: ‘It Has Been Faith That Steadied Me'
Last week, David Gregory, former NBC Moderator of Meet the Press, spoke about his difficult departure from the show and his journey towards spiritual renewal in the aftermath.
Gregory reflected on moments from his past in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. In coming to terms with being dismissed from Meet the Press and the controversy and humiliation surrounding that situation, he…
September 14th, 2015 10:18 AM
Notable Quotables: ABC Serves Up Hardballs for Hillary
This week, ABC's David Muir interviews Hillary Clinton, serving up hardball questions such as, "Is your mother's voice in your ear?" At the same time, network journalists insist there's no news in Hillary's e-mail scandal, while a CNN pundit smears Dick Cheney as a "political sociopath."
Rich Noyes and Scott Whitlock
September 14th, 2015 9:22 AM
Mika Harangues Panel: Be Honest, Admit Trump 'Likely' GOP Nominee
Mika Brzezinski: fired up and ready to go . . . for Donald Trump? Not exactly. It isn't that Mika's jumping on the Make America Great Again express. It's just that she wants "intellectual honesty" from her peers when it comes to admitting that Trump has gone from amusing sideshow who's sure to eventually crash to true frontrunner who is now likely to be the Republican nominiee.
You might not…
September 14th, 2015 9:13 AM
'Miss America' Repeats Lie that Planned Parenthood Provides Mammograms
During the 2016 Miss America Competition Miss Tennessee was asked a question by a judge about taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. Not only was the question phrased in a way that distanced the abortion giant from its main business of abortion, but Miss Tennessee's response could have been mistaken for an advertisement for Planned Parenthood - complete with the lie that Planned Parenthood…
September 14th, 2015 3:02 AM