Cokie Roberts: Hillary ‘Brilliant’ for Playing Grandmother Card

On Sunday’s This Week, political commentator Cokie Roberts continued to praise Hillary Clinton for playing the grandmother card throughout her presidential campaign. During a discussion about Joe Biden’s potential White House bid, Roberts cheered Clinton for going after the GOP on “climate change for instance when she says everybody says I'm not a scientist. She says I'm not a scientist either, I…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 2nd, 2015 11:23 AM

How to Do a Donald Trump Impression

Are you a professional comedian or someone who just wants to entertain your friends by doing a Donald Trump impression? Well I have huge news for you. HUUGE!!! Voice impressionist Eric Harthen has produced a How To video for folks wanting to do an impression of The Donald. This instructional video will probably come in handy right after this Thursday's presidential debate among the Repulican…
P.J. Gladnick
August 2nd, 2015 11:18 AM

Pinocchio Test: Is Univision as 'Fair and Balanced' as Anchor Says?

During a recent interview on CNN, Univision anchor María Elena Salinas made the bold claim that her network’s news coverage is "fair and balanced." The credibility of Salinas’ claim, however, is seriously undermined by the network’s recent track record covering U.S. political news.
Ken Oliver-Méndez and Yuri Perez
August 2nd, 2015 11:17 AM

Salon Writer: ‘Jon Stewart Felt Like a Messiah’

Arthur Chu, best known as one of the all-time biggest money-winners on Jeopardy!, is also a writer who frequently contributes to Salon. In a Thursday article, Chu saluted departing Daily Show host Jon Stewart for, among other things, keeping him sane during his college days. Unfortunately, recalled Chu, back then America as a whole had lost its mind. Meanwhile, in the August issue of Vanity Fair…
Tom Johnson
August 2nd, 2015 11:09 AM

ABC: Joe Biden’s Gaffes ‘Part of His Political Charm’

On Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC reporter Mary Bruce went to bat for Vice President Joe Biden as he contemplates a potential White House run in 2016. The ABC reporter heavily spun for Biden regarding is numerous gaffes as she proclaimed “[h]e's also had his fair share of stumbles. From back rubs to BFD’s. Biden is a gaffemaking machine. But those oh that Joe moments are part of his political…
Jeffrey Meyer
August 2nd, 2015 9:52 AM

WashPost Mourns 'Incomparable' Jon Stewart as 'Too Cool to Be Spun'

Liberals are already getting verklempt over Jon Stewart retiring from The Daily Show. On the front of Sunday’s Arts & Style section of The Washington Post, the headline is “Shrug it off. John would want it that way.” “The longer the run and more devoted the fan base, the louder the wails,” proclaimed TV critic Hank Stuever as “Jon Stewart’s incomparable, culturally significant run as the…
Tim Graham
August 2nd, 2015 7:44 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Tough Talking Deputy Takes on a Thief

Lieutenant Clay Higgins, of the St. Landry, Louisiana Parish Sheriff’s Department, delivered a tough video message to a thief who, FNC’s Bret Baier noted, had “targeted his favorite restaurant.” Baier ended his show this past Tuesday night with the “crime stoppers” video Jimmy Fallon had played on the Tonight Show.
Brent Baker
August 1st, 2015 11:58 PM

New ‘Daily Show’ Host: I Won’t Just Hammer on Fox News

In a chat this week with a roomful of TV critics, incoming Daily Show host Trevor Noah upset his liberal audience base by suggesting he’s going to be different than Jon Stewart by hammering less on Fox News Channel in the future. One liberal complained to The Washington Post: "Isn't that like ignoring the 5000 lbs of Elephant Dung in the Middle of the Room?"
Tim Graham
August 1st, 2015 11:17 PM

L.A. Times Implies 'Brian Williams Will Helm' All of MSNBC's Daytime

A Los Angeles Times report on Saturday made it sound like disgraced NBC anchor Brian Williams was going to be spread all over the schedule on MSNBC. The headline was “MSNBC opens daytime hours for breaking news; Brian Williams will helm.” Reporter Stephen Battaglio wrote Williams will be "set up at his own anchor desk on the third floor of NBC News headquarters in New York's Rockefeller Center…
Tim Graham
August 1st, 2015 10:17 PM

Another Tantrum? Ed Schultz Is Missing for His Final MSNBC Show

Did anyone tell Ed Schultz he missed his final episode on Friday? The Ed Show was cancelled along with three other MSNBC shows, and although the entire gang was there for the last episode of The Cycle, and Alex Wagner had a few laughs at the conclusion of her show, Mr. Ed was nowhere to be found. The reason, MSNBC say it was due to “pre-existing scheduling conflicts.”  Somehow I don’t believe…
Melissa Mullins
August 1st, 2015 9:53 PM

Daily Beast Hails Doc on How Fox, Limbaugh Made a Dad a Racist GOP Pig

"How Fox News Made My Dad Crazy" is how The Daily Beast introduced Jen Yamato's profile of Jen Senko's left-wing documentary The Brainwashing Of My Dad, and that's not just headline hyperbole but an accurate summary of a truly wacky documentary. Used her dad as a political prop, Senko's Brainwashing doc purports to show how her loving, "goofy," popular dad became a racist homophobic Republican…
Clay Waters
August 1st, 2015 8:14 PM

Fox Star Geraldo Trolls Hunters on Twitter: 'Is It Penis Envy?'

Fox News Channel personality Geraldo Rivera recently weighed in on Cecil the Lion and the controversy surrounding Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who killed the beloved lion. Geraldo took to twitter and tweeted the following: "Is it penis envy?"
Melissa Mullins
August 1st, 2015 3:24 PM

Hollywood Feminists Upset With Amnesty Int'l Going Soft on Sex Trade

Diana Falzone at FoxNews.com reports that there’s some intra-liberal squabbling on the Hollywood Left over a new proposal being considered at Amnesty International that would call for a global decriminalization of sex trafficking. Over 400 people signed a letter from the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) that decries a “policy that calls for the decriminalization of pimps, brothel…
Tim Graham
August 1st, 2015 2:50 PM

New York Times Plays the Race Card on Trump

The New York Times is playing the race card on Donald Trump.   Surprise! In a front page story on Friday the so-called "paper of record" headlined the surging GOP presidential this way: "Donald Trump's Instinct for Racially Charged Rhetoric, Before His Presidential Bid."
Jeffrey Lord
August 1st, 2015 1:04 PM