NYT Public Editor Admits Paper 'Has Moved Away' From 'Just the Facts'

Writing about her paper's biased, social-activist coverage of the firing of Reddit chief executive Ellen Pao, New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan let slip an unannounced editorial change by the Times, opening the floodgates even wider for reporters to inject liberal impulses into their news stories: "They want to provide 'value-added' coverage," not the "just the facts" reporting "that…
Clay Waters
July 19th, 2015 4:39 PM

ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN Sunday Shows Ignore Planned Parenthood Scandal

Last week, the Center for Medical Progress released a damning undercover video in which a senior official at Planned Parenthood discussed the organization’s practice of manipulating an abortion to salvage baby parts to be sold for medical research, but ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN all ignored the story during their Sunday morning political talk shows. Fox News Sunday was the only one to cover Planned…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 19th, 2015 2:29 PM

Chuck Todd: Is Trump ‘Reap What You Sow Issue’ for GOP?

Building on comments he made on NBC’s Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd wondered if Donald Trump’s attack on John McCain were a “reap what you sow issue here for the Republican Party?” Todd brought up the “reap what you sow” argument during an interview with Rick Perry as he played up how the “party embraced Donald Trump four years ago...during his whole birther craze at the time and you…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 19th, 2015 12:47 PM

O'Malley, Sanders Whacked for Outraging Netroots Nation Protesters

The radical-left spectacle that is the “Netroots Nation” conference made page A-10 of Sunday’s Washington Post. Democratic candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders, running to the left of Hillary Clinton, merely by showing up to pander to these radicals, were silenced and pressed to agree wholeheartedly with “Black lives matter” activists who hijacked their appearances. Washington Post…
Tim Graham
July 19th, 2015 12:39 PM

Reporter Hits Martin O’Malley from Left for Saying ‘All Lives Matter’

On Sunday’s Inside Politics, Daily Beast reporter Jackie Kucinich, formerly with USA Today and the Washington Post, criticized former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley from the left after he told a group of liberal activists in Arizona over the weekend: “Black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter.” Kucinich quickly blasted O’Malley for “saying all lives matter, particularly when you…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 19th, 2015 10:36 AM

Chuck Todd: Trump’s Attack on McCain ‘End of the Marriage’ with GOP

On Sunday, amidst the network coverage of the universal condemnation surrounding Donald Trump’s attack on John McCain’s military service, during an appearance on NBC's Today, Chuck Todd did his best to play up how the GOP was “desperate for this moment” when they could call out the Republican presidential candidate. 
Jeffrey Meyer
July 19th, 2015 9:39 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Walker’s Kohl’s Anecdote – Synchronized

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tells an anecdote, on the presidential campaign trail, about buying a shirt at the Kohl’s department store. NBC’s Tonight Show, on Wednesday night, used some simultaneous video to show how he repeats the story using the very same sentences. A mildly amusing display of synchronized C-SPAN video.
Brent Baker
July 19th, 2015 12:21 AM

Salon Blogger: 'It's Time to Draft Al Gore'

He's tanned. He's rested. He's ready. Al Gore 2016! Wha-what? It's the premise of Salon blogger Sean Illing which reflects a growing realization among the left that Hillary Clinton is a fatally flawed candidate. Okay, fine, but is Al Gore really the best alternative they can come up with? Illing makes the case for Gore but leaves out a few fatal flaws about Mr. Global Warming.  First let us…
P.J. Gladnick
July 18th, 2015 10:25 PM

CNN’s Seventies: Ford a ‘Conservative’ and Carter a Victim of Bad Luck

Watching the latest installment of CNN’s The Seventies documentary series, I learned President Gerald Ford was a “conservative” and President Jimmy Carter was a victim the misperception that he made mistakes, endured bad luck and inherited an “unmanageable” nation and world.
Brent Baker
July 18th, 2015 6:04 PM

Liberal Critics Loathe New Apatow Movie's 'Too Conservative' Happy End

While comedienne Amy Schumer is bringing her crass female persona to the cineplex in the movie Trainwreck, liberal movie critics are upset she doesn't stay in a glorious rut of one-night stands and cynical bitterness. They dislike Judd Apatow's "too conservative" tendency for happy, loving endings. They start with edgy trappings and end in (shudders) "moral decency."
Tim Graham
July 18th, 2015 5:31 PM

Author Rick Perlstein: ‘Conservatism Is Like Bigotry Whack-a-Mole’

Historian Rick Perlstein, the author of three books (so far) on American movement conservatism from the mid-‘50s through the mid-‘70s, believes, in essence, that conservatives are tribalists whose central task is to promote hatred against other tribes. According to Perlstein, two recent news stories serve to illuminate that process, which, he suggests, involves an almost scientific-sounding…
Tom Johnson
July 18th, 2015 2:26 PM

Time Slimes Ayn Rand as a Fan of Charleston Church Shooter Dylann Roof

Ayn Rand fans – both the dedicated Objectivists and the Tea Party libertarians – will not be surprised to see Rand slimed in Time magazine. In her early, unpublished work, Rand biographer Anne Heller asserts in Rand’s characters she is “glimpsing Charleston gunman Dylann Roof and his lethal ilk.” Heller told Time readers "Rand hated ordinary people with a vengeance."
Tim Graham
July 18th, 2015 1:36 PM

Liberal Media Defend Planned Parenthood, Censor Word ‘Baby’

You may have heard about the Planned Parenthood executive stressing special ways to abort babies without “crushing” them so that their organs and limbs can be harvested for researchers. The liberal media certainly have. But instead of condemning the shocking practice, they’re racing to defend it. Liberal journalists tried to downplay the story. In reaction to the video, released by the Center…
Katie Yoder and MRC Culture Staff
July 18th, 2015 11:28 AM

5 Ridiculous Feminist Trends the Media Want You to Try

Feminism is constantly evolving. It started with land ownership, then the right to vote and somehow made it to free-for-all abortion rights and dying your armpit hair. Wait, what? Here are five absurd demands feminists have made to make their cause a laughing stock. 
Kristine Marsh
July 18th, 2015 9:05 AM