Piers Morgan on Charleston Shooting: ‘Your Gun Culture Is Disgusting'

As surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, whenever a gun-related mass murder occurs anywhere in the United States, former Cable News Network host and current editor-in-charge for the DailyMall.com website Piers Morgan comes out swinging while demanding more stringent gun control. Due to the tragic murder of nine people when a young, white gunman opened fire inside the historic…
Randy Hall
June 18th, 2015 7:26 PM

Daily Beast 'Cheat Sheet' Hails Obama's 'Real Talk' on Gun Control

The Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet Digest gave its thumbs-up to President Obama's talk of increased gun control in the wake of Wednesday night's deadly Charleston, S.C., church shooting. 
Ken Shepherd
June 18th, 2015 6:39 PM

Health Coverage for Undocumented Gets Thumbs Up on Univision

The California legislature’s approval of a bill that enables undocumented children to obtain health insurance from the state’s Health Benefit Exchange was cause for celebration during a recent Univision morning show segment. In addition to covering minors, unauthorized immigrants 19 years of age or older are also slated to become eligible for enrollment upon determination by the state that “…
Javier Zurita
June 18th, 2015 6:10 PM

WashPost, NBC Tout How Pope's Paper 'Puts GOP Candidates on the Spot'

In a Thursday item on NBC News's web site, Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Andrew Rafferty asserted that "just like the issue of gay marriage, the Pope and the Catholic Church have gone from being wedge issues that benefitted the GOP in 2004 to ones that now favor Democrats." The three journalists cited Associated Press's reporting on Pope Francis's new encyclical on the environment, and concluded…
Matthew Balan
June 18th, 2015 5:31 PM

MSNBC Guest Slimes: SC Shooting 'Deeply Ingrained' in U.S. History

MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner brought on two guests, Thursday, to broaden the tragic shooting in South Carolina to include a uniquely American culture. Wagner mentioned the fact that the state still flies the Confederate flag and University of Connecticut professor Jelani Cobb retorted, "If we could isolate this to the Confederate flag, we would be in good condition." 
Scott Whitlock
June 18th, 2015 5:26 PM

Trump Takes a Beating on Spanish Nets

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign announcement comments about Mexico and the quality of the current inflow of unauthorized Mexican immigrants to the U.S. have caused a firestorm in national Spanish-language media.  Hasta ahora, Telemundo ha empleado más tiempo reaccionado a las declaraciones de Trump, y por su parte Rolando Nichols de MundoFox, las tomó a nivel personal.
Ken Oliver-Méndez
June 18th, 2015 5:11 PM

NBC, ABC Skip Abortion, Gender Ideology in Pope Francis Encyclical

The broadcast news shows have hyped climate change in Pope Francis’s new encyclical – but did they hint at his arguments on abortion and gender identity? Short answer: No. The Vatican released the pope’s media-hyped encyclical, Laudato Si’, on June 18. Out of the three broadcast networks, only NBC and ABC commented on the “climate change” publication from the “popular pope.” They also emphasized…
Katie Yoder
June 18th, 2015 4:25 PM

Dan Rather Blames Watergate, Reagan Years for Size of 2016 GOP Field

Appearing with journalist Carl Bernstein on Wednesday’s CNN Tonight to promote the upcoming episode of CNN’s The Seventies on Watergate, former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather decried the Republican Party’s “strong turn to the right” and blamed the size of party’s 2016 field on the Watergate scandal and the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Curtis Houck
June 18th, 2015 3:58 PM

Fox News Alone Covers Hillary's High-Level Private-Server Libya Emails

2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, as seen in this March 10 Associated Press report, has claimed for several months that "No Classified Material (was) Sent via Her Personal Emails" from a home-based server she said "would remain private." That claim, like so many other representations Mrs. Clinton has made, fell apart earlier this week, when, as Fox News reported, it was…
Tom Blumer
June 18th, 2015 3:24 PM

Brian Williams: ‘I’m Sorry. I Said Things That Weren’t True’

On Thursday, NBC News officially named Lester Holt as the new anchor of NBC Nightly News, permanently replacing suspended anchor Brian Williams. In a just-released statement, Williams apologized for his dishonest accounts of news events: “I'm sorry. I said things that weren't true. I let down my NBC colleagues and our viewers, and I'm determined to earn back their trust.”
Kyle Drennen
June 18th, 2015 3:18 PM

TMI: Mindy Kaling ‘Love[s] Sex Scenes’

According to Mindy Kaling, actors have “the world’s best job perk.” What is it? Being paid to have fake sex on screen, of course!  The star of the risqué and anti-Catholic show, The Mindy Project, revealed her views in a chapter entitled “I Love Sex Scenes” in her upcoming book. 
Sarah Stites
June 18th, 2015 1:27 PM

Salon: Charleston Shooter 'Right-Wing,' Protected By 'White Privilege'

Salon wasted no time in spinning last night’s terrible tragedy into another alleged occurrence of “White Privilege.” (Article link) Nine people were tragically killed when a young, white gunman opened fire inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. A suspect has been identified as twenty one year old Dylann Roof, of Lexington, South Carolina.
Spencer Raley
June 18th, 2015 12:30 PM

WashPost Blogger Pleads: 'Do Not Foist Brian Williams on MSNBC'

Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple sounds distraught over CNN reporter Brian Stelter’s reporting that speculation around how NBC will use disgraced anchor Brian Williams is centering on MSNBC.  “Do not foist Brian Williams on MSNBC,” he begged in a headline. Doesn’t MSNBC have enough problems? 
Tim Graham
June 18th, 2015 12:08 PM

Panel on The Last Word: GOP to Blame If SCOTUS Rules Against ObamaCare

Discussing the upcoming King v. Burwell decision on the legality of ObamaCare subsidies, Lawrence O'Donnell pushed the idea that Republicans would be culpable if the Supreme Court rules against the administration. On the June 17 edition of The Last Word, the host invited on the liberal trio of Ezra Klein, Dana Milbank, and Michael Tomasky to attack the Republicans for their irresponsibility and…
Connor Williams
June 18th, 2015 11:04 AM