Daily Beast Writer: Gay Marriage Could Be a ‘Liberal Wedge Issue’

A recent Gallup poll found that 31 percent of Americans self-identify as social liberals, and that an equal percentage call themselves social conservatives -- the first time since Gallup began conducting such surveys in 1999 that conservatives haven’t outnumbered liberals. On Tuesday, pundit Michael Tomasky seized on this development as an indication that Republicans no longer will be able to use…
Tom Johnson
May 30th, 2015 11:55 AM

Taxpayer-Funded PBS Pushes Teaching Sex Ed to 4-Year-Olds

Watching PBS? Might want to ask the kindergartners to leave the room. In a May 27 piece for tax-funded PBS, NewsHour producer Saskia de Melker argued “The case for starting sex education in kindergarten.” In her piece, she held up the Netherlands as an example for the United States in “sexuality education” – for those as young as 4-years-old to learn “honest conversations about love and…
Katie Yoder
May 30th, 2015 11:00 AM

Bloomberg News Still Thinks the U.S. Is in a 6-Year Economic Expansion

This shouldn't be a trick question, but to the nation's establishment press business reporters it apparently is: What is the current length of the U.S. economy's expansion? The answer, after yesterday's reported 0.7 percent annualized contraction in U.S. Gross Domestic Product, is obviously zero. But that's not what Bloomberg News and reporter Sho Chandra, who has used her full first name of…
Tom Blumer
May 30th, 2015 10:52 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Ann Coulter Takes On Pro-Amnesty Media

Ann Coulter has another best-selling book coming out,  provocatively titled Adios, America! The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole. One major target of Coulter barbs is our “objective” media. Lord knows Coulter understands they deserve the hectoring. News reports are slavishly sensitive to the Latino Left’s political correctness. Start with the terminology. The factual…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
May 30th, 2015 8:17 AM

The Daily Beast Decries a 'Right-Wing War on Lena Dunham'

Amy Zimmerman recently wrote an article for the Daily Beast on the “Right-Wing War on Lena Dunham.”  Somehow this article landed in the Politics section of the liberal news website.  If anything, it should be an opinion piece since Zimmerman chooses to brush off undisputed facts over an alleged rape as well as written passages in Dunham’s book Not that Kind of Girl where she basically describes…
Melissa Mullins
May 30th, 2015 7:26 AM

Salon: Right-Wing 'Elite White Men' Can't Get Over the Cold War

In light of the media’s blitz of Iraq War “gotcha questions” on Republican candidates in general and Jeb Bush in particular, Salon’s Heather Cox Richardson decided to reveal the true origins the Iraq War: conspiratorial Cold War-obsessed rich white men. She spun the tale of "the biggest blunder in American history — and the right wing’s obsessive need to cover it up."
Bryan Ballas
May 30th, 2015 6:36 AM

ABC Ignores Criticism of Obama Admin. Removing Cuba from Terror List

On Friday's World News Tonight, ABC's David Muir avoided mentioning the critics as he reported on the Obama administration removing Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Instead, Muir spotlighted how "President Obama [told] us back in December his plans to restore diplomatic ties with the Cuban government," and that during a January 2015 visit to the island country, "the children of…
Matthew Balan
May 29th, 2015 8:56 PM

CNBC Correspondent Chock Full of Snark About a Hillary Press Briefing

As we have seen many times in the past, CNBC Chief Washington correspondent John Harwood has been reliably liberal. In fact just a few hours ago, Newsbusters ran a story featuring Harwood once again spinning for Hillary Clinton. Therefore it is notable when even a team player such as Harwood gets so upset with the content free Hillary "briefing" that he breaks out in one snarky paragraph after…
P.J. Gladnick
May 29th, 2015 7:06 PM

NPR Bewails Texas's 'Unqualified No' to Medicaid Expansion

Friday's Morning Edition on NPR did its best to try to promote the liberal cause of expanding Medicaid in Texas. Wade Goodwyn lined up six soundbites from pro-expansion talking heads, versus only two from former Texas Governor Rick Perry, an opponent. Goodwyn played up that "in hating the Affordable Care Act, the state is leaving on the table as much as a hundred billion dollars of federal money…
Matthew Balan
May 29th, 2015 5:42 PM

Matthews Tickled Pink Over 'Hair Apparent' Hillary

MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews made perfectly clear he is over the moon with the newly "authentic" and "relatable" Hillary Clinton, beguiled by her jokes the other day at a South Carolina Democratic women's event about how she's been dying her hair for years and so won't go gray in the White House.
Ken Shepherd
May 29th, 2015 5:04 PM

Harwood Hits Rubio for Looking ‘Like a Schoolboy’ Compared to Hillary

CNBC Washington correspondent Richard Harwood and the co-hosts of CNBC’s Squawk Box briefly discussed during Friday’s show the age difference between Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio that included Harwood knocking Rubio for “look[ing] like a schoolboy” compared to Clinton.
Curtis Houck
May 29th, 2015 4:42 PM

MSNBC Host Tees Up Pelosi to Question Rubio’s Catholic Faith

Wrapping up a live interview with Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday’s MSNBC Live, anchor Thomas Roberts invited the left-wing congressional leader to attack Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio: “...we have the sound from the interview that Marco Rubio gave, where he painted a pretty broad brush in a characterization about those for and against marriage equality.…
Kyle Drennen
May 29th, 2015 4:13 PM

Taxpayer-Funded PBS Pushes Teaching Sex-Ed to 4-Year-Olds

PBS finds something else those enlightened Europeans can teach us.
CMI Staff
May 29th, 2015 3:37 PM

Where's the Violence? TIME Publishes ‘Elephant Dung Madonna’ Photo

If Christianity is the subject, TIME gives a crap … literally. This Friday, TIME published a story about a 1996 painting of the Madonna by contemporary British artist Chris Ofili. ‘The Holy Virgin Mary’ is encrusted with elephant dung and surrounded by cutouts of female genitalia from porn magazines. It’s a degrading, insulting portrayal. Naturally, TIME published a color photo of it.
MRC Culture Staff
May 29th, 2015 2:43 PM