E! Hypes, Airbrushes Paltrow's 'Failed' 'Food Stamp Challenge'

Readers who have seen my previous posts on actress Gwyneth Paltrow's recent "failed" attempt to complete the deceptively designed "Food Stamp Challenge" know far more than people who rely on Eonline.com ever will. Although it's far from encouraging when contemplating our nation's future, what we have here is an object lesson in how the entertainment press airbrushes the truth to polish the image…
Tom Blumer

CBS Touts Rabid Anti-Vaxx Group Angry Over Elmo Getting a Shot

The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday promoted anti-vaccine activists, highlighting their outrage over the Surgeon General appearing in a Sesame Street segment with Elmo to encourage childhood vaccinations. Co-host Gayle King huffed, "...But vaccine critics don't see anything cute about this video after the controversy over of the measles outbreak." 

Scott Whitlock

CBS: Clinton Foundation Scandal Could Help Hillary 'Unify Democrats'

In CBS's first report on a new book detailing the Clinton Foundation foreign donation scandal, on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, correspondent Nancy Cordes avoided the specific accusations of corruption and instead focused on the Clinton campaign dismissing the controversy as a "distraction." Cordes even touted a "potential upside" for Hillary Clinton: "...all these attacks from different directions…
Kyle Drennen

STUDY: How the Networks Have Deleted Hillary’s E-Mail Scandal

Over the past five weeks, all three broadcast networks have essentially walked away from covering the ex-Secretary of State’s secret extra-governmental e-mail server and the possible loss of crucial documents needed by the House Select Committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks, with coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC’s morning and evening news shows falling by more than 93 percent from the…
Geoffrey Dickens

Seth Meyers Mocks GOP’s Chances Against Hillary Clinton

On Monday, Late Night host Seth Meyers devoted 4 minutes of his broadcast to smearing 19 potential Republican presidential candidates who spoke at a New Hampshire Republican Party gathering over the weekend. 
Jeffrey Meyer

Russell Brand 'On a Mission' Exposing Bankers 'Who Killed Our Society'

A liberal worth $15 million crusading against the wealthy with a documentary. Now that's comedy gold. It's also exactly what British comedian and left-wing activist Russell Brand has done by making The Emperor's New Clothes, which was directed Michael Winterbottom.
Joseph Rossell

Lefty Russell Brand ‘On a Mission’ to Expose Bankers ‘Who Killed

Far-left activist again tackles income inequality with new film despite $15 million net worth.
Joseph Rossell

MSNBC Guest: Maybe Bill Never Told Hillary About Donor Quid Pro Quos

How bad are things getting for Hillary when a defender is reduced to arguing, in response to the Clinton Cash allegations, that Bill might have been a dishonest bag man, not letting Hillary know that people were giving him money in an attempt to influence her?! On today's Morning Joe, responding to the Clinton Cash revelations, MSNBC contributor Dorian Warren said that Bill Clinton "could have…
Mark Finkelstein

FNC’s Napolitano Blasts Hillary's 'Quid Pro Quo' at Clinton Foundation

On Monday’s The Kelly File, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano hammered Hillary Clinton over her foundation’s alleged practice of receiving foreign donations in exchange for political benefits during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Jeffrey Meyer

Minn. Star Trib Reporter Bemoans 'Youth Exodus,' Doesn't Mention Taxes

Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Jackie Crosby's writeup on how "Minnesota has been losing residents to other states" since 2002, and that it's especially troubling because "young adults are leaving in the greatest numbers," contained an enormous blind spot. The Gopher State, aka the Land of 10,000 Lakes, is also sardonically known as the Land of 10,000 Taxes by many residents, and with good…
Tom Blumer

Liberty Requires Bravery

Liberty requires bravery. To truly support free speech, one has to accept that some people will say and publish things he finds deeply offensive. Similarly, to be for freedom of association, one has to accept that some people will associate in ways that he finds deeply offensive, such as associating or not associating on the basis of race, sex or religion.
Walter E. Williams

CBS Moves On from Clinton Foundation Scandal; Skips New Bombshell Book

After briefly alluding to the Clinton Foundation scandal on Monday’s CBS This Morning, the CBS Evening News made no mention of the scandal or a damning new book on the subject from author Peter Schweizer on its Monday evening broadcast. Both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News did cover the story as well as Hillary Clinton’s response Monday afternoon in New Hampshire, but also parroted…
Curtis Houck

Atheist Writer Gripes About Religious ‘Nitwits’ Running For President

Imagine a president of the United States proclaiming in his or her inaugural address, “I do not believe in God. I do not believe in a hereafter…There is no hope, save in ourselves.” If something like that ever happens, writer Jeffrey Tayler’s dream will have come true. Tayler, who routinely trashes religion for the liberal online magazine Salon, complained in a Sunday article that several recent…
Tom Johnson

NYT Reporter-Now-Columnist Cheers Traffic-Blocking Lefty NYC Protest

Chris Christie who? Rachel Swarns, who for years fawned over Barack and Michelle Obama for the New York Times, wrote an "open letter" column to actor Adam Baldwin in defense of a left-wing group which tied up traffic in mid-town Manhattan in the name of a $15-an-hour "living wage."
Clay Waters