Soros Gave $10 Million to Group Slamming Conservative ‘Islamophobia’

A liberal group funded by billionaire George Soros is accusing conservatives and the “religious right” of fear-mongering and slandering Islam. According to the Center for American Progress, the right has been coordinating to push “Sharia hysteria” which “mischaracterizes Sharia as a totalitarian ideology of hate and triumphalism committed to replacing the U.S. Constitution with a radical Islamic…
Mike Ciandella

Soros’ $10 Million Funds Group Slamming Conservative ‘Islamophobia

Center for American Progress also received money from Steyer, Ford Foundation.
Mike Ciandella

Rush Limbaugh Reveals He Was Invited on SNL to Play Santa Claus

His instincts told him to be wary. Turns out that Rush Limbaugh's suspicions were well-founded. On his radio broadcast Monday, the day after Saturday Night Live's 40th anniversary special on NBC, Limbaugh said SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels invited him on the show in the 1990s for a specific role -- to play Santa Claus.
Jack Coleman

Chris Hayes: Global Warming Is ‘Single Most Important Thing We Face'

According to MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes, global warming apparently trumps terror concerns such as ISIS. While much of the country is covered with snow and facing brutal cold, Hayes appeared on the February 17 edition of Last Call to warn: “The single most important thing we face globally is the fact that we are heating the planet to a level that is never before been tried, while also trying to have…
Scott Whitlock

Snowbound Networks Devote 17+ Minutes to Climate Change

Just a year after The New York Times Sunday Review piece warned of “The End of Snow?,” the East Coast was once again bracing for frigid temperatures and a major snowfall. The winter storm that struck on President’s Day dumped a foot of snow in parts of Virginia, 4.1 inches near the White House, and 7 inches in Cape May, N.J. Boston braced for more snow, on top of its “snowiest February on record…
Julia A. Seymour

MSNBC Hosts Worry: Will Obama Get to Replace Aging, Liberal Ginsburg?

The liberal journalists at MSNBC used much of an exclusive interview with Supreme Court Justice Rather Bader Ginsburg to fixate on whether the elderly judge will retire and let Barack Obama name her replacement.  Anchor Rachel Maddow referred to it as the “awkward question that has lingered over the final two years” of Obama’s presidency.
Scott Whitlock

LA Times Starts 'Immigration and Identity' Site With Illegal Alien

CNN’s Brian Stelter reports “Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist and undocumented immigrant, is joining forces with the Los Angeles Times to create a new section of the Times web site devoted to race, immigration and multiculturalism.” In other words, the Times seems to be creating a lobbying site for illegal immigrants, headed by an illegal immigrant and amnesty lobbyist.
Tim Graham

Barnicle: We Can't Call It Radical Islam 'Because We're The Crusaders'

Mike Barnicle: proud member of the Barack Obama "terrible deeds in the name of Christ" school of moral blindness . . .  Joe Scarborough opened today's Morning Joe with a protracted and impassioned plea for America—and in particular President Obama—to call out radical Islam by name. Mika Brzezinski was dubious, citing unspecified "difficult times" in the past when presidents used the wrong…
Mark Finkelstein

Will Slams Obama for Calling Murdered Christians 'Egyptian Citizens'

On Monday night, the panelists on the Fox News Channel (FNC) show Special Report excoriated the Obama administration for saying in a statement that the Coptic Christian men from Egyptian beheaded by ISIS in a video along the Libyan coast were “Egyptian citizens” and labeling Islamic State fights as merely “ISIL-affiliated terrorists” instead of further identifying them as Muslims or Islamic…
Curtis Houck

ABC, CBS Omit Copenhagen Terrorist Swearing Allegiance to ISIS

While reporting on the aftermath of the weekend terrorist attacks in Copenhagen, ABC and CBS neglected to mention in their Monday evening reports that the man believed to have carried out the attack that killed two had pledged his allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, just prior to the first attack at a free speech event. Even though ABC’s Terry Moran referred to the attack as…
Curtis Houck

Matthews: America 'Getting Humiliated, Sounds Like We Can't Stop' ISIS

If once is an MSNBC aberration, is twice is a trend? Earlier today we reported on Ed Schultz getting surprisingly angry over the Obama administration's weakness in confronting ISIS, calling the situation a "religious war." Just two hours later, Chris Matthews sounded a similar alarm, saying "if I were ISIS I wouldn't be afraid . . . the American people are getting humiliated . . . it sounds like…
Mark Finkelstein

Schultz: We're In 'Religious War,' Must Consider Ground Troops

Holy schnikes: was that really Ed Schultz, or has the soul of Norman Schwarzkopf suddenly assumed control of the MSNBC host's body? On his show this afternoon, Schultz—discussing the latest ISIS outrages—stunningly declared that we are in a "religious war" in which we haven't been "strong enough," and repeatedly raised the possibility that ground troops might be necessary to defeat ISIS.
Mark Finkelstein

NBC Spotlights 'Evil' ISIS Atrocities Against Yazidi Women

On Friday's NBC Nightly News, Richard Engel zeroed in on an ISIS atrocity that hasn't gotten enough media attention – its sexual enslavement of women from Iraqi minority groups, especially the Yazidis. Engel interviewed two Yazidi women who escaped from their Islamist captors, and spotlighted that "ISIS is reviving the barbaric tradition of the slave trade." He later bluntly added, "There's a…
Matthew Balan

Some Cheese for Jorge Ramos’ Whine

No journalist that encourages activism, abandons neutrality and routinely spits out partisan talking points should expect to go unchallenged. That Ramos should chafe at this slightest bit of pushback suggests that the afflictor has indeed grown quite comfortable, and is now the power that needs to hear truth.
Jorge Bonilla