MSNBC’s Roberts Laughably Compares Jason Collins With Jackie Robinso

The folks at MSNBC are still getting thrills down their leg at the thought of a out-of-the-closet gay man playing in the NBA. Today, openly gay news anchor and MSNBC Live host Thomas Roberts -- who on a regular basis runs gay marriage advocacy segments on his program -- treated viewers to a puff piece in which he compared Washington Wizards center Jason Collins to the African-American athlete…
Jeffrey Meyer

PBS Laughably Claims Gosnell Trial Has Gotten ‘A Lot of Attention

For the second time in a regular news story, PBS mentioned the trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell on Tuesday’s NewsHour. And yet Gosnell was not the subject of the story in question. The mention came at the tail end of a piece on the battle over abortion restrictions in state legislatures. Anchor Jeffrey Brown presented the trial as the concern of “anti-abortion activists…
Paul Bremmer

CMI On TV – Marriage Mangling Déjà Vu on ‘Revenge

Weddings as weapons.
Tyler O'Neil

Arrogant Christiane Amanpour Sneers at Conservative Guests, Wants Gitm

Insisting that Guantanamo Bay has become a recruitment tool for future terrorists and must be closed, CNN's Christiane Amanpour arrogantly scoffed at opinions to the contrary on Wednesday's special edition of Anderson Cooper 360. Amanpour knocked Rudy Giuliani's concern of "I can't imagine where you would put these people," by jeering, "Come on." Later on, when The Blaze TV anchor Amy Holmes…
Matt Hadro

CMI On TV – ‘Mike and Molly’ and ‘Mellon-Headed’ Males

CMI Staff

Lib Blogger Meg Lanker Allegedly Faked Rape Threat from Conservative

If you can’t beat ‘em, frame ‘em. That in a nutshell would appear to be the motivation behind Think Progress award-winning blogger Meg Lanker-Simons’s false claim that she had been threatened with a hate crime via social media. On Wednesday, she was charged by University of Wyoming Police with faking her own threat. Trib.com reports that Lanker-Simons was charged with interfering in a police…
Howard Portnoy

CMI On TV – ‘Bates Motel’ Sex Scenes Push TV-14 Rating

Norman hooks up in high school.
Andrew Collins

On PBS's Charlie Rose Show: 'Obama Will Go Down as One of the Top Amer

On his PBS show Charlie Rose brought on editors of the Financial Times to discuss various topics, including Barack Obama's legacy, and one of them boldly pronounced he could go down in history as one of the best presidents ever. Appearing on Wednesday's Charlie Rose show Lionel Barber, the editor of the Financial Times, predicted that if the economy grew at 3.5 percent in 2014: "President Obama…
Geoffrey Dickens

Sesame Street Puppeteer, Alleged Pederast Kevin Clash, Nominated for T

"When the Daytime Emmy nominees were unveiled Wednesday, some of the more interesting noms went unreported," the Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes noted in a blog post yesterday afternoon. Interesting is quite the euphemism in the case of nominee Kevin Clash. Clash, you may recall, is the Sesame Street puppeteer who resigned last November after allegations of a sexual relationship with a…
Ken Shepherd

May Day Protests Erupt in Violence: NBC Ignores, ABC and CBS Skip Soci

NBC's Today on Thursday completely skipped the violence associated with May Day protests in Seattle. CBS This Morning and ABC's Good Morning America covered the riots briefly, but ignored the socialist connection to the protest. GMA news reader Josh Elliott explained, "What started as a peaceful May Day protest in Seattle turned into violence and chaos as the march was winding down." He added…
Scott Whitlock

NBC Cheers Gun Control Advocates 'Pushing Back' at Town Halls, But Dis

Leading off Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams eagerly touted gun control supporters going after Republican New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte at a recent town hall meeting: "Pushing back. A tense moment as a U.S. senator gets an earful about her no vote on gun control." Williams hopefully added: "And with lawmakers home from Washington on a break, is this about to start…
Kyle Drennen

Fox News Producer Confronts Celebrities at Correspondents’ Dinner Ab

What better place is there, really, to corner news executives about media bias than the White House Correspondents Association Dinner? That's what Fox News producer Jesse Watters of The O'Reilly Factor had in mind when he headed out with camera and microphone to the "nerd prom" this past Saturday. Even though there's copious amounts of adult beverages at the WHCA dinner, it seems in vino…
Paul Bremmer

Greg Gutfeld on America: 'Obama is Nero, Media is the Fiddle, and We a

Fox News's Greg Gutfeld made a statement about the relationship between President Obama, the media, and America on Wednesday's The Five that deserves serious consideration. "Obama is Nero, media is the fiddle, and we are Rome" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard

Low Blow: Daily Beast's Tomasky Attacks GOP Governor As ‘Sleazy Chr

Hard-left Daily Beast writer Michael Tomasky has a nasty habit of smearing conservatives every chance he gets, and it seems he has found his newest target, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-Va.).  Writing in a May 1 piece for the online publication Tomasky used the FBI investigation over gifts McDonnell received for his daughter’s wedding to slam the Virginia governor's Christian faith.  Tomasky started…
Jeffrey Meyer