Media Overreact, Claim Pope ‘OK with Gays

July 29th, 2013 3:45 PM
Liberals in the media are doing what they do best when it comes to Pope Francis today: misrepresenting him to their hearts’ content. When asked in a press conference about celibate priests who suffer same-sex attraction, the Pope replied: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?” – a view which is exactly in line with Church teaching. But of course, the…

‘Fetus’ Means Death, Abortion in Media Talk

July 29th, 2013 9:54 AM
A couple definitions from the media’s unofficial abortion lexicon: Baby (n) any infant, pre- or postnatal, whose existence is welcome and not seen as “punishment” for the mother. Often used to gush over celebrity offspring. Example: “The world is impatiently waiting for the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, to give birth the baby that will be heir to the British throne. Fetus (n) any…

George Will Schools Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Steve Rattner on Detroit

July 28th, 2013 1:12 PM
ABC This Week viewers on Sunday were treated to a classic socio-economic debate between liberals and a lone conservative. With the issue at hand being Detroit's announced bankruptcy and whether the federal government should bail it out, the liberal view was championed by the Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel and MSNBC's Steve Rattner. On the right was George Will who clearly won the scrum…

Peggy Noonan: Obama Got To Point Where People Stopped Listening To Him

July 28th, 2013 12:06 PM
"I think every president in the intense media environment we have now, certainly every two-term president, gets to a point where the American people stop listening, stop leaning forward hungrily for information. I think this president got there earlier than most presidents. And I think he's in that time now." So said the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan on ABC's This Week Sunday.

ABC News Accused of Dishonestly Editing Zimmerman Juror to Take 'Got A

July 27th, 2013 6:20 AM
According to all reports, Juror B29, the sole nonwhite juror on the George Zimmerman trial, said the neighborhood watch volunteer got away with murder. But Slate's William Saletan says not so fast, and accused the network on Friday of deceptive editing and manipulation to get the answers they wanted. According to Saletan, the juror -- identified only by her first name, Maddy -- has "been…

Dems Leave Detroit in Ruins; Networks Won't Say Which Party Is to Blam

July 26th, 2013 10:09 AM
 It's now been a week since Detroit filed for bankruptcy and yet ABC, CBS and NBC have resisted considering what caused the financial failure, details such as the city's massively high tax rate, failed educational system and the total Democratic dominance for over 50 years. On Sunday's Meet the Press, anchor David Gregory bluntly asked Chuck Todd, a former Democratic operative, who was…

CBS, NBC Acknowledge ObamaCare Approval At All-Time Low; ABC Skips

July 25th, 2013 6:16 PM
On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell zeroed in on her network's latest poll that found that "more Americans than ever want the health care law repealed". However, she tried to explain it away by asserting that the public just needed to be educated: "This is the same problem the White House has faced from the very beginning about a lack of understanding about what is involved in…

News You Can Use: ABC Investigates Whether Sexting 'Really' 'Counts' a

July 25th, 2013 12:58 PM
  Now that former Democratic Congressman and current mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has been caught, again, sending sexually explicit texts to women, the hosts of ABC's Good Morning America decided to ask the important question: What is cheating?  Regarding the extremely graphic messages Weiner sent, reporter Linsey Davis wondered, "Is texting really cheating?...Do explicit E-mails, texts…

Busy on Royal Baby Watch, Nets Ignore Jihad Against Mid-East Christian

July 25th, 2013 9:21 AM
Everyone’s happy about the arrival of the future king of Britain – that is, everyone at leisure to take note. Presumably, Middle Eastern Christians have been too busy trying to survive to worry over whether the Duchess of Cambridge was in false labor. And while the hard-nosed journalists at ABC, CBS and NBC have been knitting booties and speculating on names, Middle Eastern Christians have…

In Three Days, Network Morning Shows Devote More Airtime to Royal Baby

July 25th, 2013 9:21 AM
In a mere three days, the Big Three network morning shows have devoted more coverage to the birth of the British royal baby then they gave to news of the IRS scandal since that story broke 74 days ago. Since Monday morning, ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today show and CBS This Morning deluged American viewers with 187 minutes worth of hype about another country's monarchy. In contrast,…

Zero Air Time on CBS Evening News For Latest Weiner Sex Scandal

July 24th, 2013 1:10 PM
CBS Evening News stood out among the Big Three evening newscasts on Tuesday in their failure to cover former Rep. Anthony Weiner's admission that he sent lewd text messages even after his resignation in 2011. The CBS show apparently deemed the British royal family's new baby, the doping scandal in baseball, and whale watching to be more important news items. ABC's World News and NBC Nightly…

ABC Fails to Identify Scandal-Marred Weiner as a Democrat

July 24th, 2013 12:51 PM
Despite devoting three segments to Anthony Weiner's latest sexually explicit photos and texts, Good Morning America on Wednesday failed to identify the New York politician as a Democrat. Instead, an ABC graphic simply called him a "mayoral candidate" for office. The previous evening's World News deemed Weiner a "former congressman" and a "mayoral candidate." Reporter Jeff Zeleny delicately…

Flashback: The Worst of the Media During Weiner's First Scandal

July 23rd, 2013 7:50 PM
Former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, now a New York mayoral candidate, admitted Tuesday to sending out lewd photos of himself even after he resigned from Congress for doing so back in June of 2011. During the previous scandal, up until Weiner's resignation, members of the media moved from casting the evidence against him as a smear job to acknowledging his mistake while imploring…

Priorities: Networks Devote an Additional 85 Minutes to Royal Baby, St

July 23rd, 2013 3:27 PM
The three network morning shows on Tuesday predictably lost all perspective over the birth of the royal baby, devoting a staggering 85 minutes of coverage to Britain's new prince. Yet, ABC, NBC and CBS still declined to offer any update on a political story important to America, the widening Internal Revenue Service scandal. Over four hours, the Today show obsessed over the royal birth for 41…