WashPost's Puffy Sunday Interview with Jane Fonda, Climate Protester

Sunday's Washington Post Magazine offered a softball interview to Jane Fonda on her climate change activism, with this quote pulled out: "If necessary, we're going to have to shut the government down. And that's not radical. What is not radical is not doing anything."
Tim Graham
December 30th, 2019 9:04 PM

CBS, NBC Skip Hanukkah Attacker’s Interest in Black Hebrew Israelites

The Black Hebrew Israelites were the same hate group that harassed a group of Covington, Kentucky high school students on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial earlier this year. The media tried to portray the radicals as victims and falsely labeled the students racist. But over the weekend, a man with interest in the group went on a stabbing rampage during a Hanukkah celebration. In response to…

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 30th, 2019 8:59 PM

NY Times Reporter: '2019 the Darkest Yet for Journalists in Trump Era'

Criticize the media, and you’re threatening the freedoms and lives of journalists. That’s the gist of the story from New York Times media reporter Michael Grynbaum: “After Another Year of Trump Attacks, ‘Ominous Signs’ for the American Press -- Threats of ‘retribution,’ more accusations of ‘fake news’ and the end of the White House briefing made 2019 the darkest yet for journalists in the Trump…
Clay Waters
December 30th, 2019 6:52 PM

Liberal Media Scream: Ex-NYT Critic Says Trump Aides Cultists, Toadies

Archive, for all of 2019, of the Washington Examiner’s weekly Liberal Media Scream posts by Paul Bedard, which are based upon a recommendation from the MRC’s Brent Baker who also provides an explanation for each one.

Brent Baker
December 30th, 2019 5:05 PM

YouTube Influencer PewDiePie Warns Site Has Become ‘Anti-YouTuber’

One of the top YouTube creators, PewDiePie, warned that the site is under threat — from the very people who run it. PewDiePie addressed questions from his fans in a Dec 28 video and questioned the future of the entire platform and its relationship with its creators. “It’s not impossible but it doesn’t seem that likely that YouTube is just gonna be the top website forever” he mused. He later that…
Alexander Hall
December 30th, 2019 4:54 PM

Wow: Nets Praise Texas Churchgoers for Being Armed, Stopping Attack

No, this is not a joke or an attempt at rick-rolling. The Monday morning broadcast network newscasts actually put away their usual gun control talking points after a mass shooting and emphasized how armed citizens prevented a deadly scene from becoming worse. In this case, it was Sunday’s attack on West Freeway Church of Christ outside Fort Worth, Texas.

Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2019 4:32 PM

CNN Guest Blames Social Media for Anti-Semitism, Calls for Regulation

Hate crimes are tragic. Now they are typically followed by calls for government crackdowns on speech. In the wake of the attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, weekday morning CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciuttointerviewed a local Jewish community leader named Steve Gold. When Sciutto asked what can be done to solve this going forward, Gold, the co-president of…
Alexander Hall
December 30th, 2019 4:32 PM

Worst Climate Scenario Is Not ‘Realistic,’ Says Bloomberg Columnist

You know it’s a cold day in hell when a liberal outlet like Bloomberg Opinion is critiquing the left’s climate armageddon.
Joseph Vazquez
December 30th, 2019 2:53 PM

Trump Thanks Hollywood Conservatives Jon Voight, Kristy Swanson

No matter how hard it is to believe, there a few conservative diamonds in the rough that is far-left Hollywood. President Donald Trump took time to thank a couple of his supporters from the showbiz industry, because God only knows how much of a feat it is for them to keep their Tinseltown street cred while supporting this President.
Gabriel Hays
December 30th, 2019 2:52 PM

NYT Journo Implies Conservative Media Made Black Man Stab Hasidic Jews

New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters has a fun theory that conservative media and President Trump are somehow a fault for the recent machete attack at a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York. During a Monday panel discussion about the incident on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Peters asserted that “the media that a lot of the President’s supporters consume” was partially to blame for a recent…
Bill D'Agostino
December 30th, 2019 2:04 PM

A Choice for Anti-Trump Christians

The battle between church and state is as old as church and state, as is the conflict within religious circles over who supposedly speaks for God. The latest dustup occurred after the departing editor of Christianity Today magazine, Mark Galli, wrote an editorial in which he said President Trump is an immoral man and his impeachment by the House is cause for his immediate removal from office.
Cal Thomas
December 30th, 2019 1:32 PM

NBC Giddily Pushes Biden Putting Obama on Supreme Court, Ignore Gaffes

On Monday, the broadcast network morning newscasts collectively punted on former Vice President Joe Biden’s latest kooky statements from over the weekend, ranging but not limited to calling for fossil fuel executives to be jailed, giving life to a conspiracy theory that 5G networks could be making people sick, and calling a heckler an “idiot.” Instead, NBC’s Today decided to swoon about the…
Curtis Houck
December 30th, 2019 1:19 PM

MSNBC Host Prods Cuomo to Blame TRUMP for Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes

On Sunday afternoon, as New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo was being interviewed by phone to discuss the current spate of violent attacks on Jews in New York, MSNBC weekend host Kendis Gibson nudged him toward blaming President Donald Trump for the attacks.
Brad Wilmouth
December 30th, 2019 1:08 PM

NY Writer: Major Leaguers To Get Participation Awards in '20!

Part satire, part snark and part sarcasm, the New York Daily News writer Filip Bondy consults a crystal ball and reveals his political leanings in his sports predictions for 2020. In a Saturday post, Bondy says he's returned to writing after advising Democrat Beto O’Rourke in his political campaigns, and he disses Republican golfers and others concerned about high tax rates. The notion of…
Jay Maxson
December 30th, 2019 10:00 AM