Press Draws Lame 2010 ObamaCare Parallel in Seeing Big 2018 GOP Losses
During the past month, many establishment press pundits have pivoted from believing that Republicans will suffer major losses in the 2018 midterm elections because they haven't accomplished anything to predicting that Republicans will suffer major losses now that they have. They're now saying that the just-signed tax law, which they have declared is and will remain deeply unpopular (if so,…
The Media’s Very Bad Year
Let’s run through a short list at the end of the year. ABC - Brian Ross misreports a Trump story, is suspended and forbidden to cover Trump again. CBS - Anchor Charlie Rose fired for sexual misconduct. CNN - Headlines a breaking news Trump story that turns out to be completely wrong. Staffer fired for sexual misconduct.
How 'Downsizing' Makes Matt Damon and Climate Change Dull
Matt Damon is having a lousy year, and that has nothing to do with his awkward comments regarding the “MeToo” movement. Damon’s performance in Suburbicon appeared to be a career low, bringing nothing to the role of a Father Knows Best type gone south. That was a revelation compared to his work in Downsizing.
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Mika Brzezinski Apologizes for Criticizing Mark Halperin's Accusers
Well, that didn't take long for her to get her mind right. It only took a few hours from the time Mika Brzezinski on Friday's Morning Joe criticized the sexual harassment accusers of Mark Halperin for not meeting with him personally to apologizing for it later that afternoon. Seeing your own career starting to slip away can be a powerful incentive for producing an apology.
New York Times Insists Non-Citizens Commit Less Crime Than Citizens
On Thursday, Vivian Yee at the New York Times repeated the tired and unproven claim that "a large body of research has suggested that immigrants are no more likely, and often less likely, to commit serious crimes than native-born Americans." Though the article had plenty of links, there was no link to anything in that alleged "large body of research." Though Donald Trump has ordered his…
Bozell & Graham Column: Cultural Winners and Losers of 2017
The first year of President Trump stirred the makers of popular culture into a frenzy of resistance. Any list of the year’s cultural winners and losers revolves around how the entertainment elites offended Americans in the red states by trying too hard to correct their outdated patriotism and other traditional values.
MSNBC's Tur Wrongly Claims Trump Hasn't Had a Press Conference Lately
Pam Key at Breitbart reported that Friday on MSNBC, host Katy Tur said it was “laughable” that President Donald Trump had only had one solo press conference in his first year. “He’s been dodging questions from the press for months now, really. He hasn’t had a press conference since what, February?” she asked NBC’s Kristen Welker. “That is laughable. It’s laughable, Kris, that the president can’t…
NY Times Mounts Sexist Attacks on Susan Collins Over Tax Bill Support
On Tuesday, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins bitterly attacked the press's coverage of her decision to vote for the GOP's tax bill. Though Collins didn't name a media outlet in her criticism, the New York Times has been the primary purveyor of now-popular leftist memes, which Collins characterized as "unbelievably sexist," that she was "duped" by party leadership, and that she was so hard-…
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Seth Meyers Hammers Trump’s Self-Congratulation: ‘You Passed One Bill'
For the last time in 2017, Seth Meyers used a monologue on the Thursday, December 21, edition of his NBC Late Night program to slam President Donald Trump regarding the tax-cut bill that Republicans in Congress passed earlier this week.
Not surprisingly, the liberal comedian began his “A Closer Look” segment by claiming: “Republicans spent yesterday gleefully celebrating their tax plan and…
NY Times Sees ‘Long Odds’ of Tax Cut Success for Doomed GOP
The Republican tax plan may have passed Congress and been signed by President Trump, but that’s not stopping the New York Times from slamming it as a fairy tale that will doom the GOP in the 2018 congressional elections. On the front of Thursday’s Times, Patricia Cohen insisted that President Trump’s “Rosy Forecast for Economy Defies Evidence.” Friday’s front page featured reporter Jonathan…
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MSNBC Smears America for Using ‘Mafia’ Style Tactics at the U.N.
As a sign of friendship, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley invited those members of the United Nations that didn’t vote against the United States on Thursday to a special reception at the start of the new year. On Friday, MSNBC found it comical that the U.S. would thank those who respected its sovereignty and right to choose where to place its embassy and ridiculed the Ambassador and the…
Did Rosie O’Donnell Break Federal Law by Trying to Bribe GOP Senators?
Comedienne Rosie O’Donnell took her feuding with Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump to a higher level this week, when she offered to give two Senators $2 million each for voting against the GOP tax cut bill, which nevertheless was passed on Wednesday.
However, neither Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona nor Susan Collins from Maine accepted her offer, especially after she was…
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'Chappaquiddick' Trailer Reveals Unsavory Ted Kennedy
"Moses had a temper but he never left a girl at the bottom of the Red Sea." If anybody feared that the upcoming "Chappaquiddick" movie would be a whitewash of Ted Kennedy, the recently released trailer should disabuse them of that notion. Legal Insurrection describes the movie as the "portrait of a weasel." Kate Erbland of IndieWire reviewed it as a Compelling Teddy Kennedy Biopic That Pulls No…
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MSNBC's Ruhle Vastly Exaggerates Obama-Era Economic Growth
At MSNBC on Wednesday, Stephanie Ruhle was clearly not happy that Republican Congressman Chris Collins of New York wouldn't roll over and admit to something that isn't true. Collins noted that the tax bill justifiably anticipates annual economic growth of 3 percent or more, and that such growth will generate collections high enough to prevent the slashing of entitlements. Then, when Collins…
