Sarah Silverman Compares Conservative ‘Christian Fringe’ To ‘ISIS’

How can someone claim to be interested in national unity when they think the Christian right is like ISIS?  
Corinne Weaver

Alt-Left Insanity: It’s Christmas, So #Resist Trump with Cards, Gifts

Tree decorated? Check. Eggnog all fresh? Check. Cookies awaiting Santa? Check. Now all you have to do is resist Trump. Ho, ho, ho. That’s the attitude of The Establishment which delivered two separate anti-Trump Christmas stories this week. Because the alt-left proves how insane it is only on days ending in “Y.”
Dan Gainor

Netflix Comedy Defends Pipelines: 'Safer Than Tankers'

Netflix's The Ranch, which just released their fourth season, saw the Bennett family struggling to keep their family ranch afloat. Hope came from an unexpected source. Unexpected to see depicted on television, anyway: an oil and gas company. When the company comes in with the promise of a pipeline that will bring money into the ranch, it seems like the answer to their financial problems. Even…
Amelia Hamilton

Irony! Matthews Knocks 'Trumpkins’ Praying to ‘Sun King’ on Tax Reform

All aboard the hypocrisy train! Throughout Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews trashed the Republican “song fest” following the passage of tax reform as if it were “a druid celebration of the winter solstice” featuring “Trumpkins” “do[ing] their hosannas” before their “sun king” President Trump.
Curtis Houck

NBC Frets GOP ‘Likely’ to ‘Punt’ on Funding Child Health Insurance

After congressional Republicans scored a major victory with their tax reform bill on Wednesday, despite the apocalyptic hyperbole of the Democrats and their media lackeys, NBC was looking ahead and began to lay the groundwork for their future screeds against Republicans: Their heartlessness in not funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Nicholas Fondacaro

ABC Hides the Truth, Claims Most Tax Cuts Going to the Wealthy

During ABC’s World News Tonight on Wednesday, the network demonstrated just how well they could stick to the Democratic Party’s talking points. “The biggest tax cuts will go to the wealthy, corporate America,” boldly declared sensationalist anchor David Muir as he was coming on the air. While he was quick to continue the liberal echo chamber, he cast doubt on the Republicans’ promise of economic…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Jorge Ramos Says He’s Now Having the ‘Worst Time’ of His Life in U.S.

Nearly a year into the Trump presidency, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says he’s experiencing “the worst moment I’ve had in the 34 years I’ve been living in the United States.”
Kathleen Krumhansl and Ken Oliver-Méndez

Bad Calls of 2017 Sports: We're All White Supremacists!

As America transitioned from the Obama Administration to the Trump Administration nearly a year ago, conservatives found -- much to our surprise -- that we are racists! We are as stunned now as we were in 2009 when, after Obama's inauguration, a Newsweek headline declared, "We're all socialists now." Throughout 2017, liberal sports media figures informed us time and time again that we're all…
Jay Maxson

Politico Investigative Reporter Hammers Critics of 'Bombshell' Article

Josh Meyer, a senior investigative reporter for the Politico website, was a guest on the weeknight program Fox News @Night on Tuesday to defend his article against accusations from former Obama administration officials who attempted to discredit his report and smear Politico.
Randy Hall

NYT Will Not Fire Glenn Thrush Despite Sexual Misconduct Claims

Late Wednesday afternoon, The New York Times decided that it would not fire Glenn Thrush following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, citing “dozens of interviews with people both inside and outside the newsroom” and that Thrush will seek workplace “training” to supplement his “counseling and substance abuse rehabilitation.”
Curtis Houck

Bernie Bro Joe Bemoans Tax Bill: ‘The Rich Are Getting Richer’

With the passage of the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax cut bill looming, most of Wednesday’s Morning Joe was devoted to portraying the legislation as not just bad policy (which would be par for the course on MSNBC), but a threat to America’s survival, prosperity, and democracy. “Conservative” co-host Joe Scarborough put on his Marxist cap to make the case that “the greatest threat to American-…
Chris Reeves

Liberal Pundits: By Passing Tax Bill, GOP Is 'Looting' America

On Tuesday, Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall called the bill "a heist," while Vox's Matthew Yglesias charged that "moral and political responsibility for the looting ultimately rests on the shoulders of the GOP members of Congress who decided that the appropriate reaction to Trump’s inauguration was to start smashing and grabbing as much as possible for themselves and their donors rather than…
Tom Johnson

A Huge Dow Milestone: NBC, ABC Ignore, WashPost Downplays

For the first time in its 121-year history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 5,000 points in a single year, according to CNBC. The major stock index set that record Dec. 18, following a 140-point rally and a new record closing high. CNBC.com also noted that there had been 70 closing highs for the DJIA in 2017.
Julia A. Seymour

Time Celebrates Dem Win in Alabama...Unlike the 2010 GOP Win in Mass.

Time reporter Molly Ball offered a post-election valentine to Doug Jones and his Democratic backers in an article titled “Change in the Heart of Dixie” in their Dec. 25/Jan. 1 issue. One interesting and constant omission in Ball’s piece was the role of The Washington Post in its very-helpful-to-Democrats investigative reporting on November 9 on Roy Moore’s odd dating habits (and on one occasion,…
Tim Graham