Chuck Todd Gets Off Easy on Hosting Parties for Democrats

On November 7, the NPR talk show 1A interviewed Meet the Press host Chuck Todd and his executive producer, John Reiss. The most notable part of the interview came when Todd was asked about the audience getting the impression that politicians and the media get "super incestuous" in politicians and the media going to all the same parties. Host Joshua Johnson asked Todd "How do you keep yourself an…
Tim Graham

Fox’s ‘Family Guy’ Perfectly Mocks PC Social Justice Warriors

In the November 12 episode of Fox’s Family Guy, titled “The D in Apartment 23,” when Brian, the Griffin family dog, and Stewie visit the Quahog University Library, they see a student protest on campus so they stop by. Mocking Millennials perfectly, a student tells Brian that they have gathered to demand the university president be fired. His offense? He didn’t overreact when the word “weird” was…
Karen Townsend

‘The Simpsons’ Insults Conservatives, Emasculates Homer for Politics

In the November 12 episode of Fox’s The Simpsons Marge Simpson decides to run for Mayor of Springfield after being the victim of Mayor Quimby’s misogynist attitude. In order to boost her polling numbers, no shot is left untaken by her campaign.
Karen Townsend

CNN Media Panel: ‘Negative Partisan’ Media a Problem from the Right

During Brian Stelter’s Sunday morning media sermon on CNN’s Reliable Sources, he and his panel of media critics decried what they called "negative partisan" media and blamed it for dividing the country. Sounds pretty accurate, right? But according to them most of the blame for a divided country rested on the shoulders of conservative and right-leaning media outlets.
Nicholas Fondacaro

Raddatz Promises to Discuss Menendez Trial, Only Gives It 16 Seconds

ABC’s Martha Raddatz was on a mission against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Sunday. After decrying skeptical Alabama voters, she grilled White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway during This Week on whether Moore should step aside. Conway called Raddatz out and pointed to the media’s double standard on ethics and failing to adequately report the corruption trial of Democratic New Jersey…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Not News: Reductions in U.S. CO2 Emissions Dwarf the Rest of the World

The establishment press is making a big deal out of the fact that President Trump has not been and will not be personally invited to a climate summit in Paris in December. Both the media and the folks running the summit, where the utterly unoriginal theme is "Make Our Planet Great Again," should be thanking the U.S. for its outsized contribution — but to be clear, unnecessary, given that the link…
Tom Blumer

NYT Won’t Stop Bashing Brexit for Hate Crimes, Islamophobia, Etc...

The New York Times is still finding ways to stay on the snobbish losing side against the popular movement for national sovereignty known as Brexit, by relating any violent crime against an immigrant or Muslim to the U.K’s June 2016 vote to withdraw from the European Union. Reporter David Kirkpatrick made Saturday’s front page by tying Brexit to “Islamophobia” in a sympathetic profile of a mosque…
Clay Waters

ABC’s Raddatz Disgusted By Skeptics of Allegations Against Roy Moore

Last week, The Washington Post reported that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore allegedly pursued relationships with teenagers when he was in his 30s and that he allegedly molested a 14-year-old girl. And while many believed the claims, others took them with a grain of salt, citing the timing as suspicious. On Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Martha Raddatz used her analysis to express her…
Nicholas Fondacaro

David Brooks: 'Tolerance of Bill Clinton' Made Harassment Easier?

New York Times columnist David Brooks appeared on the PBS talk show Charlie Rose on Friday night to discuss populism and how the “party stained by Trump” tries to “erase that stain.” Brooks openly declared Trump is a “destroyer” of the Republican Party. But in minute 23, Rose asked about sexual harassment. Brooks talked about how The New Republic had a “little ruckus” over in-house complaints…
Tim Graham

MSNBC Guests See GOP 'Policy Pedophilia,' Like 'Hitler's Bunker'

On Saturday's AM Joy on MSNBC, during a Roy Moore discussion, recurring liberal MSNBC guests Bishop William Barber and author Frank Schaeffer both engaged in hyperbolic rants against white Christian conservatives. After Barber tried to link "white evangelicalism" to "white supremacy," and accused Christian conservatives of engaging in "policy pedophilia" by not doing enough to help poor children…
Brad Wilmouth

Fox Biz Host Scolds Dem Over Talking Points; He Vows Not to Return

On the Fox Business Network on Tuesday, Happening Now host Melissa Francis would not let her Democratic Party guest get away with refusing to answer her question about tax reform. Eventually, she goaded former Clinton adviser Simon Rosenberg into acknowledging that he was refusing to answer her question (then why did he appear in what he knew was a discussion segment?); when she wouldn't move on…
Tom Blumer

DNC Chair Encounters Unexpected Turbulence On Univision

Cozy relationships will only take you so far, as was proven when DNC Chairman Tom Pérez got caught trying to pull a fast one on Univision's weekly Al Punto talker.
Jorge Bonilla

NPR Anchor Protests: We Weren't Openly Biased Like Jorge Ramos!

Even when conservatives express their view that any adult male who seeks out underage girls is a "pervert," they will still be questioned for suggesting the liberal media has a partisan tilt. National Public Radio has been rotating some fresh conservative pundits on their Week in Review segments on Friday nights, and Orange County Register columnist John Phillips said things that David Brooks…
Tim Graham

79% of Sports Illustrated Trump/Sports Interactions Negative

In a Sports Illustrated review of President Trump's interactions with sports figures and organizations in the year since he was elected, 79 percent of the opinionated mentions were negative. Compiled by SI staff members, the report includes 34 examples critical of the president and nine which are favorable. Seven were neutral.
Jay Maxson