Press Slow to Report Monday Night's Swedish Riots

The Tuesday Morning Briefing at the New York Times tells us that President Donald Trump, at his rally in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, "claimed that Sweden was experiencing a crisis because of immigration" and had "suggested that a terrorist attack had occurred there the night before." Concerning the latter, Trump said no such thing, nor did he "suggest" it. Concerning the former, if Sweden's…
Tom Blumer

Screenwriter John Irving Advocates ‘Outright Bias’ At Oscars

As the most hyped awards event of the season, the Oscars may also be the most political. 
Sarah Stites

MRC’s Gainor Blasts Media’s Bias Over Trump Presser

MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor recently called out the liberal media for coming unglued after President Donald Trump criticized the media’s coverage of him during a February press conference. “The media have been kicking sand in the face of the American public for decades going after every Republican who rose to the fore” Gainor said on Feb. 17, during an appearance on Fox…
James Powers

Univision Uses Flimsy Premise To Push Climate Agenda

Univision's news division is quick to remind us, as we recently saw, that it has a political agenda that extends far beyond immigration. 
Jorge Bonilla

CNN Finds Humor in UK Parliament Insulting Trump to Downgrade Visit

Debate raged in the United Kingdom’s Parliament Monday over whether or not President Donald Trump should be extended the warm welcome of a full state visit. As insults targeting Trump flew back and forth, CNN seemed to get a good laugh out of it all. “Insults flying over Trump's invitation for a formal state visit to the UK,” hyped Erin Burnett during her show OutFront, “One Member of Parliament…
Nicholas Fondacaro

WashPost's Sullivan Fears Journalists Will Be 'Hunted Down'

Donald Trump, like virtually every president before him, is upset that there have been leaks to the news media (and heaven knows who else) from his administration. In his Thursday press conference, Trump emphasized that leaks of classified information or matters relating to national security are "criminal" acts — because they are — and promised to pursue the leakers. That, and Trump's Friday…
Tom Blumer

Nets Tout Anti-Trump Protesters Rallying for ‘Not My President Day’

“Not my president” started off as a rallying cry for liberals shattered by Hillary Clinton’s historic defeat to Donald Trump. But during Monday’s Presidents’ Day holiday, leftists gathered for anti-Trump protests in cities from coast-to-coast in celebration of “Not My President Day.” The liberal Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) seemed to revel in the play on words the rallies brought. “And…
Nicholas Fondacaro

CBS Lets Dem Claim Millions Barred from Voting, But Tougher on GOPer

Add CBS host John Dickerson to the list of journalists who have apparently not felt the need to press Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings when he claims that millions of Americans have been "denied their right to vote" because of alleged "voter suppression" perpetrated by Republicans. Reminiscent of ABC's George Stephanopoulos from last week's This Week, on yesterday's Face the Nation,…
Brad Wilmouth

Katy Tur Can’t Recall Obama's 2012 ‘Flexibility' Hot Mic to Russians

On Monday, our friend SooperMexican at The Right Scoop caught this embarrassing exchange on MSNBC as Katy Tur admitted to her guest that she was couldn’t recall President Barack Obama being caught on a hot mike in 2012 saying he’d have “more flexibility” to work with Russia after his reelection.
Curtis Houck

NYT Says Remove Racist Trump; Wonder If Nasty Liberals Hurt Cause

Remove him from office or just call him a racist? That was the dilemma faced by two New York Times columnists this weekend. First, the prickly Charles Blow ventured into the Midwest to rant against Donald Trump at the Cleveland Public Library, while his colleague Nicholas Kristof put odds on Trump's removal.
Clay Waters

Not Objective: CBS Touts Hillary Campaign Manager for Trump Critique

Who better to discuss Donald Trump’s first month in office than Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager? Apparently, that was the thinking of the producers and hosts of CBS This Morning on Monday. The journalists barely pressed Robby Mook over whether his new concern about the sanctity of the vote was simply an effort to deflect from an embarrassing loss.
Scott Whitlock

Politico Misquotes Limbaugh on Russian Involvement in Election

Opening his program on Monday, Rush Limbaugh referred to a Politico item by Hanna Trudo, who reported on his appearance on the February 19 edition of Fox News Sunday. Trudo opened by claiming that "Rush Limbaugh says he doesn’t buy the notion that Russia influenced the election of President Donald Trump." Rush observed on the air that this isn't what he said. Then Trudo doubled down and…
Tom Blumer

Nets Decry Trump ‘Declaring All-Out War on Journalists’

Monday’s network morning shows were aghast at President Trump continuing to criticize the liberal media with a Friday tweet in which he labeled them “fake news” and “the enemy of the American people.” In response, the ABC, NBC, and CBS broadcasts accused him of “declaring an all-out war on journalists” and compared Trump to Richard Nixon in the midst of Watergate.
Kyle Drennen

Fake News? CNN Hypes (Really) Tiny Number of ‘Sanctuary Restaurants’

Well, if it ain’t “fake news,” it’s news so vanishingly inconsequential as to be close. But, hey, “This is CNN.” The third place cable news network has an article up on CNN Money hyping “sanctuary restaurants.” 
Matt Philbin