Toobin: FBI 'Incompetent' or 'Actively Partisan,' 'Like Wing' of GOP

Reacting to news that the FBI had released documentation on former President Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Marc Rich from 2001, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin exasperatedly declared that the agency was either being "oblivious and incompetent" or "actively partisan" in the presidential race. He later observed that the document release "makes the FBI look like a wing of the…
Brad Wilmouth

‘The Real O’Neals’ Mocks Marriage With Celebratory Divorce Ceremony

“Not everything is about you being gay, Kenny!” Oh, how happy I was to hear those words finally spoken on ABC’s The Real O’Neals, Tuesday. Unfortunately, even when the show takes its attention off how gay Kenny O’Neal (Noah Galvin) is, they can’t seem to shake off being anti-Catholic, anti-conservative, or anti-anything decent. This episode focuses on taking down the sanctity of marriage.
Lindsay Kornick

Bozell & Graham Column: CNN Gets Caught in Cheating Scandal

Rush Limbaugh found just the right analogy for the CNN cheating scandal where (now) former CNN analyst Donna Brazile fed “town hall” questions to Hillary Clinton. It’s the quiz-show scandal of the 1950s, where Charles Van Doren was given the questions on the NBC game show Twenty One  in advance and looked like a genius on national television. Van Doren later apologized to America: “I have…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

Obnoxious Environmentalist Shut Down on ABC's 'The Middle'

ABC’s The Middle sure had some hilarious scenes this week as a liberal loudmouthed environmentalist got put in his place. The episode “True Grit” shows Sue Heck (Eden Sher) can no longer stand her loser liberal boyfriend Jeremy (Will Green) and his environmentalist rants. She attempts to break-up with him based off the advice her brother Axl (Charlie McDermott) provides: be a jerk. This does not…
Justin Ashford

CBS Frets Low African American Turnout for Clinton in Key States

With Election Day just a week away the liberal media seems to be stepping up their get out the vote effort for the Hillary Clinton campaign. One of the clearest examples of this was CBS Anchor Scott Pelley fretting about a low turnout for the African American vote in key swing states. “African Americans could tip the balance in battleground states, especially in Florida and here in Ohio if they…
Nicholas Fondacaro

WashPost Smears Trump with Wisconsin Muslim College Student Beating

A Muslim college student from Saudi Arabia was beaten to death in Menomonie, Wisconsin, home of the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Wisconsin newspapers like the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel carried the story as a senseless violent crime. But The Washington Post turned it into some sort of evidence of the damage Donald Trump’s rhetoric is doing. "Muslims in the…
Tim Graham

NYT Buries Trump's 'No Clear Link to Russia' — on Page A21

At the New York Times Monday evening, Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers reported that "none of the (FBI) investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government."
Tom Blumer

CNN's Costello Touts 'Funny' Samantha Bee's Interview of Obama

On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello spotlighted President Obama's appearance on Samantha Bee's TBS program, Full Frontal, where the liberal pair bemoaned Donald Trump's "sexist" attacks against Hillary Clinton. Costello zeroed in how "Bee makes no bones about it. She does want Hillary Clinton to become president and not Donald Trump." She included two extended clips of Obama and Bee, and…
Matthew Balan

Vox Writer on Hillary Emails: ‘No Wrongdoing Whatsoever’

The uproar engendered by the Comey letter illuminates how Clinton-haters start with a conclusion and work backwards, suggests Matthew Yglesias. “The latest Hillary Clinton email revelations arose out of an unrelated investigation into Anthony Weiner’s sexting,” wrote Yglesias in a Monday piece. “The best way to understand this odd hopscotch is through the Prime Directive of Clinton investigations…
Tom Johnson

Mitchell: FBI ‘Punch in the Gut’ Blocks Hillary’s ‘Uplifting Message'

On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Tuesday, host Andrea Mitchell woefully complained that the reopened FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails was like a “punch in the gut” to the Democratic nominee and prevented the campaign from pushing an “uplifting message” in the final days before the election.
Kyle Drennen

John Heilemann on Hillary Trashing FBI: ‘A Clinton Classic’

CBS This Morning journalists can always count on John Heilemann for the liberal conventional wisdom. The Bloomberg Politics editor cheered on what one of the co-hosts referred to as Hillary Clinton “attacking the integrity” of the FBI director. Heilemann touted, “It's a Clinton classic. You're on offense, you're on defense. When you're thrown back on to defense, the best way to try to stench the…
Scott Whitlock

Caught! Univision Sugarcoated Details of Brazile Exit From CNN

News organizations can show bias by either exaggerating details of a story, or by minimizing them. Minimization suppresses the scandalous nature of certain stories as we see, for example, through this report from last night's edition of Noticiero Univision.
Jorge Bonilla

CNN Panel Explodes as Guest Brings Up Brazile Firing; Baldwin Deflects

With CNN personalities continuing to ignore the big media story surrounding the axing of political commentator and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile, two on-air guests took matters into their own hands on Tuesday by mentioning it to the chagrin of the hosts with one resulting in verbal fireworks. 
Curtis Houck

Gergen: 'Nothing More Objectionable' Than Talk of 'Locking Up' Clinton

On Monday's CNN Tonight, during a discussion of FBI Director James Comey's revelation that the agency is resuming its investigation into Hillary Clinton's email correspondence from her time as Secretary of State, CNN political analyst David Gergen fretted over Donald Trump's call to "lock her up" for criminal behavior, asserting that "nothing has been more objectionable than these cries by Donald…
Brad Wilmouth