The Fated Weiner Wedding: A Photo the Media Won’t Reveal

It would appear that Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin’s wedding was doomed from the outset. After all, the much-hyped political union – sullied by a sexting scandal – was officiated by champion philanderer Bill Clinton. 
Sarah Stites

What Really Drove Target's Single-Stall Bathroom Move: Falling Traffic

When Target Stores reported results for its second-quarter, which ended on July 31, on August 17, the Associated Press's Anne D'Innocenzio told readers that "Sales at stores open at least a year fell 1.1 percent, reversing seven straight quarters of gains," and that "Customer traffic fell for the first time in a year and a half." What could have caused such a stark reversal, especially in light…
Tom Blumer

MRC's Brent Bozell Challenges Univision’s Jorge Ramos to Debate

Reston, VA – Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement challenging Univision anchor Jorge Ramos to a debate a day after Ramos appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to talk about his capacity to fairly cover the 2016 presidential election. 
NB Staff

Van Jones Sounds Sensible Next to NYT's Ana Marie Cox in Sunday Mag

What does it take to make left-wing CNN contributor Van Jones sound moderate and reasonable? Have him interviewed by Ana Marie Cox of the New York Times for the paper’s Sunday Magazine: “Van Jones Can Empathize With Trump Voters.” This Sunday, Van Jones sounded more sensible than Cox when it came to respecting those with different political beliefs, jabbing at his own side to be more tolerant of…
Clay Waters

CNN Panelists Defend NFL's Kaepernick on Anti-US Statement

On Sunday's New Day on CNN, during a discussion of the NFL's Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand during the National Anthem, and his subsequent statement accusing the U.S. of being a nation that "oppresses black people," citing violence by police, both guests expressed support for him in the aftermath of his expression of anti-U.S. sentiment. CNN political commentator Errol Louis lauded the NFL…
Brad Wilmouth

Notable Quotables: Poor Hillary Still Faces Sexist Double-Standard

In the August 29 edition of Notable Quotables: Journalists fret about presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton being victimized by a sexist double standard, while reporters find it admirable that President Obama took a principled stand in favor of his vacation instead of visiting flood-ravaged Lousiana. At the same time, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blames "extreme" talk radio for the "dumbing down"…
Rich Noyes

Univision News Reminds You That It Has An Agenda Beyond Immigration

From time to time, we are reminded that Univision's political agenda extends beyond immigration into advocacies for other left-liberal policy preferences. Univision's news coverage of the anti-campus carry protest at the University of Texas (Austin) is an example of such coverage. 
Jorge Bonilla

WashPost Finds No News in Anti-Kaine Protest at His Catholic Church

One of the "Most Read" articles on The Washington Post website is an Aaron Blake story headlined "Donald Trump has a massive Catholic problem." He's losing to Hillary Clinton among (self-professed) Catholics by 27 in an ABC-Post poll. Here's one reason: the Post hasn't written about Sunday's protest outside Tim Kaine's Catholic church in Richmond calling him a Catholic In Name Only. According to…
Tim Graham

Kaepernick Elaborates on Reason Behind Protest, and It’s Still Awful

Colin Kaepernick spoke to the media in the 49ers facility on Sunday, discussing the intricacies of Chaos Theory and Abel’s Binomial Theorem. Just kidding. He elaborated on the reasons for his protest, and calling America racist.
Dylan Gwinn

ESPN: Kaepernick Reminds Us America Is a 'Damn Good Place to Live'

Someone needs to get ESPN and 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick a room. Preferably a room in another country. Yet, a room nonetheless.
Bruce Bookter

New Republic Writer: Democrats Too Efficient to Have ‘Obama’s Katrina’

A major event that would damage Barack Obama’s presidency as much as Hurricane Katrina did George W. Bush’s is a white whale for conservatives, suggests Brian Beutler: They’re constantly, eagerly scanning the horizon for it, but they’ll never see it. Beutler finds it hard to imagine that any Democratic president would have his or her own Katrina, since Dems have made responding to natural…
Tom Johnson

On 'Meet the Press,' Ex-Obama Aide Blasts Trump as a 'Psychopath'

David Plouffe isn't a doctor but he plays one on Sunday morning television, as viewers of NBC's Meet the Press saw today. Plouffe, a former senior advisor to President Obama and his campaign manager in 2008, was so harsh in his vilification of Donald Trump that even MTP host and closet ideological ally Chuck Todd felt compelled to defend the GOP nominee.
Jack Coleman

Stelter Attacks AP for Exposing Clinton Foundation Donor Access

On CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday, host Brian Stelter who stuck up for Hillary Clinton last weekend did so again. This time he set his sight on the Associated Press for daring to publish a story which exposed how big money donors to the Clinton Foundation received special meetings with her while she was Secretary of State. Stelter questioned why they would even publish the story following a six…
Nicholas Fondacaro

Jorge Ramos Responds to MRC’s Call for Removal from Anchor Chair

On Sunday August 28 Univision’s Jorge Ramos appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to talk about Donald Trump, immigration, and respond to the Media Research Center’s call for him to be removed from the anchor chair. Because of Ramos’ active opposition to Trump, MRC Founder Brent Bozell put out a statement which said, “At the very least, Univision should remove Ramos from the network’s national…
Nicholas Fondacaro