Writer Urges 'Intelligent' Conservatives to Back 'Moderate' Hillary

Gopnik contended that if Donald Trump became president, his agenda could not be “bounded in by honest conservatives in a Cabinet or restrained by normal constitutional limits.” Therefore, he must lose in November, and toward that end, Gopnik urged “intelligent” conservatives to back Hillary Clinton, opining that their oft-discussed alternatives to Trump -- voting for a third-party candidate or…
Tom Johnson

Moore Blames GOP 'Race Hatred' for Flint Pollution, Also Hits Obama

Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, left-wing film maker Michael Moore asserted that "race hatred" by the Republican party in Michigan was to blame for Flint's water pollution problems, but he also ended up placing some of the blame on President Barack Obama for assuring people that the water was safe to drink. The two left-wingers also spent about four minutes…
Brad Wilmouth

NYT Covers for Brazil's Lefty Prez, Fears Shift to Right, Male Cabinet

The New York Times is worried about a shift to the right in Latin America and put its concern on the front page. Simon Romero reported from Brazil about the suspension from office of leftist president Dilma Rousseff during her impeachment trial. But instead of focusing on allegations of budgetary flimflamming by her administration, Romero tried to scare readers with the new, more conservative…
Clay Waters

Relieved ABC: At Least Teens Still Admire Obama

The journalists at Good Morning America on Thursday looked at a Newsweek expose on the differences between teens in 1966 and 2016. Fifty years after the magazine published, “The Teen-Agers,” Amy Robach revealed, “There are distinct differences, says Newsweek between today's teens and teens in 1966. Fifty years ago, teenagers most admired icons were JFK, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Lyndon…
Scott Whitlock

Press Virtually Ignores Wendy's Plan to Install Self-Serve Kiosks

The establishment press has given an open mic to proponents of raising the minimum wage nationally, and has cheered $15-per-hour legislation passed in California and New York earlier this year as "historic." The silence from those same quarters, e.g., the Associated Press, the New York Times and others, is deafening now that one of the predictions of those who have criticized such sharp…
Tom Blumer

Is Comedy Central's Liberalism Losing Viewers?

Comedy Central's political programming didn't take a hard-left turn yesterday. Yet its cumulative impact might have caused big changes within the network. Longtime Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless is stepping down at the end of the month. The decision was hers, according to reports. It’s hard to think the channel’s declining ratings didn’t factor into the move.
Christian Toto

Bozell & Graham Column: Ken Burns, Pompous Poster Boy for Liberalism

“Like the amputated limb felt long after it has been cut off, I miss Trayvon Martin,” the famous orator said. Who would utter such an elaborate expression of white guilt? Try star PBS filmmaker Ken Burns, gushing his way through a government-funded honor: the “Jefferson Lecture,” the “nation’s highest honor for intellectual achievement” awarded by Obama’s National Endowment for the Humanities.…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

On PBS NewsHour, Both Shields and Gerson Slam NC Bathroom Law

As right-leaning Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson substituted for New York Times columnist David Brooks on Friday's PBS NewsHour, he gave an analysis worthy of pretend-conservative Brooks as he was critical of the North Carolina bathroom law and asserted that there is an equivalency between the Obama administration on the left and supporters of the North Carolina law on the right.
Brad Wilmouth

NBC Hypes 'Historic' Obama Admin. Move on Transgender Students

The Big Three networks' evening newscasts on Friday devoted full reports to the Obama administration's controversial letter to every public school district in the nation directing them to allow transgender students to use bathroom and locker rooms according to their chosen sexual identity. However, NBC Nightly News's segment on the issue touted the "Obama administration's historic new directive…
Matthew Balan

Media Exaggerate Zika Virus Risks

Last week, 17-year old Sara Mujica of Connecticut found out she contracted the Zika virus that has been raging across South and Central America. The decision by Sara and her Honduran fiancé to keep their child despite the link between the Zika virus and an unborn child's potential contraction of the disability microcephaly has led to widespread media coverage. Two publications that landed…
Dustin Siggins

ABC Touts George Clooney Predicting Trump Won't Become President

On Thursday's World News Tonight, ABC's David Muir spotlighted George Clooney's prediction about the U.S. presidential election later this year. Clooney contended, "There's not going to be a president Donald Trump. That's not going to happen." Muir hyped "the room full of international journalists applauding the actor" after he made his remark at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Matthew Balan

Columnist Worries Trump's 'Crooked Hillary' Moniker Could Stick

In a Wednesday column, Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus expressed horror that Donald Trump’s nickname for Hillary Clinton, “Crooked Hillary,” may become attached to the Democratic presidential front-runner – and stick throughout the general election.
Melissa Mullins

FNC's Megyn Kelly, Panel Slam CNN, MSNBC for Obsessive Trump Coverage

During Thursday night's edition of The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel, the host and three panelists mocked cable television coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's meeting with Paul Ryan, GOP speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Megyn Kelly led the charge by accusing the Cable News Network and MSNBC of treating Trump's arrival as if “it was the second coming."…
Randy Hall

Stephanopoulos Claims Hillary ‘Turned Over All the E-Mails'

While grilling Donald Trump during Friday’s Good Morning America on whether he would release his tax returns, co-host George Stephanopoulos laughably held up his former boss Hillary Clinton as a model of transparency: “...you said you would release your tax returns when Secretary Clinton released her e-mails. She has turned over all the e-mails in her possession.” Trump countered: “She didn’t…
Kyle Drennen