GMA Hosts Argue Over Calling Caught-on-Camera Robber 'Alleged'

Do your Allen Iverson imitation, but instead of "practice," try saying "alleged" in your most disbelieving voice. . .  On today's Good Morning America, co-host Dan Harris struck a blow against political correctness, taking issue with Ron Claiborne's insistence on calling a caught-on-tape convenience store shooter an "alleged" robber. The show rolled the security video several times, showing the "…
Mark Finkelstein
January 16th, 2016 8:17 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: David Bowie, Icon or Abuser?

When David Bowie died after a very private fight with liver cancer, obituary writers churned out words like "icon" and "legend" and "subversive." Despite a life of very fluid explorations of musicality and sexuality and spirituality, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano celebrated Bowie as "never banal," displaying an "artistic rigor" which seemed to contradict the sexually "ambiguous image…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
January 16th, 2016 7:55 AM

Tim Allen Gets Good Hit at Obama on 'Last Man Standing' with Jay Leno

Jay Leno made another cameo appearance on Last Man Standing with Tim Allen, and the two were back to their old hijinks. In the episode “Mike and the Mechanics,” the comedians rip on each other through their characters Mike and Joe, joking about Allen sticking to TV sitcoms and Leno leaving "The Tonight Show," respectively.
Alexa Moutevelis
January 15th, 2016 11:57 PM

'Undateable' Mocks SOTU, Trump, Oscars in American Citizenship Episode

“America is the best country in the world,” declares Danny (Chris D’Elia) at the opening of the episode "Danny's Boyz Walk Into a Bar" of the live NBC comedy Undateable. He is giving his own version of the State of the Union address, a timely reference to the actual address delivered by President Obama just a few days ago. He calls himself “Barack O’Biden” and promises a clothing-optional America…
Karen Townsend
January 15th, 2016 11:29 PM

David Brooks on PBS: We Need a Squish 'Conspiracy' to Beat Trump, Cruz

After drawing wide condemnation for suggesting Ted Cruz offered “dark and satanic tones” last Friday, Brooks insisted this week that he still doesn’t like Cruz, but that he bested Donald Trump in the second Fox Business debate. Brooks said the GOP establishment is “in panic,” but seems immobile. Brooks is rooting for a moderate “conspiracy” of donors to pick one moderate. A squishy Republican “…
Tim Graham
January 15th, 2016 10:18 PM

Rolling Stone Defiant About Interview with Drug Lord 'El Chapo'

Once again, Rolling Stone has come under fire for its lack of journalistic ethics over actor Sean Penn’s recent interview with Joaquin Guzman – better known as “El Chapo” – and giving the drug cartel kingpin editorial approval of the article. The beginning of Penn’s article came with a disclosure - confessing that names had been changed, locations were unnamed, and that the world’s most famous…
Melissa Mullins
January 15th, 2016 5:38 PM

Yahoo Reporter Won't Cite Awful U.S. Economic Data as Markets Tank

The press's fierce determination to avoid blaming any of the steep decline in this nation's stock markets so far this year on horrid U.S. economic data, or on the Obama administration which has given us such a sour economic environment, has gone way beyond annoying. Shortly after noon at Yahoo Finance, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average's Friday dive hit 500 points, Nicole Sinclair, who is also…
Tom Blumer
January 15th, 2016 5:14 PM

Networks Censor Planned Parenthood Lawsuit Over Horrifying Videos

The media are oddly turning a blind-eye to Planned Parenthood suing the Center for Medical Progress. But then again, they have censored this whole story from the beginning. On Thursday, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and all seven of its California affiliates filed a federal lawsuit against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and others connected to the undercover videos that exposed…
Katie Yoder
January 15th, 2016 4:32 PM

The Thing About 'New York Values'

Is the outrage over Ted Cruz' 'New York Values' hit on Donald trump really warranted?
Jorge Bonilla
January 15th, 2016 4:08 PM

ABC: Republicans ‘Serve Up Insults’ as ‘Manners Takes a Back Seat’

The journalists at ABC’s Nightline, Thursday, chided Republicans as uncivilized, bemoaning “insults” and the fact that “manners took a back seat” at the Republican debate. Correspondent David Wright used some bizarre entertainment comparisons for the evolving GOP race, saying, “Like the lead-up to a rose ceremony on The Bachelor....Now it's more like The Hunger Games.”
Scott Whitlock
January 15th, 2016 4:01 PM

Green Beret/UFC Fighter Threatened by ISIS; You'll Love His Response

ISIS has made a habit of targeting Americans. Though this time it appears the “JV squad” has picked a fight with the Varsity.
Dylan Gwinn
January 15th, 2016 3:49 PM

Gushing Mika to Hillary: 'I Would Vote for You’ If You’re the Nominee

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton phoned into Morning Joe, Friday, and Mika Brzezinski could not contain her excitement. “I don’t know, are you? Are you sure?” Brzezinski exclaimed excitedly, when Clinton said she was happy to be on the program. Brzezinski didn’t seem to hold anything back, informing Clinton she would support her if she won the Democratic nomination: “I would vote for you if…
Nicholas Fondacaro
January 15th, 2016 3:39 PM

Slate: Hillary’s Pantsuits are Lesbian (or Something)

Hillary Clinton is not a lesbian, but her wardrobe did stay at a Holiday Inn Express for a softball tournament. So says Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart writing on Slate’s “Outward” page. 
Matt Philbin
January 15th, 2016 3:29 PM

NYT Shows Obama Fretting Over Political Divide, Ignores Democrat Guilt

New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse and White House scribe Julie Hirschfeld Davis teamed up to paint the president as wringing his hands over the current divided state of U.S. politics. One potential culprit almost wholly exonerated? The president himself. Thursday’s report, “Obama’s Plea to ‘Fix Our Politics’ Has Both Sides Looking Inward,” portrayed Obama as regretful, while…
Clay Waters
January 15th, 2016 3:21 PM