ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’ is Respectably Weird

Somewhere in the midst of 20 or so airline stewardesses, dentists, math teachers, chicken enthusiasts, and estheticians (whatever the heck that is) fighting it out to see who was going to dress to impress and win the “First Rose” from Bachelor Ben Higgins, ABC’s The Bachelor actually put together a decent show.
Dylan Gwinn
January 5th, 2016 9:07 PM

Halperin: ‘I Am Touched’ by Obama’s Tears on Guns; 'Proud' He Did It

Offering his thoughts on Tuesday’s With All Due Respect concerning President Obama announcing his executive actions on gun control, Bloomberg TV/MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin declared that he was “touched by” the President’s tears and was “proud of his ability to show” his emotions on something that’s “a national crisis that needs to be addressed.”
Curtis Houck
January 5th, 2016 8:42 PM

NPR Insults MSNBC: 'Brian Williams Got Sent Back to the Minors'

MSNBC knows who listens to NPR. For years, they’ve advertised their programming on the NPR website. But in a new listing of “What Mattered in Media 2015,” NPR TV critic Eric Deggans dissed the Lean Forward Network. It was a big story when Brian Williams “got sent back to the minors."
Tim Graham
January 5th, 2016 8:32 PM

Matthews Serves Up Roughly 20-Minute Softball Interview with Clinton

In his much-hyped exclusive sit-down interview with Hillary Clinton, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews treated the former secretary of state to a softball chat that was heavily dominated by Donald Trump. The toughest portion of the interview was when Matthews pressed Clinton to explain the difference between your garden-variety Democrat and self-avowed socialists like Bernie Sanders. All in all…
Ken Shepherd
January 5th, 2016 8:22 PM

CNN Boosts Guest's Racial 'Double Standard' Claim About Oregon Protest

Tuesday's CNN Newsroom gave a platform to left-wing commentator David Love, who asserted in a Monday column for theGrio.com that "if Black Lives Matter protesters were to take over a federal building armed to the teeth with firepower — and they certainly would not do this — they would wind up dead or in prison for life on terrorism charges." Love criticized the handling of an armed occupation of…
Matthew Balan
January 5th, 2016 6:43 PM

Matthews: Everyone Believes Hillary Was 'Shocked' by Lewinsky Affair

Not merely does Chris Matthews claim that Hillary Clinton was "shocked" to learn that Bill was having an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Matthews can't imagine anybody thinking she wasn't shocked. On today's With All Due Respect, Matthews said "I don't think anybody thought that she wasn't shocked when this Monica thing came about. You just look at her face in the old clips. You can see she couldn'…
Mark Finkelstein
January 5th, 2016 6:28 PM

AP's Scott Bauer Has a New Obsession: Negatively Describing Ted Cruz

At the Associated Press, Wisconsin-based reporter Scott Bauer, who has spent the better part of the past five years describing Badger State Governor Scott Walker as "polarizing," has been given the opportunity to get involved with 2016 presidential campaign coverage. Leftists and Democrats rarely earn negative descriptors in Bauer's reports, while Republicans and conservatives receive them…
Tom Blumer
January 5th, 2016 5:31 PM

WashPost Wonkblog: 'Ban the Bikini Body'

Being early January it's both the dead of winter and New Year's resolution season. A common one is to lose some weight in the cold winter months to be ready for the beach in the summer. But as goes the Washington Post's Wonkblog, they've got a rather different resolution: health magazines should "Ban the Bikini Body."
Ken Shepherd
January 5th, 2016 5:30 PM

Supergirl's Not So Super Global Warming Propaganda

Whether the talking points come from liberal politicians, like President Obama, or the usual suspects in Hollywood, you WILL be subjected to the drama of climate change extremists - even in primetime television shows like CBS’ Supergirl. In Supergirl’s version of Planet Krypton’s destruction, we learn it fell victim to global warming and Aunt Astra returns to ask for Supergirl Kara’s help to…
Karen Townsend
January 5th, 2016 5:09 PM

NBC Hails Obama’s ‘Deeply Emotional Appeal’ for Gun Control

During special coverage of President Obama’s announcement of gun control executive orders on Tuesday, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing applauded the commander-in-chief playing on people’s emotions to win support for his unilateral action. Holt began: “President Obama in an emotional over-half-hour-long address announcing executive actions to…
Kyle Drennen
January 5th, 2016 4:27 PM

Clift Cites Gun vs. Auto Death Stat to Justify Obama Gun Control

Towards the end of her January 4 piece for the Daily Beast hailing President Obama's controversial and arguably illegal move to essentially legislate new gun controls via presidential fiat, liberal journalist-turned-pundit Eleanor Clift justified the action by complaining that gun-related deaths in the U.S. now outpace automobile accidents. 
Ken Shepherd
January 5th, 2016 4:20 PM

Jennifer Lawrence Insists Planned Parenthood Isn’t All About Abortion

Planned Parenthood has yet another celebrity supporter to add to its list: Jennifer Lawrence. For Glamour’s February 2016 cover story, editor-in-chief Cindi Leive spoke with the 25-year-old celebrity. During the interview, Lawrence defended Planned Parenthood and declared that the taxpayer-funded organization is “so much more [than abortion].”
Katie Yoder
January 5th, 2016 4:04 PM

CBS Hypes Earth's 'Chronic Fever' in Extreme Weather Segment

Even when NASA states a weather pattern has not been caused by climate change, the media still can’t help bringing it up. On Jan. 5, CBS This Morning invited Jeffrey Kluger, climate change evangelist and the editor at large for Time magazine, to explain what is “going on” with the “extreme weather” caused by El Niño.
Aly Nielsen
January 5th, 2016 3:39 PM

Bill Press Loves Investigative Journalism - Only if Done by Liberals

Bill Press is perhaps best known as one of the early hosts of the influential cable show Crossfire, but he's also a longtime radio talker and columnist for The Hill politics website. In his most recent column, misleadingly headlined "Shining a Spotlight on media," Press joins a chorus of praise for the movie Spotlight that chronicles the efforts of a Boston Globe reporting team to uncover the…
Jack Coleman
January 5th, 2016 3:31 PM