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CBS Refuses to Accept Ads for Dan Rather 'Truth' Movie
Associated Press media reporter David Bauder revealed Friday that CBS has refused to accept any advertising for Truth, the Dan Rather-defending film “that revisits a painful episode in the network's past involving a discredited 2004 news story on former President George W. Bush's military service record.”
Sony Pictures Classics sought a multi-million dollar ad buy to promote the film on Stephen…
October 16th, 2015 2:21 PM
Salon: Ted Cruz Encourages Domestic Extremism and Terrorism
On Friday, Salon featured two articles taking fire to presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Authored by Heather Digby Parton, one piece was titled, “Paranoid Rise of the Militant Right: Inside the Growing Threat of Domestic Extremism” and examined the Department of Justice’s new focus on domestic extremists, and the author zeroed in on right-wing extremism. The second was written by Simon Maloy, who…
October 16th, 2015 2:06 PM
Shocker: Superficial GMA Actually Highlights Religious Liberty
In a surprising twist, the normally superficial Good Morning America devoted an entire story to religious liberty. Even more amazing, this two minute and 51 segment aired in the 8am hour. This air time on ABC is usually reserved for cat videos and reality TV stars. Co-host Robin Roberts explained the story of the high school football coach who has “been told to stop praying with students on the…
October 16th, 2015 1:09 PM
Media Yawn At Medal of Honor for Captain Who Rushed Suicide Bomber
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts, along with the on-air programming of the three major cable news networks, have yet to cover the Wednesday announcement that Florent A. Groberg, a retired U.S. army captain, will receive the Medal of Honor on November 12, 2015 at the White House. Captain Groberg is being recognized for "his courageous actions while serving as a Personal Security…
October 16th, 2015 1:05 PM
Even Media Critics Can’t Find Any ‘Truth’ in Rather ‘Memo-gate’ Film
What’s more ironic: a film named “Truth” that tries to justify a lie; or liberal media critics lambasting the film as “lies” from “Hollywood liberals”?
October 16th, 2015 12:46 PM
Matt Taibbi: ‘Next Step Down’ From Fox News Is ‘The Third Reich’
Rupert Murdoch is in a pickle, and the famously abrasive lefty writer Taibbi is loving every minute of it. In a Tuesday article for Rolling Stone, Taibbi portrays Murdoch as “desperate… because he senses his beloved audience of idiots” abandoning Fox News in favor of Donald Trump, “a onetime Fox favorite who is fast becoming the network's archenemy.”
Taibbi argues that Fox News must routinely…
October 16th, 2015 12:25 PM
O’Reilly, Perino Rip Media for Soft Analysis of Hillary after Debate
Discussing the media’s reaction to Tuesday’s presidential debate during Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly and The Five co-host Dana Perino blasted the liberal press for their pandering to Hillary Clinton after pushing for Vice President Joe Biden to run that’s now turned into calls for him to stay out of the race.
October 16th, 2015 12:24 PM
NBC: Benghazi Committee ‘Delegitimized,’ Hillary Will Have 'Great Day'
Appearing on Friday’s NBC Today, Bloomberg Politics managing editor John Heilemann saw a rapidly closing window for Joe Biden to enter the presidential race: “...if he's making a calculation on the political landscape, it's more forbidding now than it was a month ago. You've got Hillary Clinton performing well at this debate, the Benghazi Committee now kind of delegitimized. She's teed up to have…
October 16th, 2015 11:49 AM
Satire Smear: Dunkin’ Donuts Offering 'Complimentary' Abortion
Sometimes things aren’t as funny as they seem.
ClickHole, a satirical site owned by the Onion, joked in an Oct. 13 piece that “Dunkin’ Donuts Has Just Announced That It Will Perform One Abortion.” To support a woman’s “right to choose,” the chain would offer a “complimentary abortion” at one of their locations. While media outlets readily shared the piece, Dunkin’ Donuts and business site…
October 16th, 2015 10:18 AM
NYT's 'Hard-Line' Herszenhorn Takes Up Cudgels Against Paul Ryan Again
New York Times reporter David "hard-line" Herszenhorn is making hostile labeling of conservatives a bad habit, especially in his post-Boehner reporting. The shock resignation of the Speaker of the House gave Times reporters an excuse to target the "far-right" conservatives who had supposedly hounded John Boehner out of office, and granting the speaker never a popular figure in Times-land, some…
October 16th, 2015 10:13 AM
Scarborough Suggests Hugh Hewitt Has 'Tingle Up the Leg' for Rubio
Joe Scarborough swung a double-edged sword on today's Morning Joe, swiping simultaneously at his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews and at radio host and debate panelist Hugh Hewitt. The subject was Marco Rubio, with Hewitt calling him "the most dynamic speaker the Republican party has seen ever, since Lincoln." "Since Lincoln," asked Scarborough incredulously—"do you have a tingle going up your leg…
October 16th, 2015 8:37 AM
The 15 Most Racist Words According to ABC’s ‘Scandal’
The new Scandal episode, titled “Dog-Whistle Politics,” began as a reenactment of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It had previously been revealed to the press that main character Olivia Pope was having an affair with the president and the episode has all the same elements -- attacks from the White House on the mistress’s reputation, a First Lady-turned-senator with her eyes set on taking the Oval…
October 16th, 2015 3:13 AM
McArdle: 'A Marshmallow Planet' More Likely Than Truth in 'Truth'
The disgraceful determination of Hollywood to rewrite history not favorable to the left, its causes and its personalities has perhaps reached its nadir with the laughably misnamed movie Truth.
The film is about Dan Rather's September 2004 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service during the 1970s. In Rather's words, "The nuanced, not preachy, script makes…
October 16th, 2015 12:50 AM
Ellen Thanks Bernie for E-Mail Line; Exactly What 'People Are Sick of'
Liberal celebrity talk show host Ellen DeGeneres continued to dismiss Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal during her eponymous show on Thursday as she repeatedly thanked socialist Senator and Clinton opponent Bernie Sanders for railing in the Democratic debate against the attention devoted to Clinton’s “damn e-mails.”
October 15th, 2015 11:55 PM