NBC Hypes ‘Emotional' Obama’s Push for More Gun Control

The journalists on the Today show, Friday, touted how “emotional” Barack Obama became in his push for more gun control. In the wake of a mass shooting in Oregon, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie cited statistics from liberal organizations and allowed no conservative, pro-Second Amendment voices to appear on the show. 
Scott Whitlock

Piers Morgan: Blame NRA for Oregon, Mass Shootings 'Good for Business'

Perhaps the only anti-gun blowhard less surprising than Geraldo Rivera after a mass shooting is ex-CNN host Piers Morgan, still prattling on about how his biased journalism in Britain stopped school shootings for good in the UK. In the London Daily Mail, Morgan emptied out a thesaurus of synonyms for evil on the National Rifle Association, claiming like Ed Schultz that they love it when people…
Tim Graham

CBS Hits Chick-Fil-A for Values that ‘Ran Afoul of Public’ on Marriage

As part of a piece on Friday’s CBS This Morning about the opening of the first freestanding Chick-fil-a in New York City, correspondent Vladimir Duthiers couldn’t help but harp on the company’s conservative Christian values and how they had to supposedly draw customers back “in 2012 when those values ran afoul of public sentiment” after “CEO Dan Cathy affirmed his support for tradition marriage.”
Curtis Houck

Geraldo Blames 'Gun Sick' America and 'Gun Lobby' for Oregon Shooting

Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera went on a Facebook rant within hours of the mass shooting in Oregon. America is a “gun sick nation,” and Second Amendment “BS” aside, he wrote, “the gun lobby controls the country, and allows armed maniacal lunatics to roam free and kill.” By Friday morning, Rivera was egging on President Obama to get tougher on the National Rifle Association: “You blame the…
Tim Graham

Sports Writers Opine, Awfully, in Wake of Oregon Shooting

Sports Illustrated’s Peter King has handed down yet another 140 character edict in the wake of yet another shooting. Why is the person charged with writing about football, on a night when the Ravens and Steelers play, writing about mass shootings? Because shut up, that’s why.
Dylan Gwinn

'How to Get Away with Murder' Show Creator Delivers on Lesbian Sex

As promised in this interview with the show’s creator, Peter Nowalk has every intention to use gay sex scenes as a battering ram on the viewers of ABC's 'How to Get Away with Murder," advancing his premise that America must be shocked awake. You are a prude, America, and Mr. Nowalk intends for you to loosen up! A new twist this year includes a lesbian relationship for Annalise (Viola Davis) with…
Karen Townsend

Shameless MSNBC Guest: ‘I’m Politicizing the Hell Out of’ OR Shooting

The always shameless uber-lefty blogger Charles Pierce of Esquire was a guest on the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word and in the course of discussing the deadly community college shooting in Oregon earlier in the day, admitted that he’s “politicizing the hell out of this” shooting and “I don’t care.” The former Boston Globe writer declared that the Republican Party “is completely insane…
Curtis Houck

Wilmore Hits Obama 'Near-Sighted Snobbery' of Mocking Romney on Russia

On Thursday's The Nightly Show on Comedy Central, host Larry Wilmore skewered President Barack Obama in the aftermath of Russia undermining the President's Syria policy by bombing the Syrian rebels Obama has been supporting. The Comedy Central host reminded viewers that Obama had mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 when the GOP presidential candidate warned that Russia would be one of America's…
Brad Wilmouth

NYT Accuses Pope of Reigniting 'Culture Wars' by Meeting Kim Davis

Religious double standards on the front of Thursday's New York Times: "The Pope, the Clerk and Culture Wars Revisited." During his U.S. tour, the Times celebrated Pope Francis's liberal tone on economic, environmental, and immigration issues. But when he reaffirmed his belief in religious freedom (and the Church's opposition to gay marriage) by secretly meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county…
Clay Waters

CNN Pushes Obama to 'Lead' on Gun Control, Not Just 'Mourner in Chief'

On Thursday's The Situation Room, after live coverage of President Barack Obama's speech on the day's shootings at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, CNN was true to form in promoting more gun control as CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Tom Fuentes urged President Obama to "lead" in proposing gun legislation and not just be the "mourner-in-chief." Notably, moments earlier, when Fuentes described…
Brad Wilmouth

Blitzer: Obama ‘Was Embarrassed' of the U.S. after Oregon Shooting

As part of CNN’s live coverage Thursday night of the deadly community college shooting in Oregon, fill-in AC360 host Wolf Blitzer declared that President Barack Obama “was embarrassed of the United States in front of the world” when he commented on the tragedy and urged Americans to “politicize” mass shootings. Prior to Blitzer’s observation, Zeleny fretted the presidential campaigns like that of…
Curtis Houck

Blogger: GOP Unique In Its Anti-Government ‘Virulence’

Asked to name something that stands alone, a lot of people would say, “The cheese.” To New York magazine's Jonathan Chait, another reasonable answer is “the Republican party,” at least in regard to global warming specifically and hatred of government in general. Chait’s main point is that the GOP is extremist not only in an American context but also by international standards: “Of all the major…
Tom Johnson

CBS Blames GOP Senate, NRA for Lack of Gun Control after OR Shooting

Following President Barack Obama’s angry reaction Thursday night to the deadly community college shooting in Oregon and pleas to “politicize” mass shootings, the CBS Evening News did just that with a full story lamenting the lack of gun control by laying blame at the feet of the GOP-led Senate and the National Rifle Association (NRA) for their support of candidates in favor of gun rights.
Curtis Houck

WashPost Tones Down the Fangirl Reaction to Pro-PP Seth Meyers Segment

David Rutz at the Washington Free Beacon discovered The Washington Post scrambled to change a blog post gushing over NBC late-night host Seth Meyers, and how his attempt to ape Jon Stewart “explains everything you need to know about the Planned Parenthood controversy....grab your headphones and be confused no more." Aaron Blake, managing editor of the Post political blog “The Fix,” told the Free…
Tim Graham