NY Times Embraces Christian Moralism (Left-Wing Variety) on Sunday A1

More liberal media double standards: The New York Times, which would move, ahem, heaven and earth to get religion out of politics when it comes to companies that refuse on religious grounds to pay for birth control, eagerly embraces the perceived moral authority of Christianity when it comes to its leftist issues like global warming. Exhibit A: Avowedly activist environmental reporter Justin…
Clay Waters
June 21st, 2015 6:15 PM

New Yorker Editor Blurs Dylann Roof With Hateful Tweets at Obama

David Remnick, the former Washington Post correspondent who now runs The New Yorker, is one of the most unctuous Obama boosters still going in the liberal media. The Charleston shooting, for Remnick, was another occasion to attach mass shooter Dylann Roof to people who hurled “epithets” at Obama on Twitter.

Tim Graham
June 21st, 2015 6:08 PM

Media Critic David Zurawik on Brian Williams: ‘A Liar Is A Liar’

Appearing on Fox News’ MediaBuzz on Sunday, David Zurawik, television and media critic for the Baltimore Sun, blasted NBC News’ decision to bring back Brian Williams after serving a six month suspension for lying about his reporting.
Jeffrey Meyer
June 21st, 2015 2:41 PM

Papal Encyclical’s Injunctions on Abortion, Gender Censored

While the climate change content in Pope Francis’s new encyclical has been heavily covered by Univision, Telemundo and MundoFox, other core teachings in the encyclical, on such bedrock issues as abortion and gender, continue to be entirely ignored by these networks.
MRC Latino Staff and Katie Yoder
June 21st, 2015 2:31 PM

Book Reviewer: Stop Calling Reagan a Great President

Michael O’Donnell is eager to push back against the belief that Reagan ranks with Franklin Roosevelt as a great 20th-century president. In his review of H.W. Brands’ Reagan: The Life in the Washington Monthly’s June/July/August issue, O’Donnell wrote that “Roosevelt saved the nation from an existential threat (the Great Depression), while Reagan merely steered it out of a funk (the 1970s).…
Tom Johnson
June 21st, 2015 2:02 PM

NYT's Helene Cooper Defends Obama's Criticism of Cambridge Police

During a panel discussion on Meet the Press, New York Times reporter Helene Cooper rehashed President Obama’s infamous scolding of the Cambridge, Massachusetts police for acting “stupidly,” recalling that at the time Obama's take “made sense to me.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
June 21st, 2015 12:45 PM

Huckabee Hits Left for Ignoring Pope’s Comments on Life

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called out the left’s promotion of Pope Francis’s comments about climate change in his encyclical but ignored his strong comments on the protection of life. 
Jeffrey Meyer
June 21st, 2015 12:11 PM

Cardinal: Rush Doesn't Understand Pope on Environment

The Cardinal couldn't have been more polite, but it didn't take much reading between the lines to get what he was asserting: that when it comes to the encyclical on the environment, Rush Limbaugh doesn't understand what the Pope was saying. On today's Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace played a clip of Rush saying that the encyclical "is suggesting is that everyone should vote for the Democrat party…
Mark Finkelstein
June 21st, 2015 10:50 AM

New Republic Editor: ‘Black Bodies Are Under Assault’ In America

In the wake of the horrific racially motivated shooting on a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina last week, CBS News Sunday Morning hosted liberal New Republic editor Jamil Smith who argued that “black bodies are under assault” all across the country. 
Jeffrey Meyer
June 21st, 2015 10:12 AM

Rosie Perez Struggles Badly to List Hillary's Accomplishments

On Thursday's edition of The View on ABC, co-host Rosie Perez took offense at Jeb Bush for suggesting Hillary Clinton had no accomplishments in the Senate or as Secretary of State in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. She fell back on a weird list claiming Hillary unveiled a food-security program and saved a Turkish-Armenian accord, and prevailed over Joe Biden to "send an additional 21…
Tim Graham
June 21st, 2015 9:37 AM

Sarah Silverman: I Didn't Learn Etiquette Until Dating Jimmy Kimmel

In an interview with director Judd Apatow excerpted in the women's magazine Elle, actress and comedienne Sarah Silverman shocked few by suggesting she didn't learn any manners until she dated Jimmy Kimmel. She said "a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel. I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my…
Tim Graham
June 21st, 2015 7:54 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: CNN’s Misplaced New York

From Tuesday’s Special Report on FNC, Jimmy Fallon’s take on where CNN placed the state of New York on a map the cable network displayed the week before.
Brent Baker
June 21st, 2015 12:51 AM

No Transparency: NBC News Hiding Its Internal Brian Williams Probe

While CBS News released a report by outsiders on Dan Rather's 2004 debacle, NBC News used insiders to report on the wild exaggerations of Brian Williams. CBS released its resulted to the public, and NBC is clamming up. Former ABC and CNN reporter Mark Feldstein lamented: "They have kept their report secret. They have not revealed it to the public. The investigation was held in secret by internal…
Tim Graham
June 20th, 2015 10:48 PM

Maher Digs Deep, Blames Conservative Media for Charleston Shooting

Watched Fox News today? Taken a look at what's posted on Drudge Report or The Daily Caller? Doing any of this makes you a thought criminal and potentially violent, at least according to liberal comic Bill Maher. Wasting no time politicizing the mass murder of nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., Maher on his show last night literally pointed a…
Jack Coleman
June 20th, 2015 10:18 PM