Elizabeth Banks: Birth Control My ‘Number One Advice’ for Girls

The “number one advice” Elizabeth Banks has for high school girls has nothing to do with hard work, self-confidence or chasing dreams. In a Variety piece entitled, “Elizabeth Banks on Becoming a Director, Mentoring Young Women,” news editor Alex Stedman spoke with actress Elizabeth Banks (Spider-Man, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) about her recent accomplishments, including Banks’ “directorial feature…
Katie Yoder

NBC, ABC Morning Shows: Forget G7 Foreign Policy, Look at This Photo!

Despite President Obama making the stunning admission at the G7 Summit on Monday that the U.S. still lacks a “complete strategy” to combat ISIS, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America ignored the news on Tuesday. Instead, both network morning shows promoted a social media meme about a photo of Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kyle Drennen

Larry Wilmore Blasts 2016 GOP Field in Latest ‘Unblackening’ Segment

On Monday’s Nightly Show, Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore took time out of his race-obsessed show to return to his favorite hobby, bashing Republicans, specifically the 2016 GOP presidential candidates who are engaged in the “unblackening” of America. 
Jeffrey Meyer

A Week of ‘Caitlyn’ Swoon: 51 Network Minutes and Gallons of Purpl

To media, reality denying is ‘life-affirming.’
MRC Culture Staff

CNN Flunks Geography: IDs Pennsylvania as New York

CNN's New Day stumbled on Tuesday as it covered the ongoing manhunt for two fugitives who escaped from a prison in New York State. An on-screen map incorrectly identified Pennsylvania as New York, as correspondent Polo Sandoval underlined that "the fugitives could be anywhere from New York's North Country up to Canada, or even south into Mexico."
Matthew Balan

GMA Hypes a Daredevil 'at Top of His Game,' Slams Other Stunts

Good Morning America is not a serious news show. But even by the loose standards of ABC, the program's journalists set a new standard for cynicism. On Tuesday, hosts both hyped a reckless daredevil and later condemned such people.  At 7:15am, news reader Amy Robach enthused, "One daredevil is surely at the top of his game! Take a look at his latest stunt. He's the first person in the world to…
Scott Whitlock

Seth Meyers Hits Republicans for Attending Iowa ‘Roast and Ride’

Following the the first annual ‘Roast and Ride’ this past weekend in Iowa for the Republican presidential candidates, Seth Meyers took to mocking the entire event and the GOP contenders who attended for “making lame pig puns.” After playing clips from Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, and Iowa senator Chuck Grassley making various pig references, Meyers shouted: “Yikes! Can no one make a joke…
Connor Williams

FNC’s Kelly, Napolitano Blast Obama’s Hit on SCOTUS

Following President Obama’s controversial remarks at the G-7 Summit in which he lectured the Supreme Court over how they should rule in the upcoming ObamaCare lawsuit, on Monday’s the Kelly File, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Andrew Napolitano took him to task for trying to “intimidate them” and rule in his favor. 
Jeffrey Meyer

Conan Makes Transgender Wisecrack About Ann Coulter

On Monday night’s Conan, the host used the hype over Bruce Jenner to make a mean joke at conservative pundit Ann Coulter’s expense. Sidekick Andy Richter asked Conan to drink “truth serum” and then answer a list of random questions. After a weak jab at conservatives, the comedians made a pointed comment at Coulter.
Kristine Marsh

MRC Study: TV News Protects Obama from His ISIS Failures

In May, as ISIS terrorists captured the cities of Ramadi and Palmyra, and with FBI warnings of hundreds of radicalized sympathizers here in the U.S., ABC, CBS and NBC devoted a combined 84.5 evening news minutes to ISIS. Despite the dour news, viewers heard virtually no criticism of President Obama’s handling of the terror group — just 43 seconds in a pair of NBC Nightly News stories, or less…

Rich Noyes

Chicago Tribune: Individual Right to Bear Arms an 'Illusion'

A Pew Research Center report released in December 2014 found that 52 % of Americans believe defending gun rights is more important than controlling gun ownership. The Chicago Tribune would like you to think that 52 percent believe in an ‘illusion.’ On June 5, Tribune columnist David McGrath composed a piece titled, “NRA version of 2nd Amendment lacks common sense,” in an attempt to dissect the…
Melissa Mullins

Daily Beast: Early Martyrs Were 'Gender-Bending Christian Heroes'

It is common knowledge that the conservative Christian community is one of the biggest bulwarks against the rising tide of the radical LGBT agenda. This might explain why the Daily Beast brought out Candida Moss of Notre Dame to undermine this opposition by claiming that many “Christian martyrs...blurred the line between male and female.” According to Moss, “Jenner is a transgender woman, a…
Bryan Ballas

Barnicle Blames NY Post for Exposing De Blasio Crime-Fighting Failure

Talk about killing the messenger . . . Mike Barnicle has blamed the New York Post for the fact that New York City has become less safe under far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio. On today's Morning Joe, Barnicle--holding up the front page of today's Post--whined that part of the problem is "the way crime is now covered in this city--especially in this paper, okay? If someone is shot in Times Square, or…
Mark Finkelstein

O’Reilly Excoriates Obama; ‘We Have a Leader Who Doesn’t Want to Lead’

Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly took aim at President Obama during his “Talking Points Memo” on Monday’s O’Reilly Factor and ruled that the United States has “a leader who doesn’t want to lead” in addition to “lack[ing] the will to defeat” ISIS. The Fox News Channel host first set the scene by playing a clip of Obama telling reporters on Monday at the G-7 Summit that the U.S. still does not “have a…
Curtis Houck