NYT's Style Mag: 'Terrifying...Bogeyman' Reagan Sowed NYC Fear

The New York Times devoted the latest edition of its fashion mag, T Magazine, to marking the early 1980s in New York City, but used prominent pieces to bash President Ronald Reagan as a "terrifying" Christian-right ogre. From the introduction: "...with the inauguration of a conservative president who was no great friend to the arts, or to marginalized groups, including immigrants, the poor and…
Clay Waters

Telemundo Headlines Minuscule Nazi March

On the same day a front-page Washington Post article chronicled the nationwide collapse of the Alt Right, Telemundo played up a deceptive and dishonest report about a minuscule march of National Socialists in Newnan, Georgia. The report by the Spanish-language sister network of NBC deliberately neglected to reveal just how small the group of Neo Nazis were (The New York Times reported two dozen)…
Kathleen Krumhansl and Ken Oliver-Méndez

Jake Tapper and Ellen DeGeneres Discuss 'Crazy' and 'Scary' Trump Era

Jake Tapper appeared on the Ellen show on Tuesday and guess what the main topic of discussion was? Do I really need to spell it out? Unless you have been in a state of hibernation for the past few years then you definitely know they talked about the one who lives rent-free in the minds of liberals -- President Donald Trump. Tapper was obviously irked by Trump bringing up the subject of fake news…
P.J. Gladnick

Sanders Torpedoes Acosta for His ‘Unnecessary’ ‘Tone’ in Briefings

Behold the latest reminder that, for CNN, everything is about them. Wednesday’s White House press briefing saw another throw down between Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders telling off CNN’s supercilious White House correspondent Jim Acosta over claims the Trump administration has been suppressing reporters.
Curtis Houck

Farrow Fears Pompeo as ‘Willing Executioner of the State Department’

Appearing on CBS’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, aired early Wednesday morning, former Obama administration State Department official turned journalist Ronan Farrow condemned the United States for “becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later” when it comes to foreign policy. He also warned that President Trump’s nominee to be the next Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo…
Kyle Drennen

Media Coverage Mostly Ignores Court Making Monkeys Out of PETA

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals clearly had enough of PETA’s monkey business, when it ruled against the animal activists on April 23.
Julia A. Seymour

Washington Post, Express Promote Owner Jeff Bezos’ LGBT Agenda

Jeff Bezos’ media properties, The Washington Post and Express newspapers, are acting more than ever like press agents for the Amazon CEO. Both publications recently heralded the “unspoken requirement” for Amazon’s headquarters hunt — LGBT rights. And now that Bezos own newspapers have published the story, consider the word officially out that Amazon is trying to find a second headquarters…
Gabriel Hays

Facebook Removes Anonymous UChicago Page; New One Pops Up

A page for University of Chicago students to anonymously share confessions, questions, and rants was shut down by Facebook after a post included a meme making fun of French people.
Ashley Rae Goldenberg

Whoopi Goldberg Angrily Reads Note Card Trashing Trump's Cabinet

On Wednesday’s edition of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg was reading a rant off an index card. (This happens a lot on The View, so you can wonder who’s actually writing these lines. They often sound like a DNC Info-Pak.) Whoopi was outraged about the lack of experience in the Cabinet. No one on the set asked how she is qualified to be a pundit because she co-starred in Ghost and Sister Act.…
Tim Graham

Apu Voice Actor Offers Up Own Job As Reparations for ‘South Asians’

“Thank you, don’t come again.” Hank Azaria, the voice behind many classic Simpsons characters, has decided that now may be the time to move on from his time playing everyone’s favorite Kwik-E-Mart owner, Apu.
Gabriel Hays

You Watch Movies Like a Girl! Feminist Hates ‘Sandlot’

Kids TV and movies can be a hard slog for modern adults -- at least for this one. From PBS cartoons featuring bilingual Hispanic dragons playing wheelchair basketball to mega-zillion-dollar features where cars become robots and fight each other very, very loudly, watching video with my boys was often as an endurance test.
Matt Philbin

Planned Parenthood Prez: ‘There’s No Specific Moment Life Begins'

Life begins at different times, depending “on the pregnancy,” according to the president of America’s largest abortion provider. On Monday, Playboy magazine published an interview with Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards in the wake of her new memoir, Make Trouble and as she prepares to step down from her position in May after serving for 12 years. During the interview, when asked about…
Katie Yoder

LOL! Acosta Claims He Was Misquoted in Smear Against American People

On Wednesday morning, CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta cried foul in a tweet concerning a Variety interview released Tuesday in which he insulted the intelligence of the American people by claiming that “[t]hey don’t have all their faculties in some cases” when it comes to the rise of fake news and rhetoric from the President or his advisers about the liberal media.
Curtis Houck

MSNBC Is Still Sore About Renaming French Fries to ‘Freedom Fries’

Talk about not letting something go. Minutes after the French President’s address to Congress on Wednesday, MSNBC sourly reminded Americans of the House’s efforts to rename french fries in 2003. After that, a clearly impressed Stephanie Ruhle gushed over the liberal Emmanuel Macron: “Isn't Macron clearly angling to be the world leader? President Trump has made it clear America first, America…
Scott Whitlock