Debate Moderators Named; Fox News Gets First Nod In Its History
Politico reports the Commission on Presidential Debates announced their moderator lineup on Friday morning: NBC anchor Lester Holt, CNN host Anderson Cooper, ABC anchor Martha Raddatz, CBS anchor Elaine Quijano, and the first nod to Fox News, Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday. Since Fox News began in 1996, eleven of the 19 moderators slots have been held by PBS. Jim Lehrer has moderated nine…
Tim Graham
Dowd Surprisingly Admits: If Focus Is on Clinton, ‘She Loses’ Election
On Friday’s Good Morning America, ABC’s chief political analyst Matthew Dowd essentially admitted what many in the media won’t say about this election: Hillary Clinton is a weak candidate. Discussing Clinton’s high unfavorables, Dowd called her out for disappearing from the campaign trail, and letting all her scandals become the focus of her campaign. If the narrative “becomes about her, she…
Kristine Marsh
7 Things You Didn't Know About The Union that Represents Journalists
Friendly news media don’t tell the whole truth about unions. One particular union gets better treatment than the others -- the Communications Workers of America. CWA includes the news media itself, meaning many so-called neutral reporters, editors and producers are actually union employees. This Labor Day, it’s important to remember that when you look for the union label, it’s only many in the…
Julia A. Seymour
Libs Gone Insane: Fusion Thinks ‘Everyone’s A Little Queer’
Editor’s Note: Normal people might find some of this offensive. (We hope.)
It’s 8 a.m. (East Coast, anyway.) Are you “woke” yet? No, not awake, woke. The term “woke” refers to “being aware.. Knowing whats going on in the community,” according to Urban Dictionary. Ridiculous lefty Fusion describes the use of the word this way: “For years, the idea of being ‘woke’ was a hallmark of socially-minded…
Dan Gainor
WashPost Columnist Calling for a Shutdown of Conservative Talk Radio?
When former Bush chief speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote a column for The Washington Post headlined “Cancel this reality show,” it sounded like just another anti-Trump column. Or is Gerson calling for a shutdown of conservative talk radio?
It's understandable that establishment Republicans would despise the dynamic of conservative radio talkers trying to yank party leaders to the right. But…
Tim Graham
CBS Touts Attacks on Donald Trump by Joe Biden and Tim Kaine
Instead of reporting the findings of a Politico investigation which found that Bill Clinton had abused a federal program to supplement the Clinton Foundation, CBS chose to tout the campaign efforts of Vice President Joe Biden and VP candidate Tim Kaine. “Hillary Clinton left it to a couple of high-ranking surrogates to attack Trump's immigration position today,” reported fill-in anchor Maurice…
Nicholas Fondacaro
Nets Ignore 'Politico' Report Exposing Clinton Abuse of Fed Program
A huge story broke by Politico early Thursday morning exposes how Bill Clinton exploited a federal program for former president to grease the wheels of the Clinton Foundation. “Bill Clinton's staff used a decades-old federal government program … to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server,” Politico reported. As shocking as the…
Nicholas Fondacaro
ESPN Host Made to Apologize for Saying Blacks Aren’t Oppressed
ESPN has officially lost it. On Monday, while discussing the Colin Kaepernick statement that America oppresses “black people and people of color,” ESPN talk show host and college football analyst Paul Finebaum had the audacity to offer the opinion that he doesn’t believe that “this country oppresses black people.”
Dylan Gwinn
CBS, NBC Skip Kaepernick Wearing Anti-Police Socks Depicted as Pigs
After droves of coverage over the past week boosting and largely defending San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to not stand for The Star-Spangled Banner during a preseason game, two of the “big three” networks shielded their viewers on Thursday night from learning that Kaepernick has been wearing anti-police socks at practice depicting law enforcement officers as…
Curtis Houck
Baldwin Touts Georgetown Giving Slavery 'Reparations,' 'Is It Enough?'
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, host Brooke Baldwin devoted a segment to the decision by Georgetown University to grant what Baldwin referred to as "reparations" to make up for the school's history of owning slaves, with the school planning to enact several plans, including offering admission to descendants of slaves who were owned by the university. As Baldwin spoke to her guest, Maxine Crump --…
Brad Wilmouth
Pro Football Talk: ‘Silly’ to Focus on Kaepernick’s Pig Cop Socks
On Thursday, pictures of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick wearing socks depicting cops as pigs emerged.
Dylan Gwinn
Shameless WashPost Buries Its Own Poll Showing Record Low for Hillary
A Washington Post headline on Wednesday raised eyebrows and led to some TV reporting. The headline was “A record number of Americans now dislike Hillary Clinton.” It wasn’t in Wednesday morning’s paper, so expect it on Thursday, right? Wrong. The Post front page had a story on fossils in Greenland, but no story for the fossils who love the print edition on Mrs. Clinton's unpopularity.
Tim Graham
Jezebel Scoffs at WSJ Piece Condemning Porn
For Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and former playmate Pamela Anderson, the latest Anthony Weiner scandal provided a news peg for an important discussion: the deleterious effects of pornography. Yet predictably, Jezebel was critical of their “puritanical” approach.
Sarah Stites
MRC's Brent Bozell Blasts Jorge Ramos for Silence on Debate Offer
Earlier this week, I publicly challenged Jorge Ramos to a debate about what the proper role is of journalists in our free society. Ramos hasn’t responded. That is because he knows that his violation of journalistic standards is flat out indefensible.