Hillary Surrogate: D- Sanders 'Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the NRA'

If Bernie Sanders is a subsidiary of the NRA, they really should spin him off. . . On today's MTP Daily, Hillary surrogate Hakeem Jeffries, a NYC congressman and Hillary surrogate, claimed that "Senator Bernie Sanders has effectively functioned as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Rifle association for the entirety of his career." Really? Let's go to the scorecard. Sanders current NRA…
Mark Finkelstein

NYT Marks Freddie Gray Death With Impatience at Lack of Cop Conviction

The New York Times marked the one-year anniversary of the death in Baltimore of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of a spinal cord injury a week after being arrested. With a mayoral election and the trials of six police officers charged in Gray’s death looming in May, reporters John Eligon and Sheryl Gay Stolberg took a biased look back at last year’s looting and violence in…
Clay Waters

Albany Reporter Labels 'Frack Gas' as Illegal in NY on MSNBC

Nothing can be more embarrassing for a reporter from upstate New York than not understanding the issue of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, one Albany reporter demonstrated that Wednesday on MSNBC. With New York State’s presidential primaries finally having significance the national news outlets have descended onto the state in mass. To get a local’s perspective, MSNBC host Kate Snow sat down…
Nicholas Fondacaro

‘You, Me, Her’ TV Show Pushes to Normalize Polyamory

DirecTV's new series You, Me, Her is testing the limits of television with its push for threesomes and beyond. Created by John Scott Shepherd, the show hopes to normalize polyamory and “unconventional relationships” in the culture.
Mairead McArdle

Billionaire-Bashing Bernie Sanders Is a Millionaire With Three Homes

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders rails against the “billionaire class” and has called income inequality “the greatest moral issue of our time,” but the senator from Vermont is “not exactly a man of modest means,” according to an article written by Kerri Anne Renzulli for the TIME magazine website. However, “nothing about Bernie’s net worth devalues his progressive beliefs,” stated…
Randy Hall

Spy Kids Actress Alexa PenaVega: ‘Never Alone’ with God

In the face of a culture that constantly mocks Christianity, one actress is speaking out about God’s presence. On Wednesday, Spy Kids star and former Dancing with the Stars contestant Alexa PenaVega posted a message on Instagram about trusting in God through life’s obstacles and finding the “beautiful important moments” in the everyday.
Katie Yoder

Nets Paint Change to NC Law as Effort to ‘Diffuse Widespread Outrage'

Keeping up the drumbeat against North Carolina’s religious freedom law on Wednesday, the three network morning shows seized on Republican Governor Pat McCrory amending the legislation and used the development to further hammer the state.
Kyle Drennen

Cleric Compares Trump to Osama Bin Laden on Univision, Telemundo

A New York cleric known for bombast, demagoguery, rabble-rousing and harangues has found receptive platforms on Univision and Telemundo, on which to compare Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to Osama bin Laden.
Edgard Portela

Onion Preemptively Mocked Time Magazine for Obnoxious Cruz Cover

Conservatives were not surprised when Time magazine published a cover story on Ted Cruz with an extreme close-up of the Republican. The photo included a headline wondering, “Likable Enough?” The picture was so zoomed in that it included stray eyebrow hairs. Well, the Onion also anticipated this. Back on March 23, 2015, the satire site prognosticated, “‘Time’ Magazine Subscribers Brace For…
Scott Whitlock

CNN Hosts Chely Wright to Slam 'Very Bigoted' Religious Freedom Bills

On Wednesday's New Day on CNN, co-host Michaela Pereira sympathetically gave country singer and gay rights activist Chely Wright a forum to complain about religious freedom initiatives in several Southern states, with Wright deriding the bills as "very bigoted" and "ridiculous."
Brad Wilmouth

Horrific DC-Area Rape Story Underreported on Spanish Nets

Our nation has been rocked, yet again, by news of horrific crimes committed against the most vulnerable among us- by individuals who are in this country illegally. Sadly, our domestic Spanish-language networks have once again chosen to be derelict in their duty to fully inform the community; by either hiding the suspects' immigration status if not blacking out the story altogether.
Jorge Bonilla

Latest Hypocrisy of the Left: Cultural Appropriation

Yet another twisted cultural debate is now raging among the liberal left. Can white kids wear dreadlocks without being accused of cultural appropriation?
Daniel Garza

NBC Sees ‘Grand Old Problems’ for GOP in ‘Disarray’

At the top of Wednesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie hyped: “Grand Old Problems. New disarray for the Republican Party. Trump now calling the delegate rules a ‘disgrace.’ The head of the party telling Trump to, quote, ‘Give us all a break.’”
Kyle Drennen

Business Press Mostly Blames Consumers For Weak Economy

Today's report from the government on retail sales was awful — "unexpectedly" so, according to both Bloomberg and Reuters. Following on the heels of a 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted decline in January and a flat February, March sales fell by 0.3 percent. Two of the three main U.S. business wire services blamed the American people, not the worst post-recession economy since World War II during…
Tom Blumer