Left-Leaning Documentaries Featured Prominently at the Oscars

Hollywood’s favorite 17-year-old climate change expert Greta Thunberg kicked off the documentary mash-up during the Oscars. She thanked David Attenborough for getting her interested in the environment through his documentaries. Attenbourgh’s latest documentary A Life on Our Planet, about how, according to the trailer “humans have overrun the world.”
Rachel Peterson
February 9th, 2020 10:09 PM

Brad Pitt Panders: This Speech Is '45 Seconds More' Than John Bolton

The first half hour of the 92nd Academy Awards started off very woke on Sunday night on ABC, from the opening musical number being sung by a self-declared "queer, black artist" to Steve Martin and Chris Rock going on a riff about all the white nominees.
Rebecca Downs
February 9th, 2020 9:07 PM

Politico: 'Is America Ready for a Frank Discussion About Skincare?'

Politico published a story that looked like it had to be a clickbait ad for skincare, "Is America Ready for a Frank Discussion About Skincare?" but turned out to be a real story that sounded as vapid as any ad hyping beauty products.The Sunday skincare story by Joanna Weiss reveals how Cosmopolitan magazine hooked the Democrat presidential candidates into answering the all-important skincare…
P.J. Gladnick
February 9th, 2020 7:47 PM

Atlantic Foams Over Trump Press Attacks: Using Disinfo Like Dictator!

“The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President” is an 8,200-word epic in the March issue of The Atlantic magazine. It launched with staff writer McKay Coppins making a fake Facebook account to follow Trump groups, and was horrified. What was “spin” in the Clinton and Obama administration has become sinister and fascistic when the Trump team employs it for the Internet age:…
Clay Waters
February 9th, 2020 7:11 PM

Sen. Graham Slams CBS Host: 'Media's So In The Tank' on Biden Scandal

On Sunday's Face the Nation, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told CBS host Margaret Brennan the media's "so in the tank" on the Biden scandal in Ukraine. It came right on the edge of a commercial break, when Brennan felt compelled to add the usual in-the-tank disclaimer that "nothing" has been "substantiated" on Biden corruption. Graham made the obvious point: the media make zero or near-zero effort…
Tim Graham
February 9th, 2020 5:40 PM

NYT Attacks 'Ruthless' 'Shameless' Mitch McConnell

In the wake of the failed impeachment of Donald Trump, the New York Times’ Elaina Plott took a 2,000-word front-page look Saturday at how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has elevated his reputation in the eyes of average Republicans in “A New Image Of McConnell In G.O.P. Eyes.”  Plott’s tone was mild, but her word choice harsh: "....Perhaps less obvious, though, is the extent to which Mr.…
Clay Waters
February 9th, 2020 5:15 PM

ABC Highlights Woman Using Gun to Scare off Robber

On Saturday evening, ABC's World News Tonight gave attention to video of a woman using a gun to help her husband prevent a robbery in their Houston ice cream shop.
Brad Wilmouth
February 9th, 2020 5:05 PM

Joy Reid Admits: Trump Ads Hitting Bernie's Socialism Would Be 'True'

On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid tells Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir that the ads President Trump will run against Sanders should he be the nominee, hitting him on socialism and showing him praising Castro and the Soviet Union, will be "true."
Mark Finkelstein
February 9th, 2020 3:26 PM

‘Not Up to Us': New MSNBC Anchor Begs Colleagues Not to Whip Dem Votes

During Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC, newly hired MSNBC anchor Joshua Johnson (formerly with NPR) had a candid moment when he admitted the media took part in helping the DNC whip votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and implored his colleagues not to lobby for certain candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary.
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 9th, 2020 2:38 PM

ABC, CBS Uninterested in Van Attack Against Trump Supporters

Though the apparent attempt to rundown multiple Trump supporters registering voters in Florida happened Saturday afternoon, and drew outrage from both of the state’s senators and President Trump himself, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC completely ignored the vicious attack. Come Sunday morning, only NBC’s Sunday Today thought it was worth some airtime, but only 25-seconds worth.
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 9th, 2020 10:14 AM

Minister Ridiculed For Suggesting Lawsuit vs. NFL

A former prep football coach in Ohio, now the host of a Christian ministry podcast, is under fire for threatening to sue the NFL over last week's raunchy Super Bowl halftime show. Dave Daubenmire says the performance by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira was pornographic and children watching at home should not be subjected to such. The Complex Sports blog and Right Wing Watch ripped Daubenmire for…
Jay Maxson
February 9th, 2020 10:00 AM

NPR's Red Carpet for Muslims Mourning Media Bias Against Omar, Tlaib

NPR's badly named evening newscast All Things Considered recently devoted two eight-minute segments to anchor Audie Cornish soliciting the radical thoughts of Muslim activists in Dearborn, Michigan. In the first, a man named Iltefat Hamzavi fried up this hate nugget: "I've been at many dinner tables where somebody voted for Trump. And you're like, that's like chickens voting for Chick-fil-A." In…
Tim Graham
February 9th, 2020 8:39 AM

Movie Star Hails Greta Thunberg, Condemns Denying 'Wisdom' of Science

A year ago, we reported movie star Harrison Ford ranted and railed against the climate deniers. Now he's at it again while promoting his new movie Call of the Wild. “Our position in the world is tenuous because of our lack of moral leadership, basically,” he told reporters in Mexico City.
Tim Graham
February 8th, 2020 11:43 PM

CNN's Rye: Trump's 'Pro-Life' Judges 'Want to Kill Off Everyone Else'

In a late Thursday, early Friday edition of Cuomo Prime Time, liberal CNN contributors Angela Rye and April Ryan both spewed bile toward conservatives as Rye declared that President Donald Trump's judicial nominees "may be pro-life, but they want to kill off everyone else," and Ryan condemned Rush Limbaugh as a "bigot" and "racist" because he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Brad Wilmouth
February 8th, 2020 5:54 PM