Matthews: Trump Is Like Idi Amin with Crayons, Could Have Dementia

Thursday’s Hardball not only featured A-block panelists and MSNBC host Chris Matthews defending former FBI Director James Comey for violating DOJ policy to leak to the media, but Matthews floated to his B-block that possibility President Donald Trump could be suffering from dementia. Matthews also compared Trump to Idi Amin, Julius Caesar, and Benito Mussolini, who’s like “an eight-year-old with…
Curtis Houck
August 30th, 2019 1:39 PM

Morning Joe Wails: IG Report on Comey ‘Reads Like a Talk Radio Script’

On Friday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe turned to a personal friend of ex-FBI Director James Comey to denounce the Justice Department Inspector General report that blasted Comey for leaking sensitive information about private conversations with President Trump to the press. Host Joe Scarborough started off the discussion by complaining that the IG’s conclusion “reads like a talk radio script.”
Kyle Drennen
August 30th, 2019 12:38 PM

Update: YouTube Reinstates Some Banned Channels

YouTube has been giving mixed messages about whether it is an open platform or not. The day after deplatforming multiple right-wing accounts, YouTube released a creator blog titled ”Preserving openness through responsibility.” It proclaimed itself  an open platform for diverse, even controversial, ideas. The next day, YouTube mysteriously reinstated some of these deplatformed channels, while…
Alexander Hall
August 30th, 2019 12:01 PM

CNN, MSNBC Remember Tan Suit Day as 'Biggest Scandal' of Obama Era

August 28, 2014 might as well be known in liberal America as Tan Suit Day, that day where former President Obama wore a tan suit. On the five year anniversary of Tan Suit Day, liberal journalists and commentators on CNN and MSNBC took to the airwaves to reminisce about that day, which they claimed -- in contradiction of the facts -- that this was somehow "the biggest scandal of the entire Obama…
Alex Christy
August 30th, 2019 11:57 AM

WashPost: ‘Reasonable Right’ No Better Than Slavery Apologists

Eve Fairbanks says that as a college senior, she “studied almost nothing but Abraham Lincoln’s speeches.” Doubtful. The Gettysburg Address needed just 271 words to restate and rededicate the purpose of America’s founding; Fairbanks requires more than 3,000 words to argue that conservatives -- even the “reasonable” ones -- are evil. 

Matt Philbin
August 30th, 2019 11:52 AM

CNN on Biden Gaffes—Democrats Hold Themselves to Higher Truth Standard

Joe Biden might have set a personal record for the most gaffetastic gaffe of his storied fact-mangling career. In a discussion of Joe Biden's latest gaffe, regarding the award of a medal to a military member, a CNN panel wonders whether Biden could be hurt by his multiple misstatements because when it comes to the truth, Democrats hold themselves to a "higher standard" than Republicans.
Mark Finkelstein
August 30th, 2019 11:40 AM

170 Media Outlets Join CJR, ‘The Nation’ Climate Coverage Plan

Objectivity and truth-telling are no longer the most “sacred” responsibilities of the news media, at least according to the far-left The Nation magazine. It’s now … climate change. “We see Covering Climate Now as a fulfillment of journalism’s most sacred responsibilities, which are to inform people and foster constructive debate about common challenges and opportunities,” The Nation wrote on Aug…
Julia A. Seymour
August 30th, 2019 11:25 AM

Fox’s 'The Five' Eviscerates Lawrence O’Donnell’s ‘Bad Journalism’

How many times have we recently seen liberal “journalists” rush to air stories that they desperately hope are true but don’t stand up to scrutiny? The most recent example of this trend came on Tuesday, when MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell could barely contain himself before relying on a single source to accuse President Trump of having improper financial connections with Russia and Vladimir Putin. As…
Randy Hall
August 30th, 2019 10:12 AM

Lemon: Right Makes Media Scapegoat; At Least We Apologize When Wrong

CNN Tonight host Don Lemon criticized fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo Thursday night for bringing pro-Trump guest Kayleigh McEnany on his show the night before. Lemon argued CNN shouldn’t be a platform for “liars” like McEnany while he defended the media as truth-tellers who “apologize” and retract reports when they “get it wrong.”
Kristine Marsh
August 30th, 2019 9:44 AM

EW: Crisis Pregnancy Centers ‘Traumatizing’ ‘Fake Abortion Clinics'

Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) save thousands of women and babies each year which makes them public enemy number one to the abortion-worshipping left in Hollywood. In the third season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, Chlöe (Anne Winters), a pregnant teen seeking an abortion, is “tricked” into going to a CPC--a “traumatizing” event, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Alexa Moutevelis
August 30th, 2019 8:36 AM

WATCH Carlson, Concha Lampoon MSNBC's Fake News Streak

On the Fox News Channel Thursday night, primetime host Tucker Carlson and The Hill’s Joe Concha were turned loose to ridicule MSNBC and Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell, invoking a few of his worst moments alongside his fake news story that claimed President Trump’s Deutsche Bank loans were co-signed alongside Russian oligarchs. They noted that the faux macho man was a case study in how, when it…
Curtis Houck
August 29th, 2019 11:40 PM

Phony CNN Journalist Lets Guest Blame Trump for Deaths on Puerto Rico

In a truly disgusting display of partisanship during CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront Thursday, former Obama administration official (who's now passed off as a journalist), Jim Sciutto allowed Democratic strategist Maria Cardona to claim President Trump was responsible for the 3,000 Puerto Ricans who died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 29th, 2019 11:15 PM

Kaepernick Symbolizes SI's PC List of NFL's Most Influential

Ready for a really bad joke? Read Sports Illustrated's "100 Figures Who Shaped the NFL's First Century." It's an exercise in political correctness, if not downright zaniness. Malcontent Colin Kaepernick not only made the list, but is the cover photo as well. Several people on the list never set foot on an NFL playing field, and it's apparent the SI staff had ulterior motives behind their bizarre…
Jay Maxson
August 29th, 2019 10:00 PM

ABC, NBC Aid Biden’s Rationalization of Inaccurate Medal Pinning Story

Former Vice President Joe Biden found himself at the center of yet another controversy on Thursday, after it was discovered he had stitched together several stories to construct an emotional tale of pinning a medal on a serviceman in Afghanistan. If President Trump got as many details wrong about a story, the liberal media would declare that he was intentionally trying to “gaslight” the country.…
Nicholas Fondacaro
August 29th, 2019 9:12 PM