NYTimes Laments Enviros As Movie Villains, Wants More Climate Lectures
The New York Times’s Cara Buckley (“a culture reporter who covers bias and equity in Hollywood”), complained Hollywood wasn’t embedding enough climate change messaging in their blockbuster movies in Saturday’s “Hollywood Sells Doom, Not Hope On Climate -- Critics say villains and dystopias obscure crisis-alleviating actions.” One suspects that the complaint that in some films “environmentalist…
August 17th, 2019 8:11 PM
MSNBC Mouth: Illegal Aliens Face 'White Supremacist Domestic Terror'
The "public charge" doctrine has been a foundation of American immigration policy going back hundreds of years to colonial times. The notion is that immigrants who are unable to support themselves, thus becoming public charges, should not be admitted or permitted to remain. In 1996, Congress enacted a federal immigration law codifying the public charge principle, and it has remained on the books…
August 17th, 2019 7:51 PM
WashPost Features Anti-McConnell Book On Sports Page
Reading more like a political action committee's website, The Washington Post sports section devoted a story this week to a progressive sports announcer's upcoming book aiming to discourage the 2020 re-election of Senate President Mitch McConnell (Rep-Kentucky). Ben Strauss wrote the story about a book-length rebuke of McConnell by Matt Jones, a "southern progressive populist," sports radio host…
August 17th, 2019 6:00 PM
Media Pass on Omar, Tlaib’s Blatant Israel Hatred and Anti-Semitism
Somehow one just knew this was coming.The virulent anti-Semitism that has been metastasizing through the American Left and the Democratic Party is being given a pass by the Leftist State Media. As Nicholas Fondacaro has noted correctly, the blatant anti-Semitism of Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashia Tlaib (D-MI), who have been barred from Israel by the government of Prime…
August 17th, 2019 4:00 PM
USA TODAY Front Page Oozes Over Sotomayor, 'The People's Justice'
The top of Friday's USA Today offered a sugary valentine to Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor, hailed with the words “‘The People’s Justice.’” Underneath, the subhead added: “Supreme Court’s intrepid Sonia Sotomayor is liberal warrior on the bench and off.”
August 17th, 2019 3:01 PM
Maher Slams Media for Ignoring Anti-Semitism in Mideast
On Friday's Real Time show on HBO, liberal host Bill Maher called out both anti-Israel liberals and the media for ignoring the deeply embedded anti-Semitism in the Middle East that has thwarted attempts to make a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinian Arabs.
August 17th, 2019 1:50 PM
Jim Gaffigan Veers to the Right, Slams Woke Film Critics
The stand-up comic Jim Gaffigan’s new film caught him by surprise, but not for anything in the movie itself. He noticed how professional film critics treated the tale of a man fronting not one but two families. Gaffigan shared his dismay at the film’s critical reaction on the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
August 17th, 2019 12:30 PM
Piling On: Telemundo Smears The NRA With Fake News
Telemundo continues its aggressive push for gun control, this time by putting out a story that suggests the National Rifle Association is under duress because of calls for increased gun control as a result of horrific shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.
August 17th, 2019 11:51 AM
Telemundo Neglects to Mention Its Own 'Incendiary Language'
A recent report by Telemundo anchor José Díaz-Balart seemed like a comedy skit given the subject: “the media’s responsibility in the use of language”. Even the opening sentence of the report gave away his preference for incendiary language, as he explicitly used the word “racist” three words into the feature. By the way, a quick look-up of our files revealed that at Telemundo alone, the term “…
August 17th, 2019 8:00 AM
MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin Raises Eyebrows With Anti-Israel Talking Point
MSNBC anchor and correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin joined MSNBC Live host Ali Velshi on Friday to chat about Israel's decision to Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar into the country and Tlaib turning down a humanitarian exception to visit her grandmother. Throughout the segment, Mohyeldin made multiple eyebrow-raising statements including calling Bernie Sanders a centrist on the issue and…
August 17th, 2019 7:05 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: Parental Nightmares in Public Schools
Public schools are reopening for business across America, meaning it’s time to get back to reading, writing, arithmetic….and revolution. As usual in matters such as these, California is leading the way. On the first day of classes at Denair Middle School near Modesto a science teacher handed out worksheets from a transgender advocacy group titled “The Gender Unicorn” asking students about their…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
August 17th, 2019 6:21 AM
ABC Fined $395,000 for Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Trump Presidential Alerts’ Joke
After more than three years of constantly slamming President Trump and everyone around him, one of the mainstream media’s late-night comedies is finally getting some pushback. The network that airs Jimmy Kimmel Live! on weeknights, ABC was fined $395,000 on Thursday after a skit that aired in October mocked the Presidential Alert system, the Federal Communications Commission announced on Thursday…
August 16th, 2019 10:11 PM
Rachel Maddow Puts an 'Ethnonationalist' Smear on Trump Judicial Pick
Ed Whelan at National Review objected on Friday to a Rachel Maddow segment on MSNBC Thursday night strongly implying that Trump judicial nominee Steven Menashi is a white nationalist based on a paper he wrote on "Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy." Menashi was writing about Israel -- and yet the word "Israel" never passed Maddow's lips
August 16th, 2019 6:38 PM
MacCallum Slams 'Unpatriotic,' 'Inhumane' Media Rooting for Recession
During Thursday’s The Story, FNC host Martha MacCallum reported that “fears of a recession seem to be running high and some in the media seem almost giddy that an economic downturn would hinder President Trump’s chances in 2020.” After playing a “sampling” of media figures weighing in on the effect of a recession on President Trump’s re-election bid, MacCallum slammed the “unpatriotic” and “…
August 16th, 2019 5:42 PM