Sunny Hostin Sneers: Nielsen ‘Sold Her Soul’ to Trump

One of the media’s most hated figures in the Trump administration, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen turned in her resignation letter over the weekend, after months of conflict between her and President Trump. All Monday, journalists alternated between unhinged glee over her resignation and worry that Trump would put someone “more extreme” on immigration in her place. The hosts of The View…

Kristine Marsh
April 8th, 2019 2:48 PM

Finally! Twitter Distances Itself from Liberal SPLC

How long does it take for a liberal tech company to drop a lefty hate group? The Daily Caller News Foundation reported that the scandal riddled SPLC is no longer a member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council. An anonymous source from Twitter informed the DCNF that “The SPLC is not a member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council or a partner the company has worked with recently.” 
Alexander Hall
April 8th, 2019 2:27 PM

WHOA: WashPost Finds Mexicans Have Had Enough with These Caravans!

Chalk this one up to a blind squirrel finding a nut once in a while. Splashed across the front page (and above the fold) of Saturday’s Washington Post was a stunning piece that admitted many Mexicans are, like Americans on the other side of the U.S-Mexico border, “migrant-weary,” frustrated by the near-constant flow of illegal immigrants, exhausting resources, and overrunning shelters.
Curtis Houck
April 8th, 2019 2:23 PM

‘Good Riddance’: Nets Trash Nielsen’s ‘Tumultuous Tenure’ at DHS

On Monday, all three network morning shows reveled in Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announcing her resignation with relieved reporting about her “tumultuous tenure” at the department being over and touting Democrats blasting the Trump cabinet official. Correspondents fretted over who would replace Nielsen as they bid her “good riddance.”
Kyle Drennen
April 8th, 2019 1:31 PM

VIDEO: TV Journalists Spit Venom at Departing Nielsen

Television journalists hurried to get in their obligatory parting jabs at DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen following Sunday's announcement that she would be leaving her post. The consensus was that Nielsen would forever be remembered as “the face” of family separation at the border, and that she deserved “no sympathy” for any difficulties she might face in the wake of her departure from Trump…
Bill D'Agostino
April 8th, 2019 1:31 PM

Roberts: Will 'Break Biden's Heart' If He's Not Allowed to Be Himself!

Democrats at ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos were up in arms Sunday about the inappropriate conduct controversy surrounding their favorite, unannounced 2020 candidate, Joe Biden. Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts expressed her frustration that Biden was now being forced to keep his hands to himself, saying that was what was “most appealing about him,” and that having to behave himself…
Kristine Marsh
April 8th, 2019 12:59 PM

Evening News Skips March 196K Jobs Rebound, 3.8% Unemployment

Given the very few job gains in February and rampant media speculation in March about a coming recession, it was essential that all three evening news shows update their audiences about jobs and unemployment April 5. But not all of them did.
Julia A. Seymour
April 8th, 2019 12:36 PM

FAKE HISTORY: CBS Identifies Slave-Holding Confederacy as Red States

Talk about fake history. CBS Sunday Morning did a story on the Reconstruction era after the Civil War and former slaves who entered Congress in the 1870s. The visuals for the CBS segment used the political “red and blue” state graphics. But instead of following actual history, the network made the slave-holding Confederates red and the Union states blue. 
Scott Whitlock
April 8th, 2019 12:05 PM

NY Times Execs Deny a Liberal Tilt, Tout Arnett as 'Great' Reporter

The New York Times hosted one of its "Times Talks" on April 2, promising "a wide-ranging and candid discussion on press freedom in an age of alternative facts" with executive editor Dean Baquet and David E. McCraw, the paper’s top newsroom lawyer. The most embarrassing part was a discussion of why, oh why Donald Trump's rhetoric about the press "resonates" with people. McCraw touted Peter Arnett…
Tim Graham
April 8th, 2019 11:39 AM

Morning Joe Compares Trump's Rise To Rise Of Jim Crow

A new documentary about Reconstruction is set to begin airing on PBS tomorrow night and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was on MSNBC's Morning Joe to talk about it. What started as an interesting conversation about the history of post-war America during the Reconstruction Era quickly degenerated into a segment that compared President Trump and the conservative members of the Supreme Court…
Alex Christy
April 8th, 2019 11:34 AM

Senate Plans Hearing for Social Media Sites On Censorship

Another Senate hearing probing into the treatment of free speech at social media companies is scheduled to happen on April 10. The hearing, “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse,” will be headed by subcommittee chair Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Corinne Weaver
April 8th, 2019 11:06 AM

U.K. Announces ‘Regulatory Regime’ That Could ‘Block Sites’

The U.K. has begun tightening its regulation policies, at the risk of freedom of speech online. In a white paper published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on April 8, new guidelines were proposed for regulating the internet.
Corinne Weaver
April 8th, 2019 8:49 AM

Pitiless: CNN's Toobin Says Nielsen Will 'Get What She Deserves'

CNN legal analyst says that "for the rest of her life," Kirstjen Nielsen, who is resigning as Homeland Security Secretary, will "get what she deserves" for having implemented family-separation policies and for having "put children in cages."
Mark Finkelstein
April 8th, 2019 8:15 AM

NPR, NY Times Can't Find Failed Socialism in Venezuela

We have noted many times how the media cannot manage to bring the word "socialism" into the dialogue as Venezuela crumbles into ruin. On NPR's Fresh Air on Tuesday, substitute host Dave Davies chatted for 37 minutes with Nicholas Casey, the "Andes bureau chief" of the New York Times. They talked about about 3,800 words of transcript before the S-word came out, and then it was just informational…
Tim Graham
April 7th, 2019 10:27 PM