ABC Touts ‘Epic’ Hearing, Likens Cohen to Watergate’s John Dean

On ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos framed today’s congressional testimony from ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen not as a case of an admitted liar potentially seeking to avoid the consequences of his crimes, but as an “epic,” “historic,” “Watergate”-style showdown, with Cohen playing the role of Nixon White House whistleblower John Dean.
Rich Noyes
February 27th, 2019 10:38 AM

Kermit the Frog Mocks Trump, Fox in Pro-Green New Deal Song on Colbert

CBS offered a socialist Muppet-music opening to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on February 20. Kermit the Frog sang a version of his trademark tune "It's Not Easy Being Green," but this time it was touting that "the Green Deal is a good idea" and mocked the idea that it was a "government takeover." Kermit sang between clips of President Trump and Fox News personalities. 
Tim Graham
February 27th, 2019 7:59 AM

PayPal CEO: ‘SPLC Helps Us’ Figure Out Who to Ban

Financial processors who ban websites and businesses based on political ideology practice another, more insidious form of social media censorship. If blog or account depends on donations or sales of merchandise, it is vulnerable to being starved of revenue. Unfortunately, the processors aren’t necessarily reliably informed when they make such decisions.
Corinne Weaver
February 27th, 2019 7:45 AM

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Become a Superhero in Her Own Comic Book

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Yes, the Socialist Representative from New York will continue to make a big impression on pop culture in May, when she and the rest of the Democrat “Freshman Force” will take on villainous Republicans in a one-shot comic from the Devil’s Due publishing company. 
Randy Hall
February 27th, 2019 7:40 AM

MSNBC's Ruhle Laments New Gun Control Unlikely to Pass

On Tuesday's MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle griped about the difficulty of passing new gun laws as she and Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack pined for more gun control. Ironically, on the same day's New Day show, CNN's John Avlon admitted that there are problems with the gun laws that already exist being properly enforced.
Brad Wilmouth
February 27th, 2019 7:35 AM

‘Black-ish’ Celebrates Black Liberals While Chastising Dr. Ben Carson

ABC’s comedy black-ish (sic) celebrated black history on Tuesday’s episode, “Black History Month.” But only liberal black figures were truly celebrated while only one conservative, Dr. Ben Carson, was mentioned…and treated like a pariah. The show also depicted its white characters as ignorant and racist, as per usual.
Dawn Slusher
February 27th, 2019 1:00 AM

Killer Misogyny? 'FBI' Episode Laments 'So Much Testosterone'

For Dick Wolf’s FBI on CBS, the search for a bomber is not enough to be the main story. February 26’s episode, "Scorched Earth," focuses on the deeper meaning of women who get ahead in the workplace facing misogyny, which we're supposed to believe literally kills.
Rebecca Downs
February 27th, 2019 12:15 AM

War ‘Minus the Fog’: CBS Celebrates Their Coverage of the Vietnam War

With the U.S./North Korea summit being conducted in Vietnam this week, CBS ended Tuesday’s edition of Evening News with a celebration of their efforts to help America lose the Vietnam War. Or as anchor Jeff Glor put it: it was “the realities of war, minus the fog.”
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 26th, 2019 11:00 PM

‘This Isn’t Politics’; Ramos Speaks to Cooper, Hannity About Venezuela

Univision News anchor and hardcore liberal Jorge Ramos appeared Tuesday night on CNN’s AC360 and FNC’s Hannity to discuss his brief detainment in Venezuela by the murderous Nicolas Maduro regime after Ramos confronted Maduro in an interview with video of young men eating out of a garbage truck in Caracas. In the case of Sean Hannity and Ramos, the pair have had their fair share of on-air duels…
Curtis Houck
February 26th, 2019 11:00 PM

Bozell & Graham Column: How Is Abortion AFTER Birth Not News?

Late in the afternoon on February 25, extremist Senate Democrats voted in favor of legalized infanticide. In the wake of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s bizarre remarks in a radio interview extending the “right to choose” to after-birth abortion (or medical neglect), Sen. Ben Sasse authored the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act...and then 44 Democrats voted against it. Network coverage?…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
February 26th, 2019 10:52 PM

'Toxic Masculinity' Bad, But Boys Wrestling Girls Good

It's not just "toxic" masculinity that's under attack now. Masculinity in general is under assault from would-be social engineers like USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan. On Tuesday, she complained that young gentleman who refused to wrestle girls at the Colorado state high school wrestling tournament need to accept the intrusion of girls into male sports and join the 21st century.
Jay Maxson
February 26th, 2019 10:00 PM

NBC Fearful Kim Will 'Flatter' Trump into 'Giving Up Too Much'

Broadcasting live from Hanoi, Vietnam for the second U.S./North Korea summit on denuclearization, NBC kicked off Tuesday’s Nightly News with a report giving a rundown of the current state of the negotiations after last year’s historic summit. But towards the end of that report, which was delivered by anchor Lester Holt, he shared concerns from “critics” who feared Kim Jong-un would “flatter” his…
Nicholas Fondacaro
February 26th, 2019 9:11 PM

NYT Page One: 'Green Book' Racially 'Retrograde,' 'Borderline Bigoted'

New York Times Hollywood reporter Brooks Barnes made Tuesday’s front page with a petulant look at the Academy Awards and the Oscar-winning movie “Green Book": "While admired by some as a feel-good depiction of people uniting against the odds, the movie was criticized by others as a simplistic take on race relations, both woefully retrograde and borderline bigoted."
Clay Waters
February 26th, 2019 8:05 PM

Noah Mocks 'Childish' Feinstein Over Her Response to Child Protesters

In his opening monologue on Monday's Daily Show, host Trevor Noah delivering his usual mockery of Republicans through the lens of praising filmmaker Spike Lee for his acceptance speech at the Oscars. Surprisingly, his opening monologue also took a shot at “childish” Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein for not bending over backwards to please child activists demanding she vote in favor of the…

Ryan Foley
February 26th, 2019 6:30 PM